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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Air quality modeling and technical analysis to support EPA review of State Implementation Plan submissions.

Huntsville, Al

Developed models to be used for agricultural decision support. The models are used as input to help in allocating resources and timing for best crop condition at harvest. The models are specific for location, crop variety, plant date, and observed and forecast weather conditions.Developed prototype end-user products using the output of the crop decision support models.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Business and program development, budgeting, direct employee supervision, technical guidance and direction.* Completed the $6.2M DESWAT project to modernize the flood forecasting and alerting system for Romania. Bob was project manager which required integration of 4 flooding model and interface with several legacy Romanian observations systems with installation and testing of computer equipment in Romaina at the national center plus 11 river forecast centers - Lockheed Martin* Created numerous operational weather modeling products for Baron* Moved R&D and appropriate production modeling to Amazon cloud computing platform - various clients* Developed new land surface modeling products for construction and agriculture - Baron* Developed new modeling systems for flash flooding, hazardous air emissions - Baron* Implemented wind blown dust and wildfire emissions into BAMS air quality emissions for Baron's air quality forecasting system - US State and local clients* Integrated satellite observations into BAMS CONUS air quality forecasting system - NASA* Developed an operational radar data assimilation system for the WRF model* Cowrote the successful Baron proposal ($9M) for modernizing the Greek national meteorological agency - Greek National Meteorological Agency (HNMS)

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Management of operations, planning, proposal writing.BAMS successfully landed and completed projects for:* Time-Integrated Random Access NEXRAD Database (TIRAND, $842K) - Install, operate, and maintain system for utilization of NCDC data by external customers - Library of Congress* Implement EPA application programming interface in the WRF modeling system - US Environmental Protection Agency* Atmospheric Sciences for Energy Conservation (ASTEC) Determine the air quality benefits of energy conservation by pairing air quality models with power system dispatching programs and custom software - US Department of Energy* Optimization of MM5/WRF processes to speed up and increase accuracy - US Air Force Weather Agency* Air quality forecast modeling for the TexAQS II study providing guidance to aircraft and other mobile sampling platforms - Southern Oxidant Study* Air quality forecasting system for Panama and linkage to the Global System of Systems - NASA* Assimilation of satellite-derived aerosol optical depth measurements into the BAMS CONUS air quality forecasting system - NASABAMS won the flood modeling project ($6.2M) for the Romanian DEStructive Waters (DESWAT) project from Lockheed MartinBroadened our products from meteorology and air quality to land surface modeling, flood modeling, environmental databases, and situational-readiness displays

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

MCNC won the grant to establish the Community Modeling and Analysis System to foster community participation in their air quality modeling programs. Bob was brought in to implement the concept of a community modeling center from scratch using existing MCNC staff and EPA personnel. Bob* Set up the CMAS External Advisory Committee composed of 15 leading air quality users and researchers* Established the CMAS annual conference to provide a forum for air quality presentations and discussions* Instituted the CMAScenter.org web site to foster dissemination of EPA and community software and documentation, and discussion and assistance* Provided technical direction to CMAS staff R&D activities.* Represented CMAS to EPA and coordinated R&D efforts

Muscle Shoals, Al

Air Quality modeling and measurements for point source impacts and interaction with urban emission sources.* Compliance modeling for plume impacts on surrounding locations and siting of air quality monitors* PSD and NSR modeling for new or modified TVA emission sources* Design and conduct of field measurement studies to evaluate air quality model performance - point source (power plant) - interaction of point source and urban area plummes* Analysis of field study and modeling to provide model evaluations* Statistical time series models of sulfur dioxide concentrations to provide input to near-real time emissions reduction decisions.* Project management for TVA teams involved in: - Ozone Transport Advisory Group (OTAG) a multistate, multiagency effort to assess the long range transport of ozone and its precursors in the eastern US. - Mountain Cloud Chemistry Project (MCCP) a multiagency research effort assessing the impact of pollutant transport on cloud chemistry and on the ecology of high elevation forests. - Atlanta (1992) Southern Oxidant Study (SOS) - Nashville (1995) SOS field Study - Nashville (1999) SOS field Study* Pioneering research in the measurement and modeling of air pollution impacts of domestic wood burning, including indoor air impacts.The projects for TVA required interaction with TVA Office of Power and EPRI clients with presentation and proposals for new work.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Environmental Engineering, 2.966 On 3.000 Scale

Water and Wastewater treatment, air quality modeling, ecological modeling. Masters thesis on tertiary treatment of wastewater.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science, 2.18 On 3.000 Scale (Cum Laude)

General civil engineering curriculum with emphasis on water, wastewater, air, solid waste, and biological systems.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Science And Math, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Tennis TeamProvided a good baseline education for entering and succeeding.