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Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 139-146

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... In addition, Dr. McKnight conducts research focusing on interactions between freshwater biota, trace metals, and natural organic material in diverse freshwater environments, including lakes and streams in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica.
From page 140...
... He also has more than 30 publications in oil spill conference proceedings, such as those of the International Oil Spill Conference and Arctic and Marine Oil Spill. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers.
From page 141...
... which transports crude oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the Port of Valdez. From 1977 to 1990, he held several supervisory and managerial positions at the ARCO Pipeline Company, including District Manager for Houston and Midland, Texas, Manager of the Northern Area, and Manager of Products Business.
From page 142...
... at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  His work has dealt with isotope effects in biochemical reactions and their significance and utility in studies of geochemical processes.  Recent topics have included studies of carbon- and hydrogen-isotopic fractionations imposed by phytoplankton and other microorganisms, paleoenvironmental studies based on sedimentary isotopic and organic-geochemical records, studies of the anaerobic oxidation of methane in marine sediments, the long-term record of 13C in sedimentary organic carbon, and developments in stable-isotopic analytical techniques.  He has served as chair of the Organic Geochemical Division of the Geochemical Society and on the Executive Committee of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.  He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From page 143...
... Her experience includes helping monitor natural resources in the Pontchartrain Basin following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and researching ecosystem restoration and
From page 144...
... He is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown Law Center and Yale Law School. Sussman served for four and a half years in the Obama Administration, first as co-head of the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
From page 145...
... Dr. Tran completed the workshop summary Mesoscale Chemistry and is currently supporting activities on the environmental effects of diluted bitumen oil spills, the changing landscape of hydrocarbon feedstocks for chemical production, and the standard operating procedures for safe and secure handling, management, and storage of chemicals in chemical laboratories.


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