Dr. Beckerman is a Senior Scientist at GSI Environmental, based in Emeryville, California. With over 20 years of consulting experience, he has provided comprehensive services in a broad range of areas including exposure reconstruction, human health risk assessment, environmental epidemiology, (bio)statistical analysis, toxicology, and environmental/geospatial analysis having authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and government reports in these fields.
Dr. Beckerman received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. During his graduate studies, he focused on the health effects associated with ambient air pollution and conducted research on the national-level mortality effects of mobile source and particulate air pollution exposures, with some of his research during this time helping to inform the United States National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
Since completing his formal training, Dr. Beckerman has worked on several air quality and health risk assessments. He assessed the air quality impacts of the Aliso Canyon natural gas disaster on an adjacent community in Los Angeles County, evaluated the air quality impacts of a fire at a metal recycling facility in the Bay Area, and assessed airborne hazards associated with potential chemical spills at a chemical warehouse facility in Southern California. Dr. Beckerman has also sat on a review panel that reviewed a community air quality and health surveillance program planned near an aluminum smelter in Canada.
In addition to his work in air quality assessments, Dr. Beckerman has works on various other projects including consumer product and safety evaluations (e.g., Proposition 65 and other product stewardship evaluations), assessing the hazards associated with wildfire smoke, evaluating the hazards associated with the reuse of produced water from petroleum production for the irrigation of food crops, and various other exposure and health risk related projects.