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Carol Parnell Named Brookhaven Lab's Assistant Director for Environment, Safety and Health

February 8, 2008

Carol Parnell (click image to download hi-res version)

UPTON, NY - Carol Parnell has been named the Assistant Director for Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective February 11.

Overseeing 127 employees and an annual budget of $20 million, Parnell will be responsible for environmental protection and occupational safety and health at the Laboratory's 5,300-acre site, including compliance with federal, state and local regulations that protect Laboratory employees, the public, and the environment. Reporting to Parnell are the Environmental & Waste Management Services Division, the Radiological Control Division, and the Safety and Health Services Division.

"Brookhaven Lab has an outstanding program in environment, safety and health, and I plan to build on its numerous accomplishments," said Parnell. "Safety and environmental protection don't stop at the Laboratory's gate. I'd like to engage families and communities for a global commitment to ES&H."

She added, "I've worked on both sides of ES&H issues, as a chemist and as an administrator. I understand the frustration of our colleagues who have to abide by numerous rules in order to ensure a safe working environment. But I've also had to comfort grieving families who have had to cope with a death or injury of a family member that occurred because of a safety shortcut."

Carol Parnell earned a B.S. in chemistry from Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1979; a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983; and an M.B.A. from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, in 2000.

Parnell has held a number of senior executive Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) positions after working for six years as a chemist at Hercules Incorporated, a specialty chemicals company. She was Compliance Assurance Manager for General Electric's Aerospace Division; Director of EH&S for Blessings Corporation, a plastic film manufacturer; Director of EH&S for Zenith Corporation; and Corporate Director of EH&S for the international printing company, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Prior to joining Brookhaven, Parnell was the Vice President of EH&S for Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging.

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One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE’s Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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