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Appendix C Biographical Information for Committee Members and Staff
Pages 49-52

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... C    Biographical Information for   Committee Members and Staff STEVEN R. BOHLEN, Chair, is president of Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) , a consortium of  29 premier oceanographic research institutions that serves the U.S. scientific community through management  of  large-scale,  global  research  programs  in  marine  geology,  geophysics,  and  oceanography.  Dr. Bohlen graduated from Dartmouth College in 1974 and received a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the  University of Michigan in 1979. After 3 years as a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA, he joined  the  faculty  at  the  State  University  of  New York  at  Stony  Brook,  where  he  was  an  assistant  and  then  tenured associate professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His research focused on the  chemical and physical evolution of the Earth's continental lithosphere. In 1988, Dr. Bohlen accepted a  research position with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and held a joint appointment at Stanford University as a consulting professor. In 1995 he became the associate chief geologist  for science at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, where he was responsible for the health  and direction of the research programs of the Geologic Division, including earthquake, volcano, and  landslide hazard reduction programs; the global seismographic network; energy and mineral resource  assessment; climate change; ecosystems; and coastal and marine geology programs.
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... 0  PORTALS TO THE UNIVERSE Plan, the Polar Research Board (1987-1991) , and the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global  Change (1989-1991)
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...  APPENDIX C International Astronomical Union's Commission 42 on Close Binaries and as a scientific editor of the  Astrophysical Journal, and is currently editor of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.  Dr. Szkody served on the NRC Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (1996-1997)
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...   PORTALS TO THE UNIVERSE CATHERINE A. GRUBER is an assistant editor with the Space Studies Board (SSB) . She joined the SSB  as a senior program assistant in 1995. Ms. Gruber first came to the NRC in 1988 as a senior secretary  for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and has also worked as an outreach assistant  for  the  National Academy  of  Sciences-Smithsonian  Institution's  National  Science  Resources  Center.  She was a research assistant (chemist)

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