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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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Appendix B
National Research Council Board Membership and Staff

WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD

R. RHODES TRUSSELL, Chair, Trussell Technologies, Inc., Pasadena, California

MARY JO BAEDECKER, U.S. Geological Survey (Retired), Vienna, Virginia

GREGORY B. BAECHER, University of Maryland, College Park

JOAN G. EHRENFELD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

DARA ENTEKHABI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

GERALD E. GALLOWAY, Titan Corporation, Arlington, Virginia

PETER GLEICK, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, California

CHARLES N. HAAS, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

KAI N. LEE, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

CHRISTINE L. MOE, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

ROBERT PERCIASEPE, National Audubon Society, New York, New York

JERALD L. SCHNOOR, University of Iowa, Iowa City

LEONARD SHABMAN, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

HAME M. WATT, Independent Consultant, Washington, DC

CLAIRE WELTY, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

JAMES L. WESCOAT, JR., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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Staff

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Director

LAURA J. EHLERS, Senior Staff Officer

MARK C. GIBSON, Senior Staff Officer

JEFFREY W. JACOBS, Senior Staff Officer

WILLIAM S. LOGAN, Senior Staff Officer

LAUREN E. ALEXANDER, Staff Officer

STEPHANIE E. JOHNSON, Staff Officer

M. JEANNE AQUILINO, Financial and Administrative Associate

ELLEN A. DE GUZMAN, Research Associate

PATRICIA JONES KERSHAW, Study/Research Associate

ANITA A. HALL, Program Associate

DOROTHY K. WEIR, Senior Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chair: Michael S. Townes, President and CEO, Hampton Roads Transit

Vice Chair: Joseph H. Boardman, Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation

Executive Director: Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Transportation Research Board

MICHAEL W. BEHRENS, Executive, Texas Department of Transportation

SARAH C. CAMPBELL, President, TransManagement Inc.

JOHN L. CRAIG, Director, State Engineer, Nabraska Department of Roads

DOUGLAS G. DUNCAN, President and CEO, FedEx Freight

BERNARD S. GROSECLOSE, Jr., President and CEO, South Carolina State Ports Authority

SUSAN HANSON, Professor of Geography and Director, Clark University

JAMES R. HERTWIG, President, CSX Intermodal

GLORIA JEAN JEFF, Director, Michigan Department of Transportation

ADIB K. KANAFANI, Cahill Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

RONALD F. KIRBY, Director, Transportation Planning, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

HERBERT S. LEVINSON, Principal, Herbert S. Levinson Transportation Consultant

SUE McNEIL, Director and Professor, Urban Transportation Center

MICHAEL D. MEYER, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

CAROL A. MURRAY, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Transportation

JOHN R. NJORD, Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation

DAVID Z. PLAVIN, President, Airports Council International of North America

JOHN H. REBENSDORF, Vice President, Network and Service Planning, Union Pacific Railroad Company

PHILIP A. SCHUCET, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Transportation

C. MICHAEL WALTON, Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

LINDA S. WATSON, Executive Director, LYNX – Central Florida Regional Transit Authority

E. DEAN CARLSON, President, Carlson Associates

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: National Research Council Board Membership and Staff." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11109.
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For the past few years, the Corps has been working on what is known as the Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study, the heart of which is a multibillion-dollar proposal to double the length of up to a dozen locks on the river. The Research Council first reviewed the feasibility study in 2001 during controversies over the accuracy of models being used by the Corps to justify lock expansion based on increased demand for barge transportation. More than 100 million tons of cargo--half of it grain destined for international markets, the other half goods such as construction materials, coal, and chemicals--are shipped along the navigation system each year. The locks, which along with dams allow barges to traverse uneven river depths, were originally designed for "tows" of barges up to 600 feet long, but the length of a typical tow has increased, forcing the Corps to look for ways to relieve congestion.

The book finds the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made good progress in broadening its proposed plan for navigation improvements on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway system to give greater consideration to ecological restoration. However, the plan still does not provide sufficient economic justification for expanding locks on the rivers because of flaws in the models the Corps used to predict demand for barge transportation. Little attention is paid to inexpensive, nonstructural navigation improvements that could help better manage existing levels of barge traffic. The revised plan has been usefully expanded to include many creative and potentially useful ecosystem restoration measures. These measures, however, should be more firmly grounded in river science principles and more broadly consider ways the river's ecology might affect or be affected by navigation, recreation and other uses.

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