Dr. Shep Burton
Director
Director
Shep Burton has more than 35-years of experience in air resource management.
In 2001 he retired from Systems Applications International where he was President and member of the founding entrepreneurial team. Shep engineered the sale of SAI to ICF Kaiser International in 1990. SAI was the first to develop, apply and offer for commercial application advanced computer models for simulating the formation and evolution of urban ozone and other photochemically-generated air pollution-models now used by most metropolitan regions throughout the U. S. and abroad for managing air quality. He was founding member of the board of directors of the Presidio School of Management, the first accredited program offering an MBA in Sustainable Management, where he served until January 2007 as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the board. He also was a co-founder of DriveNeutral, an enterprise of Presidio School of Management, which offers consumers ways to offset their CO2 emissions from driving.
He currently provides advisory and analytic services to U. S. EPA's Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Protection Partnership Division. He also serves on the Advisory Counsel of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, as well as on its Air Quality Management Planning Advisory Group and its Scientific, Technical and Modeling Peer Review Group. He is a co-author of the 2000 and 2006 Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories prepared under the auspices of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He's served on U. S. EPA's Science Advisory Board and its Clean Air Science Advisor Committee. He previously worked at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and was Chief Scientist at Rockwell International's Science Center. He earned a B. S. and Ph. D. in chemical physics from the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2001 he retired from Systems Applications International where he was President and member of the founding entrepreneurial team. Shep engineered the sale of SAI to ICF Kaiser International in 1990. SAI was the first to develop, apply and offer for commercial application advanced computer models for simulating the formation and evolution of urban ozone and other photochemically-generated air pollution-models now used by most metropolitan regions throughout the U. S. and abroad for managing air quality. He was founding member of the board of directors of the Presidio School of Management, the first accredited program offering an MBA in Sustainable Management, where he served until January 2007 as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the board. He also was a co-founder of DriveNeutral, an enterprise of Presidio School of Management, which offers consumers ways to offset their CO2 emissions from driving.
He currently provides advisory and analytic services to U. S. EPA's Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Protection Partnership Division. He also serves on the Advisory Counsel of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, as well as on its Air Quality Management Planning Advisory Group and its Scientific, Technical and Modeling Peer Review Group. He is a co-author of the 2000 and 2006 Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories prepared under the auspices of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He's served on U. S. EPA's Science Advisory Board and its Clean Air Science Advisor Committee. He previously worked at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and was Chief Scientist at Rockwell International's Science Center. He earned a B. S. and Ph. D. in chemical physics from the University of Texas at Austin.
