Risk Cadre
In 1998 a team of five individuals was formed at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Technical Service Center to further the development and implementation of risk analysis processes for dam safety. This team is called the Risk Cadre and is located in Denver, Colorado.The cadre has concentrated its efforts in the following areas of work:
- Facilitating risk analyses
- Developing a consistent risk analysis methodology
- Developing toolboxes to the methodology to address specific areas of specialization
- Work with other Reclamation personnel in the development of other toolboxes in the areas of loading probability and consequences
- Developing a profiling system for screening Reclamation’s inventory of dams on a risk basis
- Work with Reclamation’s decision makers to further the development of risk assessment processes
- Train others to facilitate risk analyses
- Consult with other public agencies in risk analysis processes
- Continually improve Reclamation’s risk analysis process
Members of the Risk Cadre have general expertise in facilitating risk analyses
utilizing Reclamation’s risk analysis methodology. They also have certain
areas of specialization with-respect-to risk analysis. The risk cadre members
are listed as follows along with their areas of specialization.
Any risk cadre member may be contacted by E-mail:
Nathan Snorteland
Specialization:
Risk Management
Tolerable Risk
Geotechnical Engineering
Computer applications for risk analysis
Uncertainty analysis
nsnorteland@do.usbr.gov
Karl Dise
Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering
Embankment dams earthquake failure modes
Consequences for risk analyses
Computer applications for Risk Analysis
kdise@do.usbr.gov
Gregg Scott
Specialization:
Geotechnical/Civil Engineering
Rock Mechanics
Static and seismic response of concrete dams
Combining failure probabilities
gscott@do.usbr.gov
Bill Fiedler
Specialization: Civil Engineering
Spillways, appurtenant structures
Hydrologic loading for risk analysis
Concrete dams and foundation responses
bfiedler@do.usbr.gov
John England
Specialization: Hydrologic Loading
Hydrology and Hydraulics
Consequences for Risk Analysis
jengland@do.usbr.gov
Other staff of the Technical Service Center with areas of specialization in
risk analysis that are not part of the Risk Cadre are as follows:
Wayne Graham
Specialization: Estimating Life Loss from dam failure
Probabilistic Flood Hazard Cadre
Specialization: Probabilities of flood loading