The Nexus of Biofuels, Climate Change, and Human Health Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 175-186
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Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. While there, he launched the Worldwatch Papers, the annual State of the World reports, World Watch magazine, a second annual report titled Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, and the Environmental Alert book series.
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Other main areas of work include neuroethics, ethics of renewable energies and climate change, philosophy of medicine and theory of medical professionalism, and medical ethics teaching. During her tenure at the Nuffield Council, she was lead or co-author of reports on the ethics of biofuels, solidarity in bioethics, ethics of novel neurotechnologies, mitochondrial donation, emerging biotechnologies, donation in medicine and research, personalized medicine, and dementia.
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As senior advisor, he facilitates the coordination of the department's research, education, and extension programs that promote sustainable bioenergy, biofuels, and biobased product systems. Prior to this role, he spent 6 years with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, most recently as the national program leader for forest-based bioenergy, providing leadership for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge, the Investing in America's Scientific Corps Education program, and the Biomass Research and Development Initiative.
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Gruenspecht assists the administrator in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment. EIA provides a wide range of information and data products covering energy production, stocks, demand, imports, exports, and prices.
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Senate committees on the use of diverse prairie biomass in biofuels production, as well as the impacts of land-use change on net greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol and biodiesel. His current research focuses on the effects the global biofuels industry will have on climate change, land use, biodiversity, and human health.
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His professional interests include environmental impacts of energy production, distribution, and use; development of renewable and sustainable energy systems; conversion of biomass to biofuels; air quality impacts of vehicle emissions; and impacts of advanced-technology fuels and vehicles on emissions and energy use. He is also interested in the interface between politics and environmental science, particularly in the areas of energy policy, renewable fuels, greenhouse gases, and climate change.
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Olson worked on environmental issues and health threats from toxic chemicals, playing a key role in major environmental legislation and hearings on global warming, toxic chemicals, children's environmental health, clean air, drinking water, clean water, and environmental justice, among other issues. He also helped to negotiate the lead and phthalates provisions enacted in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and the green buildings and green schools provisions of the Energy Independent Security Act of 2007.
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Dr. Reynolds' other initiatives include research concerning exposure assessment methods for pesticides and development of international education programs for the occupational hygiene profession, primarily in the former Soviet Union countries.
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Searchinger now works primarily on interdisciplinary environmental issues related to agriculture. For 17 years, Searchinger worked at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he co-founded the Center for Conservation Incentives, and supervised work on agricultural incentive and wetland protection programs.
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He previously served as director of the Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division, where he was responsible for managing the certification, registration, and compliance activities associated with all engines and fuels sold in the United States. Some of the major activities he has been extensively involved in are the 2004 Clean Nonroad Engine and Fuel Program, the National Low Emission Vehicle program, and the Renewable Fuels Programs.
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degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame, a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law, and a master's in environmental law from George Washington University.
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