OHERN Staff
Jerry W. Wicks, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, BGSU
Board Member, All Aboard Ohio
Director, OHERN Institute
Roger Shope
State Campaign Coordinator
Kelly Wicks
Owner and Founder, Grounds For Thought
Government and Business Relations Liaison
Advisory Board
OHERN advisory board members voluntarily serve as key consultants and valuable resource personnel to the institute’s director. The advisory board is a group of individuals appointed by the director to provide advice on a wide range of issues relevant to the institute. These issues include the areas of rail passenger planning and development, university and public relations, financing, railroad technology and Federal railroad policy.
William O. Gill
Passenger Rail Historian
TMACOG Passenger Rail Committee
All Aboard Ohio and Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers
Kenneth Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107-2189
Ronald C. Sheck, Ph.D.
President, All Aboard Ohio
Urban Rail Program Manager
Washington State Dept. of Transportation, Retired
Research Associates
Numerous academic, business and legal associates will be assisting the OHERN staff to study and implement the many tasks required in an undertaking of this size. These individuals, agencies and research centers will be identified and their contribution described during periods of their participation.
Salim Elwazani, PhD (Arch), RA (Ohio), AIA
Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair in Architecture, Finland 2012-2013
Department of Architecture—School of Arts, Design, and Architecture
Aalto University, Finland
and
Professor, Department of Architecture & Environmental Design
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403—USA
Xinyue Ye, Ph.D.
Economic geographer and geographic information scientist
Department of Geography
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403—USA
[Dr. Ye’s research addresses questions in economic inequality and its dynamics across multi scales and various dimensions (statistical, spatial, and temporal) through the design and implementation of new visualization and analytical methods. His work focuses mainly on the geographical and temporal characteristics of socioeconomic activities in a comparative environment, and the development of open source toolbox to facilitate the dialogue between scholars and policy-makers.]
Joyner, Kara, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Family and Demographic Research
Department of Sociology
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403—USA
[As Associate Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Data, Dr. Joyner will be directing a team of advanced graduate students trained in assembling, processing and interpreting large census files for the various levels of geography required to analyze rail corridors. This initial study will serve as a pilot project and involve an examination of the social, demographic, economic and work flow characteristics of the population residing within a one, two and five mile radius of the rail corridor defined as the line originating at the Convention Center in downtown Columbus and extending northward to Hilliard, Marysville, Findlay, Bowling Green, Toledo and terminating at Sylvania, Ohio.]
Sarah E. Burgoyne
Research Assistant, Center for Family and Demographic Research
Department of Sociology
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403—USA
Michael Castro
Research Assistant, Center for Family and Demographic Research
Department of Sociology
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403—USA
OHERN Institute • Bowling Green, Ohio 43402 • A Research Division of All Aboard Ohio
STAFF, ADVISORY BOARD & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
