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APPENDIX A: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
APPENDIX A: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Pages 173-180
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He is home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the National Science Board. He holds honorary degrees from several universities, is a member of several foreign academies of sciences, and has received numerous international honors and awards, including the International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan, the Prize for Environment of the Institute de la Vie in Paris, and the Volvo Environment Prize.
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in forestry and soil science from North Carolina State University in 1977. She is the Chair of the Forest Science and Technology Board of the Society of American Foresters and a former associate editor of Soil Science Society of America Journal and Southern Journal of Applied Forestry.
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He is a graduate of Swarthmore College in urban sociology and Harvard Business School in strategic planning. He also attended the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center and the Martin Luther King School of Social Change and was a Coro fellow in Los Angeles.
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He chairs the Board On Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council. He is past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Ecological Society of America.
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He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1977e Before going to Johns Hopkins in 1991, he served as program director for database activities in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences at the National Science Foundation.
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He became deputy director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and then senior vice president for science and sanctuaries at the National Audubon Society, before coming to the Research Council.
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At the National Research Council since 1989, Dr. Stine previously served as staff officer of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy's Pane} on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, focusing on the mitigation of greenhouse-gas emissions.
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