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APPENDIX B
TEAM MEMBERS
| Paul Pisano (Co-Chair) Team Leader-Road Weather Management Program HOTO-1 (Room 3408) Federal Highway Administration 400 Seventh Street SW Washington, DC 20590 Phone: (202) 366-1301 Fax: (202) 366-3225 E-mail: paul.pisano@fhwa.dot.gov |
Richard Nelson (Co-Chair) District Engineer Nevada Department of Transportation 310 Galletti Way Sparks, NV 89431 Phone: (775) 834-8344 Fax: (775) 834-8390 E-mail: rnelson@dot.state.nv.us |
| Robert Blackburn (Report Facilitator) Blackburn and Associates Midwest Research Institute 16540 E. El Lago Blvd., Unit 9 Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 Phone/Fax: (480) 837-4445 E-mail: rrblackburn@uswest.net |
Steven Brandau County Engineer Henry County Highway Department 100 North East Road PO Box 25 Cambridge, IL 61238 Phone: (309) 937-3346 Fax: (309) 937-3396 E-mail: slbhchd@geneseo.net |
| Diana Clonch Operations Manager Engineering and Construction Division City of Columbus 109 N. Front Street Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: (614) 645-6395 Fax: (614) 645-0202 E-mail: dwclonch@cmhmetro.net |
Joseph Doherty Program Manger-Snow and Ice Control Transportation Maintenance Division New York State Department of Transportation 1220 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12232 Phone: (518) 485-7271 Fax: (518) 457-4203 E-mail: jdoherty@gw.dot.state.ny.us |
| David Jones State Maintenance Engineer Idaho Transportation Department PO Box 7129 Boise, ID 83707 Phone: (208) 332-7893 Fax: (208) 334-8595 E-mail: djones@itd.state.id.us |
Carl Kain Principal Electrical Engineer Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Intelligent Transportation Systems Division Mitretek Systems, Inc. 3150 Fairview Park Drive South Falls Church, Virginia 22042 Phone: (703) 610-1788 E-mail: ckain@mitretek.org |
| Paul Lariviere Division Administrator Maine Division Office Federal Highway Administration 40 Western Ave, Room 614 Augusta, ME 04330 Phone: (207) 622-8487, ext. 19 Fax: (207) 626-9133 E-mail: paul.lariviere@fhwa.dot.gov |
Gregory Mandt Director Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services National Weather Service Bldg. SSMC 2, Room 14346 1325 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: (301) 713-0700 Fax: (301) 713-3107 E-mail: greg.mandt@noaa.gov |
| James McCarthy Traffic Operations Engineer Minnesota Division Office Federal Highway Administration Suite 500, Galtier Plaza 380 Jackson Street St. Paul, MN 55101 Phone: (651) 291-6112 Fax: (651) 291-6000 E-mail: james.mccarthy@fhwa.dot.gov |
Dr. Wilfrid Nixon Professor and Research Engineer Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: (319) 335-5166 Fax: (319) 335-5660 E-mail: wilfrid-nixon@uiowa.edu |
| Daniel Roosevelt Research Scientist Virginia Transportation Research Council Virginia Department of Transportation 530 Edgemont Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: (434) 293-1924 Fax: (434) 293-1990 E-mail: rooseveltds@vdot.state.va.us |
Paul Pisano (FHWA Co-Chair) is the team leader for the Road Weather Management Program in the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Transportation Operations. Pisano has worked in several FHWA offices over the past 16 years. He worked at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center for 10 of those years, where he led the Traffic Safety Research Team. In this capacity, he was responsible for the Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Program, as well as visibility and traffic control device research. In 1999, Pisano moved to the Office of Transportation Operations, and is now responsible for the program that addresses the impacts of weather on all aspects of the highway system, including winter maintenance. Pisano has bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Maryland. He serves on several technical committees for such organizations as the World Road Association (PIARC), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the Transportation Research Board.
Richard Nelson (AASHTO Co-Chair) is district engineer for the Nevada Department of Transportation's District 2 office in Reno, Nevada. Nelson directs construction and maintenance operations for the western third of the State, including the eastern Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe areas. In the past, he served as assistant district engineer for maintenance in District 2. Nelson has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a licensed professional engineer in Nevada and California, and serves on several technical committees of the Transportation Research Board.
Robert Blackburn (Report Facilitator) is a principal research engineer for the Midwest Research Institute and owner of Blackburn and Associates, a highway winter maintenance consulting group. Blackburn directs research efforts to develop guidelines for selecting roadway snow- and ice-control materials and methods for conditions found in the United States. This research is being conducted under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project 613. His research emphasis includes highway snow- and ice-control operations, chemical and abrasive applications, material spreader/snow removal equipment and their controls, techniques and equipment to quantify and communicate winter road conditions, and the use of decision-support systems for effective winter maintenance operations. Previously, he contributed to the development of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Guide for Snow and Ice Control and the Federal Highway Administration's Manual of Practice for an Effective Anti-Icing Program. He has worked as an applied research engineer for more than 30 years on contracts for national, State, and private organizations in the field of highway winter maintenance. Blackburn is an engineering graduate of the University of Kansas and holds a master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He is associated with the Winter Maintenance Committee of the Transportation Research Board.
Steven Brandau is a county engineer for Henry County in Cambridge, Illinois. Brandau directs the design, construction, and maintenance operations for the Henry County Highway Department. He serves as the National Association of County Engineers' (NACE) representative on the Winter Maintenance Policy Coordination Committee of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Brandau has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. He is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois and serves on several committees of the Illinois Association of County Engineers. He is a State director of NACE and serves on several NACE committees.
Diana Clonch is the operations manager for the Engineering and Construction Division of the Columbus, Ohio, Department of Public Service. Clonch is responsible for managing the city's street maintenance and cleaning operations, which cover 5,000 lane miles of roadway. Maintenance responsibilities include sweeping, mowing, landscaping, pavement and bridge repairs, snow and ice control, and emergency response. Before joining the city in 1999, Clonch worked for the Franklin County Engineer's Office for 17 years. Clonch has an associate's degree in civil engineering and is pursing a degree in business management and organizational leadership. She is a member of the State of Ohio Board of Directors, the American Public Works Association (APWA), and the Street Maintenance and Sanitation Officials. She also is vice-chair for the National APWA Winter Maintenance Subcommittee.
Joseph Doherty is the program manger for snow and ice control for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). He oversees the acquisition of resources (staff, materials, and equipment) and development of operational guidelines for winter maintenance activities. He also is responsible for identification and implementation of new technologies for snow and ice control. Doherty holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Cornell University and a master's degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York and Colorado. He was one of New York State's representatives to the Lead States Program, serves as the monitor for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program 6-13 snow and ice research project panel, is a project manager for NYSDOT's Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium, and is a member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Maintenance Policy Coordinating Committee.
David Jones is the state maintenance engineer for the Idaho Transportation Department in Boise, Idaho. Jones directs the maintenance policy, procedure, and budget activities for the department. His emphasis areas include maintenance, equipment and fuel management systems, equipment procurement, hazardous materials, volunteer and roadside programs, new maintenance technology applications, emergency management, maintenance research studies, and winter maintenance technology and practices. Jones has presided over a rapidly expanding anti-icing program, promoted winter weather decision support methods, improved avalanche forecasting and preparedness, and sought to minimize the impacts of blowing and drifting snow in Idaho. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Idaho. Jones is a licensed professional engineer in Idaho and serves as the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Safety and Winter Operations Task Force leader, a member of the AASHTO Winter Maintenance Policy Coordinating Committee, and a member of the Pacific Northwest Snowfighters Association.
Carl Kain is a principal engineer in Mitretek Systems' ITS Division. He specializes in technologies that provide vehicle-to-roadside, vehicle-to-traffic management center, and center-to-center communications for ITS. He has published papers on integration of public safety computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems with traffic management CAD systems, commercial wireless data technologies for use by public safety agencies, and dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technology issues. He also has investigated location-based technologies for wireless E911 and their applications for ITS advanced travel management, traveler information, and archived data. He is the author of the U.S. Department of Transportation's petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that resulted in assignment of a three-digit abbreviated telephone number (511) for ITS advanced traveler information. Kain has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a master's degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University. He is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, and a member of the IEEE Communications Society, the ITS American Telecommunications Committee, the American Society for Testing and Materials Standards Committee for 5.9 GHz DSRC for ITS, the Public Safety National Coordination Committee (Federal advisory group to the FCC), and the National Association of Broadcasters' National Radio Systems Committee.
Paul L. Lariviere is the division administrator for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Maine Division Office in Augusta, Maine. Lariviere is responsible for administering the $150 million-a-year Federal-aid highway program in Maine. Lariviere has provided leadership for the Maine Department of Transportation's rural ITS efforts, which have included remote weather information systems. He also provided the critical early leadership for the Three State Rural Advanced Traveler Information System project being advanced by Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He has participated in Rural ITS Scanning Tours to review operational motorist information systems tied to weather monitoring systems. Lariviere holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree in transportation engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is a licensed professional engineer in New York and chairs the FHWA National Freight Council.
Gregory A. Mandt is director of the Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Service in the National Weather Service (NWS). He is responsible for establishing policy for the nation's operational weather forecast services (including aviation, climate, flood, marine, and public), training the NWS workforce, establishing requirements for implementing all new observing systems, and achieving an effective outreach program for the diverse user community of NWS products and services. Mandt was the chief of the Science Branch, Office of Meteorology from 1996 to 2000. Before coming to the NWS, he served at the National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service from 1992 to 1996. Before that, he served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and master's degrees in systems engineering and electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
James McCarthy is a traffic operations engineer with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in St. Paul, Minnesota. McCarthy works with intelligent transportation systems (ITS) development and deployment in Minnesota. He is working on a number of ITS projects, including ITS operational tests, new traffic operation centers, deployment of roadside devices, and creation of advanced traveler information systems. He also has worked with the road weather information systems research program known as AURORA for the past four years. McCarthy has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is a licensed professional engineer in Minnesota, holds a professional traffic operations engineer certificate from the Institute of Traffic Engineers, and is on the board of directors of ITS Minnesota and Minnesota Guidestar.
Dr. Wilfrid Nixon is a professor and research engineer at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research at the University of Iowa. His responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and conducting research on winter highway maintenance. He has conducted research under the Strategic Highway Research Program, and served on the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (ASSHTO) Lead States Team for Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) and Anti-Icing. Further, he has performed work for a number of State DOTs on winter maintenance and RWIS. Nixon serves as a member of the Winter Maintenance Policy Coordinating Committee, a steering committee for the AASHTO Snow and Ice Pooled Fund Cooperative program. He also is chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee A3C09 on Winter Maintenance, and is a member of Committee A5001 on the Conduct of Research. He developed and runs the snow and ice list-serve database, which has more than 600 subscribers, most of whom are winter maintenance practitioners. He has bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University in England. He is the author of more than 80 articles, papers, and reports. He is registered as a professional engineer in Iowa.
Daniel Roosevelt is a research scientist with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) at the Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC) in Charlottesville, Virginia. Roosevelt is part of the VTRC team responsible for research in the areas of operation and maintenance of transportation facilities. His research emphasis is on winter maintenance activities. In the past, he was a field operations engineer responsible for more than 1,000 miles of interstate, primary, and secondary highway in a two-county area. His responsibilities included administering highway system maintenance and construction engineering for highway improvement, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and replacement projects. Roosevelt has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware. He represents Virginia on Aurora, which seeks to implement and improve road weather information systems, and is on the Winter Maintenance Committee of the Transportation Research Board.
