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Appendix D: Biographies of the Workshop Moderators and Presenters
Pages 61-68

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From page 61...
... Dr. Brown's former positions include nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; science advisor to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt; president and chief executive officer of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts; president and chief executive officer of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia; president and chief executive officer of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii; vice president of the National Audubon Society; vice president of Waste Management, Inc.; senior scientist and acting executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund; executive secretary of the U.S.
From page 62...
... He has worked for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, major and independent oil companies, state and federal agencies, law firms, and a safety equipment manufacturer. He was part of the first panel to testify before the U.S.
From page 63...
... She has been active in many industry organizations, including president of the American Association of Drilling Engineers–New Orleans chapter, various leadership roles in the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the chair of an American Petroleum Institute technical workgroup on wellbore positioning and an officer or contributing member of other technical sections.
From page 64...
... in environmental science and policy at George Mason University where her research centered on transforming stakeholder conflict on complex environmental issues, particularly the effects of anthropogenic sound on marine mammals. Dennis McDaniel is currently Anadarko Petroleum Corporation's completion engineering manager for the Gulf of Mexico and International deepwater operations.
From page 65...
... In the following years, mostly under joint industry programs through the American Petroleum Institute and the Offshore Operators Committee, the focus switched to research related to the offshore discharges of produced water and sand. This included research involving radionuclides.
From page 66...
... He also served on the Marine Mammal Commissions Federal Advisory Committee on the effects of sound on marine mammals. He was chairman of the 1995 International Oil Spill Conference and the 2008 recipient of the Offshore Technology Conferences Individual Achievement Award.
From page 67...
... She has more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in addition to more than 150 reports in research and implementation of novel technologies in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, unconventional gas and oil shale, heavy oil sands and carbonates integrated borehole stability, in situ stress and rock property determination, nonlinear rock deformation and failure, pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction, stimulation, drilling and drill in fluid design and compatibility analysis. She holds several patents on pore pressure prediction, attenuation, and acoustic stimulation.
From page 68...
... He serves on the U.S. Department of the Interior Ocean Energy Safety Federal Advisory Committee, and he has presented extensively on safety management and drilling technology, including to the Presidential Commission, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the National Academy of Sciences.


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