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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Pages 123-128
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Pepper is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Soil Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy, and a recipient of the American Society of Agronomy 2010 Environmental Quality Research Award. National Research Council service includes membership on the Research Associateship Program Review Committee, Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health, Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices, and the U.S.
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Author of seven books and research memoirs, editor or co-editor of 19 others, Ernst is author or co-author of more than 260 scientific papers dealing with physical chemistry of rocks and minerals; Phanerozoic interactions of lithospheric plates and orogenic belts, especially in central Asia, the Circumpacific and the western Alps; early Precambrian petrotectonic evolution; high- and ultrahigh-pressure subduction-zone metamorphism and tectonics; geobotanical studies/ remote sensing; and geology and human health. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, Ernst was president of the Mineralogical Society of America (1980-1981)
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Illangasekare is AMAX Distinguished Chair and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and the Director of the University/Industry/National Laboratory collaborative Center for the Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes. Professor Illangasekare has 32 years of experience with numerical and physical modeling of saturated and unsaturated flow in soils, surfacesubsurface interaction, arid-zone hydrology, arctic hydrology, tsunamis and natural disasters, integrated modeling of hydrologic systems, subsurface chemical transport and multiphase flow, CO2 sequestration and leakage, and environmental impacts of energy development.
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. He is a registered Professional Engineer, registered Professional Hydrologist, Board Certified Environmental Engineer with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and a Diplomat of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.
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Prior to joining the NRC in 2005 as a senior program officer, she served as a researcher, team leader, and laboratory manager for 12 years at the Geological Survey of Norway in Trondheim. While in Norway her research included basic and applied projects related to isotope geochronology, mineralogy and petrology, and crustal processes, with emphasis on both basic and applied research projects.
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She began working for the National Academies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources in 2011.
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