Committee Details

Standing Committee on Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater

Committee Scope: This committee is concerned with hydrology, hydraulics and stormwater as they pertain to transportation systems. This includes design methods, procedures, and processes for constructing, operating, and maintaining hydraulically efficient, environmentally sound, resilient transportation facilities; addressing runoff pollutants, methods for managing stormwater volume and flow, and methods for improving water supply and stormwater quality; and keeping in mind public safety for roadway drainage, stream crossings, and scour protection systems for highway and railroad structures and embankments.
Committee Code: AKD50
Responsible Staff: Mr. Brian Roberts

Name Committee Membership Role Organization Title Email
Michael Perez Chair Auburn University Associate Professor map0032@auburn.edu
Brinton Swift Secretary Kiewit Corporation Design Manager
Jana Crawford Committee Research Coordinator Jacobs Stormwater Retrofits Project Manager Jana.crawford@jacobs.com
Matthew (Matt) Lauffer Committee Communications Coordinator North Carolina Department of Transportation State Hydraulics Engineer mslauffer@ncdot.gov
Catherine Avila Member Avila and Associates Consulting Engineers, Inc. President
Victoria Bains Member Virginia Department of Transportation State Hydraulics & Utilities Engineer
Anne Bastoni Member VHB
Remi Candaele Member Q3 Consulting
Jana Crawford Member Jacobs Stormwater Retrofits Project Manager
Brian Currier Member California State University Research Engineer
Barry Fagan Member Fagan Consulting LLC Owner/Vice President
William Fletcher Member OrDOT - retired retired (Water Resources Program Leader, Oregon DOT)
Gregory Granato Member U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologist
Chao Huang Member GENEX Systems Lab Manager
Beatrice Hunt Member AECOM Principal Hydraulic Engineer
John Hunt Member Ayres Associates National Practice Leader-Transportation Hydraulics
Susan Jones Member Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Sr Hydraulics Engineer
BHASKAR JOSHI Member California Department of Transportation SUPERVISING TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER
Billur Kazaz Member Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. Senior Staff Engineer
Roger Kilgore Member Kilgore Consulting and Management Principal
Rose Marie Klee Member Texas Department of Transportation H&H Section Director, Design Division
Thomas Knight Member South Carolina Department of Transportation Hydraulic Design Policy Engineer
Matthew (Matt) Lauffer Member North Carolina Department of Transportation State Hydraulics Engineer
Mark McCabe Member JEO Consulting Group Principal
Andrew McDaniel
AKD50(3) Subcommittee on Stormwater Member
AKD50(2) Subcommittee on Hydraulics Member
AKD50 Standing Committee on Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Stormwater Member
SN5507 NCHRP Project Panel on Complying with Stormwater Retrofit Permit Requirements Through Third-Party Partnerships Member
D204443 NCHRP Project Panel on Implementation of NCHRP Domestic Scan Report 16-02: Leading Landscape Design Practices for Cost-Effective Roadside Water Management Member
B0186 Review of Approaches for Managing Pollutant Loads in Highway Stormwater Runoff Member
SN5614 NCHRP Project Panel on State DOT Training Programs to Comply with NPDES Stormwater Permit Requirements Member
D2572 NCHRP Project Panel on Field Methods and Interlaboratory Tests to Establish the Accuracy and Precision of Measured Concentrations of Emerging Contaminants in Stormwater Runoff and Stormwater-Treatment System Effluent Member
AKD50(1) Subcommittee on Hydrology Chair
AKD50(3) Subcommittee on Stormwater Chair
Member No Organization
Jaime Schussler Member Oklahoma State University Assistant Professor
Daniel Sharar-Salgado Member Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Hydraulic Engineer
Marta Sitek Member Argonne National Laboratory Principal Mechanical Engineer
Eric Strecker Member Independent Consulting Engineer Engineer
Scott Taylor Member Michael Baker International, Inc. Vice President
Wendy Terlizzi Member Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Environmental Program Manager
Rhonda Thiele Member Utah Department of Transportation Stormwater Program Manager
Russell Wallace Member HDR Senior Projects Manager
Chen Wang Member Tongji University
Neil Weinstein Member LID Center Executive Director
Jarrell Whitman Member University of Tennessee, Knoxville Assistant Professor
Lei Zhang Member Southeast University Professor
Wilbert Thomas Emeritus Member Michael Baker International, Inc. Senior Staff Consultant