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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 191-198

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... She was the chair for the National Research Council study "Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications" and is a member of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management.
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From page 192...
... He was one of the cofounders of the American Rock Mechanics Association. He also is the founding president of Engineers Without Borders USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping developing communities with their engineering needs for water, sanitation, and energy systems.
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... Glaser is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, faculty geological scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a research associate at the Intel Laboratory at Berkeley. Involvement in civil engineering began at age 17, when he began working as a union construction laborer in the Washington, D.C., area.
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From page 194...
... Army Corps of Engineers. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Geo Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and as the chair of the Geoseismic Concerns subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Seismic Design of Bridges.
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From page 195...
... , Committee for Review of the Hanford Site's Environmental Remediation Science and Technology Plan, Panel on Review Procedures for Water Resources Project Planning (chair) , and Committee on Organizing to Manage Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation (chair)
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... , and as technical session chair for the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems 2002 in Las Vegas. She is a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering.
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... de Souza is currently director of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. 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.
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