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APPENDIX B
Biographical Sketches of
Workshop Participants
GEORGE L. BUCHANAN iS chief of the Civil Engineering and Design Branch
of the Tennessee Valley Authority. His principal work there has been in
design and related areas of Tennessee Valley Authority~s hydroelectric pro-
gram. In addition to being a registered engineer in Tennessee, he is a mem-
ber of the U.S. Committee on Large Dams and serves as Tennessee Valley
Authority's representative to the Federal Emergency Management Agency/
Interagency Committee on Dam Safety concerned with federal dam safety.
Previously, he was a member of the FCCSET/ICODS group during the
development of federal guidelines for dam safety and was chairman of the
Subcommittee on Site Investigation and Design.
CATALINO B. CECILlO iS a senior civil engineer in charge of the hydrologic
engineering group in the Civil Engineering Department of the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company in San Francisco, California. EIe holds a B.S. degree
in civil engineering and is registered as a professional engineer in the state
of California. His job responsibilities and work experience since 1969 with
Pacific Gas and Electric, which owns some 200 dams, has been in the hy-
draulics and hydrology of dam safety, with principal expertise on design
floods up to and including the probable maximum flood and dam break
analysis. His expertise includes flood plain evaluation and the impact on
the hydrologic environment of plant construction. He is principal codeve-
loper of the ANS 2.8 American National Standardsfor Determining Design
Basis Flooding at Power Reactor Sites, first issued in 1976 by the American
National Standard Institute and revised in 1981.
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LLEWELLYN L. CROSS, JR., is the chief hydrologist for Chas. T. Main, Inc.,
in charge of all hydrometeorological and related work. He has over 30
years of experience in hydrologic and hydrometeorological studies and de-
signs. Mr. Cross holds a B. S. in civil engineering from Tufts University and
is a member of the U.S. Committee on Large Dams and of the USCOLD
Committee on Hydraulics of Spillways. At Chas. T. Main, Inc., he is re-
sponsible for hydrologic studies integral to the determination of spillway
design floods, diversion floods, and reservoir yield studies for hydroelectric
projects in the United States and abroad.
RAY F. DeBRUHL is director of the Division of State Construction, North
Carolina Department of Administration. He is a civil engineering extension
specialist at North Carolina State University and holds a B. S. degree in civil
engineering from the University of South Carolina and an M.C.E. from
North Carolina State University. As a consultant, he has provided struc-
tural engineering services for architects, engineers, steel fabricators, and
contractors. As civil engineering extension specialist at North Carolina
State University, in addition to teaching, he is responsible for developing
and implementing short courses, seminars, conferences, etc., for the con-
struction industry. He is a registered professional engineer in North and
South Carolina.
JAMES M. DUNCAN has for 17 years been a professor of civil engineering at
the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught courses and done
research on shear strength, slope stability, and deformation of embank-
ment dams. Mr. Duncan has also been a member of the Board of Consul-
tants for the repair of the San Luis Dam in California. He has been in-
volved in safety evaluations of six Corps of Engineers, dams and has
participated in studies of the New Melones, Warm Springs, Wolf Creek
Henshaw, Birch, and Arcadia dams.
LLOYD C. FOWLER is general manager and chief engineer at the Goleta Wa-
ter District, Goleta, California. He was with the Santa Clara Valley Water
District for 17 years and supervised the operation and maintenance of 8
earth dams, including analyses for seismic stability. Mr. Fowler received
his M.S. in civil engineering and the professional degree of civil engineer
from the University of California. He has over 30 years' experience in irri-
gation, hydraulics, flood control, water supply, and river control works.
Presently, he is also president of the Institute for Water Resources of the
American Public Works Association.
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VERNON K. HAGEN is chief of the Hydraulics and Hydrology Branch of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His expertise involves hydraulic design, hy-
drologic engineering, and water control and quality. He received his B.S.
in civil engineering at Montana State University and his M.S. in civil engi-
neering at Catholic University. He is a registered professional engineer,
State of Montana, and a member of USCOLD.
JOSEPH S. HAUGH is national planning engineer with the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. He has worked at the USDA's
national headquarters since 1973, with groups such as ICODS, and has
served a one-year detail to the Water Resources Council on the develop-
ment of principles and standards for water resource planning. His positions
have encompassed engineering, planning, and design and construction for
the Soil Conservation Service in West Virginia, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and
South Carolina. Mr. Laugh holds a B.S.C.E. from West Virginia Univer-
sity and is a registered professional engineer in South Carolina.
DAVID S. LOUTE is senior associate and chief hydraulic engineer at Harza
Engineering Company in Chicago, Illinois. He has been with Harza since
1950. Since 1967 he has been responsible for quality control of all aspects of
work relating to complex problems in hydromechanics, hydraulic tran-
sients, hydraulic model experimentations, and prototype investigations.
Mr. Louie is also the in-house consultant on all major hydraulic problems.
He holds an Sc.D. in hydraulic engineering from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
J. DAVID LYTLE is chief of the Instrumentation and Evaluation Section,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis district, where he is responsible
for directing the programs for monitoring and evaluating the safety condi-
tions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dams located within that dis-
trict. He is a professional engineer in Missouri and a member of USCOLD
and ICOLD. Mr. Lytle is coinventor of an instrument, the digital tri-axial
inclinometer, that monitors the tilt of structures and internal movements
within embankments.
MARTIN W. McCANN, JR., is an associate in the consulting firm of Jack R.
Benjamin & Associates, Inc., and is an acting professor of civil engineering
at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1980,
where his research work was in the area of seismic risk analysis. Currently,
he is the director of a project sponsored by FE MA at Stanford University to
develop procedures to conduct risk-based evaluations of existing dams. As a
consulting engineer, Dr. McCann has participated in a number of projects
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involving the assessment of risk associated with nuclear power plants and
dams. He has participated in the critical review of probabilistic safety stud-
ies for nuclear power plants in the area of seismic and flood risk analysis.
His current research work involves investigating the attenuation and
sources of variability of strong ground motion.
JEROME M. RAPHAEL iS a consulting civil engineer specializing in dams and
is a professor emeritus of civil engineering of the University of California at
Berkeley. Previous to this, he served as a structural engineer on dams with
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and with the U.S. Bureau of Reclama-
tion. He holds an S.M. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was an editor of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's Design Manual and is
a member of its panel on criteria for the design of concrete dams. In addi-
tion to consulting on the design and analysis of concrete dams, Mr. Raphael
has worked on problems of structural behavior, concrete technology, and
temperature control. For many years he taught a graduate course on the
design and analysis of concrete dams. He was chairman of the American
Concrete Institute's Committee on Mass Concrete and of its Committee on
Creep and Shrinkage and is a member of USCOLD's Committee on Con-
crete and of its Committee on Instrumentation. Mr. Raphael has partici-
pated in a number of investigations on the safety of existing dams to deter-
mine their safety under static and seismic loads and is the author of over
120 publications on the technology of dams.
HARESH SHAH iS a professor of structural engineering and the director of the
John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. His
fields of interest include structures, earthquake engineering, and statistical
decision theory. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. Shah
has worked with the Honduran, Guatemalan, and Algerian governments
to help them develop an understanding of and expertise in the field of
earthquake engineering.
THOMAS V. SWAFFORD holds a B. S. degree in civil engineering from the Uni-
versity of Tennessee. He is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee,
Arkansas, and Arizona. As vice-president in charge of engineering, con-
struction, and maintenance at Fairfield Glade, he is responsible for plan-
ning, designing, constructing, and maintaining several small- and
medium-sized dams and lakes.
HARRY E. THOMAS iS Chief, Inspections Branch, Division of Hydropower
Licensing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington,
D.C. Mr. Thomas's responsibilities include planning and coordination of
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technical direction and control of the Inspections Branch in establishing
standards for inspection of licensed hydroelectric projects. He is also re-
sponsible for the overall monitoring of project construction and operation,
with special emphasis on compliance with the Commission's Dam Safety
Program. Mr. Thomas is FERC's representative to the Interagency Com-
mittee on Dam Safety. He holds an M.S. in geology from the University of
Arkansas.
J. LAWRENCE VON THUN iS a senior technical specialist in the Division of
Design at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He holds a B.S. in civil engi-
neering from Colorado State University and has done graduate work in op-
erations research at the Colorado School of Mines. He began federal service
in 1967, working in Design and Analysis of Concrete Dams and Founda-
tions. He developed specialized procedures using geologic data for the anal-
ysis of Auburn Dam's foundation. Mr. Von Thun is a member of the Stan-
ford University advisory board on the risk analysis dam safety study being
done for FEMA. He is also a liaison member of the National Academy of
Science's panel on seismic hazards in the siting of critical facilities and of
the U.S. Committee of the Interagency Committee on Large Dams.
JACK G. WULFF iS senior vice-president and chief engineer of Wahler Associ-
ates, Consulting Geotechnical Engineers. For 11 years he has been respon-
sible for the direction and management of the technical activities of the
firm. These activities are heavily oriented toward earth dam design, con-
sultation, and evaluation in seismic regions of the world. During his 31-
year career in water resources and mine and mill waste disposal engineer-
ing, Mr. Wulff has specialized in the planning, design, evaluation, and
construction aspects of earth dams and mine and mill waste impound-
ments. He previously held a position with the California Department of
Water Resources as their first chief of Earth Dams Design and was directly
in charge of the designs of most major dams of the California State Water
Project, including Oroville Dam, the highest earthfill dam in the world at
the time of its completion in 1967, and some 15 others. Mr. Wulff has been
a member of U.S. Committee on Large Dams since 1966 and has coau-
thored numerous technical articles and papers. He received his B. S. in civil
engineering from the University of Nevada and continued with postgradu-
ate studies in soil mechanics and earthquake engineering at the University
of California at Berkeley and Sacramento State College.
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