Chelsea Kolb, Ph.D.

Engineer
RAND Corporation

Dr. Kolb is an Engineer with RAND Corporation and a Professor of Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Her current work portfolio includes disaster preparedness and recovery work, evaluation of costs associated with energy and water utility infrastructure investment decisions, analysis of policy tradeoffs for critical infrastructure systems, and assessment of environmental and human health risk for chemical contaminants. In addition, Dr. Kolb has conducted data analysis and modeling to assist process improvement for several Federal Government agencies.

Presentation(s):

• Evaluating effects of coal-fired power plant refined coal consumption on downstream drinking water quality 2016-2020

  Tuesday, May 23, 2023
  3:00 PM – 3:18 PM PDT

• Who is downstream? A case study of community drinking water system vulnerability to changing coal-fired power plants bromide loads in the Ohio River Basin

  Wednesday, May 24, 2023
  1:15 PM – 1:33 PM PDT