2016 -- H 7740

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING ROY HEATON, PH.D., ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE STATE

OF RHODE ISLAND AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE

CITIZENS OF RHODE ISLAND

     Introduced By: Representative Justin Price

     Date Introduced: February 24, 2016

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Roy Heaton, Ph.D., is retiring from the State of Rhode Island after twenty-

nine years of exemplary service to our state as a Teacher, Researcher, Chemist, Senior Chemist,

and finally as a Principal Environmental Scientist; and

     WHEREAS, Dr. Heaton attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1971. He attained a Master's degree in Education from

the University of Hartford in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of

Rhode Island in 1986; and

     WHEREAS, In 1990, Dr. Heaton began working with the Air Pollution Laboratory of the

Rhode Island State Health Laboratories. He was hired to improve the state's air monitoring

capabilities and one of his principal duties was to set up new air monitoring systems and to

validate the laboratory's air monitoring data prior to submitting it to the DEM Air Monitoring

Program and the EPA Air Now National database. He was also instrumental in establishing the

state's laboratory and field aspects of various air monitoring programs including Air Toxics,

Photochemical Air Monitoring Stations (PAMS), National Core Monitoring Stations (NCORE),

criteria gases, and meteorological monitoring. In addition, he participated in particle pollution

monitoring programs; and

     WHEREAS, Dr. Heaton has served as a member of the Monitoring and Assessment

Committee of NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management), and is

widely recognized by his peers on the national level as being an expert in the analytical chemistry

of air quality monitoring. He has worked tirelessly throughout his exemplary professional career

to assist the national effort to protect the ozone layer, reduce acid rain and toxic pollutants, and to

improve air quality and visibility; and

     WHEREAS, Dr. Heaton is also an esteemed teacher and researcher. He taught chemistry

at the upper-secondary level in the British educational system from 1972 to 1976. He held various

research and teaching assistant positions within the Chemistry Department at the University of

Rhode Island from 1976 to 1985, and he served as a Research Associate at the Graduate School

of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island from 1985 to 1989. Finally, he served as a

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College from 1989 to 1990; now,

therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby congratulate Roy Heaton, Ph.D. on his retirement from the State of

Rhode Island after twenty-nine years of distinguished and devoted service to the citizens of

Rhode Island. We wish him a most happy retirement and continued success in all his future

endeavors; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Roy Heaton, Ph.D.

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