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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Presenters
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 81-88
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Her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental, technical, and economic issues, such as how to address the challenge of climate change and to move toward a more sustainable energy system. She has been looking at how energy systems are likely to be shaped in the future, which requires comprehensive knowledge of technologies that can address future energy needs and the decision-making process followed by different agents in the economy.
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Her work focuses on understanding sources of vulnerability and designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce the risks of climate change in a multistressor environment. She is cochair of the International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios and was executive director of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Technical Support Unit.
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His work has redefined water from the realm of engineers to the world of social justice, sustainability, human rights, and integrated thinking. He developed the first analysis of climate change impacts on water resources and the earliest comprehensive work on water and conflict and defined basic human needs for water and the human right to water.
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Alice Hill serves at the White House as special assistant to the President and senior director for resilience policy for the National Security Council. In this capacity, she has led the development of Presidential Executive Orders regarding incorporation of climate resilience considerations into international development, increased federal coordination in the Arctic, and establishment of national flood risk and earthquake risk management standards.
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He is also a member of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and the Rutgers Climate Institute. His research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change and on the interactions between physical climate change and the economy. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science science and technology policy fellow in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Policy and International Affairs and as a science, technology and environmental policy postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University.
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She contributed to Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and served as review editor on the IPCC's Special Report on "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation." She has a Ph.D.
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Bradley Udall serves as senior water and climate research scientist at the Colorado Water Institute to provide expertise in the field of water resources and climate change. He has extensive experience in water and climate policy issues, most recently as the director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment and the Western Water Assessment at the Colorado State University.
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is an associate professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. She is a behavioral decision scientist, focusing primarily on the individual decisionmaking process under risk and uncertainty.
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