Samuel Ratick

Sam Ratick served as an environmental scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on a forecasting system that assessed current and future effects of economic activity on the environment and the effects of proposed environmental policies on the environment and economy. He also served as the Legislative Assistant for Energy and Environment to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. His academic research work has focused on the development and use of analytical methods and mathematical models to aid the decision process for environmental assessment and management. He has been the principal investigator on grants and contracts from the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Ratick’s project, “Assessing the Vulnerability of Populations to Mercury Emissions,” received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The research explored the differences in the potential for harm from exposure to mercury, attributes that may make populations vulnerable are the inability of coping with the effects of exposure, a particular sensitivity due to health or age factors, and

the degree of environmental exposure. Ratick received a three-year National Science Foundation grant of $190,000 (with Geography Professor Yuko Aoyama) to research “Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: The Impacts of Inter-firm Relations, Technologies, and Globalization.”

Selected Publications

“Application and Extension of the Moore and ReVelle Hierarchical Maximal Covering Model for Locating Systems of Medical Facilities,” to appear in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, co-authored with Jeffery Osleeb and Dai Hozumi.

“Modeling Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Efficient Location/Allocation Decisions,” Computers and Operations Research 35 No.2 (2008): 457 - 474. Co-authored with Ronald Klimberg.

“Introduction to the Special Issue on Location Modeling, Dedication to Charles S. ReVelle” Computers and Operations Research 35 No.2 (2008): 309 - 312.

“Trust, Transactions, and Inter-firm Relations in the U.S. Logistics Industry.” Economic Geography 83 No. 2 (2007): 159-180. Co-authored with Yuko Aoyama.

“Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: From An Economic Geography Perspective,” 2006, The Professional Geographer, 58(3): 330–343. Co-authored with Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz.

“Modeling the Impact of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce on the Organization of the Logistics Industry,” 2005, Geographical Analysis 37. 84-106. Co-authored with Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz.

“Decision Making and Uncertainty: Bayesian Analysis of Potential Flood Heights,” co-written with S. M. Manson and A. R. Solow, Geographical Analysis 34 (2): 112-129. The Ohio State University. April 2002.

“Dynamic Facility Location When the Total Number of Facilities Is Uncertain: A Decision Analysis Approach,” with John Current and Charles ReVelle. The European Journal of Operational Research. 2000.