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APPENDIX E: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF LEVEE COMMITTEE MEMBERS L. Douglas James is professor of civil and environmental engineering at Utah State University, director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory, and a member of the NRC Water Technologies Board. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Stanford University. Dr. James has been in his current position at Utah State since 1976. His previous teaching and research experience has been with the Environmental Resources Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Kentucky. Dr. James has been a major contributor to reports and studies concerning flood control structures such as "Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety," December 1978; "Federal Dam Safety: Report to OSTP Independent Review Panel," December 1978; "Flood Damage Mitigation in Utah," Utah Water Research Laboratory Report 1980; and many other text books and journal articles. Leo M. Eisel received a B.S. in forestry from Colorado State University, an MS in hydrology from University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard. Dr. Eisel is presently with Wright Water Engineering firm in Denver. He has been the director of the Water Resources Council in Washington and director of the Illinois Division of Water Resources in previous years. Dr. Eisel is also a member of another NRC committee reviewing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' planning study of the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area water supply. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. is a colonel in the U.S. Army and is presently professor and deputy head of the Department of Geography and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He received his M.S. in civil engineering from Princeton, an M.P.A. from Pennsylvania State (Capital Campus), and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina. He is a registered professional engineer with over 20 years of service in the Army Corps of Engineers. His last assignment was District Engineer for the Vicksburg Engineer District of the Corps of Engineers. At West Point he teaches courses in water resources management and land use planning. Carl W. Kreitzberg is currently professor of physics and atmospheric sciences at Drexel University. He holds a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Washington. His professional experience has been as research -102-
physicist, Meteorology Lab, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, and assistant professor in meteorology at Penn State University. Rutherford H. Platt is associate professor of geography and planning law at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Chicago and also holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He served as assistant director and staff attorney for the Open Lands Project, Inc., Chicago, and is a member of the Illinois bar. He has served on two other NRC committees: the Committee on Flood Insurance Studies, 1979-1982, and the Committee on Water Resources Research Review in 1980. He has also served as a consultant on floodplain policy to various federal and private agencies. Henry M. Reitz has been president of Reitz and Jens, Inc., consulting engineers since 1969. He received an M.S. from Harvard University. Mr. Reitz's experience includes consulting engagements in manufacturing, commercial housing and utility construction, resource development, and waste disposal for private interests and governmental units. He has a working knowledge of water, mechanics, and physiochemical properties of soils. He has consulted in development of limiting criteria for flood protection, storm drainage, and foundations. From 1970 to 1977 he was a consultant to St. Louis County, responsible for technical criteria for flood protection by levees and special geotechnical considerations. From 1955 to 1958 he was a professor and department head of civil engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Robert L. Smith is the Deane Ackers Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Kansas and a member of the NRC Water Technologies Board. He received an M.S. in hydraulics from the University of Iowa and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His nonacademic professional experience includes 12 years of work in state water resources planning, first as executive director of the Iowa Natural Resources Council and subsequently as executive director and chief engineer of the Kansas Water Resources Board; a tour as special assistant, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President, and chairman, Committee on Water Resources Research, Federal Council of Science and Technology; numerous advisory consulting assignments with state, federal, and foreign agencies; and for the past 14 years as a water resources consultant to Black & Veatch, Consulting Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri. Some selected prior professional service activities include chairman, Interstate Conference on Water Problems, 1961; member, U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade, 1968-71; chairman, ASCE Committee on Water Resources Planning, 1962, also in 1976; and chairman, Committee on Flood Insurance Research Studies, NRC, 1979-81. Walter D. (Pete) Swift has recently retired from the American Insurance Association (ALA), an organization with whom he had been with since 1960. As assistant/deputy general adjuster he spent 6 months a year developing catatrophe response procedures to expedite the orderly, equitable settlement of insurance losses under stressful conditions. In 1971 he became vice president of the Claims Administration and Property Claims -103-
Services, where he is responsible for planning, direction, control, and economic accomplishments of several programs covering the entire spectrum of property and casualty loss adjustments from catatrophe operations to claims research. He cooperated with the National Flood Insurance Association and the FIA in developing practices consistent with the best interests of the public and compatibility with private sector insurance procedures. He also established formal arrangements with the FEMA, to provide for adequate response to insurance inquiries in disaster relief centers. Mr. Swift holds a law degree from John Marshall Law School. Scott L. Tucker is executive director of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District in Denver, Colorado. He received an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Arizona. Presently he is responsible for managing the activities of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, which encompasses l,200 square miles consisting of 6 counties and 28 cities and towns. The District is involved in a full range of drainage and flood control activities, including drainage way master planning, floodplain management, and construction. Some of his professional consulting activities include: co-chairman of 1975 Engineering Foundation Conference on Floodplain Management; member, Water Quality Management Task Force, Denver Regional Water Quality Study (1976-78); chairman, Water Pollution Control Federal Committee on nonpoint sources of pollution (1978-81); chairman and secretary, ASCE, Urban Water Resources Council (1975-78). Frederick A. Webster received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1972. He was an assistant professor of structural design at the University of Illinois from 1972 to 1975; from 1975 to 1979 he worked for Engineering Decision Analysis Co., Inc., where he was a project engineer responsible for both research and projects, including seismic criteria development, risk analysis, and fire safety system reliability. Presently, he is a project manager with Jack R. Benjamin Associates, Inc., on projects including multiple hazard assessment and mitigation decision analysis for an urban water supply system including levee hazard analysis. French Wetmore received an M.P.A. from Syracuse University in 1972 and has been chief of Local Floodplain Programs, Division of Water Resources, Illinois Department of Transportation, since 1976. As head of the state's office he advises and assists cities and counties in the preparation of floodplain management programs. He is also the state coordinator for the NFIP. Along with his staff he advises and assists 700 local governments in the program and coordinates the activities of regional agencies and 20 state and federal agencies. He is currently chairman of the Floodplain Regulations Committee of the Association of State Flood Plain Managers. Eric F. Wood received an Sc.D. in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He is currently an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and, since July 1980, has been director of the Water Resources Program at Princeton University. His expertise is in stochastic hydrology, hydrologic forecasting, and application of mathematical systems theories to river basin planning. Dr. Wood is the editor of a book published in 1980 by Pergamon Press titled Recent Developments in -104-
Real-Time Forecasting/Control of Water Resources Systems and author of numerous papers on hydrologic models and systems analysis of water management. He serves on a number of professional committees and journal editorial boards. Technical Consultant George W. Brazier, Jr., is a consulting civil engineer in private practice. As the head of the Corps of Engineers' civil works construction and operations division in its Washington, D.C., headquarters he gained considerable experience applicable to the waterways of the United States. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas. Mr. Brazier has previously been involved in National Academy of Sciences deliberations concerning the use of double-hulled barges on inland waterways. -105-
