PARTICIPANTS

Paul Fischbeck

Paul Fischbeck is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering & Public Policy. His research focuses on the quantification and communication of uncertainty including theoretical improvements to decision analysis and applied real-world problems. Professor Fischbeck has been instrumental in the development of Pittsburgh RISES building on other work related to the use of geographical information systems for communicating environmental, societal and demographic information. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford. He is an active faculty participant in EPP/SDS project courses.

Sue McNeil

Sue McNeil is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research and teaching interests focus on infrastructure management with emphasis on the application of advanced technologies, economic analyses, analytical methods, and computer applications. She has been the principal investigator for several projects involving sensor data acquisition and interpretation for condition assessment. She has also developed a graduate course titled Infrastructure Management. Dr. McNeil initiated and chaired (1988-1993) the ASCE Urban Transportation Division Committee on Transportation Facilities Management. She is an Associate Editor for the new ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. She teaches and advises both graduate and undergraduate students in Civil Engineering. Professor McNeil was a Presidential Young Investigator from 1987 to 1992.

Deborah Lange is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Aided Engineering and Management, a component of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. She holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering, also from Carnegie Mellon (1982) and is a registered professional engineer. Deborah has more than 15 years of professional consulting experience and has practiced as an environmental engineer in the North, Central and South Americas, and Europe. She is active in professional engineering and environmental associations and has authored/presented approximately 15 technical papers. Her Ph.D. research interest is the application of life cycle cost analysis to the economic evaluation of site-specific brownfield development alternatives.

Steve Farber is a Professor in the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with a joint appointment in Economics. His research focuses on relations between economics and ecosystems. He is a co-developer of Pittsburgh RISES, a regional GIS Brownfield site evaluation system. He is currently working on a project to evaluate the economic impacts of regional ecosystem quality enhancement in Northwestern Pennsylvania. He is the principal investigator on a project to model the economic effects of coastal barrier island restoration programs. He is currently Director of the Environmental Policy Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches a graduate course in environmental and resource economics and management.

James Garrett

James Garrett is a Professor of Civil end Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are oriented toward the application of computing technology to the usage of codes, regulations and specifications. He, his colleagues and research assistants are currently working on several projects in this area: they are developing powerful languages for describing the content of building codes so that these codes can be read in, modeled and evaluated by a computer-based standards processor. Such a system will allow a building description to be stored in a computer database to be checked for conformance to the modeled building code. Professor Garrett is a co-recepient of both the 1993 ASCE Wellington Prize and the 1990 ASCE Moisseiff Award. He also received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989 and was a recepient of the 1992 IABSE Prize from the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers. He received his B.S. (1982), M.S. (1983), and Ph.D. (1906) in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Haris N. Koutsopoulos

Haris Koutsopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research activities are directed toward understanding the role of information technology (means of collecting and processing data and information) in improving the operations of transportation systems; and developing methods for its effective use. His research examines the development of algorithms for automated analysis of pavement distress data using image processing, pattern recognition methodologies and data aggregation for infrastructure management purposes. He is also involved in the application of fuzzy sets and approximate reasoning concepts for modeling discrete choice problems. He is currently involved in developing simulation tools for both operations and evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). His teaching activities include graduate and undergraduate courses on the efficient use of computers in engineering applications and the analysis of transportation problems.

Bryan Rogers is a Professor and Department Head of the Art Department and Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. As an educator and administrator, he is engaged in connecting the work of the artist to the public arena. His work as an artist includes kinetic objects, multimedia installations and environmental fieldworks; all of which readily utilize contemporary technologies. He has exhibited in such venues as ARTEC 93 International Biennale in Nagoya, Japan, and the San Paulo Biennel in Brazil. From 1984 to 1986 he served as Editor of Leonardo, Journal of the International Society of Art, Science and Technology and has held fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation.

Adjo Amekudzi

Adjo Amekudzi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently a research assistant in the development of computer tools for transportation analysis to support the redevelopment of Brownfields. She holds a master's degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from Florida International University where she participated in research on decision model applications for prioritizing the redevelopment of Brownfields sites. Her current interests include traffic impact analysis of Brownfield developments and how this relates to financing the systemic improvement and renewal of associated civil infrastructure.

Sabina Deitrick is Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Her research interests are in regional planning and economic development, both in the United States and abroad. She has written articles on economic development and impacts of military spending on regional economies. Her interests in Brownfields focus on how urban economic development policies affect Brownfield revitalization in U.S. cities. She is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of the American Planning Association. Her teaching includes graduate courses in urban and regional methods and capstone seminars in economic development.

David Dzombak

David A. Dzombak is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His expertise is in water and soil quality engineering, and his research focuses on soil and groundwater remediation. In his current projects, he is investigating the chemical specification, fate, and transport in the subsurface environment at aluminum production facilities and sites of former manufactured gas plants; as well as in-situ treatment of cyanide-contaminated groundwater. He is also investigating the release of PCBs from contaminated and biotreated soils and sediments. Previous research addressed a host of other issues related to remediation, including risk implications of uniform soil remediation goals. Dr. Dzombak was a Presidential Young Investigator from 1991-1996. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Water Environment Research and formerly was an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Ground Water. In 1995, he served as a member of the PADEP Panel for the Review of Soil Quality Criteria. He was recently elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors.

Matthias Kraatz is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physical Geography/Geosciences in January 1996 from University of Trier, Germany. His thesis focused on soil bioremediation of a former industrial site. His holds a two-year post doctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation effective from June 1996. At CMU, he is working on the behavior of organic contaminants in the subsurface. At Trier, he lectured on waste site management.

Mitchell Small

Mitchell Small is a Professor in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy. He is an environmental engineer who has developed methods for modeling risk and uncertainty at sites, and has contributed to the development of decision-support tools such as Pittsburgh RISES. He is a member of the U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, and has served on recent National Research Council committees on Risk Characterization and Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites. He is an associate editor for Environmental Science and Technology, with responsibility for policy analysis research papers.

Ronald Gdovic is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs where his is a graduate student researcher for the University Center for Social and Urban Research and specializes in geographic information systems. He also does private consulting for local, city, and county agencies with a focus on urban and regional planning, industrial redevelopment, historic preservation and economic development.

Joel Tarr

Joel A. Tarr is the Richard S. Caliguiri Professor of Urban and Environmental History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds appointments in the H.J. Heinz School of Policy and Management as well as in the Departments of History and of Engineering & Public Policy. In 1992 he was awarded the University's Robert Doherty Prize for "substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education." His main research interests are in the history of urban technological systems and urban development, and related problems of environmental pollution. He has published on transportation, energy, and communications systems and on issues or air, land and water pollution. He has served as the President of the Public Works Historical Society (APWA), as a member of the National Research Council and National Science Foundation committees concerned with problems of the urban infrastructure, and the Office of Technology Assessment Oversight Committee for the report: The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America (1995). He is currently working on projects involving urban transportation transitions and the development of the manufactured gas industry. He is on the board of editors of the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE), Public Works Planning and Management, and Urban Technology.

Jianyu Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. He is currently a research assistant in the development of computerized interactive geographic information systems for quick and easy access to a wide range of data and analysis pertaining to industrial siting, with particular reference to Brownfields revitalization. His other study interests are in potential infrastructure management implications of new and existing environmental regulations related to Brownfield development. His past experience includes project management for site remediation and reconstruction, Due Diligence and Compliance audits for a wide range of industrial sectors preparation of Environment Impact Assessment reports for a variety of international finance organizations, and coordination of bilateral environmental promotion programs.

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Last Updated: December 15, 1999