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RAP Staff 2001

Director's Office
Maureen Donovan 
Joanne Dunnebecke
G. Brant Foote (director)
Inger Gallo
Dara Houliston
Rose Lundeen
Rhonda McGaffic
Richard Wagoner (deputy director)
Lara Ziady

Applied Science Group
Ben Bernstein
Carter Borst (long-term visitor)
Jamie  Braid (student assistant)
Edward Brandes
Daniel Breed (joint appointment with MMM)
Barbara Brown
Roelof Bruintjes (joint appointment with MMM)
Randy Bullock
Michael Chapman
Fei Chen
Janice Coen (joint appointment with MMM)
Jeffrey Cole
Larry Cornman
Andrew Crook (joint appointment with MMM)
Jonas D’Andrea (student assistant)
Christopher Davis (joint appointment with MMM)
John Eckhardt (student assistant)
Tressa Fowler
Rodney Frehlich (long-term visitor)
Kent Goodrich (long-term visitor)
Angel Gutierrez (student assistant)
William Hall (joint appointment with MMM)
Benjamin Hendrickson (student assistant)
Paul Herzegh
Alan Hills
John Hopewell (student visitor)
Hsiao-ming Hsu
David B. Johnson
Teddie Keller (long-term visitor)
Cathy Kessinger (joint appointment with ATD)
Rangarajan Komandur (long-term visitor)
Scott Landolt
Seth Linden (student assistant)
Yubao Liu
Carol Makowski
Frank McDonough
Dan Megenhardt
Matthew Meister (student assistant)
Greg Meymaris
Cynthia Mueller
Kevin Petty
Marcia Politovich
Alexander Praskovsky
Eleanor Praskovkaya
Roy Rasmussen (group head; joint appointment with MMM)
Daran Rife
Rita Roberts
Conrad Roesch (student assistant)
Vidal Salazar (student visitor)
Thomas Saxen
Robert Sharman
Rong-Shyang Sheu
Jenny Sun (joint appointment with MMM)
Robert Tardiff (graduate research assistant)
Claudia Tebaldi
Gregory Thompson
Matthew Tryhane (student assistant)
Francois Vandenberghe
Jothiram Vivekanandan (joint appointment with ATD)
Charles Wade
Thomas Warner (long-term visitor)
John Williams
James Wilson (joint appointment with ATD)
Jamie Wolff
Mei Xu
David Yates (long-term visitor)
Gregory Young
Guifu Zhang

Engineering
Bruce Carmichael (manager of engineering)

Operational Systems Group
Celia Chen
Teresa Eads
O. Tres Hofmeister
Karen Juenemann
Laura Kriho
Tenny Lindholm
William Mahoney (group head)
Carol Nicolaidis
Carol Park
Jeffrey Stolte
Anne-Marie Tarrant

Systems Development Group
David Albo
Robert Barron
Nathaniel Beagley
Terri Betancourt
Gary Blackburn
Laurie Carson
Steve Carson
Julien Chastang
James Cowie
Gary Cunning
Susan Dettling
Michael Dixon
Arnaud Dumont
Henry Fisher
Deirdre Garvey
Shel Gerding
Frank Hage
David Hahn
Shelly Knight
Martha Limber
Doug Lindholm
Padhrig McCarthy
Corinne Morse
Steven Mueller
William Myers
Niles Oien
Melissa Petty
Nancy Rehak
Rebecca Ruttenberg
Troy Sandblom
Scott Swerdlin
John Teague
Steven Webb
Andrew Weekley
Gerry Wiener (group head)
Wesley Wilson (long-term visitor)
Alan Yates
Jaimi Yee


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RAP Visitors 2001

FAA
Warren Fellner, Aviation Weather Research Program, Washington, DC
Gloria Kulesa, Manager of Aviation Weather Research, Washington, DC
Dave Pace, Aviation Weather Research Program, Washongton, DC
Rudy Persaud, MDSS Agency Technical Representative, U.S. DOT, McLean, VA
Paul Pisano, Road Weather Management Program Director,  U.S. DOT, Washington, DC
Edward Pugacz, W.J.H. Technical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
Cynthia Schauland, Juneau Program Manager, Washington, DC
Cheryl Souders, Chief Engineer for Weather, Washington, DC
Robert Wright, Manager of General Aviation Programs, Office of Flight Standards,
   Washington, DC

NASA
Rod Bogue, NASA, Edwards, CA
Andrew Reehorst, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

NOAA-ETL (Environmental Technology Laboratory), Boulder, CO
M.J. Post
Roger Reinking
Timothy Schneider
Boba Stankov
Dan Wolfe


NOAA-FSL (Forecast Systems Laboratory), Boulder, CO
Cecelia Girz
Mike Krauss
Alexander MacDonald
John McGinley
Jennifer Mahoney
Paul Schultz
Lynn Sherretz

NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), Monterrey, CA
John McCarthy
Ted Tsui

NSSL, Norman, OK
John Cortinas
Donald Burgess
Kim Elmore

NWS (National Weather Service), Silver Spring, MD
Mark Andrews, Coordinator of Aviation Weather Services
Kevin Johnston
Robert Kistler

AWC (Aviation Weather Center), Kansas City, MO
James Henderson
David Knapp
Fred Mosher
Ron Olson
Jerry Shih
Clinton Wallace

Airlines
James Johnson, Flight Operations Special Projects Manager, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA
Carl Knable, United Airlines, Chicago IL 60666

Aviation
Cleon Biter, Aviation Weather Consultant, Lyons, CO
William Cotton, President, Flight Safety Technology
Paul Fiduccia, President, Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC
Al Homans, ARINC, Annapolis MD
Scott Simcox, Research Development Director, National Center of Excellence for
   Aviation Operations Research, Berkeley, CA
Walt Strach ,Oakland, ARTCC CWSU

Mitretek Systems
Steve Holt, Lead Systems Engineer, Falls Church, VA
Gary Nelson, Washington DC
Andy Stern, Meteorologist, Falls Church, VA

MIT/LL
Russ Alger, Senior, Research Engineer, MTU (Michigan Technological University), Houghton, MI
Robert G. Hallowell, Lexington MA
Earle Williams

DOT (Department of Transportation)
Mike Adams, Wisconsin, RWIS Program Manager, Madison, WI
Boyd  Brownfield, Anchorage, Alaska
Dennis Burkheimer, Winter Operations Administrator, Ames, IO
Steve Conger, Winter Operations & Avalanche Specialist, SLC, UT
Robert Dorer, DOT Volpe Ctr, Cambridge, MA
Terrence Doyle, District ITS Engineer, Albuquerque, NM
Thor Dyson, Las Vegas, NV
Ron Hall, District Maintenance Engineer, Kansas Dept. of Transportation, Garden City, Kansas
Joe Holt, Transportation Manager, Nashville, TN
Jerome L. Horner, Maintenance Engineer, Bismarck, ND
Norman Humphrey, South Dakota
Kenneth Kyle, Assistant Director of Operations, Concord, NH
James Lamond, DOT Volpe Ctr., Cambridge, MA
Catherine Lobue, Evaluator, Office of the Inspector General, Washington, DC
Tony McClellan, Field Maintenance Engineer, Indianapolis, IN
Tom Martinelli, Winter Operations Engineer, Madison, WI
Curt Pape, R/Wis Coordinator, St. Paul, MN
Don Piero, Office of the Inspector General, Washington, DC
Michael Rossetti, DOT Volpe Ctr., Cambridge, MA
Leland Smithson, AASHTO SICOP Coordinator, Ames, IO
Bob Stowe, Washington
Jeff Swan, Holbrook District Engineer, Holbrook, AZ
Douglas Terhune, Anchorage, Alaska

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CRREL (U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory), Hanover, NH
Rosa Affleck, Research Engineer
George Blaisdell, Research Engineer & Program Manager
Robert Haehnel, Research Mechanical Engineer
George Koenig, Research Engineer
Kevin McLain, Research Engineer
Marian Rawlings, Research Engineer
Charles Ryerson, Research Engineer

International Visitors

Korea
Dr. Sung-Nam Oh, Seior Researcher, Meteorological Research Institute, Korean Meteorological
   Administration, Seoul, Korea. Visit in October. Rainfall Enhancement Studies
George Isaac, MSC (Meteorological Service of Canada)

South Africa
Miss Kristy Ross, P.hD student, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Prof. Stuart Piketh, Director, Climatology Research Group, University of Witwatersrand,
   Johannesburg, South Africa. October 2001.


Taiwan
Yung Chung Chang, Meteorologist, CKS Weather Station, Taipei, Taiwan
Chien (Uno), Chief of the CKS airport weather station, Taipei, Taiwan
Chien-Wen (Kevin) Chung, Meteorologist, Kaohsiung Airport, Taipei, Taiwan
Chiu-Ho (Tim) Hsieh, Meteorologist, CKS Airport, Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. C. W. Lee, Chief of the TAMC, Taipei, Taiwan
Kuen-Cheng Lee, Meteorologist, Sungshan Airport Weather Station, Taipei, Taiwan
Li-Feng (Phoenix) Lee; Institute for Information Industry – Project Manager, AOAWS Taipei,
   Taiwan
Tai-Shen Lee, Meteorologist, TACC (Taipei Area Control Center), Taipei, Taiwan
Hsi-Hua Lin, Meteorologist, Sungshan airport, Taipei, Taiwan
Chia Chen Tsai, Meteorologist TAMC (Taipei Area Meteorological Center), Taipei, Taiwan
Holin Tsai, Software Engineer, Institute for Information Industry (III), Taipei, Taiwan
Mao-Hsiang Tung, Chief of Sungshan Airport Weather Station, Taipei, Taiwan
Tai-Yuan Wang, Meteorologist, TAMC (Taipei Area Meteorological Center), Taipei, Taiwan

UAE
Lt Col Abdulla Al Mangoosh, Director Department of Water resources Studies, Office of H.H.
   The President, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Maj. Abdulla Al Mandoos, Chief Meteorologist Department of Water resources Studies, Office
   of H.H. The President, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Dr. A.S.A. Khalil, WMO resident representative, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Others
Philip Armstrong, Vaisala, Boulder, CO
Robert Bernard, CSX Jacksonville, FL
John Bimrose, Microspace Communications, Raleigh, NC
Jim Block, DTN, Weather Services, Burnsville, MN
Bill Browder, AAR, Washington, DC
Curtis Cain, Picton Technologies, Post Falls, ID
Kevin Crowe, Union Pacific, Omaha, NE

Dr. Lidia Cucurull,  Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (Catalan Space Institute), Barcelona,
   Spain, September 16-22, 2001
Steven Ditmeyer, FRA, Washington, DC
T.J. Drake, Norfolk Southern, Atlanta, GA
Gary Drouin, Transport Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Dr. Claude Duchon, University of Oklahoma
Mike Eilts, President, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK
Craig Goff, Aviation Weather Directorate, Washington, DC
John Grundmann, BNSF, Fort Worth, TX
Geoff Hill, ATEK, Inc., Honolulu, HI

Michael C. Hill, CSX, Jacksonville, FL
Daniel Jobin, KijeSipi Ltd., Gatineau, Quebec
Rick Johnson, United Transp Union, Lakewood, CO
Susan Keegan, CSX, Jacksonville, FL
Bob Lane, ENSCO, Cocoa Beach, FL
Christoph Leifeld; Graduate student, University of Hannover, Germany.
Volker Lehmann; Meteorologist, Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Met Office), Lindenberg,
   Germany
Clive Mackay, Canadian Pacific, Calgary, Alberta
Scott McCormick, Environment Canada, Calgary, Alberta
Kirby O'Connor, FRA, Lakewood, CO
Daniel Picton, Picton Technologies, Liberty Lake, WA
Donald Plotkin, FRA, Washington, DC
Jim Robe, Coherent Technologies Inc., Boulder, CO
Steven Root, Weatherbank, Inc., Edmond, OK
Mike Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS
Bill Spry, FRA, Aurora, CO
Paul Swanson, BMWE, Denver, CO
Rich Taylor, ITS America, Washington, DC
Bill Verdeyen, BLE, Terre Haute, IN




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