Board of Directors
The Board of Directors oversees IEDRO’s long-term vision and strategy.
Ms. Janet F. Sansone, Chair
Janet Sansone is a retired executive from both government and private industry. She has extensive experience in running both small and large organizations and specializes in organizational development, operations, human capital, finance, and acquisitions. Ms. Sansone has served on several boards in academia, financial institutions, and not for profit companies.
Dr. Richard I. Crouthamel, D.Sc., Board Member, Executive Director, Founder
After thirty-two years, IEDRO Executive Director Rick Crouthamel, D.Sc, retired in 2004 from the National Weather Service, where he had been a manager in international activities. For the past fifteen years, he has concentrated on locating and rescuing historic weather observations worldwide and providing those data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s world database. Under his leadership at IEDRO, more than 300,000 upper-air observations from Africa and more than 700,000 surface observations from South and Central America have been rescued.
Dr. Pedro Restrepo, Ph.D. – Board Member
Consultant on hydrology and water resources: hydrologic river modeling including forecasts, hydropower modeling and optimization, water supply, flood control, multi-purpose reservoir operations, reservoir operations planning, network. NOAA Hydrologist-in-Charge – Management of the North Central River Forecast Center, which is responsible for the forecasting of river flows from drought to floods at over 400 sites in 9 states of the United States. Before that, he served as the Senior Scientist at the National Weather Service, after working as a hydrologist and water resources specialist in the consulting engineering area for many years.
Sarah Roy, Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Sharon LeDuc, Chief Scientist
Dr. Sharon Kay Orndoff LeDuc joined IEDRO as Chief Scientist in April 2011. In this role, Dr. LeDuc is a data rescue leader who helps to shape strategy, and guides the data rescue policies and practices of IEDRO. In collaboration with IEDRO’s senior management staff, she is responsible for raising annual financial support for current and expanding programs. After nearly 36 years of service, Dr. LeDuc retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Her final personnel assignment was with the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC, where she served as Deputy Director for nearly nine years. Her prior assignment was with NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, where for 13 years she was on assignment to the Environmental Protection Agency. While there, she served as a physical scientist and as Chief of the Climate Branch. She also managed the technical transfer of third-generation air quality models, including model evaluation and graphic/visualization of model output. Dr LeDuc received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Missouri in 1971. She has received awards for her outstanding work including a NOAA Administrator’s Award, a Bronze and two Gold Medals from the Department of Commerce, and two Bronze Medals from the Environmental Protection Agency. She has also taught or advised as an adjunct professor at a number of colleges and universities including University of Oklahoma, University of Missouri, William and Mary University, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Duke University.