Mark Weimar
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography
Mark Weimar has been at PNNL since 1993. His professional career includes a broad range of experience from agricultural policy to energy policy using the modeling of systems. While Dr. Weimar worked for the USDA, he was its poultry forecaster, cross-commodity forecaster, and Dairy Research Section Leader.
His background in finance, marketing, economics, risk analysis, and visualization provides him with a key set of tools to analyze market incentives, assess market penetration capability, and develop excise tax revenue forecasting models. Key work while at PNNL includes developing pricing and incentives for the TWRS performance-based contracting; analyzing the survivability of the Russian Grid; analyzing motor fuel tax evasion; and using visualization tools such as Starlight, Inspire, and OmniViz. He is currently working on a project to analyze the threat of biological WMD.
Research Interests
- Econometric Modeling
- Financial Modeling
- Market Assessment
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Return on Investment
- Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-proliferation
- Signature Development and Visualization
Education and Credentials
- B.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University
- Ph.D., Iowa State University, Department of Economics
Selected Publications
2008
- Short SM, JR Phillips, MR Weimar, and HA Mahy. 2008. Economic and Non-proliferation Policy Considerations of Uranium Enrichment in Brazil and Argentina. PNNL-17757, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
2004
- Whitney PD, MR Weimar, and AJ Calapristi. 2004. "Exploratory Analysis of Transaction Data." In Proceedings of MLMTA'04 - The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications , vol. Volume 2 , pp. 973-976. CSREA Press, Bogart, GA.
2003
- Balducci PJ, JM Roop, LA Schienbein, JG DeSteese, and MR Weimar. 2003. "Electric Power Interruption Cost Estimates for Individual Industries, Sectors and the U.S. Economy." In Proceedings of 25th National Industrial Energy Technology Conference, pp. 109-118. Texas A&M, Houston, TX.
- Weimar MR, TW Wood, BA Reichmuth, and WL Johnson. 2003. "Optimizing a High-Temperature Hydrogen Co-generation Reactor for Both Economic and Environmental Performance." In Global 2003: Atoms for Prosperity: Updating Eisenhowers Global Vision for Nuclear Energy, November 16-20, 2003, New Orleans, LA, United States, pp. 1499-1508. American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL.
- Young JK, MR Weimar, PJ Balducci, LL Fassbender, and M Hernandez. 2003. Tank Riser Pit Decontamination System (Pit Viper) Return on Investment and Break-Even Analysis. PNNL-14308, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
2002
- Balducci PJ, JM Roop, LA Schienbein, JG DeSteese, and MR Weimar. 2002. Electric Power Interruption Cost Estimates for Individual Industries, Sectors, and U.S. Economy. PNNL-13797, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.