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Appendix C: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 41-48
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in Physics from Princeton University and an A.B., Magna Cum Laude in Physics, from Columbia University. Doug Arent is Executive Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
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He is a member of Policy Subcommittee of the National Petroleum Council Study on Prudent Development of North America Natural Gas and Oil Resources, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future. Arent served from 2008 to 2010 on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change.
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- a collaborative think-tank of institutions including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Center for Conservation Medicine, and the USGS National Wildlife Health Center. The CCM is the first formal inter-institutional partnership to link conservation and disease ecology.
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She was a coordinating lead author or lead author for the human health assessment for two US national assessments, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development.
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National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, and an author of the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Global Biodiversity Assessment.
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as lead author, contributing author, and review editor in the IPCC's last three assessment reports and its Special Reports on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, and on Land Use Change. Recent activities include participation in the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association's Climate Change Working Group, the Engineering Founder Societies' project on carbon management, the Society on Petroleum Engineering's committee on carbon capture and storage, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Energy Advisory Board.
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Oge led the EPA's first ever national greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and heavy-duty trucks to double fuel efficiency by 2025, reduce GHG emissions by 50% and save consumers $1.7 trillion at the pump. In parallel, she also helped to establish the renewable fuels standard, which will significantly increase the volume of biofuels in our nation's fuel supply.
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He is a founding member of the Global Water System Project that represents the input of more than 200 international scientists under the International Council for Science's Global Environmental Change Programs. He is spearheading efforts to develop global-scale indicators of water stress, to develop and apply databases of reservoir construction worldwide and to analyze coastal zone risks associated with water diversion.
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