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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 129-136
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Jan van Schilfgaarde is also a member of the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture and a member of the National Academy of ~ _ .
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The majority of her recent research concerns agricultural water issues in California, with particular interest in the interactions between water demand, waste water production, and irrigation technology choice. She has been a postgraduate research economist for the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, a lecturer in the economics of resource conservation, and a consultant.
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He has held several teaching and consulting positions and is director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University. He has broad expertise in water resources planning and Hood hydraulics and was chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on a Levee Policy for the National Flood Insurance Program, whose report was provided to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October 1982.
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His fields of interest lie in theoretical and experimental studies on the effects and fate of chemical pollutants; computer modeling of chemical characteristics of natural and polluted waters; coordination chemistry and photochemistry of trace metals in natural waters; interactions between the chemistry and microbiota in aquatic systems; and trace metal nutrition and toxicity in phytoplankton. He has served on a National Research Council panel on marine mineral technology and was a member of the committee on ocean waste transportation.
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He has been professor of forest science at Oregon State University and visiting professor at Emory University and Cornell University. His research interests are in statistics and ecology, spatial distributions, population dynamics, evolutionary and growth processes, modeling, general systems theory, ecosystem theory, and resource management.
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He has participated in the Basin 5D studies by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, evaluating salt loading to ground water, impacts of irrigation on salinity, and fertilizer contributions to nitrate concentration. He has evaluated the impacts of irrigation on ground water quality as a member of an irrigation and drainage division task force of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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