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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributors." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21881.
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Appendix B

Contributors

The following individuals provided information and advice to the committee:
*Staff and affiliations current as of 2015.

Tom Baerwald

National Science Foundation

Keiron Bailey

University of Arizona

Cindy Brewer

The Pennsylvania State University

Keith Clarke

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ruth DeFries

Columbia University

Jeff Dozier

University of California, Santa Barbara

Erle Ellis

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Irwin Feller

The Pennsylvania State University

Edward Hackett

Arizona State University

Susan Hanson

Clark University

Geoff Henebry

South Dakota State University

Bhavya Lal

Institute for Defense Analyses

Samuel Lammie

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Robin Leichenko

Rutgers University

Dennis Lettenmaier

University of Washington

Diana Liverman

University of Arizona

Sallie Marston

University of Arizona

Mark Monmonier

Syracuse University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributors." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21881.
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Laura Pulido

University of Southern California

James Randerson

University of California, Irvine

Douglas Richardson

Association of American Geographers

Gustavo Rodriguez

Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, México

Lorraine Rolston

Hunter College

David Siegel

University of California, Santa Barbara

Bernard South

Consultant

Shaowen Wang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Watts

University of California, Berkeley

Denis White

Oregon State University

Greg White

No affiliation given

Dawn Wright

Esri

Jesse Yow

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May Yuan

The University of Texas at Dallas

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributors." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21881.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributors." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21881.
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The central purpose of all research is to create new knowledge. In the geographical sciences this is driven by a desire to create new knowledge about the relations between space, place, and the anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic features and processes of the Earth. But some research goes beyond these modest aims and creates new opportunities for further research, or affects the process of knowledge acquisition more broadly, or changes the way other researchers in a domain think about the world and go about their business.

Due to its positive impacts, transformative research can be regarded as inherently having greater value than more conventional research, and funding agencies clearly regard transformative research as something to be encouraged and funded through special programs. Assessments of transformative research funding initiatives are few and provide a mixed picture of their effectiveness. The challenge is whether transformative research can be identified at the time it is proposed rather than after it has been conducted, communicated, and its influence on the discipline has become clear. Fostering Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences reviews how transformative research has emerged in the past, what its early markers were, and makes recommendations for how it can be nurtured in the future.

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