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Appendix F: Committee Member and Panel Biographies
Appendix F: Committee Member and Panel Biographies
Pages 654-683
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Abdalati directed the Earth Science and Observation Center at CU Boulder, where he led the NASA Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) Science Definition Team during its earliest stages of development.
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. He is the co-chair of the National Academies 2017 Earth Sciences Decadal Survey, serves on the National Academies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and has participated on many prior National Academies committees, including the 2012 review of the National Weather Service (NWS)
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Previously, Dr. Chen was a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami.
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models of atmospheric composition, has served as mission scientist on eight NASA aircraft missions, and is a member of several satellite science teams. He presently leads the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, the Atmospheric Science Working Group for the NASA Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE)
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Dr. Penner has been a member of numerous advisory committees related to atmospheric chemistry, global change, and Earth science, including the United Nations IPCC, and, consequently, a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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; emeritus member of UCAR Board of Trustees and NOAA Science Advisory Board; past president of the AGU Hydrology Section; member of five editorial boards and former editor of AGU Water Resources Research. His numerous honors include the Chinese Academy of Sciences Einstein Professorship, 2014; AGU Robert E
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Dr. Barros served on the National Academies Space Studies Board, and on several committees of the Water Science and Technology Board and the Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, including the Climate Research Committee.
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Dr. Bolten also serves as the associate program manager of Water Resources for the NASA Applied Sciences Program.
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, president of the Hydrology section of AGU, and member of national and internationals advisory boards, including the Water Science and Technology Board, Advisory Council for the NSF Geosciences Directorate, NASA Earth Sciences Directorate, and European Union advisory panels. She has served on several National Academies committees, including the Committee on Earth Sciences and Applications from Space, Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences, and the Committee on Progress and Priorities of U.S.
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Dr. Kummerow has previously served on the National Academies Panel on Water Resources and the Global Hydrologic Cycle.
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He is a member of the NAE. He was a member of the Climate Research Committee and the Panel on Climate Change Feedbacks and is a former member of the Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate's Global Energy, and Water Cycle Experiment Panel.
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Ardanuy served as chief scientist and Earth science solution architect for Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, where he led the science team for the design of the advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) , now in orbit on Suomi-NPP and JPSS-1.
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He has served as the atmospheric sciences editor of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, and as a member of the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics and Environmental Science and Technology. He was recognized as a national associate of the National Academies in 2003 and elected a member of the NAE in 2013.
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He has previously served on the National Academies Committee on Utilization of Environmental Satellite Data: A Vision for 2010 and Beyond.
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His recent research focus involves utilizing new and emerging satellite data sets to study weather and climate as well as advance model simulation and forecast capabilities, particularly for long-range weather and short-term climate applications. Previously, he was on the faculty in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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He has previously served on the National Academies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, co-chaired the Committee on Urban Meteorology: Scoping the Problem, Defining the Needs (A Workshop) , and served on two other committees related to weather and big data.
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INEZ Y FUNG is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Global Change Research Program, the NAS, as well as NASA and NSF programs on arctic and carbon cycle science, climate change, and terrestrial ecology.
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. He previously served on the NSF Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP)
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Since 2009 he has been a member of the Earth Sciences Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Committee. Professor Siegel is a fellow of both the AGU and the AAAS.
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She has previously served as a member on four National Academies committees, the Committee on Scientific Accomplishments of Earth Observations from Space, Ecosystems Panel, Committee on Earth Studies, and the Task Group on Assessment of NASA Plans for Post-2000 Earth Observing Missions and the Committee on Assessing Crop Yield. CARA WILSON is a research scientist with the Environmental Research Division (ERD)
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Clayson served as a member of the National Academies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, including the Committee on the Future of Rainfall Measuring Missions and the Committee to Review the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan. VENKATACHALAM RAMASWAMY, Co-Chair, is director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
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Recently, he was awarded the COSPAR International Cooperation Medal for his leadership in the development and continuation of satellite altimetry missions. He has served on the National Academies Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (through 2016)
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Dr. Randall is a current or prior member of numerous international satellite science teams, and is PI on the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS)
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Dr. Rignot has received the following awards: NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, NASA Outstanding Team Leadership, NASA Group Achievement, JPL Director Award, Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, IPCC AR4 Authors, AGU Fellow, and Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
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National Climate Assessment, and was lead author of the groundbreaking 2007 guidebook, Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments, with over 3,000 copies now in use worldwide. Current areas of research include defining successful climate change adaptation, exploring the role of cities in adaptation, and identifying the time of emergence of management-relevant aspects of climate change.
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in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the NAS and has served on the National Academies Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, the Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, and the Committee on National Requirements for Precision Geodetic Infrastructure.
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in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He has not previously served on a National Academies committee.
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in geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. She has served as a member on the National Academies Committee on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at NSF and the Committee on National Requirements for Precision Geodetic Infrastructure.
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from Stanford University. He served as a member of the National Academies Committee on the Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program; the Panel on Solid-Earth Hazards, Resources, and Dynamics; and the Advanced Rader Technology Panel.
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