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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 125-132
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His research focuses on exploring the unique natural products of marine algae and cyanobacteria for useful biomedical properties in the areas of cancer, inflammation, neurochemical pathways, and infectious disease, including tropical diseases such as malaria and leishmaniasis. Previously, he was the deputy director of the Marine Freshwater Biomedical Center at Oregon State University.
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Now dean of the George Washington University School of Public Health, she is perhaps best known for her role in helping craft the Food Protection Act passed by Congress in 1996, the first national environmental law to explicitly require measures to protect children from pesticides.
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He has an academic expertise in the field of wilderness and environmental medicine and was the director of Cornell Wilderness & Environmental Medicine from 2005–2012. He holds an appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and serves a contributing editor for its journal Health and Human Rights.
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from Florida State University. Linda McCauley, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, FAAOHN, is dean and professor at Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health.
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He is currently leading a NOAA-wide effort in ecological forecasting, development of a NOAA "Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Science, Observation, Monitoring and Technology Program" under the RESTORE Act of 2012, a NOAA health strategy, and establishment of a science career track for NOAA employees, among other duties. His research interests include ocean policy, coastal ecosystem science, and aquaculture, and he is recognized as one of the architects of the "metadiscipline" of oceans and human health.
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Energy and Minerals, and Environmental Health Mission Area with oversight for energy and mineral resource programs, toxics hydrology, and contaminants biology programs. She began her career working for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines on mineralization in volcanic systems and spent 15 years as a petroleum industry geologist in domestic and international hydrocarbon exploration, research and development, and senior leadership roles.
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APPENDIX B 131 Ecosystem Science Reserve Long-term Ecological Research Station. He earned his Ph.D.
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