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Letter Report on a Technical Peer Review of the Buzzards Bay Risk Assessment (2013)

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Suggested Citation:"Enclosure C: Committee Member Biographical Information." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Letter Report on a Technical Peer Review of the Buzzards Bay Risk Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/22480.
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49 Enclosure C Committee Member Biographical Information Paul S. Fischbeck, Chair, is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation, where he coordinates a diverse research group exploring all aspects of regulation, from historical case studies to transmission line siting to emissions trading programs. Widely published, Dr. Fischbeck has served on a number of national research committees and review panels, including the NRC–TRB 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 NRC–TRB 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 to prioritize 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. He is cofounder of the Brownfields Center at Carnegie Mellon, an interdisciplinary research group investigating ways to improve industrial site reuse. He is involved in a number of professional research organizations including the American Society for Engineering Education, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the Military Operations Research Society, and the Society for Risk Analysis. He has chaired a National Science Foundation panel on urban interactions and currently serves on EPA’s Science Advisory Board. He holds a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia, an MS in operations research and management science from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a PhD in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. William L. Hurley, Jr., a licensed professional engineer in naval architecture and marine engineering in the state of Washington, is Principal and Chairman of the Board at Glosten Associates. He joined the firm in 1977 after graduating from the University of Michigan with a BSE in naval architecture. Mr. Hurley has served the marine industry for 34 years and has specialized in commercial vessel design and construction. He has participated in all aspects of naval architecture work at the firm, serving on numerous new design programs and major vessel conversions.

50 Thomas M. Leschine is the Director of the University of Washington School of Marine Affairs and specializes in environmental policy, with an emphasis on the use of scientific and technical information in environmental decision making. Among his research interests are coastal ecosystem and marine pollution management, maritime safety including oil spill prevention and response, and the long-term management of hazards associated with radioactive and other long- lived wastes. He chaired the NRC Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes, whose work culminated with publication of Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites (2000), a comprehensive examination of the Department of Energy’s planning for long-term stewardship at defense nuclear sites. That work led to publication of the edited volume Long-Term Management of Contaminated Sites (2007) in the Elsevier JAI academic series Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Dr. Leschine served previously as a member of the Marine Board’s Committee on Risk Assessment and Management of Marine Systems, which produced the Review of the Prince William Sound, Alaska, Risk Assessment Study (1998). Dr. Leschine earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he specialized in mathematical logic. He made the transition to a career in marine affairs via postdoctoral research and staff appointments at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and, briefly, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Leschine has served as a member of the Marine Board since November 2008. Milton Levenson (NAE) is an independent consultant. He is a chemical engineer with 65 years of experience in nuclear energy and related fields. His technical experience includes work related to nuclear safety, fuel cycle, water reactors, advanced reactors, and remote control. His professional experience includes research and operations positions at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute, and Bechtel. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976. Mr. Levenson is a fellow and past president of the American Nuclear Society, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Robert E. Wilson Award in Nuclear Chemical Engineering. He is the author of more than 150 publications and presentations and holds three U.S. patents. Mr. Levenson has served as chairman or committee member for several National Academies studies. He received his BChE from the University of Minnesota. R. Keith Michel is President of Webb Institute, a highly ranked college offering a joint degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. Before assuming the presidency of Webb in July 2013, Mr. Michel was Chairman of the Board of the Herbert Engineering Corporation (HEC) group of companies, where he was engaged in the design of ships and related research for 40 years. The HEC group of companies consists of HEC (focusing on the design of ships and offshore structures), HES (HEC’s subsidiary company located in Shanghai, China), and HEE (HEC’s European subsidiary company). Mr. Michel’s expertise covers risk assessment; marine transportation studies; and conceptual, preliminary, and contract-level design, shipyard negotiations, and plan approval of commercial ships. He has been project manager for structural,

51 stability, damage stability, outflow, cargo securing, container and cargo gear testing, and marine transportation economic and risk analysis studies. He served as Technical Advisor to the U.S. delegation to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 32 through MEPC 36 and as a member of the drafting group developing the IMO Guidelines for the Approval of Alternative Tanker Designs Under Regulation 13F. He developed the probability distribution functions for tankers on the basis of historical damage statistics, developed the IMO reference ships and performed the outflow analysis, and assisted in writing the guidelines. Mr. Michel served as Chairman of the IMO Bulk Liquids and Gases working group tasked with developing new marine pollution (MARPOL) regulations for hypothetical oil outflow and tank size and with acceptance of alternative designs to double-hull tankers. He developed the initial draft of the MARPOL regulations for protection of bunker tanks. Mr. Michel is past Chair of the Marine Board of the National Academies and has served on a number of other National Academy of Sciences committees. Mr. Michel holds a BS in naval architecture and marine engineering from Webb Institute. He is past president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), a Fellow and Honorary Member of SNAME, and a National Associate of NRC. In 2002, he was awarded SNAME’s David W. Taylor Medal for notable achievement in naval architecture and marine engineering. Ali Mosleh (NAE) is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he 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, develops methodologies for security risk management, and conducts space systems risk analysis. He has performed risk and safety assessment, reliability analysis, and decision analysis for the nuclear, chemical, and aerospace industries. He 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 conferences. Dr. Mosleh 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; is a member and Program Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Human Factors Division, American Nuclear Society; and is a member of the Risk Analysis Methodology Committee, International Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Mosleh serves as Codirector of the Center for Technology Risk Studies at Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. He 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 at Los Angeles. Dr. Mosleh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. Malcolm L. Spaulding is an Ocean Engineer specializing in numerical modeling of nearshore and coastal processes of estuarine, coastal, and continental shelf regions to include hydrodynamics, waves, sediment transport and pollutant transport, fate, and effect. He has been active in computational fluid dynamics and has investigated a wide range of geophysical and engineering flow problems. Dr. Spaulding received his BS in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 1969 and an MS from

52 Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He returned to URI and completed a PhD in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics in 1972. He joined the URI Ocean Engineering Department faculty in 1973 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1978 and to Professor in 1983. He served as department chair from 1992 to 2002 and retired in early 2013. He has served on numerous NRC boards, committees, and panels, including those to review oil pollution research and development, to evaluate marine environmental studies programs, to assess ocean technology transfer, and to evaluate cleanup and response to spills of heavy oils. He has chaired eight international specialty conferences, seven on estuarine and coastal modeling (held in alternate years starting in 1989) and one on oil spill legislative and management implications. In 1993, Dr. Spaulding received the Rhode Island Governor’s Science and Technology Special Citation Award for his commitment to academic excellence and business development. He received the URI Edmund and Dorothy Marshall Faculty Excellence Award in 1997 for his leadership of the Ocean Engineering Department and his commitment to excellence in engineering education.

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At the request of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), the TRB/Marine Board Committee to Review the Buzzards Bay Maritime Risk Assessment has evaluated the methods and conclusions of the Buzzards Bay Risk Assessment (BBRA).

The BBRA was originally commissioned by the United States Coast Guard and MassDEP. The committee’s task was to provide an independent technical review of the BBRA focusing on its scope, methods, and supporting data. The committee finds that the choices made in the formulation and execution of the study bring into question the conclusions of the risk assessment on technical grounds and that the ranking of risk mitigation options is not justified and could be reversed with slightly different and more defensible methods or assumptions.

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