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Appendix C: Biographies of Planning Committee, Speakers, and Staff
Appendix C: Biographies of Planning Committee, Speakers, and Staff
Pages 62-72
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is the Hamerschlag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. The emphasis of his research and teaching is on water resources and water quality engineering, and energy-environment issues.
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in limnology and marine sciences in 2002. As a postdoc, she helped coordinate the Scenarios Working Group for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
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Prior to this, he was distinguished university professor of sustainability in the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University; Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and founding director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont; professor at the University of Maryland and at Louisiana State University; and a visiting scientist at the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, and at the University of Illinois Natural History Survey.
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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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He served on the University of Southern Mississippi Oil Spill Response Team and a statewide Mississippi oil spill response committee during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His research interests include phytoplankton ecology and physiology, cycling of nutrients and carbon, and the application of optics and remote sensing for characterizing water quality and biogeochemical processes in coastal waters.
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Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island. She also oversees the George and Mary Lou Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership, a nexus where scientists and policy makers can meet to resolve environmental disputes and address marine science concerns.
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He most recently served as a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C., where he coordinated its climate change research, led the policy analysis activities of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, and was the principal investigator on major projects on food security and climate change issues funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the German and British aid agencies. His research includes global modeling of the interactions among agriculture, land use, and climate change; consequences of macroeconomic, sector, and trade policies and climate change on land use and the environment using remotely sensed geographic and socioeconomic data; and the assessment of the effects of genetically modified crops on the environment.
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Dr. Seto serves on a number of international and national scientific advisory committees, including as coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, coordinating lead author for the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity Cities and Biodiversity Outlook, and cochair of the International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project.
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. He is a cofounder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, coeditor of Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, and founding editor of the Journal of Extreme Events.
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for chapters on integrated assessment, greenhouse gas mitigation, integrated climate impacts, and sustainable development, and most recently served as a review editor for the climate change mitigation working group of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. He is a member of the California Air Resources Board Economic and Technology Advancement Advisory Committee (ETAAC)
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