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APPENDIX
A
Biographies
ALBERT'l. HERBERGER, Chair (until September 14, 1993), is Maritime
Administrator, U.S. Maritime Administration. During the study, he was Vice
President, Maritime Affairs, with the International Planning and Analysis Cen-
ter. He specializes in military sealift and naval surface warfare. His executive
management experience includes manpower, training, logistics, and marine trans-
portation. Vice Admiral Herberger completed U.S. Navy service as Deputy Com-
mander, U.S. Transportation Command, where he was responsible for develop-
ing and implementing a strategy to promote government and civil sector support
for improvements for all modes of national transportation. This included devel-
opment of a transportation network designed to incorporate both civil-sector and
government programs for traffic management and computer-based information
systems. He also served as Director for Logistics, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, where he
was responsible for logistics planning and maintenance management of over 300
ships, as well as aircraft squadrons and shoreside facilities. His 18 years opera-
tional service in the Navy and the merchant marine included deck officer and
naval command experience in ships and destroyer groups. Vice Admiral Her-
berger received his B.S. from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and complet-
ed the engineering science curriculum at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
MARTHA GRABOWSKI, Chair (from September 17, 1993J, is the Joseph
Georg Professor at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York; Research Assistant
Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and member of the Marine Board, National
Research Council. Dr. Grabowski previously served as Program Integration Man
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ager with General Electric's corporate research and development center. She has
been investigating the effects of smaller shipboard crews and advanced technol-
ogy on maritime safety, methods for streamlined development of information
systems, and the organizational impact of information systems. She developed a
piloting expert system for use with integrated bridge systems for the Maritime
Administration. Dr. Grabowski served as a licensed deck officer in the U.S.
merchant marine and is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Her
afloat experience includes deck officer assignment aboard liquefied natural gas
carriers, tankers, and integrated tug-and-barges. Dr. Grabowski received her B.S.
in marine transportation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and earned
her M.S in industrial engineering, M.B.A., and Ph.D. in information systems/
artificial intelligence from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
BERNHARD }. ABRAHAMSSON is Professor of Economics and Chair-
man of the Division of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-
Superior. Dr. Abrahamsson specializes in international economics with empha-
sis on trade; economics and policy of ocean, shipping and energy; and
transportation. He has held positions at six universities, the Woods Hole Ocean-
ographic Institution, the International Monetary Fund, and recently was Head of
the Department of Marine Transportation at the U.S. Merchant Marine Acade-
my. His consultancies have included the World Bank, the National Advisory
Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, Federal Maritime Commission, General
Accounting Office, and the RAND Corporation. He served on the National Re-
search Council's Ocean Policy Committee (1975-78) and that committee's Ma-
rine Technical Assistance Group (1978-82~. Dr. Abrahamsson graduated from
the Stockholm Merchant Marine Academy, received his unlimited Master Mari-
ner's license from the Swedish Board of Trade, he received a Reserve Officer's
Commission from the Royal Swedish Naval College, and served aboard mer-
chant ships for 15 years. His publications include eight books as author, co-
author, or contributor and numerous professional articles and major papers. He
has lectured extensively, delivering conference papers worldwide to industrial,
academic, and government audiences. Dr. Abrahamsson received his B.B.A. de-
gree in international trade from the City College of New York and earned his
M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
JAMES E. BAKER is a consultant in port operations and instructor at the
Texas A&M University at Galveston. During the study, Captain Baker was Di-
rector of Operations, Port of Houston, where he was responsible for daily opera-
tion of the port's cargo handling and container facilities. He is a special advisor
to the U.S. Coast Guard's Vessel Traffic Service 2000 project. He completed
service with Lykes Lines as Assistant Vice President. In addition to service as
Port Captain and Manager, Marine Division West Gulf, Captain Baker also sailed
as Chief Officer with Lykes Lines and holds an unlimited Masters license and
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endorsement as Federal First Class Pilot, Houston Ship Channel. He has been
Chairman of the Department of Transportation's Houston-Galveston Navigation
Safety Advisory Committee from 1982. He was a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee for Formation of Operation Guidelines of Houston/Galveston Vessel Traf-
fic Service and chaired the Captains Technical Committee of the West Gulf
Maritime Association from 1972-1986. Captain Baker received his B.S. from
the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
RONALD BRAFF is a Principal Engineer at The MITRE Corporation's
Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. He is the editor of Naviga-
tion: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, and consulting editor in navigation
for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. At MITRE since
1970, Mr. Braff has been involved in many aspects of air navigation technology.
He is test director for the Federal Aviation Administration's large scale program
to determine the feasibility of using the Differential Global Positioning System
(DGPS) for Category II} precision approaches, and provides technical oversight
of MITRE' s navigation research for the Federal Aviation Administration. Previ-
ous work at MITRE included supervision of technical support for Federal Avia-
tion Administration navigation policy decisions with emphasis on air naviga-
tion's stringent requirements for integrity, availability, and continuity of service.
He identified GPS integrity problems, and originated the idea for the satellite-
broadcast GPS integrity channel, which is currently in the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration implementation process. Mr. Braff is also experienced as a technical
manager and engineer in the development and evaluation of advance concepts
for air traffic control surveillance, communications, and automation functions.
He was previously with Computer Sciences Corporation where he was involved
in the design of a military tactical air traffic management system, and the Federal
Aviation Administration Technical Center, where he conducted experimental
and theoretical evaluations of advance navigation systems. Mr. Braff is a mem-
ber of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a member of the
Council of the Institute of Navigation. He received his B.S. in physics from
Montana State University and M.S.E.E. from New York University.
ROBERT M. FREEMAN is Technology Development Coordinator,
SeaRiver Maritime (formerly Exxon Shipping Company). He previously held
economics, planning, and environmental conservation positions with Exxon, and
he served in the U.S. Navy for 9 years. His experience with Exxon included
building, conversion, and engineering/technical programs and involved work as
project manager for the construction of two very large tankers. These programs
included retrofit of distributed control systems on five tankships, which resulted
in the first certifications for unattended engine rooms on U.S.-flag steam vessels.
Since 1984, Mr. Freeman has been involved with development of integrated
bridge systems for operational control of tankships. He was responsible for de
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velopment of an automated integrated bridge system that was installed on a very
large Exxon tankship for at-sea testing and development as a prototype for fleet
installation. He completed service in the U.S. Naval Reserve as Commander.
Mr. Freeman received his B.S. in mechanical engineering and M.B.A.in finance
from the University of Pittsburgh.
'}EAN GRAFF has managed the SOGREAH Port Revel Marine Research
and Shiphandling Training Centre, France, since 1981. He has been project lead-
er for a number of scale-model studies of ship and towboat maneuvering charac-
teristics in simulated harbors and waterways. He previously served as engineer
responsible for Europe and the Middle East in SOGREAH's Department of Ex-
ternal Relations. He was engineer in SOGREAH's Hydrology and Hydrography
Sections, where he was responsible for in situ measurements to obtain the data
required for port and coastal studies carried out by the Maritime Engineering
Section. Before joining SOGREAH, Mr. Graff attended the French Navy's train-
ing school for reserve officers and served as officer of the deck aboard French
naval vessels. He also was Mate with the Compagnie Generate Maritime, serv-
ing as deck officer aboard various ships. Mr. Graff received his diploma from the
National Merchant Navy School in France in 1961 and received his Oceangoing
Mate's license in 1963.
PAUL LANE IVES, ,lR., is a state (Pennsylvania) and federally licensed
marine pilot and a member of the Pilots' Association for the Bay and River
Delaware. During the study, Captain Ives was President of the Association and
Secretary-Treasurer of the American Pilots Association. He also holds a Coast
Guard license as Master of Steam and Motor Vessels upon Bays, Sounds and
Lakes. His Federal Communications Commission licenses are Radiotelephone
Operator First Class with Ship Radar endorsement and Amateur Radio Operator.
He previously held a private pilot's license for light aircraft. Captain Ives' long
involvement with technological improvement of methods of pilotage includes
the application of bridge-to-bridge radio communications, vessel traffic services,
and computer-based real-time tide and current information for the Delaware Bay
and River. Captain Ives is a member of the Board of Directors of the Radio
Technical Commission for Marine Services and chaired the Joint Executive Com-
mittee for the Improvement and Development of the Philadelphia Port Area. He
received his B.A. in history and political science from the John Hopkins Univer-
s~ty.
WALTER PARKER is President, Parker Associates. He specializes in
transportation, telecommunications, and regional planning and is experienced in
both aviation and marine systems, as well as marine pilotage laws and customs.
Mr. Parker was an evaluator for educational broadcasting use of satellite sys-
tems, planned a long-distance education network for Alaska, and provided the
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state with its first long-range telecommunications program. He wrote the envi-
ronmental and technical stipulations for the proposed Northern Tier Pipeline for
Washington State and proposed stipulations for the Northwest Gas Pipeline for
the state of Alaska. He also was environmental consultant and technical staff
director on the Aleyska Pipeline for the State of Alaska Pipeline Office. Prior to
that, he completed a long career with the Federal Aviation Administration as
Transportation Planning Officer. Mr. Parker's Federal Aviation Administration
work included service as an air traffic controller, regional evaluation, regional
planning, and systems requirements. He was Chairman of the Alaska Oil Spill
Commission, Oil Tanker Task Force, and Alaska Telecommunications Work
Group. He was U.S. Delegate to the 1976 United Nations Conference on Habitat.
Mr. Parker is President of the Alaska Academy of Engineering and Sciences. He
received his B.A. (History and Anthropology) from the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks. He graduated from the Administrative Management Development
Program, with majors in political science and public administration, at Syracuse
University. Mr. Parker also completed graduate studies in economics at the Uni-
versity of Puget Sound, Tacoma, and in Soviet maritime and fisheries policy at
the Sino-Soviet Institute, The George Washington University.
KARLENE H. ROBERTS is a Professor in the School of Business Admin-
istration, University of California at Berkeley. She is also Research Psychologist
with the Institute of Industrial Relations. Dr. Roberts teaches an M.B.A.-level
course on the design and management of complex systems that have potential to
cause catastrophic damage to themselves and their environments. Her research
has focused on human-factors aspects of high-reliability-enhancing organiza-
tions as they pertain to the U.S. Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carriers, the
Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system, Pacific Gas and
Electric Company's nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon, and human systems in com-
mercial marine operations. She has also assisting in doctoral research into man-
agement aspects of oil rig operations. She has published extensively on organi-
zational behavior in hazardous operations, communications, and human
performance. Dr. Roberts is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association
and the Academy of Management. She received her B.A. from Stanford Univer-
sity and earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Ber-
keley.
WILLIAM it. SCHRENK has been an attorney with the Natural Resources
Defense Council since 1988. There, his work has focused on maritime activities,
and includes legal analysis of pilotage laws. A member, Bar of the State of New
York and Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Mr. Schrenk retired as
a partner in the law firm of Lawyer, Cravath, Swaine and Moore in 1987. He was
resident partner in Paris (1963-64) and London (1977-791. His practice was
primarily in financial and corporate matters. Prior to entering private legal prac
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lice, Mr. Schrenk was Executive Secretary, Study Committee for the European
Movement, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1952-533; lawyer with the U.S. High
Commission for Germany, Frankfurt and Bonn (1950-52~; and lawyer with the
Economic Cooperation Administration in Washington, D.C. (1949-50~. He
served as a naval officer from 1943~6 in the Pacific Theater. Mr. Schrenk
received his B.S. from Case Institute of Technology and earned his J.D. from the
University of Michigan Law School.
FRANK SEITZ is a principal in and consultant with SimShip Corporation
where he specializes in marine simulation training. He previously was a marine
consultant with Marine Safety International, where he served as Senior Marine
Advisor and Project Manager at the Computer Aided Operations Research Facil-
ity at Kings Point, New York, prior to forming SimShip. Captain Seitz holds a
Coast Guard Unlimited Masters license and endorsements as Federal First Class
Pilot for New York Harbor, Lower and Upper Bay, Bahia de San Juan, Puerto
Rico, Prince William Sound, and Port Valdez, Alaska. He also holds a commer-
cial aviation pilot's license. Captain Seitz has extensive experience as captain of
dry cargo, tanker, container, chemical carrier, and special purpose ships; naviga-
tor experience aboard the passenger ship America; and was the original master of
the very large crude carrier SS B.T. San Diego operating in the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline Service. He was recalled to active service in 1987 to bring the first
reflagged Kuwaiti tanker, ultra large crude carrier Bridgeton, into the Persian
Gulf. Upon return from the Gulf, he designed and implemented an indoctrination
course and manual for future U.S. masters of reflagged ships, and headed an
advisory team, which conducted debriefings and advisory sessions before the
National Security Council and Maritime Administrator. Captain Seitz previously
was ship master for the Puget Sound tanker trials. He has served as chief instruc-
tor for advanced shiphandling and readiness courses at the Computer Aided
Operations Research Facility; the Maritime Training and Research Center in
Toledo, Ohio; and the Marine Safety International Training Complex in New-
port, Rhode Island. Captain Seitz has headed simulation research projects sup-
porting harbor design, ships operations, and human factors, and participated in
the Panama Canal Widening Study. He has published numerous articles and
papers on topics including shipboard management, bridge team training, master-
pilot relationships, bridge design, ship handling, and vessel-performance moni-
toring. Captain Seitz received his B.S. from the U.S. Merchant Marine Acade-
my.
EUGENE F. SWEENEY is Senior Vice President with Hvide Shipping,
where he also served as Vice President-Operations, with responsibilities for deep-
sea and vessel operations, including all maintenance and repair activities, per-
sonnel, training and safety functions, and vessel management. Mr. Sweeney holds
a Coast Guard Unlimited Master license and has eighteen years of Naval Re
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serve officer experience. Prior to joining Hvide Shipping, he completed a 17-
year career with Texaco as Manager of Operations for the Texaco U.S. fleet. He
also served as Superintendent of Safety and Training for Texaco's four interna-
tional fleets and was Marine Superintendent for New England operations. He
was president of the Chemical Carriers Association. Mr. Sweeney received his
B.S. from the State University of New York Maritime College and his M.S. in
marine transportation from the State University of New York.
ARTHUR J. THOMAS is a state (California) and federally licensed ma-
rine pilot; member of the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association; Vice President,
Pacific Coast States, American Pilots Association; and West Coast Regional
Vice President, International Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots. During
the study, he was president of the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association. Captain
Thomas holds Coast Guard licenses as Master, Oceans, Unlimited and First Class
Pilot for San Francisco Bar, bays, and tributaries and a corresponding California
Pilot license. He has sailed in all licensed deck-officer positions including Mas-
ter. He also holds a Federal Aviation Administration license as Commercial
Aircraft Pilot, multi-engine, land and sea, instrument rated. He is a member of
the International Maritime Pilots Association International Technical Committee
to the International Maritime Organization; Chairman, Harbor Safety Commit-
tee, San Francisco Bay Region, California Department of Fish and Game, Office
of Oil Spill Prevention and Response; and Chairman of the San Francisco State
Pilot Commission's pilot training and evaluation committee. Earlier, Captain
Thomas served as chairman of the Department of Transportation Harbor Safety
Advisory Committee for the San Francisco area and was a member of the De-
partment of Transportation's Rules of the Road Advisory Committee, where he
chaired the Pilot Rules and Radiotelephone Working Groups. Previously, he
served as marine superintendent and port captain for States Steamship Company
and served as both master and chief officer on cargo ships. He served as chief
officer aboard vessels operated by the Military Sea Transportation Service and
Kaiser Gypsum Carriers and as deck officer aboard American President Lines
vessels. Captain Thomas completed U.S. Naval Reserve service as Captain. He
received his B.S. in Nautical Science and Astronomy from the California Mari-
time Academy.
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