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Study Committee Biographical Information
Pages 131-137

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From page 131...
... He was named Houston's 2003 Engineer of the Year by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and is the recipient of the SPE Public Service Award and the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005, primarily for the work he has done in promoting offshore safety.
From page 132...
... Committee on School Transportation Safety; the National Science Foundation's Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Proposal Review Committee and Small Business Innovative Research Proposal Review Committee; the NRCTRB Committee on Evaluating Double Hull Tanker Design Alternatives; and the NRC-TRB Committee on Risk Assessment and Management of Marine Systems. His research involves normative and descriptive risk analysis, including development of a risk index for prioritizing inspections of offshore oil production platforms; an engineering and economic policy analysis of air pollution from international shipping; a large-scale probabilistic risk assessment of the space shuttle's tile protection system; and a series of expert elicitations involving a variety of topics, including environmental policy selection, travel risks, and food safety.
From page 133...
... Stuart Jones is a project manager with Lloyd's Register EMEA, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, where he is responsible for several integrity management contracts for clients operating oil and gas installations in the North Sea. He started offshore work in the oil and gas industry in 1983, when he joined Conoco in Aberdeen as its maintenance coordinator for corrosion, responsible for fabric maintenance, inspection, and corrosion monitoring on the Murchison and Hutton tension-leg platforms.
From page 134...
... Department of Commerce, as associate deputy assistant administrator for ocean services. He is currently a private consultant on national ocean policy, advising the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, the follow-up, foundation-supported organization composed of the members of USCOP and the privately funded Pew Ocean Commission and dedicated to promoting ocean policy reform proposals recommended by the two commissions.
From page 135...
... He is a subject matter expert on lifesaving and firefighting equipment and deployment and on USCG regulatory compliance and International Maritime Organization Convention compliance on offshore oil and gas production platforms, offshore drilling units, and oil field support vessels of all types.
From page 136...
... Department of Health and Human Services Mine Health Research Advisory Committee from 1991 to 1998, was the chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Post Disaster Survival and Rescue from 1979 to 1981, and was a member of the Health Research Panel of the NRC Committee on the Research Programs of the U.S.
From page 137...
... , where she provided technical assistance to HSE inspectors, focusing on assessment of workforce tasks in multiple industries in the United Kingdom.


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