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	William (Bill) Labiosa
	Research Physical Scientist
	Seattle, WA
	blabiosa@usgs.gov
	206-220-4563
Project Skills:	Ecosystem Science - Ecosystem assessments and mapping
	Water Science - Water quality modeling, watershed-scale decision support
	Climate Change - Impact modeling for regional climate change
	Land Use/Land Cover Studies - Impact modeling for land use/cover change
	Tools and Techniques - Bayesian network models, probabilistic water quality models, decision sciences, decision analysis, multi-attribute utility models, watershed and land use decision support
	Other - Background in environmental engineering and water chemistry

Other Interests/Skills:	Watershed and ecosystems management problems.

Geographic Regions:	South Florida, Puget Sound.

Current/Recent Projects:	Modeler for mercury Total Maximum Daily Load decision analysis project for Sulphur Creek, CA Co-PI and project manager for South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model (land use decision support) Team member for Large River Deltas task of the Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound (CHIPS) project PI and project manager for Puget Sound Ecosystem Portfolio Model (ecological restoration scenario evaluation and decision support) Co-PI for the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (watershed management decision support) [http://lcat.usgs.gov/sflorida/sflorida.html]

Collaborations:	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Everglades National Park Biscayne National Park South Florida Water Management District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Stanford University Florida International University Florida Atlantic University University of Pennsylvania Wharton School University of Washington Puget Sound Partnership Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (PSNERP) Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Recent Publications:	Labiosa, William, Leckie, James, Shachter, Ross, Freyberg, David, and Rytuba, James, 2005. Incorporating Uncertainty in Watershed Management Decision-Making: A Mercury TMDL Case Study. ASCE Conf. Proc., Vol. 178, p. 125. William B. Labiosa, 2005. A Probabilistic Decision Analytical Approach for Watershed Planning: A Mercury Total Maximum DailyLoad Case Study. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. Labiosa, William B., Leckie, James O., Shachter, Ross, Freyberg, David, and Rytuba, James, 2005. Modeling Source/Linkage Analysis Uncertainty Using Simulation and Bayesian Networks for a Mercury TMDL in Northern California, Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, 1415-1433(19). Wood, Alexander W., Bernknopf, Richard, Rytuba, James, Singer, Donald A., Champion, Richard, and Labiosa, William, 2005. Offset-Based Decision Support Models for Mitigating Mercury Sources in the Cache Creek Watershed, North Central California, Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, 1496-1516(21). Cullen, A.C., Labiosa, W., Levin, P., and Grossman, E., 2006, ?Integrating the Sciences: Natural and Social Science Support for Decision-Making,? In Mary Ruckelshaus and Michelle McClure, eds., Sound Science: Synthesizing Ecological and Socio-economic Information about the Puget Sound Ecosystem, ed. Northwest Science Fisheries Center, NOAA Fisheries Service. Grossman, E E, Rosenbauer, R J, Takesue, R K, Gelfenbaum, G, Reisenbichler, R, Paulson, A, Sexton, N R, Labiosa, B, Beamer, E M, Hood, G, and Wyllie-Echeverria, SE, 2006. Estuarine Science and Decision-Support Tools to Restore Puget Sound Delta and Estuarine Ecosystems: The Skagit River Delta. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union. Vol. 87, no. 52, Suppl. 26 Dec. 2006. Labiosa, William B, Rytuba, James J, Bernknopf, Richard, and Wood, Alex, 2006. A Decision Analytical Model for Environmental Management Decisions; A Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load Example. In Proceedings of the First All-USGS Modeling Conference, A. Frondorf, ed. USGS Scientific Investigations Report, Report: SIR 2006-5308, pp.14, 2006. William Labiosa, Ross Shachter, James Leckie, James Rytuba, and Alexander Wood, 2007. Modeling Uncertainty by Using Bayesian Networks for Mercury-Mitigation Decisions. In Proceedings of the U.S. Geological Survey 2004 Mercury Workshop: Mercury Research and its Relation to Department of the Interior Resource Management, J. Coleman, ed. USGS OpenFile Report 2007-1026. Maier, H.R., Ascough II, J.C., Wattenbach, M., Renschler, C.S., Labiosa, W.B., Ravalico, J.K., 2008. Uncertainty in Environmental Decision-Making: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions. Book chapter in A.J. Jakeman, ed., Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment, Elsevier. Labiosa, William B., Bernknopf, Richard, Hearn, Paul, Hogan, Dianna, Strong, David, Pearlstine, Leonard, Mathie, Amy M., Wein, Anne M., Gillen, Kevin, and Wachter, Susan, 2009, The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model; a map-based multicriteria ecological, economic, and community land-use planning tool: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5181, 41 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5181/].

Academic Background:	Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil&Environmental Engineering, with minor in Probabilistic Decision Analysis, 2006 M.S., Stanford University, Geological&Environmental Sciences, 1996 M.S., Duke University, Civil&Environmental Engineering, 1993 B.S., Davidson College, Chemistry, 1990