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Appendix A: Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government
Appendix A: Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government
Pages 104-110
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in environmental engineering from the University of California, Davis. He previously held faculty positions in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University (2003-2010)
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His areas of expertise include biological wastewater treatment and treatment process design, in particular biological nutrient removal (both nitrogen and phosphorus) , combined trickling filter and activated sludge systems, the use of biological selectors to control activated sludge bulking, and oxygen transfer.
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, and on the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors. As a member of EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, he chaired the Smart Growth and Climate Change work groups.
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She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was editor in chief of the Law Review. While in private practice, she served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association, including chair of the Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and two terms as D.C.
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She is a former president of Executive Women in Government and was chair of the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council. She also serves on the boards of the American Hiking Society, the National Wildlife Refuge Association, the National Parks Conservation Association, the Consensus Building Institute, and RESOLVE (nonprofit environmental dispute resolution)
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She oversees or is otherwise involved in a variety of California's risk assessment activities, including cancer and reproductive toxicant assessments; development of frameworks and methodologies for assessing cumulative impact, nanotechnology, green chemistry and safer alternatives, and susceptible populations; the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program; and health risk characterizations for environmental media, food, fuels, and consumer products.
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110 Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connections & Governance Linkages served on various advisory boards and committees of EPA, Office of Technology Assessment, the World Health Organization, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has also served on numerous NRC and Institute of Medicine committees and boards, including the committees that produced Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and Strategy; Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment; and Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society.
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