Offshore Wind Energy Projects: Summary of a Workshop (2011)

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Workshop Planning Committee Biographical Information SAFETY AND REGULATION James C. Card, Chair, (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.) offers professional services to the maritime community based on 42 years of maritime safety, security, and environmental protection experience in the U.S. Coast Guard and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). As senior vice president and chief technology officer at ABS, he was responsible for overall management of ABS global technology, research, and rule development for ships and offshore facilities. He enjoyed a 36-year career with the U.S. Coast Guard that included positions as vice commandant, commander of the Pacific area, and assistant commandant for marine safety, security, and environmental protection. As leader of the nation’s marine safety, maritime security, and environmental protection programs, he carefully balanced national needs and priorities with those of maritime commerce. He has authored many papers on marine safety, environmental protection, and concepts for tankers and human factors in marine operations. During his Coast Guard career, he led many U.S. delegations to the International Maritime Organization. Admiral Card is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering and mechanical engineering), and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. RISK ASSESSMENT Ali Mosleh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, conducts research in various risk assessment fields such as expert quantitative opinion, reliability growth modeling, probabilistic reliability physics, common cause failure analysis, dynamic accident simulation, and dynamic probabilistic risk assessment. He also conducts human reliability analyses and develops methodologies for security risk management and space systems risk analysis. He has performed risk and safety assessment, reliability analysis, and decision analysis for the nuclear, chemical, and aerospace industries. Dr. Mosleh is the editor of four books and the author or coauthor of four source books and guidebooks and more than 140 papers in technical journals and for conferences. He was the organizer or chairman of numerous international conferences and technical sessions. He chairs the Engineering Division of the International Society for Risk Analysis and is a board member of the International Association of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. He is a member of the board of editors of the Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety. He is a member and program chairman of the Executive Committee of the Human Factors Division, American Nuclear 17 

OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY PROJECTS Society, as well as a member of the Risk Analysis Methodology Committee, International Society for Risk Analysis. He also serves as codirector of the Center for Technology Risk Studies at the Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Mosleh is an expert consultant to national and international organizations on risk and reliability issues. He has a PhD in nuclear science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. OFFSHORE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING David J. Wisch is a ChevronTexaco Fellow with Upstream Technology–Engineering and Construction Management, responsible for core technology, R&D coordination, codes and standards, industry committee activities, structural engineering, computer operations, and administrative support. He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute (API) task groups on installation, fatigue, desk leg design, and assessment of existing facilities and chairs the API Committee for Standardization of Offshore and Arctic Structures and Standardization of Offshore and Subsea Structures. He holds BS and MS degrees in civil engineering from the University of Missouri and has done postgraduate studies in the doctoral program at Tulane University. LAW AND POLICY Jeremy M. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Marine Policy in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of Delaware. His research interests include U.S. ocean and environmental law and policy; governance, regulation, and intergovernmental relations; and renewable energy policy. He is currently involved in an offshore wind energy project focused on understanding the values associated with and the development of a policy framework for offshore wind power development. The goals of the project are to anticipate public positions on offshore wind (both pro and con) to provide a basis for incorporating public views into the design of both communications and policy and to identify problem areas in current law and policy. Dr. Firestone holds a BS in molecular biology from the University of Michigan, a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and a PhD in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NAVIGATION AND HYDROGRAPHICS Steven R. Barnum, President of Hydrographic Consultation Services, recently retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after serving 3 years as director of the agency’s Office of Coast Survey, where he was the nation’s chief hydrographer, responsible for overseeing NOAA’s hydrographic services, including the mapping and charting of all U.S. navigational waters. While at NOAA, Captain Barnum also served as head of its commerce and transportation goal team, which is one of the 18 

PLANNING COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION four major strategic planning units within the agency, where he coordinated activities supporting safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation. Immediately before assuming his goal team position, he served as chief of the Office of Coast Survey’s Navigational Services Division. Captain Barnum began his career with NOAA in 1980, when he was commissioned as an ensign in the NOAA Corps. He has specialized in Coast Survey mission objectives for the most part and has more than 8 years of hydrographic field operations aboard five NOAA ships. His ship assignments include serving as commanding officer of the NOAA ships Thomas Jefferson and Whiting. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech University, a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland, and an MS in software engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY Judith Hill Harris serves as Director, Department of Transportation, for the City of Portland, Maine. Her areas of responsibility include operations, planning and regulatory compliance for transportation policy, port security, marine environmental issues, and commercial fisheries. She is also responsible for port security grant funding. She has served on the State of Maine’s Homeland Security Planning Team and on the Maine Emergency Management Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Team and is the former chair of the Port of Portland’s Maritime Disaster Task Force. She also serves as a technical advisor to the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Maine, for the State of Maine’s National Pharmaceutical Stockpile plan and to the Greater Portland Council of Governments Hazardous Waste Commodity Flow Study and Disaster Planning Team. Ms. Harris is a former member of the Federal Commercial Fishing Industry Safety Advisory Committee and is a current member of the Traffic Board of the North Atlantic Ports Association; the American Association of Port Authorities’ Harbors, Navigation, and Environment Committee; and the Area Maritime Security Committee. Before joining the Department of Ports and Transportation, Ms. Harris was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Seafood Management Corporation for 15 years, where she advised large corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, resource plans, security and intelligence, and technology transfer. 19