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Appendix C: Biographies of Planning Committee, Speakers, and Staff
Pages 65-74

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... She directed the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research team for six years and other large inter­ isciplinary research teams funded by the National Science Foundation, d the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Admin­ stration, and the National Institutes of Health. She was designated a US i Presi­ ential Faculty Fellow, has served on the National Academies of Sciences, d Engineering, and Medicine Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability.
From page 66...
... Dr. Bergman is exploration research geologist and geoscience educator with over 30 years of industry experience applying unconventional integrated field and laboratory approaches (completing over one hundred worldwide minerals and petroleum exploration and production projects)
From page 67...
... Ms. Bingham works with leaders at the highest levels of government and the private sector, and has served as a mediator for a wide variety of federal, state, and local agencies and private parties on such diverse subjects as sustainable water management, endangered species, wetlands policy, allocation ­ of water rights, drinking water regulations, funding infrastructure costs for water and wastewater utilities, groundwater protection, ocean and coastal management i ­ssues, hydro-electric relicensing, chemicals policy, solid waste source reduction, hazardous waste management, oil spill contingency plans, pesticides policy, children's environmental health, and local community land use and infrastructure issues. She currently serves on advisory committees for the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming and for the Center for Environmental Policy at American University.
From page 68...
... Among other Forest Service positions, he was the forest supervisor for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon. He has also held numerous jobs throughout the BLM, including acting associate district manager in Las Vegas, district manager of Oregon's Lakeview District, and acting deputy state director in Alaska.
From page 69...
... EPA Science Advisory Board, the Ecosystem Science and Management Working Group of the NOAA Scientific Advisory Board, the Management Committee and Science Advisory Board of the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, the Senior Advisory Board of the Connecticut Sea Grant Program, the Program Advisory Council of the New York Sea Grant Program, and the Program Committee for the Charles Darwin
From page 70...
... She came to the USGS from the National Park Service in Atlanta, where she was associate regional director. She entered the National Park Service as a research coordinator in the Global Climate Change Program, became southeast regional chief scientist, and then associate regional director.
From page 71...
... Miller was instrumental in the creation of the nation's first National Ocean Policy and the development of its foundational science priorities. He was founding co-director of the National Ocean Council Office and later served as its deputy director for Science and Technology.
From page 72...
... His prior career includes nearly 12 years in NOAA, where he served as a senior scientist, science ­ advisor to the NOAA administrator, and chief science advisor for NOAA's National Ocean Service, and he was responsible for development of NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Program. Before NOAA, he worked 31 years with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources where he served in a variety of science and management positions including as agency director.
From page 73...
... Geological Survey from October 1997 to February 1998. He previously served for three years as assistant director for environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he was responsible for a variety of energy and environmental science, technology, and education issues, including a major initiative to advance the development and diffusion of environmental and renewable energy technologies nationally and globally.
From page 74...
... She has over 20 years of experience working, nationally and internationally, with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private firms to address issues of agro-ecosystem management, invasive species, wetland mitigation, preserving habitat for rare species, and water quality. She currently serves or has served on numerous federal and other advisory boards including the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Program, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.


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