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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 139-144
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In the western United States, she conducted pioneering research on the San Andreas fault of coastal California, and her international work focuses on fault movements in South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, and Costa Rica. Her primary research in the eastern United States is on streams in the mid-Atlantic Piedmont, particularly in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, where she is investigating the impact on streams of the transformation of woodland and wetland forests to a predominantly agricultural and mixed industrial-urban landscape since European settlement.
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She is also director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests focus on the chemical, physical, and biological processes associated with the circulation of aqueous fluids in shallow hydrogeologic settings.
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He is a hydrologist and a geomorphologist, with research interests that include field and theoretical studies of drainage basin and hillslope evolution, sediment transport and floodplain sedimentation, and sediment budgets of drainage basins. He served as a member of the NRC Committees on U.S.
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and Columbia University. From 2003 through early 2008 he served as director of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center devoted to transdisciplinary research on the evolution and behavior of the Earth's surface.
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His current research activities focus on the geomorphic evolution of fluvial bedrock channel and alpine glacial valley systems. His active projects and interests span a range from small-scale modeling and investigation of the physics of bedrock channel erosion; to reach-scale modeling of the dynamics of bedrock channel evolution; to neotectonic studies of active deformation using geomorphic tools; to quantitative investigation of linkages between tectonics, climate, and surface processes at mountain range scale.
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He began working for the National Academies in 2006 and has primarily supported BESR on a broad array of Earth resource, mapping, and geographical science issues.
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