Gariann Gelston
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography
Ms. Gelston has been an Engineer for PNNL for over 15 years. She has achieved a Masters in Engineering Management from Washington State University with an undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University. Ms. Gelston leads a development team focused on Dynamic Decision Support Systems. Her team is currently over 20 staff supporting the requirements, design, development and deployment of the Common Operating and Response Environment (CORE) technology suite http://core.pnl.gov. Spanning more than a dozen diverse customer applications this system is quickly adaptable to supporting information collaboration and decision making.
Ms. Gelston provides a holistic systems approach to considering system and user needs for data and information from summarization of information for decision makers and stakeholders, through collection and scientific analysis. Ms. Gelston’s agile approach to requirements, design, development and deployment enables clients and users to directly engage in system design activities through the entire development life-cycle.
Research Interests
- Decision Support System requirements gathering and dynamic system design
- Data exploitation and visualization
- Agile product delivery
- Interactive client workshop development and web-based information distribution
- Software integration, testing and documentation
Selected Publications
2007
- Whelan G, WD Millard, GM Gelston, TP Khangaonkar, MA Pelton, DL Strenge, Z Yang, C Lee, C Sivaraman, AJ Stephan, BL Hoopes, and KJ Castleton. 2007. "Using FRAMES to Manage Environmental and Water Resources." In Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007: Restoring our Natural Habitat, May 15–19, 2007, Tampa, Florida, USA, ed. Karen C. Kabbes. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA. doi:10.1061/40927(243)130
2006
- Stenner RD, JL Kirk, JR Stanton, P Shebell, DS Schwartz, KS Judd, and GM Gelston. 2006. National Incident Management System (NIMS) Standards Review Panel Workshop Summary Report. PNNL-15574, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
- Whelan G, KJ Castleton, JW Buck, RY Taira, GM Gelston, and DL Strenge. 2006. Combining Multiple-Module Output Boundary Conditions to Produce a Single-Input-Module Boundary Condition in FRAMES. PNNL-16130, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
- Whelan G, WD Millard, GM Gelston, MA Pelton, Z Yang, DL Strenge, C Lee, C Sivaraman, MJ Simpson, JK Young, TP Khangaonkar, TR Downing, BL Hoopes, and LE Hachmeister. 2006. Rapid Risk Assessment: FY05 Annual Summary Report. PNNL-15697, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
2000
- Pelton MA, GM Gelston, and MA Eslinger. 2000. FRAMES User Defined Exposure Pathway File Module Documentation. PNNL-13409, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
1998
- Whelan G, JW Buck, KJ Castleton, BL Hoopes, MA Pelton, JP McDonald, GM Gelston, and RY Taira. 1998. "Framework for Risk Analysis in Multimedia Environmental Systems (FRAMES)." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Review of Dose Modeling Methods for Demonstration of Compliance with the Radiological Criteria for License Termination; NUREG/CP-0163, ed. T.J. Nicholson and J.D. Parrott, pp. 77-92. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC.