ITEP Staff Bio:
Todd Barnell - Research Specialist

Todd Barnell joined ITEP on August 12, 2002. During that time he has worked in the areas of compliance, green building, and solid waste management. In 2006 he started ITEP's Tribal Solid Waste Education and Training Program (TSWEAP), which is funded by the USDA and focuses on assisting tribes with solid waste programs. This work was expanded in 2008 with the development of the Tribal Waste and Response Assistance Program (TWRAP), funded by a grant from the US EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER). TWRAP has allowed ITEP to move in exciting new directions, including contaminated sites, emergency response, and hazardous waste. Todd was born and raised in Indiana and attended Indiana University, where he obtained a BA in Journalism in 1992 and a BA in Geography in 1999. He has worked as an industrial welder, public relations specialist for the IU School of Music's Opera Theater, and an assistant researcher on a global climate change study (part of the AmeriFlux CO2 monitoring project) in Bloomington, Indiana. In 1999, Todd and his partner, along with their two cats, moved to Flagstaff. His first job here was as a seasonal researcher for the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU. In 2000, he was hired by the local office of The Nature Conservancy, where he worked until he was offered his current position by ITEP. When not on the job, Todd enjoys cooking, birding, listening to bagpipes, and reading just about anything he can get his hands on. (He once initiated gales of laughter from people at the local library by snatching a book off the shelf and declaring, &Look! A whole book about the platypus!")

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