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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 299-306

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From page 299...
... She has served as a mediator for a variety of local, state and federal agencies and private parties on such diverse subjects as the economic implications of proposed climate change legislation, geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, regulatory policy under the Safe Drinking Water Act, national wetlands policy, watershed management and pollutant policy, children's health protection, allocation of water rights, hydroelectric relicensing, chemicals policy, hazardous waste management, and community land use and infrastructure issues. She also is the author of several publications, including Resolving Environmental Disputes: A Decade of Experience, When the 299
From page 300...
... Her research investigates models of environmental governance, especially in the areas of marine resources and climate change. Prior to her work on this study at the National Research Council, she worked in the areas of environmental policy, natural resource management, and international voluntary service.
From page 301...
... Virgin Islands, and she also served as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy and as New Jersey's commissioner on the interstate Delaware River Basin Commission. She has also been a visiting distinguished lecturer at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and a visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
From page 302...
... Over his career, he has carried out applications of decision analysis and risk analysis for electric utilities in the United States and Mexico, for the petroleum and chemical industries, and for government agencies with responsibility for energy and environmental protection. He has served as a member and consultant to the Science Advisory Board of the U.S.
From page 303...
... is a principal staff officer at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences and director of its standing Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change. His research interests include the determinants of environmentally significant behavior, particularly at the individual level; participatory processes for informing environmental decision making; and the governance of environmental resources and risks.
From page 304...
... A past president of the Association of American Geographers, he conducts research on such issues as sustainable development, energy and environmental technology and policy, responses to global climate change, and the role of geographical scale in all of these regards. His recently coedited books include Global Change and Local Places, Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism, and Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Linking Global Science and Local Knowledge.
From page 305...
... on the effects of climate change on energy production and use in the United States, and lead author for the section of another SAP (4.6) on ­ effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems.


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