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Appendix G: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 189-196

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From page 189...
... Dr. Bell discovered major subglacial lakes linked to the onset of fast flow in Antarctica and has advanced the concept of geologic control on ice stream dynamics.
From page 190...
... is the Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago with the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physic, the Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics departments, and the Enrico Fermi Institute. He holds a joint position with the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
From page 191...
... . Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she has developed an international network that addresses emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world.
From page 192...
... Dr. Ducklow has participated in oceanographic cruises in the Chesapeake Bay, the western North Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda and Hawaii Time Series stations, the Black Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Ross Sea, the Southern Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific, and the Great Barrier Reef.
From page 193...
... in 1972 from The Ohio State University where he studied Antarctic glaciers and global climate change. He has had more than 30 field seasons in the Arctic and the Antarctic, and produced about 80 research publications covering glacier mass balance and climate, ice dynamics, icebergs, remote sensing, and politics of the polar regions.
From page 194...
... She is Chair of the Department of Geography at UCLA and has served on a number of national committees including the NRC Committee for Climate Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentration, the Office Advisory Committee for the Office of Polar Programs of the NSF, and the national council of the Association of American Geographers. Peter Schlosser is the Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
From page 195...
... Commission of UNESCO, is a member of the U.S. Standing Committee on Life Sciences for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, chaired the SCOPE Committee on Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, and co-chaired the Millennium Development Goals Committee of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.


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