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Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 103-108

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From page 103...
... Prior to joining Webb Institute, he was vice president of SYNTEK, assisting the U.S. Navy on the Joint Navy/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency arsenal ship program and the Navy's aircraft carrier and surface combatant programs.
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From page 104...
... Her current scientific research focuses on bathymetric and sidescan sonar mapping of the Arctic Basin and the use of high-resolution photographic and acoustic data to map the East Pacific Rise mid-ocean ridge.
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From page 105...
... , an Aldo Leopold Leadership Program fellow, a national associate of the National Academies of Science, a past president of the Estuarine Research Federation, a vice chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone/International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, a past chair of the NRC Ocean Studies Board, and a current member of the UNOLS Council. She received the 2002 Ketchum Award for coastal research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and shares the Blasker award with R.E.
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From page 106...
... Coast Guard Healy, and whose long-term mission includes promoting a productive and successful working relationship between the Coast Guard and the science community using icebreakers.  He served as the committee chair from 1996 to 2000.  He served on the U.S. Antarctic Research Vessel Oversight Committee and is the former chair of the NSF Office of Polar Programs Advisory Committee.  He received his Ph.D.
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From page 107...
... in oceanography from the University of Washington in 2007. Her doctoral research focused on magmatic and tectonic contributions to mid-ocean ridge evolution and hydrothermal activity at the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge.
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  • dana yoerger
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