Robert Boldi

Biography

Dr. Robert Boldi is an American environmental scientist (PhD MIT, 1992) with over twenty years of experience in a variety of environmental problems from the local scale to the global scale. He has worked as an Air-Quality consultant to various United States local, state and federal governmental bodies, advising on environmental effects of various industrial activities. He was on the team that created the first American Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to request an IMPROVEMENT in the air quality on behalf of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. (The Northern Cheyenne are a North American Indian Tribe having semi-autonomous governing authority). He worked on the local effects of oil fires, electrical power production, aluminum smelting, and phosphorus production. He also participated in large field campaigns studying the atmosphere of some the cleanest, most remote locations on Earth. As a visiting Fulbright Scholar, sponsored by the US Department of State, he taught at the Tunisian National Engineering School ( l'ENIT ) and gave public talks on the air pollution problems facing developing countries of the Mid-East. He currently is an Associate Professor in the college of Natural and Health Sciences at Zayed University, Dubai UAE.

Research Interest

Dr. Robert Boldi research interests are environmental problems of urban development with an emphasis on atmospheric chemistry. He is currently conducting research on how the latest series of earth observing satellites operated by NASA and ESA can greatly increase our understanding of local and global air pollution.