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Appendix A: Workshop Steering Committee Biographical Information
Pages 37-42

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... . FHWA's TNM is used for designing highway noise barriers and informing the federal distribution of noise mitigation funds related to highway noise barrier construction.
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... He was recently elected an Honorary Member of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. He has received the ASA Silver Medal in Noise, the INCE/USA Distinguished Noise Control Engineer Award, the Pro Silentio Medal of the Hungarian Optical, Acoustical, and Film Technical Society, the C ­ larissima Award of the Brazilian Acoustical Society, and the IEEE Audio and Electroacoustics Achievement Award.
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... She led teams that recently collected visitor survey and acoustic data ("dose-response") in Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Glacier, and Zion National Parks and are analyzing the data to develop a series of empirically based curves to support judgments about potential impacts on visitors' experiences from various aircraft noise exposure levels.
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... He is currently project manager for a study to design the questionnaire, sampling, and interview methods and analytical approaches for a national noise survey of communities around airports. Since 1990, in addition to being actively involved assisting the National Park Service in assessing noise in national parks, he has published peer
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... , developed and applied protocols for quantifying visitor reactions to aircraft noise, and contributed heavily to the NPS report to Congress, "Report on Effects of Aircraft Overflights on the National Park System." He established techniques for acoustic monitoring in national parks and provided instrumentation guidelines. He recently assisted the National Park Service in identifying "backcountry" locations in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks for collecting "dose-response" data that will be used to refine how park visitors react to tour aircraft noise.
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... Wood directs and provides technical contributions to engineering and environmental projects related primarily to the measurement, evaluation, and control of noise and vibration during the design, construction, and operation of major energy systems and transportation and industrial facilities. Examples include power generation, transmission, and distribution, waste management, gas and oil transmission facilities, sport activities, rail transportation, paper mills, expert testimony and regulatory acoustics, product noise reduction, site evaluations, draft fans, heavy-duty mufflers, construction noise, hearing conservation, acoustic impact reports, and thermal-acoustic insulation.
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