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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 67-72

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... Following his postdoctoral studies, Somero served on the faculty of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego for 21 years. He then joined the faculty of Oregon State University for four years prior to his return to Stanford and Hopkins Marine Station in 1995.
From page 68...
... Barry has helped inform policy-makers on ocean acidification, ocean carbon sequestration, and climate change by speaking at congressional hearings, briefings, and meetings with members of Congress. He was a contributing author to the IPCC report on climate change in the oceans, and is an author of the National Academies of Sciences report on Ocean Acidification, a National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean.
From page 69...
... in tropical marine studies from James Cook University, Australia in 1991. Her research focuses on how coral reefs and other marine ecosystems are affected by environmental changes associated with global climate change.
From page 70...
... He teaches international science and technology policy and marine policy. Miles' research focuses primarily on problems of international science and technology policy, management of world fisheries, nuclear waste disposal, the law of the sea, comparative national marine policy, and global climate change.
From page 71...
... His research has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Science News, National Public Radio Science Fridays, The Economist, Providence Journal, and Greenwire News Service. In addition to serving on NOAA's Science Advisory Board, he is a member of the Science Advisory committee of the Marine Ecosystem Services program at Forest Trends, on the editorial boards of Ecology Letters and Journal of Theoretical Ecology, and a Nonresident Fellow at Resources for the Future.
From page 72...
... B As an ecological physiologist, her doctoral research focused on understanding the relationship between species tolerances and coastal environmental conditions, and how such patterns relate to range distributions and climate change. She was a fellow in 2009 with the National Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program, and in 2012 with the C ­ hristine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program at the National Academy of Sciences.


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