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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Member and Staff Biographies." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10873.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Member and Staff Biographies." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10873.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Member and Staff Biographies." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10873.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Member and Staff Biographies." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2004. Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10873.
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Appendix C Committee Member and Staff Biographies COMMITTEE MEMBERS JOHN J. BOLAND (chair) is a professor in the Department of Geogra- phy and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His fields of research include water and energy resources, environmental eco- nomics, and public utility management. Dr. Boland has studied resource problems in more than 20 countries and has published more than 125 pa- pers and reports, and coauthored two books on water demand manage- ment, and two others on environmental management issues. Dr. Boland is a registered professional engineer. He has served on several National Re- search Council (NRC) committees and panels, including the Water Science and Technology Board, of which he was a founding member (1982) and second chair (1985-1988~. He is a life member of the American Water Works Association and past chairman of its Economic Research Commit- tee. Dr. Boland received his Ph.D. degree in environmental economics from Johns Hopkins University. PATRICK BREZONIK is a professor in the Department of Civil Engi- neering and the past director of the Water Resources Center at the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Prior to his appointment at the University of Minne- 49

50 ~ppend~c C sofa, Dr. Brezonik was a professor of water chemistry and environmental science at the University of Florida. His fields of research include biogeo- chemical processes in aquatic systems, with an emphasis on the impacts of human activity on water quality and element cycles in lakes and watersheds. He has served as a member of the National Research Council's Water Sci- ence and Technology Board and as a member of several NRC committees, including chair of the Committee to Revitalize Education in the Field of Limnology. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Marquette Uni- versity and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in water chemistry from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. ROBERT K. DAVIS has most recently been associated with the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. He is the former head of the Economic Staff in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Depart- ment of the Interior. His fields of research include natural resource eco- nomics, environmental policy analysis, water resources planning, and meth- ods of benef~t-cost analysis. His Ph.D. thesis is widely considered the first publication on contingent valuation, a method in wide use today to quantify environmental benefits and damages. Dr. Davis has served as an adviser to foreign governments, has served in faculty positions at several universities, and has served on the staff of Resources for the Future. Dr. Davis re- ceived his B.S. degree and his M.S. degree from the Ohio State University and his MPA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. LEO M. EISEL is a principal engineer at Brown and Caldwell in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Eisel has more than 29 years of experience with water rights and water resources. He is the former director of the Illinois Environ- mental Protection Agency, the Illinois Division of Water Resources, and the U.S. Water Resources Council. He is also a past president of McLaughlin Water Engineers in Denver. Dr. Eisel has served on several National Re- search Council committees and has served as a member of the NRC's Wa- ter Science and Technology Board. He received his Ph.D. degree in engi- neering from Harvard University . STEPHEN W. FULLER is a professor in the Department of Agricul- tural Economics at Texas A&M University. Dr. Fuller's fields of research focus on transportation, marketing, and international trade issues, with an

~ppend~c C 51 emphasis on the economics of Mississippi River waterway transportation. Dr. Fuller served on the NRC Committee on Freight Transportation Needs for the 21st Century. He is author of 280 refereed journal articles and re- ports that focus on agricultural transportation and marketing issues. Dr. Fuller has been honored live times by the Transportation Research Forum for his research by receiving the Outstanding Paper in Rural Transportation Award. Dr. Fuller received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in agricultural eco- nomics, and his Ph.D. degree in economics, all from Kansas State Univer- s~ty. GERALD E. GALLOWAY is vice president of the Enterprise Engineer- ing Group at the Titan Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Galloway is a former secretary of the U.S. Section of the International joint Commission. Dr. Galloway has served as a consultant on water resources engineering and management issues to the Executive Office of the President, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Galloway is a former dean of the Academic Board (chief academic officers of the U.S. Military Academy. Dr. Galloway holds master's degrees from Princeton, Penn State, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Dr. Galloway received his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of North Carolina. LESTER B. LAVE (IOM) is the Harry B. and lames H. Higgins Professor of Economics and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His fields of research include applied economics and public policy, safety goals for dams and other structures, and quantitative risk assessment. Dr. Lave chaired the NRC Committee to Review the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation System Feasibility Study. He is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board and the former president of the Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Lave received his Ph.D. de- gree from Harvard University in economics. KARIN E. LIMBURG is an associate professor at the College of Envi- ronmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University. Her fields of re- search focus on the Hudson River estuary in eastern New York State. Dr. Limburg teaches a course in fisheries biology and is a co-convener of a seminar series in interdisciplinary courses in watershed ecology. She re-

52 ~ppend~c C ceived her A.B. degree from Vassar College in ecology-conservation and biology, her M.S. degree from the University of Florida in systems ecology, and her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in ecology and evolutionary biology. ELIZABETH A. RIEKE is the Lohontan Basin area manager for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Carson City, Nevada. Ms. Rieke is a former di- rector of the Natural Resource Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, and a former assistant secretary for water and science in the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has served as an associate (1987-1989) and as a partner (1989-1991) with the law firm Pennings, Strouss & Salmon. Ms. Rieke received her B.A. degree from Oberlin College and her i.D. degree from the University of Arizona. RICHARD E. SPARKS is the director of the Illinois Water Resources Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Sparks' fields of research include biological monitoring for pollution control; restoration of degraded aquatic ecosystems; and ecology of large floodplain rivers. He is a member of the American Fisheries Society, the Ecological Society of America, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Sparks was a member of the National Re- search Council's Committee on Aquatic Restoration and Committee to As- sess U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Project Planning Pro- cedures. He received his B.A. degree from Amherst College, his M.S. de- gree from the University of Kansas, and his Ph.D. degree in biology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. SOROOSH SOROOSHIAN (NAE) is a distinguished professor and the director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His fields of research include surface hydrology (with an emphasis on precipitation runoff modeling), the hydrology of arid and semiarid regions, and related water resources management issues. He has served on several National Research Council committees, including a six- year term as the chair of the NRC Global Energy and Water Cycle Experi- ment (GEWEX) Panel. Dr. Sorooshian was elected to the National Acad- emv of Engineering in 2003. Dr. Sorooshian received his B.S. degree from

ppend~c C 53 California State Polytechnic University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. STAFF JEFFREY W. JACOBS is a senior program officer at the National Re- search Council's Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Jacobs' research interests include policy and organizational arrangements for water resources management and the use of scientific information in water resources deci- sion making. He has studied these issues extensively both in the United States and in mainland Southeast Asia. Since joining the NRC in 1997, he has served as study director for 13 study committees. He received his B.S. degree from Texas A&M University; his M.A. degree from the University of California, Riverside; and his Ph.D. degree (all in geography) from the University of Colorado. JOSEPH R. MORRIS is a senior program officer with the National Academies' Transportation Research Board (TRB). On the staff of TRB's Studies and Information Services Division since 1983, Mr. Morris has par- ticipated in studies of freight transportation, highway safety, transportation finance, highway design standards, and transportation and air quality. He received a master of city and regional planning degree from Harvard Uni- versity, an M.S. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a long history of managing navigation, floods, and other water-related issues on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. A recent chapter in that history is the problem of waterway congestion at several locks on the lower portion of the Upper Mississippi River. The Corps has studied this problem and its possible solutions since the late 1980s, producing a draft feasibility study in 2000 and an interim report on a restructured feasibility study in 2002. A committee was convened to review and provide advice on the most recent phase of the Corps' analytical efforts.

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