Lawrence H. Keith, Ph.D. is President of Instant Reference Sources, Inc., a consulting company in Monroe, GA specializing in environmental monitoring, QA/QC, analytical methods for anti-terrorism, training, and expert systems. He has over 40 years of experience and has served as Corporate Fellow at Radian International, LLC in Austin, TX and as a Vice President at the Waste Policy Institute in Blacksburg, VA. He is past chairman of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry and past editor of the Division's newsletter and also has served on advisory boards including the chemistry departments at the University of Texas and Trinity University. He organized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Environmental Monitoring Conference for 6 years and helped to organize many symposia for ACS (including Pacifichem and the First Chemical Congress of the North American Continent).

Dr. Keith received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Georgia, his M.S. in chemistry from Clemson University, and his B.S. in chemistry from Stetson University. He has lectured internationally in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, South and Central America, received 4 ACS awards and Stetson University's Outstanding Alumnus Award. He has published 52 electronic books and expert systems, 65 printed books and book chapters, and 55 journal articles and government reports with numerous publishers including Instant Reference Sources, John Wiley, CRC Press, ACS, Academic Press, Butterworth, etc. In 2001 he was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the first environmental monitoring expert system and has continued to develop other environmental expert systems including an anti-terrorism expert system for EPA and a QA/QC expert system for the State of California.

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