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APPENDIX A: COMMITTEE AND STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Pages 271-276

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From page 271...
... Senior Executive Service in 2015 after more than 30 years of active duty with the USCG and the rank of Rear Admiral. Until 2015, RADM Landry served as the Senior Executive Director of Incident Management Preparedness Policy, where she was responsible for establishing, developing, and implementing all hazards incident management goals, strategies, policies, and doctrines to meet USCG responsibilities in incident preparedness and response.
From page 272...
... Bejarano has provided technical and scientific support to various inland and marine oil spills. She also led data analyses on the potential toxicological impacts of surface dispersant use to aquatic organisms during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and co-authored a report to the U.S.
From page 273...
... Cortis Cooper retired after more than 27 years of service as a Fellow with the Chevron Energy Technology Company, 1 of 22 Chevron scientists who advise corporate managers about sciencerelated issues. Over his career in the offshore industry, he has focused on quantifying winds, waves, and currents that are used by engineers to operate and design offshore facilities at various locations around the world. His research has included the study of the fate of oil spills; modeling hurricane alleys in the Gulf of Mexico; forecasting the Loop Current and associated eddies in the Gulf of Mexico; supervising the development of ocean current models in the Gulf of Mexico; and investigating the fate of oil and gas from deepwater blowouts.
From page 274...
... Environmental Protection Agency, 1983-1985, and President of the Society for Risk Analysis. His involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill includes serving as an Advisory Board member of the National Academies Gulf Research Program and as the original chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Gulf Research Health Outreach Program.
From page 275...
... His research group aims to understand the impacts of human activities on the sustainability of ocean ecosystems. He has developed approaches for understanding the impacts of fishing on marine fish complexes exploited in mixed-species aggregations, with the goal to help inform investments to rebuild the Gulf of Mexico from effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, loss of nursery areas, nutrient enrichment, and overfishing.
From page 276...
... Prior to her position at the Ocean Studies Board, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Recently, she served on the editorial panel for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Global Ocean Science Report (2017)


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