Holly Shorney, a native of Lee's Summit, Missouri, completed her B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1990. In the Fall of that year, she began graduate studies in Environmental Engineering as a Via Scholar at Virginia Tech.



As a Master's candidate in CEE, Holly studied iron removal from drinking water with Dr. William R. Knocke. Her research was conducted using water collected from the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia. After receiving her M.S. in 1992, she began work as a Water Process Engineer with Black & Veatch's Advanced Environmental Technologies Division in Kansas City.



In September 1992, Ms. Shorney was invited to pursue a Doctorate at Kansas University under the guidance of Civil Engineering Professor S. J. Randtke, who had won a research grant with Black & Veatch and Virginia Tech. Her research at Kansas focused on the removal of disinfection by-product precursors from drinking water by softening and coagulation. She graduated with honors and received the national First Place Academic Achievement Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for her doctoral dissertation.



Dr. Shorney joined Black & Veatch's Kansas City office again in 1998 and became a registered Professional Engineer in 1999. Her career has focused on the evaluation of different technologies for drinking water treatment. She's had the opportunity to work in the field, conducting laboratory tests and pilot trials in Arizona, British Columbia, Nebraska, and New Jersey. Recently, she completed a six-month pilot-scale evaluation of membrane filtration and granular activated carbon adsorption for the City of Scottsdale.



Currently, Dr. Shorney is working in Black & Veatch's London offices as a liaison of treatment technologies. "My focus is to learn about water treatment in the United Kingdom and around the world," she says. She also is evaluating technologies such as dissolved air flotation, ballasted flocculation, and membranes for a design/build company and is coordinating an arsenic removal study.



An active member of AWWA, Dr. Shorney has served as newsletter editor and Assistant Secretary/Treasurer. In April 2002, she will become Chair of the AWWA Missouri Section. During her career, she has presented papers on topics including iron and manganese removal, arsenic removal, and disinfection byproduct precursor removal at national and local AWWA conferences and meetings.



Holly enjoys volunteering for the Red Cross, scuba diving, travelling, and, since living in London, the game of cricket.