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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 147-152

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From page 147...
... downs is professor of geography and forEndowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1991, a mer head of the Department of Geography at the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Inves Pennsylvania State University. He has chaired the tigator Award in the mid-1990s, a National Council for NRC Geographical Sciences Committee and held a Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award permanent position at the Johns Hopkins University, in 2001, and the Association of American Geographers' and sabbatical positions at Colgate University, the UniGilbert Grosvenor Honors Award for Geographic Edu 
From page 148...
... She received methods of spatial analysis, and data structures for global several awards including the University of Washgeographic information systems. He has received sev- ington Distinguished Teaching Award (1996)
From page 149...
... His research has been funded by of the Association of American Geographers Bio- the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays geography Specialty Group, and international coordi- Faculty Research Abroad Program, and the American nator (global change) for the International Boreal For- Geographical Society McColl Family Fellowship.
From page 150...
... , and she is a recipient mark d. lange, Study Director, is an associate proof the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award and the National Aero- gram officer at the National Research Council's Board nautics and Space Administration New Investigator on Earth Sciences and Resources and director of the Program in Earth Science Award.
From page 151...
... in business administration with a focus on marketing from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Before coming to the National Academies, she interned at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, working on the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative.


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