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Washington State Department of Transportation. Led the team that developed a winter maintenance plan and an RWIS siting plan for the WSDOT North Central Region.
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project 20-7(117). Documented the benefits and costs of anti-icing and RWIS.
AURORA Program project. Documented weather and road condition dissemination methods and formats, established best practices, and set the stage for standards development.
TRB ITS IDEA project ITS-79. Headed the team that conducted a study to determine the feasibility of automatically closing roads for flash flooding.
TRB ITS IDEA project ITS-90. Developed and conducted a successful demonstration of a flash flood warning system. Test system displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting, January 2002.
Arizona Department of Transportation project, Winter Storm Maintenance Operations. Led the team that conducted a wall-to-wall review of snow and ice control operations with emphasis on RWIS. Prepared a Winter Maintenance Plan and an RWIS siting plan.
FHWA FORETELL™ project. Provided senior analyst/meteorological support to the Battelle Memorial Institute evaluation team.
Iowa Department of Transportation. Part of team that developed and provided performance-based anti-icing training.
NCHRP project 6-13, Guidelines for Snow and Ice Control Methods and Materials. Provided meteorological support to the Midwest Research Institute project team.
Idaho Transportation Department project, Optimal Roadway Weather Information System. Enhanced a plan developed by ITD.
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project 20-7(83), Guide for Snow and Ice Control. Principal author, Guide for Snow and Ice Control, published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), 1999.
Invited speaker, American Public Works Association (APWA) North American Snow Conference (April 2000, April 2001, and April 2004); APWA International Congress, September 2000; FHWA Eastern Snow Conference, September 2000; AZDOT LTAP Snow Conference, 2000, 2004.
Technical expert, initial AASHTO Snow and Ice Control pooled fund (SICOP) project development. Member, AASHTO Lead States Team for Anti-icing/RWIS, which dissolved in September 2000.
Technical Advisor to the Vice Commander, Air Weather Service, and the Air Force Chief of Staff-directed Severe Weather Integrated Process Team project that reviewed USAF severe weather warning development, warning dissemination, and resource protection efforts.