Dr. Ellen Burkhard

NYSERDA

Dr. Ellen Burkhard is a Senior Project Manager with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's Clean Energy Research and Market Development group. Ellen manages projects that evaluate air quality and health effects from energy production and use. These include projects that measure diesel and wood combustion emissions from various technology designs and fuel types, long-range transport of pollutants from upwind sources, localized effects of high-emitting sources, and cardiovascular effects from fine particles. For the past five years Ellen has co-managed NYSERDA's biomass heating program, which works with in-state manufacturers to develop high-efficiency and low emitting heating systems, demonstrate them in representative applications and evaluate them. Ellen earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Health and Toxicology from the SUNY Albany School of Public Health.