Michael Blaylock Email & Phone Number

Leesburg, Virginia

Manhattan, Kansas And Purcellville, Virginia

Edenspace is a privately-held plant biotechnology company with offices in Kansas and Northern Virginia developing innovative crops for energy, environmental, and nutritional applications, including phytoremediation and bioengineered crops for low-cost production of cellulosic biofuels and biochemicals. Current and recent company projects include.

Chantilly, Virginia

• Lead R&D of plant based technologies for biofuels (biomass energy crops) including crop development and biomass processing innovations
• Develop and implement environmental restoration (phytoremediation)
• Generate research funding through SBIR/STTR and other grant proposals
• Manage government (DOE, USDA, EPA, NIEHS, etc.) research and technical services contracts
• Direct commercial phytoremediation efforts, including business development, contract negotiations, technical services and customer outreach

• Directed the research and development aspects of phytoremediation and nutritional supplement products and services including the fundamental research, development and scale-up technology to create patented nutritional.
• Supervised multi-disciplinary research team of laboratory, greenhouse, and field personnel including hiring and performance reviews.
• Provided technical marketing support, conducting site evaluations and served as a liaison with regulatory agencies, community officials, and news media for government and corporate contracts. Developed and implemented.
• Managed implementation and operation and achieved project goals of a US EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) of phytoremediation, and supervised field trials to support New Jersey DEP and ITRC.

• Discovered and implemented key components for phytoremediation of lead, uranium, and other metal and radionuclide contaminated soils.
• Developed treatability study methodologies to assess and predict success at commercial sites and projects.
• Implemented and supervised field demonstrations at municipal and commercial hazardous waste sites (U.S. and international), interacting with state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Compiled and evaluated data, completed reports for clients and published findings in scientific journals.

• Identified and discovered key components for enhancing metal uptake in plants and removal from soil. Research findings resulted in two filed patents.
• Conducted field and greenhouse research that accelerated the development of a novel remediation technique for metal contaminated soils (phytoremediation).
• Initiated the soil chemistry aspects of the research, including organizing and developing the soil chemistry laboratory and appropriate analytical equipment.
• Supervised waste disposal and management.

• Identified parameters in the soil controlling selenium solubility and bioavailability in coal mine backfill materials as part of the EPSCoR II Groundwater Contamination project sponsored by NSF and the State of Wyoming.
• Developed methods to assess and model the mobility of contaminants in mine soil environments.
• Developed a method for quantifying low-molecular weight organic acids in the soil solution.
• Supervised laboratory and QA/QC practices of technicians and graduate students.

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