David M. Stiller |
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| EDUCATION | |
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1975-1981 |
Ph.D., Environmental Geography University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Dissertation: The Evolution of Federal and Montana Policies Toward Abandoned Hardrock Mines as Interpreted from Legislation, Regulatory Programs, and Selected Interviews |
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1972-1975 |
M.A., Physical Geography |
| 1970-1972 | B.S. (Honors), Geography University of
Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Minor Concentrations: Geology and English |
| ACTIVITY HISTORY | |
| 2001-2002 | Doctoral Student, University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Niwot, Colorado and Calgary, Alberta. |
| 1995-2000 | Writer and Consultant, Niwot, Colorado. Researched and wrote book on the history and environmental consequences of hardrock mining in the American West. Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2000, it covers federal and state hardrock mining laws and policies, mining history and technology, water quality degradation, fishery and habitat fragmentation, community impacts, and state and federal politics. Also advised a federal agency on the current and probable environmental impacts of major metals mining operations in Southeast Asia, and attorneys addressing water resources degradation in Oregon and Montana. |
| 1991-1995 |
Water Resources Consultant, Helena, Montana. Provided technical expertise to attorneys litigating surface and ground water degradation, soil contamination, mining impacts, and Superfund liability. Served as expert witness in litigation concerning an operating metals mine in Montana, its impact on a nearby river, and the mining company's reclamation plan. |
| 1989-1991 | Instructor (part time) in English Composition, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado. Also wrote on Northern Rockies environmental and natural history issues for regional publications. |
| 1986-1989 | Division Manager and Principal Hydrologist, Chen-Northern, Inc., Helena, Montana, and San Antonio, Texas. Responsible for management of all professional activities for a regional engineering and scientific consulting firm's Environmental Services Division. Planned and directed detailed hydrologic investigations of proposed and operating metals and coal mines and hazardous waste sites located on private, national forest, and BLM lands. Administered corporate quality assurance oversight in five-state region. Established professional standards policies for all professional scientists employed by the company. Corporation Board of Directors. |
| 1981-1986 | President and Principal Hydrologist, Stiller and Associates, Inc., Helena, Montana. Co-owned and managed consulting firm providing hydrology, geology, and engineering services in three-state area. Planned and directed hydrologic and water quality investigations related to metals and coal mines, hazardous waste, surface and ground water contamination, and water supply. Directed extensive hydrologic investigations of the Silver Bow Creek Superfund site near Butte, Montana, and in headwaters of Clark Fork River. Merged with Chen-Northern in 1986. |
| 1978-1981 | Consulting Hydrologist, Helena, Montana. Planned and conducted hydrologic and geomorphic investigations of proposed and operating metals and coal mines for mine operations, reclamation planning, and regulatory permitting in Montana and parts of Wyoming and Idaho. |
| 1978-1979 | Doctoral Student (part-time), Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. |
| 1976-1978 | Project Director and Reclamation Specialist, Lt. Governor's Office, State of Montana, Helena, Montana. Managed professional staff of physical, biological, and social scientists in preparation of a federal-Montana regional environmental impact statement on coal development in southeastern Montana. As hydrologist and reclamation specialist, assessed short- and long-term impacts of surface coal mining on water and soils resources of the region. Served on an International Joint Commission Working Subcommittee investigating impacts of Canadian coal mining and coal-fired power generation on northeastern Montana water resources. |
| 1975-1976 | Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. |
| 1975 | Exploration Geologist, Wold Minerals Exploration, Casper, Wyoming. Assisted in the planning of, and executed, geologic and geophysical exploration for economically recoverable uranium and copper in Wyoming's Powder River Basin and New Mexico's San Juan Basin. |
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1972-1973 |
Master of Science Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| Books | Stiller, David, Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment, University of Nebraska Press, 212 pp. (2000). |
| Books In Preparation | Holden, William and David Stiller, Abandoning the Treasure State: Hardrock Mining's Exodus from Montana. |
| Peer-Reviewed |
Stiller, David, The Evolution of Federal and Montana Policies Toward Abandoned Hardrock Mines as Interpreted from Legislation, Regulatory Programs, and Selected Interviews, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 442 p., 2002. Stiller, David, Comments and Reply on ‘Drainage Systems Developed by Sapping on Earth and Mars', Geology, January, 1983. Stiller, David, G.L. Zimpfer, and M. Bishop, Application of Geomorphic Principles to Surface Mine Reclamation in the Semiarid West, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 35 (6), 1980. Stiller, D.M. and R.G. Reider, Impacts of Cement Manufacturing on Soils in a Semiarid Climate, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 34 (6), 1979. Stiller, David, The Impacts of Cement Manufacturing on Downwind Soils in the Laramie Basin, Wyoming, M.A. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 1975. |
| Invited Book Reviews | This Sovereign Land, by Daniel Kemmis, Island Press (2001), in Montana the Magazine of Western History, August 2002. |
| Not Peer-Reviewed |
Stiller, David, "Fragmentation," in invited essay in Voices in the Wind, Waterton Natural History Association and Parks Canada, 2000. Stiller, David, "The Pull of Pine Butte," feature essay in Montana Magazine, September-October, 1990. Stiller, David, "Rime of a Flathead Mariner," Montana Magazine, March-April, 1990. |
| Technical Reports and Monographs |
Between 1976 and 1995, principal or contributing scientist on numerous consulting reports concerning surface and ground water hydrology, water quality, geomorphology, hardrock and surface coal mining, and hazardous and solid waste management on private, national forest, BLM, DOE, and state lands. Expert witness in district court and administrative proceedings on implementation of Montana's strip coal mining reclamation and metals mining reclamation statutes. Three of the most significant projects: Silver Bow Creek Superfund Phase I Remedial Investigation, 1986-1988. Comprehensive hydrologic investigation involving surface and ground water hydrology and water quality associated with a large Superfund sites covering tens of square miles of the Clark Fork River watershed impacted by millions of cubic yards of metallic mining, milling, and smelting wastes for over a century. Investigation provided data for subsequent public health and environmental endangerment assessments, and remedial engineering planning. Montanore Silver-Copper Project, 1987-1988. Comprehensive hydrologic baseline investigation undertaken in support of an application to Montana and the U.S. Forest Service for a permit to open a 150 million tons silver-copper mine beneath Montana's Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area. Documents supported compliance with National and Montana Environmental Policy Acts. Study included surface and ground water hydrology and water quality, as well as provided input to mine operations plans. CX Ranch Hydrologic Baseline Investigation, 1980-1982. Comprehensive hydrologic baseline investigation completed as an integral part of an application to operate a major surface coal mine in southeastern Montana, as well as to support compliance with Montana and National Environmental Policy Acts. Study included all aspects of surface and ground water hydrology, sediment yield, water quality, and alluvial valley floors. |
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PRESENTATIONS |
Stiller,
David, "The Environmental History of Montana's Mike Horse Mine,"
abstract with program, Western Division of the Canadian Association of
Geographers, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 2001.
Stiller, David, "Superfund and Abandoned Mine Reclamation," abstract with program, 8th Annual National Abandoned Mine Lands Conference, Billings, Montana, August 1986. Stiller, David, "Silver Bow Creek – from Mining Legacy to Superfund Site," abstract with program, Annual Conference of the Montana Section of the American Water Works Association and the Montana Water Pollution Control Association, Billings, Montana, March 1986. Stiller, David, "Hydrologic Investigation, Silver Bow Creek Superfund Site, Montana," Proceedings of the Clark Fork Symposium, Montana Academy of Sciences, Butte, Montana, April 1985. Stiller, David and J.V. Baglio, "Incipient Leachate Contaminant Plume at the Scratchgravel Sanitary Landfill, Lewis and Clark County, Montana," 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Ground-Water Conference, Great Falls, Montana, April 1984. Stiller, David and M.F. Grotbo, "Computer Simulation of Mining and Irrigation Impacts on the Tongue River, Southeastern Montana," abstract with program, 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Ground-Water Conference, Great Falls, Montana, April 1984. Stiller, David and M.F. Grotbo, "Ground Water Contamination in Abandoned Mine Lands Near Corbin, Montana," abstract with program, 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Ground-Water Conference, Great Falls, Montana, April 1984. Stiller, David, "Late Quaternary Stratigraphy of Lower Squirrel Creek Valley, Big Horn County, Montana," 1982 Meetings of the Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of America, Bozeman, Montana, March 1982.
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| PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS | |
| 2000-Present | Association of American Geographers |
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Past Member |
Geological Society of America
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Last updated on August 23, 2003 at 04:50 PM by Joe Ryan
The photograph used as the background of this page is a close-up of the water draining from the Big Five Mine near the town of Ward in northwestern Boulder County, Colorado. The pH of the water draining from the mine is about 2.0. This acidic water drains into the nearby Lefthand Creek.