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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 641-658
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He has also served on numerous National Research Council committees, including the Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health. In 2006, the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Dr.
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He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Society for Risk Analysis, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Acad emy of Arts and Sciences; he is a member the American Nuclear Society; and he has been active in several National Research Council committees that examined issues in risk assessment.
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He was vice president of the Sandia National Laboratories in 1984–1987, director of the Chemical Physics Research Laboratory in 1981–1984, head of the Infrared Physics and Electronics Research Department of Bell Laboratories in 1972–1974, and a resident fellow at Oxford University in 1965–1966.
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Utility Review Committee on Advanced Reactor Designs; and worked with the Utility/EPRI Advanced Light Water Reac tor Program that defines utility requirements for future nuclear power plants. He was chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Application of Digital Instrumentation and Control Technology to Nuclear Power Plant Opera tions and Safety.
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and has held a variety of leadership positions in the society. In 1982 she was named the Alaska SPE Engineer of the Year and received the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty.
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Dr. Goodman served for many years on the Electric Power Research Institute's Research Advisory Committee and was chair of its Environment Sector Council.
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Dr. Heywood's research has focused on engine combustion, pollutant formation, the operating emissions characteristics and fuel requirements of automotive and aircraft engines, and on reducing transportation's petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
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, the American Physical Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989) ; he was honored as 2004 distinguished engineer by the National Society of Black Engineers.
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Among his other professional affiliations, past and present, are the Electric Power Research Institute's Research Advisory Committee; the Atomic Industrial Forum; the U.S. Department of Ener gy's Energy Research Advisory Board, Lab Operations Board, and Environmental Management Advisory Board; the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Board; numerous National Academies' boards and commit tees, including the National Academy of Engineering's Board of Councillors; and the Renewable Energy Institute.
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Previously he was executive vice president, chief technology officer, and director of Mobil Oil Corporation.
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JAMES L SWEENEY, Stanford University, is director of Stanford University's Pre court Energy Efficiency Center, professor of management science and engineering, senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.
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He is a past chair of the board of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, past member of the Board of Governors of the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a founding member and past chair of the board of the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America.
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is senior board director of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, which advises the National Academies on the design and conduct of studies on radiation health effects, radioactive-waste manage ment and environmental cleanup, and nuclear security and terrorism. The board also provides scientific support to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan, a joint U.S.-Japanese scientific organization that investigates the health effects arising from exposures to ionizing radiation among World War II atomic-bombing survivors.
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He was also a senior associate at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he directed projects on energy policy and international technology transfer. During sabbaticals from OTA he served as director of energy and environmental studies at the European Institute of Technology, visiting researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and visiting professor at Dartmouth College.
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Reports from relevant studies of energy performance include Tires and Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy, Toward a Sustainable Future: Addressing the Long-term Effects of Motor Vehicle Transportation on Climate and Ecology, and an ongoing assessment of policy options for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. He has published numerous articles in technical journals and has made presentations on study results, and he serves on the editorial board of TRNews.
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Woodruff was a senior analyst at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where she managed or contributed to projects on nuclear energy regulatory policy, storage of plutonium recovered from retired nuclear weapons, regulation of mixed radioactive and chemical wastes, industrial energy efficiency, and energy technology R&D.
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He has a Ph.D. in environmental engineering sciences from the University of Florida, an M.S.M.E.
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