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1. Heather N. Sandefur
+1.479.409.0628 • heather@p3sustainability.com
Field to Market Keystone • Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Rome • Cotton, Inc. Cary • National Pork Board Des Moines • Monsanto St. Louis • Tyson Foods Springdale • Smithsonian Washington, D.C. • National Corn
Growers Assoc. Chesterfield • Department of Energy D.C. • American Peanut Council Alexandria •
PAST COLLABORATORS
Principal Partner P3 Sustainability Consulting
2014 - present Provide consulting services in the areas of life cycle assessment and sustainabil- ity planning. Services include creating sustainability tools and solutions for a range of organizations interested in promoting sustainable development.
Consultant Nokose, Inc.
2011 - 2013 Managed carbon sequestration benchmarking efforts for the City of North Little Rock. Developed a novel method for modeling urban forest carbon sequestra- tion as part of an ongoing effort to quantify the municipality’s carbon footprint.
Research Associate University of Arkansas Ecological Engineering Group
2006 - present Manage research efforts on a variety of sustainability related projects in the environmental engineering field. Responsible for data collection, modeling, and analyzing production processes in the areas of agriculture and bioenergy.
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
University of Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Arkansas Current • Fayetteville, Arkansas
University of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering
Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas
Sandefur, H., Matlock, M., Johnston, R. (2014). Comparison of Methods for Quantifying Carbon Sequestration in the North Little Rock Urban Forest. Biological Engineering Transactions. In Press.
Sandefur, H., Johnston, R., Matlock, M., Adey, W., Costello, T., Laughinghouse, H. (2014). Hydrodynamic regimeconsiderations for the cultivation of algae in two tertiary wastewater treatment systems. Ecological Engineering. In Press.
Sandefur, H., Matlock, M., Costello, T., Adey, W., Laughinghouse, H. (2011). Seasonal productivity of a periphytic algal community for biofuel feedstock generation and nutrient treatment. Ecological Engineering. 37:1476-1480.
McCarty, J., Sandefur, H., Matlock, M.D., Thoma, G., Kim, D. (2014). National scan-level life cycle assessment for the production of US peanut butter. Transactions of the ASABE. In Press.
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