Bill Mahoney
is Director of the
WSAP at the
NCAR
RAL
in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Mahoney began working with
NCAR
as a University of Wyoming graduate student in 1981 studying thunderstorms and
windshear associated with microbursts and gust fronts. He participated in the
development of the
FAA
LLWAS
and eventually led
NCAR's team in
the development and demonstration of the
FAA
TDWR.
Mr. Mahoney has also led several
FAA
and international government sponsored aviation weather programs in Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore with a particular emphasis on terminal and enroute
weather decision support systems. Mr. Mahoney is working with several organizations
including
NOAA,
AMS,
ITSA,
TRB,
AASHTO, and
FHWA
to define a national road weather research, development, and applications program.
He is also leading a team of five national laboratories in the development of the
FHWA's winter road
MDSS.
He is working with the Missouri
DoT
in the development of a
WRS
and with the Aurora Program on the development of tactical winter maintenance decision
support tools. In addition to his program management duties, Mr. Mahoney is involved
in program development and commercialization activities at
NCAR.
Mr. Mahoney received an
MS
degree from the University of Wyoming in 1983, specializing in windshear and cloud
microphysics. He received a
BS
degree in Aeronautics from Miami University of Ohio in 1981. Mr. Mahoney has
written or co-authored more than 40 papers and frequently presents
NCAR's work at
national and international conferences and seminars. He is a member of the
AMS,
TRB, and
ITSA
and is active on several atmospheric science and surface transportation committees.
(07/2008)
