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Appendix B
Biographical Information: Committee on U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Water Science, Engineering, and Planning
David A. Dzombak (NAE), Chair, is the Walter J. Blenko, Sr. university professor of
environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and faculty director of the Carnegie
Mellon Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. He conducts research
in water quality engineering and science, on topics pertaining to environmental restoration and
the water-energy nexus. Dr. Dzombak is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a
registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a Diplomate of the American Academy of
Environmental Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served
as the chairman of the NRC Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act. Dr.
Dzombak holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from Saint Vincent College, B.S. and M.S.
degrees in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. degree in civil
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Patrick A. Atkins is with Atkins 360, LLC, a consulting firm in Pittsburgh that specializes in
teaching and consulting on energy, lifecycle, and sustainability issues. Until his retirement in
April 2007, Dr. Atkins was Director of Energy Innovation at Alcoa, Inc., responsible for
implementing solutions for waste heat recovery in refining, smelting, and casting, assessment of
alternate energy sources (e.g. renewable) and their applicability across Alcoa worldwide. Dr.
Atkins is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of
Professional Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania. He is a past
member of the Science Advisory Board for the Strategic Environmental Research and
Development Program, and an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, LLC, a New
York-based Private Equity firm. Dr. Atkins is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania
and Texas. Dr. Atkins received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of
Kentucky and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering from Stanford
University.
Gregory. B. Baecher (NAE) is the G.L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the
University of Maryland in College Park. Dr. Baecher's principal area of work addresses the
reliability of civil infrastructure and project risk management, especially in geotechnical and
water resources engineering. From 1998-2005 he served as a member of the NRC Water Science
and Technology Board. Dr. Baecher is a member of the National Academy of Engineering has
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served on several NRC committees. He chaired the NRC Committee on Risk-Based Analyses for
Flood Damage Reduction and the Panel on (Corps of Engineers) Methods and Techniques of
Project Analysis. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of California,
Berkeley, and ScM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Linda K. Blum is a research associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at
the University of Virginia. Her current research projects include study of how living organisms
modify the geomorphology of salt marshes in response to external drivers such as sea-level,
precipitation, tides, and/or anthropogenic nitrogen loading; mechanisms controlling bacterial
community abundance, productivity, and structure in tidal marsh creeks and soils; and
rhizosphere effects on organic matter decay in anaerobic sediments. Dr. Blum served as chair of
the NRC Panel to Review the Critical Ecosystem Initiative and was a member of the NRC
Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, the Committee on Independent
Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress, and the Committee on Challenges and
Opportunities in Earth Surface Processes She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in forestry from
Michigan Technological University and her Ph.D. degree in soil science and microbial ecology
from Cornell University.
Robert A. Dalrymple (NAE) is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil
Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His major research interests
and projects are in the areas of coastal engineering, wave mechanics, fluid mechanics, littoral
processes, and tidal inlets. His current interests are water wave modeling, tsunamis and their
impacts on shorelines, and the interaction of water waves with the sea bed, specifically mud
bottoms. He chaired the NRC Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and
Restoration (LACPR) Program, and currently is chairing the NRC Committee on Sea Level Rise
in California, Oregon, and Washington. Dr. Dalrymple received his A.B. degree in engineering
sciences from Dartmouth University, his M.S. degree in ocean engineering from the University
of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. degree in civil and coastal engineering from the University of Florida.
Misganaw Demissie is director of the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois.
His research at the Water Survey has focused on watershed science with emphasis on erosion
and sedimentation and watershed hydrology. He has published more than one hundred journal
articles, reports and conference proceedings. Dr. Demissie is recipient of several awards
including The Frank Bellrose Illinois River Conservation Award from the Nature Conservancy
for outstanding service and contribution towards the restoration of the Illinois River. Dr.
Demissie is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources
Engineers, and a member of the International Water Resources Association and the International
Association of Hydrological Sciences. Dr. Demissie received his B.S. degree in civil
engineering from the University of Iowa, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering
from the University of Illinois.
Terrance (Terry) Fulp is the Deputy Regional Director for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's
Lower Colorado River region headquartered in Boulder City, Nevada. Dr. Fulp is involved in
numerous Colorado River issues, working with federal and state agencies and other stakeholder
groups on system operations decisions. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Regional Director, he
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served as Area Manager of the Boulder Canyon Operations Office, where he managed a basin-
wide effort to develop additional operational guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead to
minimize the effects of long-term drought. He was the principal investigator for the Department
of the Interior's Watershed and River Systems Management Program. The program developed
decision support tools for watershed management and resulted in development of RiverWareTM,
a river operations modeling framework now is used by several water management agencies--
including Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers. Dr. Fulp received his B.S. degree in earth
sciences from the University of Tulsa, his M.S. degree in geophysics from Stanford University,
and his Ph.D. in Mathematical and Computer Sciences from the Colorado School of Mines.
Larry Larson is the Executive Director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. A founding member of ASFPM in the 1970s,
Larson oversees the Association's activities and communications and coordinates national flood
and water resources policy development and advancement with state, local, and federal agencies;
the Administration and Congress; and other policy groups and organizations. He also spent 30
years with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources managing flood loss reduction, dam
safety, and wetlands programs, and five years with the California Department of Water
Resources on design and construction of large dams, aqueducts, and water projects. An expert in
developing the nation's policy on wise and sustainable use of floodplains, Larry has authored
numerous position papers and articles, provides expert testimony to Congress, and frequently
speaks to policy makers and flood hazard managers nationally and abroad. He is a Certified
Floodplain Manager and a registered professional engineer in California and Wisconsin. Larry
holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Diane M. McKnight is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural
Engineering, and a fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, at the University of
Colorado. Prior to her current post she was a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey,
Water Resources Division. Her areas of research are biogeochemical processes, aquatic ecology,
and reactive solute transport in streams and lakes in the Rocky Mountains and in polar desert
areas of Antarctica. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, and edited
several books. In 1995, along with three other limnologists, she co-authored The Freshwater
Imperative: A Research Agenda. Dr. McKnight is past president of the American Society of
Limnology and Oceanography and of the biogeosciences section of the American Geophysical
Union, and was the first editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. Since
serving on the NRC Committee on Climate Change and Water Resources Management in 1990-
1992, she has served on several other NRC committees, as well as the Polar Research Board and
the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. McKnight received her B.S. degree in mechanical
engineering, M.S. degree in civil engineering, and Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
J. Walter Milon is the Chair and Provost's Distinguished Research Professor in the Department
of Economics, College of Business Administration, at the University of Central Florida. His
major research interests are water resource economics, ecosystem valuation, and environmental
policy. In addition to his academic research and publications, Dr. Milon has conducted research
and consulting for a number of federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency,
the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Administration. Dr. Milon received his B.S. degree in finance, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in economics, from Florida State University.
A. Dan Tarlock is a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he teaches courses in
land use, property, energy and natural resource law, environmental policy, international
environmental law. He is an internationally recognized expert in environmental law and the law
of land and water use. He has published a treatise, Law of Water Rights and Resources, and is a
co-author of four casebooks. Professor Tarlock is a frequent consultant to local, state, federal
and international agencies, private groups and law firms, and is an elected member of the
American Law Institute. From 1989-1992, he served as chairman of the NRC Committee on
Western Water Management. In 1996-97 he was the principal report writer for the Western
Water Policy Review Advisory Committee. He is a member of the California bar. Professor
Tarlock is currently one of three United States special legal advisers to the NAFTA Commission
on Environmental Cooperation. He also is a National Associate of The National Academies.
Professor Tarlock received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University.
Peter R. Wilcock is a professor of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the Whiting
School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His areas of
research focus on river sedimentation processes and their role in stream restoration and river
management. His research includes both laboratory and field experiments in sediment transport,
open-channel flow, fluvial and hillslope geomorphology. Dr. Wilcock served as chair of the
NRC Panel on River Basin Systems and Coastal Planning and was a member of the NRC
Committee on Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research. He received his B.S. degree in physical
geography from the University of Illinois, his M.S. degree in geomorphology from McGill
University, and his Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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