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Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
KENNETH R. BRADBURY is a research hydrogeologist/-
professor with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey,
University of Wisconsin-Extension, in Madison. He received his Ph.D.
(hydrogeology, 1982) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his
A.M. (geology, 1977) from Indiana University, and his B.A. (geology,
1974) from Ohio Wesleyan University. His current research interests
include groundwater flow in fractured media, ground water recharge
processes, welThead protection, and the hydrogeology of glacial deposits.
VICTOR R. BAKER is regents professor and head of the Depar-
trnent of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona.
He is also professor of geosciences and professor of planetary sciences
at the University of Arizona. His research interests include geomor-
phology, flood geomorphology, paleohydrology, Quaternary geology,
natural hazards, geology of Mars and Venus, and philosophy of earth
and planetary sciences. He has spent time as a geophysicist for U.S.
Geological Survey and as an urban geologist. He has served on various
committees and panels of the National Research Council, including the
Panel on Alluvial Fan Flooding, the Panel on Global Surficial Geo-
fluxes, and the Panel on Scientific Responsibility and Conduct of
Research. He formerly chaired the U.S. National Committee for the
International Union for Quaternary Research ([NQUA) and served on
the Global Change Cornrnittee Working Group on Solid Earth Processes.
Dr. Baker was recently president of the Geological Society of America
and president of the INQUA Commission on Global Continental
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PaTeohydrology. He holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic [nstitute
(1967) and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado (1971~.
ANA P. BARROS is an associate professor of civil engineering at
Harvard University. Until recently, she was on the faculty at the
Pennsylvania State University. She received a diploma in civil
engineering from the University of Porto (Portugal) in 1985, an M.S. in
hydraulics/ocean engineering from the University of Porto in 198S, an
M.S. in environmental science and engineering from Oregon Graduate
Institute in 1990, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of
Washington in 1993. Dr. Barros's research interests are environmental
fluid mechanics, land-atmosphere interactions, macroscaTe hydrology,
hydrometeorology of mountainous regions, hydrologic extremes (floods
and droughts), climate variability, and remote sensing.
MIC~L E. C~PANA is director of the Water Resources
Program and professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University
of New Mexico. His current interests are hydrologic system-aquatic
ecosystem interactions, regional hydrogeology, environmental isotope
hydrology, and the hydrology of arid and tropical regions. He teaches
courses in water resources management, hydrogeology, subsurface fate
and transport processes, environmental mechanics, and geological fluid
mechanics. He was a Fulbright scholar to Belize in 1996. Dr. Campana
received a B.S. in 1970 in geology from the College of William and
Mary, an M.S. in hydrology in 1973, and a Ph.D.in hydrology in 1975
from the University of Arizona.
BENEDYKT DZIEGIELEWSKI is an Associate Professor of
Geography at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Executive
Director of the International Water Resources Association. His two main
research areas are Water Demand Management (urban water conser-
vation planning and evaluation, water demand forecasting, modeling of
water use in urban sectors) and Urban Drought (drought planning and
management, measurement of economic, social and environmental
drought impacts). He is Editor-In-Chief of Water International, and is an
Honorary Lifetime Member of the Water Conservation Committee of the
American Water Works Association. He received his B.S. and M.S. in
Environmental Engineering from WrocIaw Polytechnic University,
Wrociaw, Poland, and his Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental
Engineering from Southern Illinois University.
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Appendix B
KIMBERLY A. GRAY is an associate professor of environmental
engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Northwestern
University. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1988, an
M.S. from the University of Miami in 1983 in civil engineering, and her
B.A. in 1978 in biology from Northwestern University. Dr. Gray teaches
physicochemical processes, aquatic chemistry, environmental analytical
chemistry, and drinking water treatment design. Her research entails
experimental study of both engineered and natural processes. She
studies the characteristics of natural organic matter in surface waters,
wetlands, and treatment systems by pyrolysis-GC-MS. Other topics of
her research include the use of semiconductors to photocatalyze the
destruction of hazardous chemicals, the application of ionizing radiation
to reductively dechlorinate pollutants in soil matrices, and the
ecotoxicology of PCBs in periphytic biolayers.
C. THOMAS HAAN is the regents professor and Sarkeys
distinguished professor in the Department of Biosystems and
Agricultural Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He received his
Ph.D. in agricultural engineering from Iowa State University in 1967.
Dr. Haan's research interests are hydrology, hydrologic and water quality
modeling, stochastic hydrology, and risk analysis. He has served as a
consultant to several national and international agencies. Dr. Haan is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.
DAVID R. MAIDMENT is the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial
Professor of Engineering, and Director of the Center for Research in
Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an
acknowledged leader in the application of Geographic Information
Systems to hydrologic modeling. His current research involves the
application of GTS to flood plain mapping, water quality modeling, water
resources assessment, hydrologic simulation, surface water-groundwater
interaction, and global hydrology. He is the co-author of Applied
Hydrology (McGraw-Hill, ~988) and the editor-in-chief of Handbook of
Hydrology (McGraw-Hill, 1993~. From 1992 to 1995 he was Editor of
the Journal of Hydrology, and he is currently an Associate Editor of that
Journal and of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. He received his
Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign.
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141
DAVID H. MOREAU is professor in the Departments of City and
Regional Planning and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chair of the Department of
City and Regional Planning, Dr. Moreau received a B.Sc. (civil engi-
neering, 1960) from Mississippi State University, an M.Sc. (civil engi-
neering, ~ 963) from North Carolina State University, an M.Sc.
(engineering, 1964) from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. (water
resources, 1967) from Harvard University. Dr. Moreau has been a
consultant to the United Nations Development Program, Water Manage-
ment Models for Water Supply; New York City, review of water de-
mand projections; and Water for Sanitation and Health Program (All:)),
financing of water supply and waste disposal.
KAREN L. PRESTEGAARD is Associate Professor of Geology at
the University of Maryland. Her research interests include sediment
transport and depositional processes in mountain gravel-bed streams;
mechanisms of streamflow generation and their variations with
watershed scale, geology, and land use; hydrologic behavior of frozen
ground; hydrologic consequences of climate change; and hydrology of
coastal and riparian wetlands. She was a member of the NRC/CGER/-
BRWM Committee for Yucca Mountain Peer Review: Surface Charac-
teristics, Preclosure Hydrology, and Erosion. She received her B.A. in
geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her M.S. and
Ph.D. in geology from the University of California, Berkeley.
STUART S. SCHWARTZ is a private consultant specializing in
water resource systems analysis. He received his B.S. and M.S. in
biology-geology from the University of Rochester, and Ph.D. in
systems analysis from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Schwartz was
director of the Section for Cooperative Water Supply Operations on the
Potomac (CO-OP) at the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River
Basin. His research and professional interests focus on the application
of systems analysis and multiobjective optimization in risk-based water
resource management.
DONALD I. SIEGEL is a Professor of Geology at Syracuse
University where he teaches graduate courses in hydrogeology and
aqueous geochemistry. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology from
the University of Rhode Island and Penn State University, respectively,
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Appendix B
and a Ph.D. in hydrogeology from the University of Minnesota. His
research interests are in solute transport at both local and regional scales,
wetland-ground water interaction, and paTeohydrogeology. He was a
member of the NRC's Committee on Techniques for Assessing Ground
Water Vulnerability and Committee on Wetlands Characterization.
VERNON L. SNOEYINK is the Ivan Racheff Professor of En-
vironmental Engineering at the University of Illinois. His primary areas
of research are the physical and chemical processes for drinking water
purification, in particular the removal of organic contaminants by
activated carbon adsorption. In 1980, he co-authored the textbook Water
Chemistry (Wiley and Sons). He has been a trustee of the American
Water Works Association Research Foundation and president of the
Association of Environmental Engineering Professors. He is now a
member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of the American
Water Works Association and vice-chair of the Drinking Water
Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory
Board. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
He has been a member of several NRC committees, and chaired the
Committee on Small Water Supply Systems. He received his B.S. and
M.S. degrees in civil engineering and his Ph.D. in water resources
engineering from the University of Michigan.
MARY W. STOERTZ is an assistant professor of hydrogeology at
Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences. Her area of
specialty is stream restoration, particularly acid mine drainage polluted
streams of Appalachia, as well as restoration of channelized rivers. She
founded the Appalachian Watershed Research Group at Ohio University,
which has the mission of restoring desired functions of watersheds
subject to mining, sedimentation and flooding. She directs the
miTtidisciplinary research arms of the Monday Creek Restoration Project
and the Raccoon Creek Improvement Committee. Dr. Stoertz received
her B.S. (geology) from the University of Washington, and her M.S. and
Ph.D. (hydrogeology, minor in civil and environmental engineering)
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
KAY D. THOMPSON is assistant professor at Washington Univer-
sity, Department of Civil Engineering. Her research is to investigate
properties of subsurface materials for ground water studies, develop
methods for subsurface characterization, assess the risks of hydrologic
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143
dam failure, and consult on minimizing environmental impacts during
development. Dr. Thompson received a B.S. in civil engineering and
operations research in 1987 from Princeton University, an M.S. in 1990
from Comell University, and a Ph.D. in 1994 in civil and environmental
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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