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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 163-172

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... is director of the Connecticut Institute of Water Resources and adjunct member of the Department of Natural Resource Management and Engineering, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut. He previously served as chief of environmental services in the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and state geologist of Connecticut.
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... Horton Award of the American Geophysical Union and the G.K. Warren Prize in Fluviatile Geology from the National Academy of
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... His expertise includes mapping, geodesy, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. He served as director of the NOAA Charting Research and Development Laboratory and senior policy analyst for remote sensing, space and national security at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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... He is co-team leader of a Los Alamos initiative in "urban security," which is an interdisciplinary, coupled approach to modeling cities, with integration of geological and atmospheric processes. His work on the interplay between natural hazards and society is demonstrated by a forthcoming book he coedited entitled VoIcanic Hazards and Human Antiquity and by his role in organizing the First International Symposium on Voicanic Ash and Aviation Safety.
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... He has authored and edited 25 books related to his research interests in environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, aquatic toxicology, and the health effects of toxic metals, especially lead, thallium, chromium, arsenic, and cadmium. He is the editor of the international journal Science of the Total Environment (published by Elsevier)
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... He has received the Sir William Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada, the Leopold von Buch Medal of the Deutsche Geologische Geselischaft, and the Major Edward D'Ewes Fitzgerald Coke Medal of the Geological Society of London, and he has been made an Officier de I'Ordre des Palmes Academiques, France.
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... Previously, he was executive director of the National Geography Standards Project, secretary general of the 27th International Geographical Union Congress, editor of National Geographic Research & Exploration, and editor of the Journal of Geography. He has held positions as a professor and as a visiting teacher and scholar at the George Washington University, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, University of Minnesota, University of California-Berkeley, and University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
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... Shapack (NRC) is a research assistant for the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Research Council.


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