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View My CV (PDF) J OSEPH C. JENKINS CURRICULUM VITAE — COMPOSTING 143 Forest Lane, Grove City, Pennsylvania 16127 • Ph: (814) 786-9085; Fax (814) 786-8209 Email: [email protected] Websites: JosephJenkins.com, HumanureHandbook.com, EcologicalSanitation.com Last Updated 12/7/2018 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006 . .Established International Compost Sanitation Consulting Services 2005 . .Published The Humanure Handbook, 3rd edition — A Guide to Composting Human Manure 2003 . .Founded Joseph Jenkins, Inc. 1999 . .Wrote and published The Humanure Handbook, 2nd edition 1995 . .Wrote and published The Humanure Handbook - A Guide to Composting Human Manure, first edition 1994 . .Founded Jenkins Publishing PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION Haiti, disaster relief after the earthquake • American Society of Civil Engineers - Member, speaker (teaching composting). • U.S. Compost Council - Member, speaker • American Society for Microbiology - Member • Compost Science and Utilization Scientific Advisory Board, since 2007 EDUCATION 2016 . .Compost Operator Training Course, 40 hours, US Compost Council, Tucson, AZ 2004 . .Penn State Continuing Education: Training the Trainer, 1/22/04, 5 hour course, Penn State, Harrisburg 2002 . .Received “Master Composter” certification, Wolfville, Nova Scotia 1998 . .Publishing University, two-day publishing workshop inten- sive, Chicago, IL 1991-1992 . .Graduate Student in Sustainable Systems, Slippery Rock Univ., PA (20 credits completed) 1988 . .Attended a two-week training program for community organ- izers in Deerfield, Massachusetts 1974 . .Received Bachelor of Science degree in Science, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania; member Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society and Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society. Recipient of Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Scholarship. President of Penn State Student Union, New Kensington Campus. TRAVEL EXPERIENCE Erdenet, Mongolia, teaching composting. 2018 (Nov.) . .Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus 2018 (March) . .Dubai, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, India 2017 (Oct.) . .Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece 2017 (May) . .Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China Joseph C. Jenkins Curriculum Vitae — EcologicalSanitation.com 1 2016 (May) . .Nicaragua and Costa Rica 2015 (Nov.) . .Germany, Austria, Hungary 2015 (Aug) . .Finland, Sweden, Norway 2014 (Dec.) . .Haiti (disaster relief documentation) 2014 (Nov.) . .Romania 2014 (Oct.) . .Quebec City, Canada 2014 (May) . .Poland 2014 (Feb.) . .Panama 2013 (Nov.) . .Holland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France 2013 (April) . .South Africa, Mozambique 2012 (Aug.) . .Finland, Estonia 2012 (Jan.) . .Morocco, Portugal 2011 (Aug.) . .Haiti (humanure composting disaster relief) 2010 (Nov.) . .Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales, England, Turkey, Greece 2010 (May) . .Haiti, providing disaster relief services 2010 (Apr.) . .Puerto Rico 2010 (Mar.) . .Haiti, providing disaster relief services 2010 (Feb.) . .Bahamas 2009 (Aug.) . .Finland, Estonia and Sweden (Speaking at the World Dry Toilet Conference) 2009 (Feb.) . .Baja peninsula in Mexico BBC’s Ethical Man, filming an episode 2007- 2008 . .Guatemala for the BBC. 2007 . .Mongolia for the 3rd time (Humanure Consulting) 2006 . .Ireland 2006 . .China 2006 . .Mongolia (twice) as a consultant for a project funded by the Asian Development Bank 2003 . .Spain 2002 . .Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium 2000 . .Edinburgh, Scotland 1998 . .Spain, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Quebec 1996 . .Wales 1988 . .Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Paraguay 1986 . .England, Wales, and Ireland 1983 . .England, Ireland, and Wales 1977-1978 . .Mexico, Belize, Guatemala SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS May, 2018 . .Grove City, PA Rotary Club, Composting as an International Health Approach April, 2018 . .Racoon Creek State Park, PA — Can Compost Save the World? August, 2015 . .5th International Dry Toilet Conference - August 19-22, 2015; Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Tampere, Finland; "Village Scale Humanure Composting by GiveLove.org: Santo Village, A Case Study" April, 2015 . .BioCycle West Coast Conference 2015 - April 13, 14, 15, 16, 2015 • Portland, Oregon, Red Lion Hotel On The River. "Static Pile Composting of Toilet Material in Developing Countries." Marin Composting Portable 10/26/2013 . Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Third Annual International Odorless Outhouse Project Health and Development Conference: Public Sanitation Using Hot Compost 1/30/2013 . .U.S. Compost Council Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida. The Use Of Human Excrement as a Compost Feedstock. 1/6/2012 . .5th International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment Conference (IPWE 2012), January 5-7, 2012, Marrakech, Morocco. “Compost Sanitation,” on the work GiveLove.org is doing with composting as a sanitation alternative in Haiti. Joseph C. Jenkins Curriculum Vitae — EcologicalSanitation.com 2 4/22/2011 . .Penn State Dubois Campus, Dubois, PA (Friday - Earth Day) at 12:15-1:15 in Hiller Auditorium: "Humanure - The Inexhaustible Natural Resource." 1/26/2011 . .US Compost Council Annual Conference, Santa Clara, CA: “Composting As a Sanitation Alternative in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” 4/21/10 . Earth Day Lecture - Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, Wednesday, 6:30 pm, in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center: "Humanure Composting and the Ethics of Sustainability." 2/6/2010 . .PASA Farming for the Future Conference; Penn Stater Conference Center, State College, PA; Humanure: The Missing Link in Sustainable Agriculture 1/16/10 . Humanure and Sustainable Agriculture - Future Harvest/CASA 11th annual conference at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV, 45 minute presentation. 11/09/2009 . .Marin Composting Portable Odorless Outhouse Project, “Humanure Sanitation,” Point Reyes St., CA 8/12-15/2009 . .3rd International Dry Toilet Conference: Tampere, Finland, "Humanure Sanitation" 10/30/2008 . .Permaculture Solutions Lecture Series: Humanure - 6th Street Community Center, Manhattan, NY. 7/31/2008 . .“Humanure Composting”— Natural Building Colloquium, Bath, NY 4/22/2008 . .Earth Day, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA, "Humanure and the International Year of Sanitation." 3/12/2008 . .Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona—Humanure (1.5 hour presentation) 10/19-28, 2007 . Natural Building Colloquium, Kerrville, Texas, Humanure Composting 8/320/07 . .Natural Building Colloquium, Bath, NY, Humanure Presentation (1 hour) 1/26/2007 . Wesley Grange, Wesley, PA: Mongolia Travelogue 2/3/2006 . .Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Penn State University, 1.5 hour Powerpoint presentation: Humanure, the Misunderstood Manure. 11/18/2005 . .Ohio Composting Conference, Wooster, Ohio; two presentations of approximately 1 hour each: Nova Scotia Composting and Humanure — Composting the Unmentionable 10/1/2005 . Jennings State Park (PA) Env. Education Center's Nature Writers Book Fair: Self-publishing. 6/25-7/2/2005 . .Humanure; Natural Building Colloquium East — 1.25 hour Powerpoint presentation. 4/10/2005 . .“Self-Publishing” 2nd annual Progressive Conference, Westminster College, PA 9/9/2003 . .Grassroots Recycling: Getting the Most Out of Your Home Composting Program; Slippery Rock University, PA; Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania, 1 hr. presentation. 8/6/2003 . .“Nova Scotia’s Composting and Municipal Recycling Programs,” Butler Outdoor Club, Butler PA 4/12/2003 . .“Humanure — Composting the Unthinkable,” 45 minute Powerpoint presentation, Green Design Conference and Competition, Penn State University. 2/21/2003: . .“Following the Leader — Nova Scotia Composting Shows the Way,” 45 minute Powerpoint presenta- tion, Green Building Alliance, Brown Bag Lunch Discussion, Pittsburgh, PA USA. 2/5/2003 . .“Following the Leader — Nova Scotia Composting Shows the Way,” 1 1/2 hour Powerpoint presenta- tion, Slippery Rock University Seminar, Slippery Rock, PA USA. 1/30/2003 . .“Following the Leader — Nova Scotia Composting Shows the Way,” 30 minute Powerpoint presenta- tion, US Compost Council annual conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. 5/23/2002 . .“The Future of Composting in Pennsylvania,” 30 minute Powerpoint presentation, 2002 Pennsylvania Compost Conference, State College, PA (PADEP sponsored). 1/31/2002 . .“Composting Dairy Manure,” Composting Symposium, Sponsored by Southern Alleghenies Resource Conservation and Development Councils and Agriculture Today and Tomorrow Committee with further funding by Western PA Watershed Protection Program and Canaan Valley Institute; Morrison’s Cove Memorial Park, Martinsburg, PA. Panel format with 5 other speakers, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. 8/2001 . .“Close Encounters of the Turd Kind,” Solar Living Festival, sponsored by the Institute for Solar Living, Hopland, CA, one 50 minute presentation. 10/2/1999 . .Panel:“The Environmental Movement,” Convocation of the Invisible Universe, spon- Teaching Composting in Nicaragua, 2016 sored by Chelsea Green Publishing, Joseph C. Jenkins Curriculum Vitae — EcologicalSanitation.com 3 Shelburne, Vermont — Discussion with Alan Atkisson (author of Believing Cassandra); Donella Meadows (co-author of Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits); and Nancy Jack Todd of Ocean Arks International. 8/1998 . .Radio Interview: Humanure,” CBC Public Radio, produced by Maritime Noon, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1998 . .“Humanure Composting,” Northeast Organic Farming Assn (NOFA),New Hampshire. 1998 . .“Humanure Composting” presentation, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1998 . .“Humanure Composting”
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