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Appendix E
Biographical Information

James L. Wescoat, Jr., Chair, is a professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Department of Geography and member of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests include the historical and cultural geography of water management in North America; and the spatial logic of water law, policies, and institutions. Dr. Wescoat is a member of the Water Science and Technology Board, served on the National Research Council's Committee on the Future of Irrigation in the Face of Competing Demands, and chaired the Committee on Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research. He has conducted comparative analyses of international water policy issues in the Colorado, Indus, and Aral Sea basins; and he recently co-authored a volume with Gilbert F. White titled, Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Dr. Wescoat received his M.A. and Ph.D degrees in geography from the University of Chicago.


Patricia Chow-Fraser is a professor at the Department of Biology in McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Her research focused on development of wetland ecosystem-health indicators based on water-quality characteristics, periphyton, zooplankton, benthic macroinvertebrates, aquatic macrophytes and fish obtained from 150 coastal wetlands throughout the U.S. and Canadian shoreline of all five Great Lakes; use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing technology to map wetland features (wet meadows, emergent beds, mixed floating-emergent beds, and submergent beds/open water) in coastal wetlands of Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario, and to investigate the spatial relationship between fauna/flora and coastal wetlands, and to determine the impact of land-use alterations and shoreline development on wetland quality; and development of ecological models to determine the aggregate response of coastal wetlands to waterlevel fluctuations, urbanization, and exotic invasions in Lake Ontario. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, and her Ph.D. in zooplankton ecology from the University of Toronto.


Desmond N.D. Hartford is specialist engineer for dam safety risk assessment at British Columbia Hydropower Authority. His areas of expertise and research are in dam safety and catastrophic loss risk management of large dams, hydroelectric facilities, and water resource infrastructure. He is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of risk management solutions for BC Hydro’s portfolio of 43 dams. Dr. Hartford also advises dam and water resource agencies across Canada and internationally on dam safety and risk management of wet

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2006. Review of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11481.
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infrastructure. Dr. Hartford is co-author of Risk and Uncertainty in Dam Safety and is one of the five principal authors of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Bulletin 130 on Risk Assessment in Dam Safety Management. Prior to joining BC Hydro Dr. Hartford held senior positions on international infrastructure projects. He is active in training and professional development of engineers in risk management of dams around the world. He received his B.A.I. in civil engineering, M.A. in mathematics, and Ph.D. in soil mechanics from Trinity College in Dublin.


Janet R. Keough is the Acting Director of EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) Mid-Continent Ecology Division of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. Her research background is as a wetland ecologist, and she spent most of her research career conducting studies within the Department of Interior, with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Biological Service, and U. S. Geological Survey. Dr. Keough’s research has focused on the functions of primary producers in wetland habitats and food webs in studies in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. As Acting Director for this EPA Division, Dr. Keough now guides research to enhance monitoring and assessment programs for large ecosystems, such as Great Lakes nearshore and coastal systems and Great Rivers, and research to improve the predictive capability of risk assessments for chemicals. She serves on the Science Advisory Board for the Minnesota Sea Grant, the Regional Workgroup for the Great Lakes Task Force, and has served on workgroups for NSF in planning for NEON (National Ecological Observing Network). Dr. Keough received her B.S. in biological sciences from Cornell University; her M.A. in plant ecology from Western Michigan University, and her Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from the University of Wisconsin.


Lynn Alison Maguire is an associate professor ath the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Her research interests are in conservation biology; applications of decision analysis for environmental decisions and dispute resolutions; public involvement in environmental decision making; and collaborative planning. Dr. Maguire received her A.B. in biology from Harvard University, her M.S. in resource ecology from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. in ecology from Utah State University.


Joseph C. Makarewicz is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Biology at the College at Brockport. His research has focused on Great Lakes research in phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology, the ecology of exotic species and their effect on pelagic food webs, pesticide movement in food webs, and fate and transport of nutrients and herbicides in watersheds. He was recently honored by the Chancellor of the SUNY system for outstanding scholarship and grantsmanship. He is a recipient of the Chandler-Meisner Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Journal of Great Lakes Research by the International Association of Great Lakes Research. Dr. Makarewicz received his Ph.D. from Cornell University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2006. Review of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11481.
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Daene C. McKinney is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas in Austin. Dr. McKinney's research interests include developing and applying numerical methods for simula-tion, optimization, and uncertainty analysis of environmental and water resource management problems, and the development of laboratory and field experimental techniques for the characterization and remediation of aquifer and groundwater contamination. He is currently engaged in research on: water resource management in the Aral Sea Basin; management and modeling of the Edwards Aquifer in Central Texas; large-scale water-balance computations; expert geographic information systems for water and environmental management; optimal aquifer management and remediation; characterization and remediation of subsurface NAPL contamination; modeling of bioremediation in NAPL contaminated aquifers; and risk-based decision analysis approach for aquifers contaminated with NAPLs. Dr. McKinney received his B.S. from Humboldt State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.


David H. Moreau is professor in the Departments of City and Regional Planning and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Moreau teaches water resources planning and regional environmental planning. His research interests include analysis, planning, financing, and evaluation of water resource and related environmental programs. He is actively engaged in water resources planning at the local state, and national levels. He has chaired or served on several NRC committees, most recently as a member of the Committee on Water Quality Improvement for the Pittsburgh Region. Dr. Moreau serves as chairman of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission, the state’s regulatory commission for water quality, air quality, and water allocation. Dr. Moreau received a B.S. and M.S. from Mississippi State University and North Carolina State University, respectively, and a Ph.D. in water resources from Harvard University.


Slobodan P. Simonovi is a professor and research chair at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, The University of Western Ontario. His research encompasses reservoir, flood control, hydropower energy, and operational hydrology. Specifically he is interested in systems modeling; risk and reliability; water resources and environmental systems analysis; computer-based decision support systems development; water resources education and training. He received his B.S. in civil engineering and M.Sc. in interdisciplinary studies, from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and his Ph.D. from University of California, Davis. He is a certified Professional Engineer at Ontario.


Przemyslaw Andy Zielinski is a senior quantitative analyst with Ontario Power Generation. As a senior analyst he develops quantitative and qualitative methodology and analytic tools in assessing operational risk for Ontario Power Generation. He had been previously involved in dam design and development as a dam safety hydrologist and then later as a senior scientist at Ontario Hydro. He was also assistant professor at Warsaw Technical University in Poland. His expertise is in the areas of risk analysis, assessment, and management; applied

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2006. Review of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11481.
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probability, statistics and stochastic processes; decision making under uncertainty; linear and onlinear optimization; modeling of dynamical systems; and hydrology and water resources management. He presently chairs the Committee on Dam Safety of the International Commision on Large Dams. Dr. Zielinski received his masters in mathematics from the University of Warsaw and his masters in civil engineering and Ph.D. in stochastic hydrology from Warsaw Technical University in Poland.

Staff

Lauren E. Alexander is a senior staff officer with the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board. Her research interests include hydro-geomorphic processes and plant diversity in forested wetlands, and she has studied these issues in different coastal plain systems in the United States. Dr. Alexander received her B.S. in applied mathematics and her Masters of Planning in environmental planning from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. in landscape ecology from Harvard University. She joined the NRC in 2002.


Ellen A. de Guzman is a research associate with the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board. She has worked on a number of studies including Managing the Columbia River, Valuing Ecosystem Services, and Privatization of Water Services in the United States. She co-edits the WSTB newsletter and annual report and manages the WSTB homepage. She received her B.A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She joined the NRC in 1995.

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Since the 1950s,the International Joint Commission (IJC) of Canada and the United States has issued water regulation and management plans for Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Changes in recreational, environmental, navigational and other uses of the water system have prompted the IJC to consider replacing the current water regulation plan in operation for more than 40 years. IJC’s goals for a replacement plan include sound scientific foundations, public participation, transparency in plan development and evaluation, and inclusion of environmental considerations. To help develop and select the new plan, the IJC supported a 5-year, $20 million Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study (LOSLR Study). The LOSLR Study uses models to compile and integrate data gathered from a series of commissioned studies of wetlands, species at risk, recreational boating, fisheries, coastal erosion and flooding, commercial navigation, hydropower, industrial, municipal and domestic water intakes, public information and education, and hydrologic modeling.

This report reviews a portion of the study that focused on wetlands and species at risk and three of the models that were used. The report finds that the overall breadth of the LOSLR study is impressive, and commends the scale and inclusiveness of the studies and models. In terms of informing decision making, however, the reviewed studies and models show deficiencies when evaluated against ten evaluation criteria, including treatment of uncertainty, quality control/quality assurance, thorough documentation, and empirical foundations. Among the report’s recommendations is a need for more thorough documentation of study methods and findings, stronger and more consistent quality control, and more attention to how uncertainty should be addressed to better inform decision making. This NRC study was conducted in collaboration with the Royal Society of Canada.

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