Dr. James S. Bonner, Ph.D., P.E.

CEO/President of RATES (Research Applied Technology Education Services)

James S. Bonner is CEO/ President of RATES (Research Applied Technology Education Services). Bonner is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Shipley fellow in the Shipley Center for Innovation at Clarkson University. As a Shipley fellow, Bonner directly supports the mission of the Shipley Center, which includes catalyzing economic development through innovations developed by Clarkson faculty, students, and staff. Bonner concurrently serves as River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) director of Research at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries. Bonner serves as the director of Shoreline Environmental Research Facility (SERF) in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he developed and implemented technologies that use high-frequency radar to map surface water along the Texas coastline. He develops new technologies that provide real-time continuous monitoring with in-situ sensing to measure important water parameters. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he has undertaken a national effort to create a cyber-collaboratory framework, enabling collection and circulation of real-time data and data analysis in the study of oxygen depletion in water. Bonner received both his M.S. in civil engineering and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Clarkson University. He received his B.A. in biology from SUNY Plattsburgh.

GoMRI-funded rsearch:

- The Impact of Biological, Physical and Chemical Processes on the Fate of Oil Spills - Bridging Small Scale Processes with meso-scale Modeling (DROPPS Consortium)