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Appendix A: Biographical Information
Pages 109-114

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... He chaired the NRC Committee on Opportunities to Improve the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program and was on the NRC Committee on Mine Placement of Coal Combustion Wastes, Committee Assessment of Water Resources Research, and others, and served as a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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From page 110...
... After six years of research with NOAA he moved into a series of management positions of increasing scope and responsibility including Chief of the Wave Propagation Laboratory Atmospheric Studies Branch, Director of NOAA's Environmental Sciences Group (now the Forecast Systems Lab) , Deputy Chief Scientist, and Acting Chief Scientist of NOAA.
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From page 111...
... USGS assignments in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, and Nebraska included FEMA flood analysis, low flow characteristics, coastal flow monitoring and other coastal processes, groundwater analysis, hazardous waste site assessments, and team leader for the Platte River NAWQA project. He is a registered professional engineer in Kansas and Oklahoma and has BS and MS degrees in Agricultural Engineering.
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From page 112...
... Sharitz is professor of plant biology at the University of Georgia and senior scientist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina, where she has been the Head of the Division of Wetlands Ecology. Her research focuses on ecological processes in wetlands, including factors affecting the structure and function of bottomland hardwood and swamp forest ecosystems, responses of wetland communities to environmental disturbances, and effects of land management practices on nearby wetland systems.
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From page 113...
... He is responsible for developing and maintaining the major functional and financial relationships between WSSC and adjacent utilities, including management and funding of cost-shared water supply reservoirs and advisory services, water curtailment agreements, and reconciliation of WSSC's capital funding at several wastewater treatment plants. Previously he was Associate Director for Water Resources and Director of Cooperative Water Supply Operations on the Potomac for the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.
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From page 114...
... and Sc.D. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1990 respectively.
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  • environmental engineering
  • san pedro
  • water supply
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  • upper san

  • water management
  • situ bioremediation
  • national streamflow
  • city office
  • water quality

  • committees including
  • kansas city
  • including factors
  • numerous nrc
  • flow monitoring

  • senior policy
  • wstb committee
  • drainage basin
  • washington suburban
  • ohio eminent

  • iowa department
  • american meteorological
  • regulatory analysis
  • pedro partnership
  • mospheric policy

  • policy program
  • nutrient fate
  • engineering work
  • sulting services
  • hillslope evolution


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