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Curtis Plotkin

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Curtis Plotkin is Assistant Vice Chancellor for the Office of Environment, Health & Safety as of August 2022.

Before joining UCLA, Plotkin served as director of environmental health and safety at UC Davis since 2014. He spent eight years at Cal State Fullerton, where he served as director of environmental health and safety from 2012–14 and the campus’s environmental compliance officer from 2006–12. Plotkin has also worked as a consultant with industrial and military sites, managed hazardous waste, and was part of emergency response teams involving train derailments and refinery disasters.

Curtis holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Cal State Dominguez Hills and a master’s in contaminant hydrogeology from Cal State Los Angeles.

Curtis Plotkin

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