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Appendix C - Biographical Sketches for Committee on River Science at the U.S. Geological Survey
Pages 189-194

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... and M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania State University, respectively, and a Ph.D.
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... degree in geography from the University of North Carolina. Marcelo H
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... , director of the Biological Sciences Program at UM, and visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Her activities and awards include Aldo Leopold Leadership fellow, Lilly fellow, AAAS fellow, Board of Trustees for the Chesapeake Bay Trust, Board of Advisers for the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics, Board of Advisers for American Rivers, and Board of Advisers for the NSF Long Term Ecological Research Network.
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... Tarboton is professor, Utah Water Research Laboratory and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, where he also serves as coordinator for the Utah State University Initiative. His research interests are in spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, applying digital elevation data and Geographic Information Systems in hydrology, stochastic hydrology using nonparametric techniques, snow hydrology, geomorphology, landform evolution and channel networks, and terrain stability mapping and stream sediment inputs.
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... Woessner is a Regent's Professor of Hydrogeology in the Geoscience Department of the University of Montana, Missoula, and acting director for the Center for Riverine Science and Stream Renaturalization. His research concentrates on quantifying flow systems in intermountain valleys, resource analysis, ground water and surface-water interactions, characterization of hazardous wastes and contaminant transport including virus transport, and the use of groundwater flow models to evaluate conceptual models and make predictions.
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