Consultant Biographies

Jon Standridge, B.S.

Jon Standridge is a microbiologist and water quality expert with 34 years of experience working for the State of Wisconsin. He managed various units of the University of Wisconsin’s Laboratory of Hygiene from 1991-2004. His research expertise includes indicator organisms, emerging pathogen detection, airborne microbes, pathogen transport in watersheds, watershed management, endocrine disruptors, Cryptosporidium, E. coli O157 and Helicobacter pylori detection technology, and algal toxins.  He has published over a dozen research articles.  In 1996 the Wisconsin Section of the American Water Works Association named him “Researcher of the Year”.  He has a B.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Mr. Standridge serves as Vice President of the Madison Board of Water Commissioners, Chair of the Madison Commission on the Environment and has served on numerous task forces and committees for the American Waterworks Association (AWWA), AWWA Research Foundation (AWWARF) and Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF). He is a founding partner of Clean Well Technologies who own a patent for hepa filtered water well caps. They expect to bring their product to the market in 2006.