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Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
RUTHERFORD H. PLATT, chairman, is a professor of
geography and planning law at the University of Massachu-
setts at Amherst. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1962, a
J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967, and
a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1971. He served
on the National Research Council's Committees on Flood
Insurance Studies, Federal Water. Resource Research, and
National Flood Insurance Program Levee Policy. He is a
member of the Urban Ecosystems Directorate of the U.S. Man
and the Biosphere Program. Dr. Platt's research interests
include land-use management; natural hazards; and manage-
ment of coastal areas, floodplains, and wetlands. He is co-
editor of the book Cities on the Beach: Management Issues of
Developed Coastal Barriers, and the author of numerous other
publications on floodplain, coastal, and wetland policy.
MILNER BALL is Caldwell Professor of Constitutional
Law at the University of Georgia Law School. He received
an A.B. from Princeton University in 1 95S, an S.T.B. from
Harvard University in 1961, a J.D. from the University of
Georgia in 1971, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Univer-
sity of Tuebingen from 1961-62. He has served as a news
reporter for various newspapers and is a minister of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. He was editor-in-chief of the
Georgia Law Review from 1970-71 and staff member on the
Secretary of Statets Advisory Committee on the U.N. Con
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Camden, NJ., from 1972-78 and was a senior fellow at the
Dean Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law
from 1978-81. He is past president of the Athens chapter of
the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, a founding
member of the Law and Humanities Institute, and a member
of the International Council on Environmental Law. Included
in the list of Mr. Ball's wide-ranging interests are environ-
mental law, the law of the sea, and the management and
legal aspects of natural resources.
BEN GERWICK is a professor of civil engineering at the
University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches
courses in construction engineering and management. He was
an executive in the construction industry for 30 years before
taking his present university post in 1971. Since then he
also has been involved as a consulting engineer on marine
and foundation projects, including major bridges and offshore
platforms. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and serves on the Commission on Engineering
and Technical Systems of the National Research Council. He
is past chairman of the Marine Board and a past member of
the Polar Research Board. He is a Fellow and Honorary
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the
American Concrete Institute, the Prestressed Concrete Insti-
tute and the Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte.
EUGENE HARLOW is a coastal engineer. He received
the degrees of B.A. in 1935 and M.S. in 1936 from Harvard
University. He is vice president of SOROS Associates, a
major engineering firm in New York City, and recently was
executive vice president and director of Frederic R. Harris,
Inc. He has more than 35 years' professional experience in
planning, design, and construction of ports and harbors,
including docks, piers, cofferdams, heavy foundations, break-
waters, and offshore structures. He has published numerous
technical articles on these subjects. Mr. Harlow is a member
of the National Research Councils Marine Board, the Amer-
ican Society of Civil Engineers, the American Association of
Port Authorities, the Permanent International Association of
Navigation Congresses, and many other national and interna-
tional professional engineering organizations. He chaired the
Marine Board's Technical Panel on Ports, Harbors, and Navi
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Biographical Sketches
121
gallon Channels and was a member of the Marine Board's
Panel on Harbor/Port Entrance Design.
FRANCIS ROSS HOLLAND is a historian. He received a
B.C.S. from the University of Georgia in Atlanta in 1950 and
an M.A. in history from the University of Texas in 1958. He
is writing a history of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island res-
toration project. Previously, he was the assistant to the
President of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
Inc., and has held various positions in the National Park Ser-
vice since 1950, most recently in cultural resources manage-
ment. In 1976 he received the Meritorious Service Award
from the Department of Interior for his contributions to his-
toric preservation and the Distinguished Service Award in
1983 for his contributions to the National Park Service's
Cultural Resource Management Program. His areas of
research interest include maritime history, especially shore
whaling and lighthouse administration; Spanish explorations,
historic preservation, and the cultural resources of the
national park system.
VALERIE I. NELSON is the executive director of the
Lighthouse Preservation Society. She received a B.A. from
Radcliffe College in 1969, an M.Sc. from the London School
of Economics in 1971, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in
1977. She has been a visiting assistant professor at MIT,
and a consultant in public policy for the National Academy of
Sciences, the General Accounting Office, and the Center for
Employment and Income Studies at Brandeis University.
Previously, she was a research associate at University Con-
sultants Inc. from 1972-81, and an instructor and a lecturer
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
from 1974-77 and from 1977-79. Dr. Nelson's research inter-
ests include adult and vocational education, urban develop-
ment, and the economics and sociology of employment.
DAG NUMMEDAL is a professor of geology at Louisiana
State University. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the
University of Oslo, Norway, and a Ph.D. from the University
of Illinois. His research has concentrated on shallow marine
sedimentation, particularly tidal inlet stability and tidal delta
sedimentation; barrier island evolution; and shoreline change.
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His current research focuses on sedimentation in modern and
ancient continental shelves. Dr. Nummedal has served as
consulting geologist to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and is a member of the Coastal Engineering
Board of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has served
on the NRC Committee on Engineering Implications of
Changes in Relative Mean Sea Level.
CHARLES HENRY PETERSON is a professor of marine
science and biology at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where he has worked since 1976. He received an
A.B. from Princeton University in 1968 and an M.A. in
zoology and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara in 1970 and 1972. He has taught at
the University of California Extension (1970-72), the Univer-
sity of California at Santa Barbara ~ 1971 -72), and the Uni-
versity of Maryland ~ 1972-76~. ~~
Fellow in 1972 and served on National Science rounua~on
review panels in biological oceanography in 1980 and 1985-
1987. Dr. Peterson's main areas of research are population
biology, ~~ ~ - - -I
ticularly
species diversity of marine benthic invertebrates and barrier
island plants. He is a member of the National Science Foun-
dation's Ocean Sciences Advisory Committee and recently of
the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission.
^F M~rvl~nc1 ( 1979-761
,
He was a Ford Foundation
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fisheries management, and community ecology, par-
competition, predation, life history patterns, and
.'
ALAN H. YORKDALE (deceased) was the vice president
for engineering and research at the Brick Institute of Ameri-
ca. He studied civil engineering at Montgomery College,
-
George Washington University, and the University of Virginia.
H~ served on the board of directors and was a fellow of the
American Society for Testing and Materials, which honored
him with an award of merit in 1985. Mr. Yorkdale was also
on the board of directors of the Building Seismic Safety
Council and authored or coauthored several articles and tech-
nical papers on the research, design, and construction of
brick masonry.
design, building
products.
~.
His
codes,
expertise included earthquake-proof
structural engineering, and masonry
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Biographical Sketches
123
PAUL ZIA is a professor and head of the Department of
Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University in
Raleigh. He received civil engineering degrees of B.S. from
the National Chiao Tung University of China in 1949, M.S.
from the University of Washington in 1952, and Ph.D. from
the University of Florida in 1960. He has taught engineering
at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Uni-
versity of Florida in Gainesville. From 1953-55 he was vice
president and chief structural engineer at Lakeland Engineer-
ing Associates in Lakeland, Florida. Dr. Zia is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering, the Prestressed Con-
crete Institute, and the American Society for Engineering
Education. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute
and the American Society of Civil Engineers and has received
several awards for his contributions to civil engineering. His
principal areas of expertise are in failure investigation and
strength evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete
structures and the properties and application of high-strength
concrete.
Staff
DAVID POLICANSKY, project director, is a senior pro-
gram officer with the Board on Environmental Studies and
Toxicology. He received his B.A. from Stanford University
and his M.S. and Ph.D. in biology from the University of
Oregon. Dr. Policansky formerly did research and taught
genetics, evolution, ichthyology, and ecology at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts in Boston, Harvard University, and the
University of Oregon. He also has done research on fishes
at the Northeast Fisheries Center in Woods Hole and the New
England Aquarium in Boston. In his currrent position at the
NRC, Dr. Policansky is responsible for oversight several com-
mittees. His expertise and intersts include ecology, evolu-
tion, fisheries biology, and environmental policy. Dr. Poli-
cansky is the author and coauthor of papers on sex changes
in plants and animals, the costs of asexual versus sexual
reproduction, the inheritance of asymmetry in flounders, and
cumulative environmental effects, among others.
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