William P. Mahoney III

  

Director
Weather Systems and Assessment Program
303-497-8426
mahoneyucar.edu

Biographical Sketch

Mr. Mahoney is a Program Director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory (NCAR/RAL), located in Boulder, Colorado. He has been involved in research and development activities at NCAR for more than 19 years.

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 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Low Level Windshear Alert System (LLWAS) and eventually led NCAR’s team in the development and demonstration of the FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (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 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), American Meteorological Society (AMS), Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA), Transportation Research Board (TRB), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and Federal Highway Administration (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 Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS). He is working with Missouri DOT in the development of a Weather Response System (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 his M.S. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1983, specializing in windshear and cloud microphysics. He received his B.S. 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 American Meteorological Society (AMS), Transportation Research Board (TRB), and Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA) and is active on several atmospheric science and surface transportation committees.