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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 37-42
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He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering honor society and the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. Vice Admiral Baciocco is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, Virginia, and has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
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he completed three polar deployments to the Western Arctic and Antarctica. Garrett's shore assignments include watch officer duties at Vessel Traffic Service Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska; in the Ice Operations Division at U.S.
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Grebmeier is a Research Professor and Project Director at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include pelagic-benthic coupling, benthic carbon cycling, and benthic faunal population structure in the marine environment; understanding how water column processes influence biological productivity in Arctic waters and sediments; how materials are exchanged between the sea bed and overlying waters; and documenting longer-term trends in ecosystem health of Arctic continental shelves.
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Coast Guard's buoy tender and patrol boat fleets. Earlier assignments included First Lieutenant and deck watch officer on the WESTWIND, a polar icebreaker involved in ice escort, resupply and search and rescue operations in the Arctic and Great Lakes regions.
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Department of Transportation Towing Safety Advising Committee and the State of Washington Puget Sound Marine Safety Committee. He has also served as the Chairman of the American Waterway Operators, the tug and barge industry national trade association, and he is currently a Board member of the American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc.
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He now serves on the U.S. Antarctic Research Vessel Oversight Committee, is the chair of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Advisory Committee, and chairs their subCommittee on the McMurdo Antarctic Resupply which presently relies on icebreaker support.
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