FRANKLIN T. LOMBARDO, PH.D.

409 Brunswick Drive, Apt. 11 Troy, NY 12180 Cell: (240) 671-7034 lombaf@rpi.edu EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D. Wind Science and Engineering (Atmospheric Science Emphasis) Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Dissertation Topic: Analysis and Interpretation of Thunderstorm Wind Flow and its Effects on a Bluff Body 2002 B.S. Civil Engineering Tri-State University, Angola, Indiana PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013-Present Research Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Troy, NY 2010-Present: National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Topics: Wind Climate Descriptions for Efficient Structural Design and Wind Energy Development, Wind Tunnel Development for Wind Engineering, Joplin, MO Tornado Study) 2003-2005, 2006-2010: Research Assistant/Post -Doctoral Associate, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (Wind Characteristics, FE Modeling, Wind Energy Distance Education) 2006-2009: Wind Consultant, Letchford, Norville, Schroeder, Smith and Associates, Lubbock, TX (Wind/Water Damage; Wind/Damage Functions; Remote Sensing of Damage) 2008-2009: Independent Consultant, Mallet Ranch (Wind Related Transmission Line Failures) 2007: Independent Consultant, Texas Department of Hazard Mitigation (Extreme Wind Speeds) 2005-2006: Wind Research Engineer/Intern, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Extreme Value Analysis of Wind Speeds; Structural Response; Data Mining) 2002-2003: Transportation Engineer, Michigan Department of Transportation, Lansing, MI

RESEARCH INTERESTS Extreme Wind Characteristics; Wind Turbulence; Severe Storm Dynamics; Bluff Body Aerodynamics; Climate and Weather Extremes; Wind Damage; Non-Stationary Time Series Analysis; Extreme Value Analysis; Natural Hazards; Data Mining and Statistics; Wind Energy; Stochastic Processes; Wind-Induced Structural Response; Spatiotemporal Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Response to Disasters PROPOSAL/RESEARCH PARTICIPATION NASA: Characterization of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Vertical Wind Profiles w/ Texas Tech U. (submitted) NASA: Multidisciplinary Characterization and Understanding of Extreme Rainfall and Flood Events using Statistical, Physical, and Human Systems Approaches w/ Rutgers U. (submitted) NSF CMMI: Accounting for a Changing Climate in Characterizing Extreme Environmental Loads: Wind Speed and Wave Height as Case Studies w/ U. Maryland (not funded) NSF Hazard SEES: Adaptive Capacity and Adaptive Behavior in Hazard Mitigation w/ multiple entities (submitted) Joplin Tornado Investigation (Tornado Hazard Characteristics), 2011-Present NIST-IMS: Structural Safety under Extreme Winds, 2010-Present Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2), 2009-10 Thunderstorm Transmission Line Failures in North Texas, 2008 Texas Tech University Hurricane Research Team (TTUHRT), 2004, 2008 Wheeled Investigation of Rear Flank Downdraft Lifecycles (WIRL), 2004 FUNDED PROJECTS National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship Award, 2010-12 National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, Wind Science and Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2004-05, 2007-08 HONORS Nominated, National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering, 2013 Selected Participant, NCAR-ASP Colloquium, Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather under Climate Change, 2011, Boulder, CO 2 nd Place, 8 th Annual Texas Tech Graduate Research Poster Competition, Engineering, 2009 Passed Engineer in Training (EIT) Exam, 2002 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS) Member, American Association Wind Engineering (AAWE) Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

JOURNAL REVIEWER Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics Journal of Structural Engineering Wind and Structures Natural Hazards Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal of Geophysical Research PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Member, American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Adaptation to Climate Change Participant, American Society of Civil Engineers Wind Load Committee Invited Member, Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale Stakeholders Group TEACHING ACTIVITY Instructor and Developer, CIV 6963, Natural Hazards Engineering (RPI Fall 2013) Instructor and Developer, WE 5310, WE 5311 (Advanced Managerial Wind Energy I and II) Guest Lecturer, CE 5331 (Wind Engineering) Teaching Assistant, CE 5331 (Wind Power Systems) Guest Lecturer, CE 4342 (Structural Steel Design) PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles Lombardo, F.T. and Ayyub, B. (in preparation) Challenges in Adaptation to a Changing Climate: Case Study for Washington, DC Area Extreme Wind and Heat Events, submitting to J. Risk and Uncertainty Analysis Lombardo, F.T., Smith, D.A., Schroeder, J.L. and Mehta, K.C. (in preparation). Investigation of thunderstorm winds on an instrumented, full-scale building, submitting to Wind and Structures Lombardo, F.T., Smith, D.A., Schroeder, J.L. and Mehta, K.C. (in review). Thunderstorm characteristics of importance to wind engineering, submitted to Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics Lombardo, F.T., Simiu, E., Pintar, A., Possolo, A., Yeo, D. (2013). Meteorological extremes, Environmetrics Lombardo, F.T. (2012). Improved extreme wind speed estimation for wind engineering applications, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 104-106, 278-284 Simiu, E., Lombardo, F.T. and Yeo, D. (2012). Discussion of Ultimate wind load design gust wind speeds in the United States for use in ASCE-7 by Vickery, P.J. et al., Journal of Structural Engineering, 138, 5, 660-661

Lombardo, F.T., Main, J.A. and Simiu E. (2009). Automated extraction and classification of thunderstorm and non-thunderstorm wind data for extreme-value analysis, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 97, 3-4, 120-131 Lombardo, F.T. and Simiu, E. (2008). Discussion A comparison of methods of wind speed estimation by Ying An and M.D. Pandey [J. Wind Eng. Ind. Aerodyn. 93 (2005) 535 545], Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 96, 2452-2454 Refereed Book Articles Pintar, A. and Lombardo, F.T. (accepted). Mapping return values of extreme wind speeds, Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Predictions, Springer Reports and Other Publications Wright, D.W., Ayyub, B. and Lombardo, F.T. (2013). Bridging the Gap Between Climate Change Science and Structural Engineering Practice. Structure Magazine, September 2013 Kuligowski, E.D., Lombardo, F.T., Phan, L.T., Levitan, M.L., Jorgensen, D.P. (2012). Technical Investigation of the May 22, 2011 Tornado in Joplin, Missouri, Progress Report, NIST SP -1139 Levitan, M.L., Phan, L.T., Kuligowski, E.D., Lombardo, F.T., Jorgensen, D.P. (2012). Investigation Plan National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Technical Investigation of Building and Emergency Communications System Performance in the Joplin, Missouri, Tornado of May 22, 2011, NIST SP - 1132 Published Proceedings Lombardo, F.T. (2013). Multiple wind hazards in non-hurricane prone regions, Proc. Intl. Conf. Structural Statistics and Reliability, June 17-20, New York, NY Mara, T.G. and Lombardo, F.T. (2013). Toward a coherent US-Canada extreme wind climate, Proc. Americas Conf. on Wind Engineering, June 16-20, Seattle, WA Banerjee, D., Hemley, D., McDermott, R., Yeo, D., Lombardo, F. and Levitan, M. (2013). Practical CFD simulations of wind tunnel tests, Proc. Americas Conf. on Wind Engineering, June 16-20, Seattle, WA Yeo, D., Lombardo, F.T., Banerjee, D., Letvin, E.J., Simiu, E., Levitan, M.L. (2012). NIST advances in computer-aided and computational methods in wind engineering, Proc. ATC/SEI Hurricane Conference, October 24-26, Miami, FL Lombardo, F.T. (2012). Progress on an updated US extreme wind climatology for wind load design, Proc. 3 rd AAWE Workshop, August 12-14, Hyannis, MA Lombardo, F.T. and Thibault, A.R. (2012). Spatiotemporal variability of extreme convective wind events. 24 th AMS Conf. on Climate Variability and Change, New Orleans, LA

Lombardo, F.T. (2011). Thunderstorm Characteristics of Wind Engineering Importance, Proc. 13 th International Conf. on Wind Engineering, July 10-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lombardo, F.T. and Simiu, E. (2011). Extreme Wind Speed Estimation: Issues and Improvements, Proc. 13 th International Conf. on Wind Engineering, July 10-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands Yeo, D., Lombardo, F.T., Banerjee, D. and Simiu, E. (2011), Aerodynamic Experiments and Development of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Structural Design. Engineering Mechanics Institute 2011-ASCE, Boston, MA, June 2-4. Lombardo, F.T., Brown, T.M, Womble, J.A. and LaDue, J.P. (2010). The Future of the EF Scale Proc.2 nd AAWE Workshop, August 19-20, Marco Island, Florida. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. (2010). The Latest in Extreme Wind Speed Estimation Proc.2 nd AAWE Workshop, August 19-20, Marco Island, Florida. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. (2010). Thunderstorm Wind Flow Characteristics and their Effects on a Bluff Body Proc.2 nd AAWE Workshop, August 19-20, Marco Island, Florida. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. and Smith, D.A. (2009). Analysis and Interpretation of Non-Stationary Wind Flow on a Bluff Body Proc., 11 th Americas Conf. on Wind Engineering, June 22-26, San Juan, Puerto Rico. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. (2009). Location and Storm Type Effects in the Estimation of Extreme Wind Speeds Proc., 11 th Americas Conf. on Wind Engineering, June 22-26, San Juan, Puerto Rico. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. and Smith, D.A. (2008). Investigation of Thunderstorms on an Instrumented Building: Part II Proc. 1 st AAWE Workshop, August 21-22, Vail, Colorado. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. and Smith, D.A. (2008). Investigation of Thunderstorms on an Instrumented Building: Part I Proc. 1 st AAWE Workshop, August 21-22, Vail, Colorado. CD-ROM Smith, D.A., Womble, J.A. and Lombardo, F.T. (2008). Constructing Probable Wind and Water Damage Sequences from Timelines - The Technical Perspective, Proc., AAWE Workshop, August 21-22, Vail, Colorado. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. and Smith, D.A. (2008). "Investigation of Thunderstorm Winds on an Instrumented Building", Proc., ASCE Structures Congress, April 24-26, Vancouver, BC, Canada. CD-ROM Smith, D.A., Womble, J.A. and Lombardo, F.T. (2008). Constructing Probable Wind and Water Damage Sequences from Timelines - The Technical Perspective, Proc., ASCE Structures Congress, April 24-26, Vancouver, BC, Canada. CD-ROM Lombardo, F.T. and Simiu, E. (2007). "Probability Distributions of Extreme Wind Speeds in Thunderstorm Prone Regions", Proc., 12th International Conference on Wind Engineering, July 1-6, 2007, Cairns, QLD, Australia. CD-ROM

Lombardo, F.T. and Main, J.A. (2006). "Automated Extraction of Wind Data From Archived ASOS Weather Reports", Proc., ASCE Structures Congress, May 18-20, 2006, St. Louis, MO. CD-ROM Poster Proceedings Lombardo, F.T. and Thibault, A.R. (2012). Spatiotemporal Variability of Extreme Convective Wind Events, 24 th AMS Conference on Climate Variability and Change, New Orleans, LA Lombardo, F.T. (2011). Thunderstorm Characteristics of Importance to Wind Engineering, 18 th Annual Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Poster Presentation, Gaithersburg, MD Lombardo, F.T. and Smith, D.A. (2009). Analysis and Interpretation of Thunderstorm Wind Flow and its Effects on a Bluff Body, 8 th Annual Texas Tech Graduate Research Poster Competition, Lubbock, TX Womble, J.A., Smith, D.A., Lombardo, F.T. (2007). Wind or Water Damage? Meeting the Legal Challenge, Natural Hazards Workshop, Boulder, CO INVITED PRESENTATIONS Thunderstorm Characteristics of Importance in Wind Engineering, Lubbock Severe Weather Conference, Lubbock, TX, February 2010 Automated Extraction and Classification of Thunderstorm and Non-Thunderstorm Wind Data for Extreme Value Analysis, European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Paris, France, May 2010 Directions in Wind Hazard Modeling, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 2012 Challenges in Adaptation to a Changing Climate: Case Study for Washington, DC Area Extreme Wind and Heat Events, ASCE-ASME Superstorm Workshop, Washington, DC, April 2013 STUDENTS ADVISED Lauren Mudd, Ph.D. (2013-present), RPI, Hurricanes and Climate Change STUDENTS MENTORED/SUPERVISED George Riddick, Elizabeth City State University, Summer 2007 (Low-Rise Building) George Harris, Elizabeth City State University, Summer 2008 (Low-Rise Building) Will Draffin, Washington University-St. Louis, Summer 2011 (Extreme Winds) Sophie Clermont, France, Fall 2011 (Roughness Estimation) Xinxin Zhang, Texas Tech University, Summer 2012 (Wind Engineering) Hung Sinh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2013- present (Wind Climatology)