Professor Marco J. Castaldi, Director of the Earth Engineering Center of CCNY, who has been associated with WTERT since its foundation in 2002, is the head of WTERT-U.S.A. The leadership transition occurred during the EEC/WTERT 2018 bi-Annual Conference held at CCNY on October 4th & 5th, 2018. Professor Castaldi will continue to research novel and traditional thermal conversion systems that convert MSW into energy and chemicals. For more information regarding some of the activities of WTERT-USA please see the CCNY-EEC website.