Interim
Deputy Director of NCAR
Senior
Scientist, Division Director of MMM
Lead
Scientist, USWRP
NCAR
P.
O. Box 3000
Boulder,
Co 80307-3000
Phone:
(303)497-8160
Fax:
(303)497-8181
Dr. Robert Gall was recently
appointed Interim Deputy Director of NCAR. He has been the Lead Scientist of
USWRP since 1999, and a Senior Scientist and Director of the Mesoscale and
Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM) at NCAR since 1991. In 1993, he became an
AMS fellow. Before joining NCAR, Dr. Gall was a professor at the University of
Arizona from 1984-1991. He holds a BS in atmospheric science from Pennsylvania
State University, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
MARIJA D. ILIC
Professor
of ECE and EPP
Carnegie
Mellon University
Porter
Hall B25
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213-3890
Phone:412-268-9520
Fax:
412-268-5787
Dr.
Marija Ilic has recently been appointed full professor at the Carnegie Mellon
Electricity Industry Center. She has been a Senior Research Scientist in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT since 1987.
Her interest is in control and design of large-scale systems. She conducts
research and teaches graduate courses in the area of electric power systems.
Dr. Ilic is a consultant for Alfatech, Inc. and the California ISO. From
September1999 until March 2001, Dr. Ilic was a Program Director for Control,
Networks and Computational Intelligence at the National Science Foundation.
Prior
to her years at MIT, Dr. Ilic was a tenured faculty member at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a recipient of the First Presidential Young
Investigator Award for Power Systems. Dr. Ilic is also an IEEE Fellow and an
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Dr.
Ilic received her M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics
from Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr.
Ilic has co-authored several books on the subject of large-scale electric power
systems: Ilic and Zaborsky, Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power
Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000; Ilic, Galiana and Fink (eds.), Power
Systems Restructuring: Engineering and Economics, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2nd printing 2000; Allen and
Ilic, Price-Based Commitment Decisions in the Electricity Markets,
Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1999; Ilic and Liu, Hierarchical Power
Systems Control: Its Value in a Changing Industry, Springer-Verlag London
Limited, 1996. Dr. Ilic is also a contributing editor for Unlocking the
Benefits of Restructuring: A Blueprint for Transmission (PU Reports, 2000).
PowerWorld
Corporation
1816
South Oak Street
Champaign,
IL 61820
Phone:
(217) 384-6330
Fax:
(217) 384-6329
James
D. Weber is Director of Operations at PowerWorld Corporation in Champaign,
IL. His primary duties involve the
development and maintenance of the PowerWorld Simulator software product as
well as working on new products that will move Simulator's graphic capabilities
to real-time information systems such as trading floors and energy management
systems. He received his B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville in 1995,
and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1997 and
1999.
STEPHEN
T. LEE
Area
Manager, Grid Operations and Planning
Electric
Power Research Institute
Telephone:
650-855-2486
Fax:
650-855-2511
Internet
ID: slee@epri.com
Dr.
Stephen Lee has extensive experience in power system planning and operation for
electric utilities, developing and applying new techniques of simulation and
optimization for combined generation and transmission systems, interchange
distribution, congestion management, transactions and energy scheduling,
generation system production simulation, maintenance scheduling, unit
commitment, generation and transmission planning, system security and adequacy,
and system stability.
With
EPRI since May 1998, Stephen Lee was the Area Manager of Grid Operations &
Planning until June 2002, responsible for EPRI research projects and
cooperative projects with the North American Electric Reliability Council
(NERC) for supporting security processes. He is currently the GOP Senior
Technical Leader and the project manager for the Transmission Program of the
EPRI Power Delivery Reliability Initiative. He was the project manager of the
NERC Interchange Distribution Calculator which is used to implement the NERC
guidelines for Transmission Loading Relief for curtailing transactions in the
Eastern Interconnection. He is also active in NERC committees and a
representative for EPRI on the NERC Market Interface Committee. He is closely
involved in the latest developments of transactions information system,
transactions management, and congestion management.
Stephen
Lee received his B.S., M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in Electrical
Engineering, specializing in Power System Engineering and Control Theory. Dr.
Lee is a registered Professional Engineer in California and Massachusetts, and
a Senior Member of IEEE.
A.I.C.P.,
Principal
GeoEngineers,
Inc.
http://www.geoengineers.com/people.asp
M.U.P.,
Urban Planning, University of Washington
Planning,
Oestereichische Akademie fur Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
B.A.,
Anthropology, Colorado College
Jane
Preuss has 24 years of experience in planning and provides expertise in two
interrelated areas. One is land use and environmental planning. Theother
pertains to mitigation and preparedness against the effects of natural hazards
such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, and high winds. Jane also
has considerable experience in preparing community plans. She often works with
community groups to elicit their comments and suggestions as well as to
prioritize issues and implement strategies. Jane has worked on international
projects in locations such as Peru, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Nicaragua,
Mexico, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. In the United States Jane
has completed projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, California, and
Hawaii.
Dr. Frank A. Monforte
Vice President, Forecasting
RER/Itron
(858) 481-0081
http://www.rer.com/About/index.htm
Dr.
Frank A. Monforte is Vice President of Forecasting at RER, where he specializes
in the areas of energy and price forecasting, end-use forecasting, and
statistical and mathematical modeling. He is a leading authority in the areas
of short-term control area forecasting, load profiling, and retail scheduling.
Dr. Monforte directs the development, support, and implementation of RER's
forecasting and load profiling tools, including MetrixND, NDauto, and ProForm.
Dr. Monforte's short-term load forecasting expertise includes models for the
New York ISO, California ISO, PJM, NEPOOL, and the Australian System Operator,
NEMMCO. Dr. Monforte directs the implementation of RER's load profiling
systems, including systems in California, Illinois, and Texas. As the lead
econometrician, Dr. Monforte was part of the team that developed the ERCOT Load
Profiling System. Examples of retail scheduling system implementations he has
directed include PPL, SCE, SDG&E, LCRA, ENRON, AMEREN, Illinois Power, and
Alliant. In addition to these systems, Dr. Monforte directs the implementation
of RER's Web-based forecasting tools and services, including eMetrix and
eShapes. Dr. Monforte is the lead architect of Gaz de France's Web-based
forecasting system, which is the first of its kind in the industry. He also
directed the implementation of AMEREN's Web-based Load Profile Forecasting
application that provides online load profile forecasts that retailers use in
support of their market operations.
In
addition to his forecasting responsibilities, he is a nationally recognized
authority in the area of industrial end-use analysis. He has directed numerous
commercial and industrial on-site survey projects. He has developed market
potential estimates and forecasts for industrial technologies for both
utilities and EPRI. He is the principal investigator for EPRI's industrial
end-use forecasting model, INFORM. He is a principal investigator for an
EPRI-sponsored study on the environmental benefits of increased electrification
in the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors.
Dr.
Monforte has co-authored publications on a range of problems including the use
of neural networks for short-term load forecasting, long-term end-use
forecasting, and the use of nonlinear programming techniques for development of
a least cost gas supply planning tool.
Dr.
Monforte received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California,
Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San
Diego.
Energy
Science and Technology Directorate
Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory
P.O.
Box 999, K5-16
Richland,
WA 99352
Phone:
509.375.4306
fax: 509.375.3614
email:
Michael.Kintner-Meyer@pnl.gov
Michael
Kintner-Meyer is Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA. He is leading PNNL’s Load-As-A-Resource
program and actively involved in the assessment of demand response programs.
He
has a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of
Aachen, Germany and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Washington. He is member of ASHRAE’s technical committee “Smart Building
Systems”. He chairs the Communications and Integration Subcommittee.
Professor
Director,
Advanced Power and Energy Program
University
of California at Irvine
Irvine,
CA 92697-3550
949-824-5468
949-824-7423
(fax)
Dr.
Samuelsen is interested in energy conversion, fuel cells, combustion, fuel
sprays, laser diagnostics, air quality, turbulent transport, alternative fuels,
the modeling of reacting flows, practical energy systems, and the conflict
between energy and the environment.
Dr.
Samuelsen’s current research activity focuses on energy generation,
distribution and utilization, and includes the production of electricity,
motive power and propulsive power from both fuel cells, gas turbines and
hybrids of both. His work also explores the environmental impact of these
energy systems, the dynamic between energy generation and atmospheric quality,
and the development of environmentally preferred, high-efficiency energy
generation integrated into buildings and building complexes.
Dr.
Samuelsen directs the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP), which
encompasses the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), the UCI Combustion
Lab (UCICL) and the Pacific Consortium on Energy and the Environment (PARCON).
His
work at the UCICL is directed toward the development of advanced stationary gas
turbine power systems. Research at the NFCRC is leading the evolution of power
generation fuel cells, and the PARCON accelerates the development and
deployment of advance energy systems around the world.
Links:
www.apep.uci.edu/samuelsen
Meteorologist,
Electrical System Operations
Tennessee
Valley Authority
423-751-7858
Walshe
started his career as an operational meteorologist at The Weather Channel in
1989 in Atlanta, GA. He was involved in all aspects of forecasting until he
accepted the position of Assignment Manager at TWC in 1997. As a meteorologist
in a news oriented field, Walshe was responsible for coverage of the most
significant weather events of the last five years. The combined experience at
TWC made him uniquely qualified to accept a position as meteorologist at the
Tennessee Valley Authority in late 2001. Currently, Walshe is working on
decreasing short and mid term forecast errors for temperature and demand for
the nation's largest public utility.
Walshe
earned a bachelors degree in Meteorology at Florida State University in 1988.
He helped pioneer IP delivery of broadcast quality severe weather video in near
real time as well as change the way television covers weather events and
stories. During the most recent summer, Walshe helped TVA attain its lowest
forecast temperature and demand error of record.
Richard
P. Wilson
Director
of Operations and Energy Services
Meteorlogix
420
Bedford Street, Suite 320
Lexington,
MA 02420-1506
Email: Richard.Wilson@meteorlogix.com
Phone: 781-676-1095
Fax: 781-676-1001Director of Energy
With
Meteorlogix for nearly 10 years, Richard P. Wilson serves as Director of Energy
Services for Meteorlogix. In this position he is responsible for successfully
establishing and expanding business opportunities within the energy and utility
industries. He also provides expertise in the conceptualization of value-added
weather for those markets.
Wilson
previously managed and directed the company’s MxInsight product line, including
energy and long range forecast products. He has held other key positions at
Meteorlogix, including Vice President of Meteorological Operations for the
company’s Minneapolis and Boston offices, and Director of Operations in Boston.
Wilson
earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Boston College and a degree in
Meteorology from Plymouth State College (the University System of New
Hampshire) in Plymouth, NH. Wilson is a
member of the American Meteorological Society.
Director,
Research Applications Program
303-497-8458
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/foote-staff.html
A
specialist in mesoscale meteorology, Foote came to NCAR as a postdoctoral
fellow in 1970. He was a project leader with the National Hail Research
Experiment during the 1970s and became a senior scientist in 1982, serving in the
Field Observing Facility, the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division,
and, most recently, in RAP.
Foote
earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his master's and doctoral
degrees in atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. He recently ended
an eight-year tenure as editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, has
served on several national and international committees, and led a number of
large field programs, including most recently an experiment to study
terrain-induced wind shear and turbulence in Hong Kong.
Program
Manager
Research
Applications Program
National
Center for Atmospheric Research
PO
Box 3000, Boulder, CO. 80301
Tel:
303-497-8426
Email:
mahoney@ucar.edu
Mr. Mahoney began working with
NCAR as an associate scientist in 1981 as part of the Joint Airport Weather
Studies Project (JAWS), where he flew onboard the University of Wyoming’s Super
King Air research aircraft studying windshear associated with microbursts and
gust fronts. He participated in the
development of the Low Level Windshear Alert System (LLWAS) and eventually led
NCAR’s team in the development and demonstration of the Terminal Doppler
Weather Radar (TDWR). Mr. Mahoney is a well-known expert in windshear and
windshear detection systems.
As
an NCAR Program Manager, Mr. Mahoney has led several FAA-sponsored aviation
weather projects with a particular emphasis on interactive processing systems.
He led a research and system development program in Hong Kong, which resulted
in the implementation of the Windshear and Turbulence Warning System (WTWS) at
Hong Kong International Airport. More recently, Mr. Mahoney managed an aviation
weather system modernization program for the Taiwan Civil Aeronautics
Administration. This project involved the development and tailoring of
high-resolution numerical weather forecast models, advanced, interactive
processing systems, and implementation of windshear detection systems at
Taiwan’s major airports.
Mr.
Mahoney is also involved in the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Weather
Information for Surface Transportation (WIST) initiative and is leading a team
of five national laboratories on the development of a Maintenance Decision
Support System (MDSS) for winter road maintenance managers.
In
addition to his program management duties, Mr. Mahoney is involved in program
development and commercialization activities at NCAR.
Mr.
Mahoney received his M.S. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1983,
specializing in windshear and cloud microphysics. His B.S. degree was in Aeronautics from Miami University of
Ohio.
Senior
Scientist, ESIG Director
Environmental
and Societal Impacts Group
National
Center for Atmospheric Research
PO Box
3000, Boulder, CO. 80301
Tel:
303-497-8106
Fax:
303-497-8125
Web:
www.isse.ucar.edu
http://www.isse.ucar.edu/harriss/
Email:
harriss@ucar.edu
Dr.
Robert Harriss is a Senior Scientist and of the Director of the Environmental
and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to joining NCAR in 1999, Harriss
was a Professor and holder of the Wiley Chair in Civil Engineering at Texas
A&M University. He also initiated and directed the Sustainable Enterprise
Institute aimed at finding systemic solutions to natural resource and
organizational management problems.
Harriss
served 13 years as a NASA Senior Scientist and Science Division Director for
the Earth Sciences at the Langley Research Center and NASA Headquarters,
respectively. He has also held faculty and research positions with the
University of New Hampshire, Florida State University, Harvard University, and
the United Nations Environment Program. Honors and awards received include the
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award (1985), Election as a Fellow of
the AAAS (1988), U.S. Senior Executive Service (1994-1997), and the NASA
Outstanding Leadership Medal (1997). Harriss was born in Brownsville, Texas,
and received his Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas.