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Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 19-22

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... in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979. His research interests include the climatic impacts of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets; coupled mesoscale-global circulation model simulations; the atmospheric moisture budget of high southern latitudes, Greenland, and the Arctic basin using numerical analyses; and the influence of tropical oceanatmosphere variability on the polar regions.
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... Dr. Erb is a physicist and previously served as a science adviser to the National Science Foundation director and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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... Zapol has great interest in the provision of safe critical care, especially respiratory care in national emergencies as well as after complex surgery and trauma. He studies Antarctic Seals with microprocessors diving beneath the Antarctic ice at the McMurdo Station.
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... Ms. Shiflett has coordinated National Research Council studies that produced the reports International Polar Year 2007–2008 Report of the Implementation Workshop, Toward an Integrated Arctic Observing Network, and Environmental Stewardship for the Exploration of Subglacial Lake Environments.


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