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APPENDIX
A
Biographical Sketches
of Committee Members
RUTHERFORD H. PLATT (Chair) is Professor of Geography and Adjunct
Professor of Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He received his Ph.D. in geography in 1971 and a J.D. in law in 1967 from the
University of Chicago. His B.A. is in political science from Yale University. He
has served as a consultant to numerous agencies, including Federal Emergency
Management Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of Coastal Zone
Management, Tennessee Valley Authority, and others. His NRC service includes
the Committee on Flood Insurance Studies, Committee on Federal Water Re-
search, Committee on NFIP Levee Policy, Committee on Options to Preserve
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, and Committee on Coastal Erosion Hazards.
KENNETH W. POTTER (Vice Chair) is Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Chair of the Water Resources Management Program at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received his B.S. in geology from
Louisiana State University in 1968 and his Ph.D. in geography and environmen-
tal engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1976. His teaching and
research interests are in hydrology and water resources, and include estimation of
hydrological risk, especially flood risk; hydrological modeling and design;
stormwater modeling, management, and design; assessment of human impacts on
hydrological systems; and estimation of hydrological budgets, both surface and
ground water. Dr. Potter was a member of the WSTB and has participated in a
number of NRC activities.
LEO M. EISEL is President, McLaughlin Water Engineers in Denver, Colorado.
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He received his Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard University in 1970. From
1971 to 1973 he was a staff scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund in
New York. Later, he became Director of the Illinois Division of Water Re-
sources, and from 1977 to 1980 he was Director of the U.S. Water Resources
Council. Dr. Eisel has been a member of the WSTB, the Committee to Review
the Metropolitan Washington Area Water Supply Study, and the recent Commit-
tee on Western Water Management. Dr. Eisel is broadly experienced in water
supply planning and hydrologic engineering.
JAMES D. HALL is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fisheries and
Wildlife, Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in fisheries from the
University of Michigan. His research interests include population dynamics of
freshwater fish, effects of watershed practices on streams, and stream ecology.
He has done extensive work on anadromous fish habitat in western North
America. Dr. Hall served as a visiting professor at the Institute of Animal
Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia; the Department of Zoology,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and the University of Edinburgh, Scot-
land.
L. ALLAN JAMES is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography,
University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in geography and geology
and has M.S. degrees in both water resources management and geography from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.A. in geography from the Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley. While his expertise is in the hydrogeomorphology
(with specific experience studying rivers flowing out of the Sierra foothillsJ, his
research interests are interdisciplinary. His work has focused on hydraulic min-
ing sedimentation of streams draining to the Sacramento Valley and geomorphic
mapping in the northwest Sierra Nevada.
WILLIAM KIRBY holds B.C.E. (1963), M.S. (1966), and Ph.D. (1968) degrees
from Cornell University in sanitary engineering, hydraulics, and applied prob-
ability. He has worked as a research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey
since 1967. He is now in the Office of Surface Water, where he develops and
maintains procedures and computer programs for indirect discharge determina-
tions and other hydraulic computations and develops procedures for calculating
probability laws of hydrologic storage models for floods and droughts. He has
had considerable experience in watershed modeling and flood-frequency analy-
sis. Dr. Kirby's fields of specialization are random behavior and control of
hydrologic systems; probabilistic structure of the streamflow process in flood and
in drought; reservoir operating policies; development and evaluation of statistical
procedures, one-dimensional hydraulic analysis and flow modeling; and indirect
discharge determinations. He served on WSTB's Committee on Estimating the
Probabilities of Extreme Floods.
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NANCY Y. MOORE received her Ph.D. in water resources systems engineering
with a minor in operations research and econometrics from the University of
California at Los Angeles. Her research focused on the optional timing, sequenc-
ing and sizing of multiple reservoir surface water supply facilities when demand
depends on price. Dr. Moore is a Senior Research Engineer, Resource Manage-
ment Department, at RAND. She previously served as Director of Development
and Engineer in the Engineering and Applied Sciences Department at RAND.
Dr. Moore has conducted studies on efficient ground and surface water use in
California, evaluating the effects of the state's water rights, institutions, pricing,
and planning process on efficient use and proposed alternative ways to improve
water use efficiency. She led a study of the impacts of California's 1991 drought
and is leading a survey of urban water agencies on water availability and distribu-
tion during the 1987-1991 drought. Dr. Moore has written widely on water
management issues, including market transfers and conjunctive use of surface
and ground water. She served on NRC's Committee to Review the Glen Canyon
Environmental Studies.
JOHN W. MORRIS (Lt. Gen. U.S. Army Ret.) is President, J.W. Morris Ltd. He
was formerly Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Chair of
Construction Management at the University of Maryland. Gen. Morris also
served as Executive Director for International Operations for Royal Volker Stevin
N.V. and Chair/CEO of the Planning Research Corporation Engineer Group. He
earned a B.S. in civil engineering from the U.S. Military Academy in 1943 and an
M.S. from the University of Iowa in 1948. He is an expert in construction
management and has received numerous awards and honors from professional
societies and government agencies, including a Presidential Citation for Manage-
ment, Construction Man of the Year (1977) from Engineering News Record, and
the Pladium Medal sponsored by the Audubon Society. Gen. Morris is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering, and until 1994 served on the Building
Research Board, the Committee on Inspection for Quality Control on Federal
Construction Projects, and the Committee on Architect-Engineer Responsibili-
ties.
ANN L. RILEY earned her Ph.D. in environmental planning, specializing in
floodplain and watershed management river restoration, hydrology, and water
policy, from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a M.S. in
landscape architecture from University of California-Berkeley. She is Executive
Director of the southwest office of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters and is
active in the area of river management and restoration. Dr. Riley has extensive
experience working in different aspects of government, including contract field
work and research for the U.S. Geological Survey, land use planning for county
governments in the Midwest, and river restoration and floodplain management
for the California Department of Water Resources. She has taught courses in
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environmental science and floodplain management at several colleges and has
been active in community organizing. She founded the Urban Creeks Council of
California, a statewide environmental organization, and the National Coalition to
Restore Urban Waters. Related experience includes serving as an instructor at
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station for workshops
on the design of flood control projects.
LEONARD SHABMAN received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1972 from
Cornell University. He is Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics
at Virginia Tech, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. His re-
sponsibilities include the conduct and management of a research program in
resource and environmental policy analysis; classroom teaching; and undergradu-
ate and graduate student advising. Dr. Shabman has conducted economic re-
search over a wide range of topics in natural resource and environmental policy,
with emphasis in six general areas: coastal resources management; planning,
investment, and financing of water resource development; flood hazard manage-
ment; federal and state water planning; water quality management, and fisheries
management. He was an economic advisor to the Water Resources Council in
1977-1978 and scientific advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil
Works, in 1984-1985. He served on the WSTB's Committee on Restoration of
Aquatic Systems.
HSIEH WEN SHEN is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of
California at Berkeley. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1961. Dr. Shen's major areas of research
include sediment transport, water resources development, interaction between
sediment movements and structures, mathematical modeling of movable bed
streams, and stream ecology including developing flow control and release plans
for ecological concerns. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
for his work on the development of flow control and release plans of reservoirs to
restore and enhance the ecological environments of rivers.
JERY R. STEDINGER is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard in 1977,
where he was a member of the Environmental Systems Program. He earned his
M.S. in applied mathematics from Harvard University and his B.A. in applied
mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Stedinger's re-
search includes multireservoir systems analysis, risk analysis, and many topics in
stochastic hydrology. He has extensive California experience conducting re-
search for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. He is a previous winner of the NSF
Presidential Young Investigator award. Dr. Stedinger served as a member of the
NRC's Committee on Water Resources Research and the Committee on Safety
Criteria for Dams.
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