Laura Fay, Research Scientist, serves as the Program Manager for the Cold Climate Operations and Systems research group at the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University. Mrs. Fay holds a M.S. in Environmental Science and Health from the University of Nevada, Reno and a B.S. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has over a decade of transportation related research experience and a demonstrated publication record in the areas of winter maintenance operations and environmental issues related to maintenance operations and materials, and low volume roads.

Mrs. Fay is an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) under the National Academies serving as the committee chair for the Low Volume Roads Committee and as a committee member on the Winter Maintenance Committee.