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Appendix A Committee Member Biographies Amy R. Pritchett, Chair, is a professor and the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Previously, Dr. Pritchett was on the faculty of the Schools of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and she served via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act as the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Aviation Safety Pro- gram for 2 years. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, expert human performance, and aerospace operations, with a particular focus on designing to support safety. Dr. Pritchett’s research topics have included autonomous flight and unmanned aerial vehicles, vehicle dynamics and controls, and vehicle systems engineering. She is a fellow of the Ameri- can Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Human Fac- tors and Ergonomics Society, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team. Dr. Pritchett has received the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, the RTCA William Jackson Award, and the 2008 Collier Trophy. She has served on many National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including as the chair of the Com- mittee for Study of Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Controller Staffing and as a member of the Committee on Assessing the Risks of Un- manned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration and the Committee to Review the Federal Aviation Administration Research Plan on Certification of New Technologies into the National Airspace System. In addition, Dr. Pritchett served as a member of the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space En- gineering Board. She earned an Sc.D., an S.M., and an S.B. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 139 

140 OPTIONS FOR REDUCING LEAD EMISSIONS FROM PISTON-ENGINE AIRCRAFT Brian J. German is the National Institute of Aerospace Langley Associate Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility. Dr. German’s re- search involves aircraft design and optimization, including the development of multidisciplinary optimization techniques. He also develops aerody- namic, propulsion, and performance models suitable for aircraft conceptual and preliminary design studies. A recent focus of his work has been aircraft design and operations for new forms of urban and regional air mobility, with emphasis on aircraft sizing, aerodynamics of distributed propulsion, battery and hybrid electric propulsion modeling, and operations research problems for innovative scheduled and on-demand air services. Dr. German is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received a Ph.D., an M.S., and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jack D. Griffith (NAS) is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Microbiol- ogy and Immunology in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Previously at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he developed electron micro- scopic (EM) methods for visualizing bare DNA bound by proteins and used this to visualize replicating DNA complexes. At Stanford University, he ob- tained the first images of the basic chromatin particle termed a nucleosome and determined the amount of DNA in the nucleosome. At UNC, his group combined EM and biochemistry to examine recombining DNA, the nature of triplet repeat disease DNA, and the architecture of moving replication forks. In 1999 he demonstrated that the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes are arranged into a loop and that looping hides the DNA ends from being recognized as simple double strand DNA breaks. This discovery provided the answer to a question first raised 80 years ago when telomeres were iden- tified and shown to protect chromosome ends. However, the way in which protection was accomplished at a molecular level remained unknown until Dr. Griffith’s discovery of telomere looping. His contributions have been acknowledged by the Herbert A. Sober award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Grand Gold Medal of Comenius University. Dr. Griffith was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. Relevant to this study panel, Dr. Griffith holds Single Engine Land, Single Engine Sea, and Instrument ratings. He owns and flies a Piper Super Cub in North Carolina and in his home state of Alaska on floats. He received a Ph.D. in biophysics from Caltech and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University with Nobel Prize winner Arthur Kornberg. 

APPENDIX A 141 Kimberly A. Kenville is a professor of aviation at the University of North Dakota, focusing on airport management. The university owns and oper- ates more than 120 piston and turbine-powered aircraft and helicopters, with training sites in North Dakota and Arizona. Previously, she worked for Detroit (DTW), Milwaukee (MKE), and Minneapolis (MSP) airports in the airport operations department. Dr. Kenville has completed several Trans- portation Research Board Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) projects that pertain specifically to airports and their response and recov- ery to emergencies, social media, funding industrial aviation development, aviation education, strategic planning, and organizational effectiveness. She chaired the ACRP Project Panel on Updating the Guidebook for Manag- ing Small Airports and is a member of the ACRP Oversight Committee. Dr. Kenville recently served as the chair of the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission and is a current voting member of the commission. She is a private aircraft pilot. She received a Ph.D. in organization and management from Capella University. Marie Lynn Miranda is the provost and a professor of computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, she served as a professor of statistics and the Howard R. Hughes Provost at Rice University. In addition, she was the Samuel A. Graham Dean in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michi- gan and the director of undergraduate programs for the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Dr. Miranda specializes in research on environmental health, especially how the environment shapes health and well-being among children. Her research topics include a geospatial analysis of the effects of aviation gasoline on childhood blood lead levels. She is the founding director of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative, a research, education, and outreach program committed to fostering environ- ments where all people can prosper. The initiative’s peer-reviewed research has been cited extensively, including in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s integrated science assessment on revisions to the national ambient air quality standards for lead. Dr. Miranda received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Robert (Bob) A. K. Mitchell (NAE) is an independent aerospace researcher and consultant. Previously, he served as the vice president for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and the chief executive officer of Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, prior to its acquisition by Northrop Grumman. He led the capture and development of the Global Hawk high-altitude, long- endurance unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the Fire Scout vertical UAS, the Navy Triton UAS (derived from Global Hawk), and several restricted programs. Prior to taking over Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, Mr. Mitchell 

142 OPTIONS FOR REDUCING LEAD EMISSIONS FROM PISTON-ENGINE AIRCRAFT spent 12 years working on the Space Shuttle. Mr. Mitchell is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and he has received numerous other awards for his contributions in the field of aerospace, including the Reed Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He attended the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, was commissioned, became a pilot, and served for 16 years. Mr. Mitchell received an M.S. in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Glenn W. Passavant recently retired from Ingevity Corporation as a senior engineer in Technology and Regulatory Affairs, focusing on the advance- ment of vehicle evaporative and refueling emission control technology. Pre- viously, he was the center director and the senior program manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Transportation and Air Quality, where he led the development of regulatory programs related to a wide variety of mobile sources, including passenger cars, light trucks, motorcycles, heavy-duty engines, marine vessels, nonroad equipment, lo- comotives, and aircraft. In this capacity, he represented EPA in interactions with the government and industry and led the development and assessment of provisions for vehicles/equipment, their fuels, related test procedures, and other necessary regulatory requirements. He worked on EPA’s evalua- tion of lead emissions impacts from general aviation aircraft that use leaded aviation gasoline to determine whether those emissions cause or contribute to air pollution, which may endanger public health or welfare. He had a long career in the U.S. Air Force in the positions of meteorologist, bioen- vironmental engineer, and squadron commander. Mr. Passavant received an M.E. in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bernard I. Robertson (NAE) is the retired senior vice president of Engineer- ing Technologies and Regulatory Affairs and the general manager of Truck Operations at the Daimler Chrysler Corporation. His primary research interests are ground vehicles and their fuels and supporting infrastructure. A particular specialty has been emissions and environmental impact, in- cluding development of powertrain and fuel technology. While involved in all aspects of vehicle design and development, he has focused on alternate powerplant and fuel research and development worldwide. He has relevant technical experience in gasoline-fueled engines and all aspects of aviation. Mr. Robertson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His previ- ous service on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees includes the Committee on Review of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Research Program and the Committee for Stakeholder Input in Develop- ing the Airport System Management Services Component of the National 

APPENDIX A 143 Airspace System. In addition, he served as a member of the National Acad- emies’ Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. He has been a general aviation pilot and aircraft owner for 40 years. Mr. Robertson received an M.Eng. in mechanical sciences from the University of Cambridge, an M.S. in automotive engineering from the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, and an M.B.A. from Michigan State University. Jay R. Turner is a professor of energy and environmental and chemical engineering and the vice dean for education in the James McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His research pri- marily focuses on air quality characterization with an emphasis on field measurements and data analysis to support a variety of applications in the atmospheric science, regulation and policy, emissions estimation, exposure assessment, and health studies arenas. He was the co-investigator and the Washington University lead on two Airport Cooperative Research Program projects awarded to Sierra Research: Quantifying Aircraft Lead Emissions at Airports (02-34) and Reducing the Impact of Lead Emissions at Airports (02-57). He is currently the principal investigator (PI) for a United Na- tions Children’s Fund–funded project in Mongolia to develop air quality monitoring systems for children’s health and is the co-PI for three National Institutes of Health–funded projects to examine relationships between air pollution and neurodegenerative disease; conduct passive and mobile plat- form measurements to assess the air quality impacts of a neighborhood- scale greening intervention; and develop and deploy a high-time resolution monitor for mobile mapping of volatile organic compounds. In the past 2 years, he was also the PI for a Federal Highway Administration/U.S. De- partment of Transportation–funded project to quantify the efficacy of an engineered vegetative buffer to attenuate near-road air pollution. Dr. Turner currently serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s chartered Science Advisory Board (SAB) and recently chaired the SAB panel for Screening Methodologies to Support Risk and Technology Reviews: A Case Study Analysis. Dr. Turner is a past president of the American Association for Aerosol Research. He received a D.Sc. in chemical engineering from Washington University. Asciatu J. Whiteside is an environmental program manager with the Dallas/ Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport’s Department of Environmental Affairs. She has worked at DFW for more than 18 years, assisting the air- port in becoming a leader in environmental performance and sustainability through the management of core programs, including the Resource Con- servation and Recovery Act Waste Management Program, Pretreatment, Storm Water, and Environmental Management Systems. She also provides environmental oversight and technical support for capital improvement 

144 OPTIONS FOR REDUCING LEAD EMISSIONS FROM PISTON-ENGINE AIRCRAFT projects related to rehabilitating airport infrastructure, including deicing collection systems. In addition, she coordinates and communicates airport programs, public outreach, compliance-related initiatives, sustainability and Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design–related goals and objectives to internal stakeholders, airport tenants, and regulators. Ms. Whiteside has served on several Transportation Research Board Airport Cooperative Re- search Program projects involving water quality toxicity testing and winter weather operations at airports. She holds an M.S. in environmental science and management from Duquesne University and a B.S. in chemistry from Emory University.