Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste (2022) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix A: Biographies of the Committee on the United States Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste
Appendix A: Biographies of the Committee on the United States Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste
Pages 205-212
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 205... ...
From 1992 to 1999, Spring was an environmental attorney in private practice at Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C., specializing in clean water and hazardous waste matters. She currently serves on the boards of the Environmental Law Institute, the California Ocean Science Trust, and the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust.
|
From page 206... ...
She has most recently served as senior author on a strategic visioning document for the United States Geological Survey Water Resources Research Act Program, which will guide and direct national, regional, and state activities of the program for the next 10 years. She has spoken at international conferences and symposia and as an invited university and public seminar speaker in the United States, Japan, Canada, Spain, Monaco, Malta, and Scotland.
|
From page 207... ...
Jenna Jambeck is a Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA) , Lead of the Center for Circular Materials Management and Circularity Informatics Lab in the New Materials Institute at UGA and a National Geographic Fellow.
|
From page 208... ...
Current and recent research projects include work on costs and benefits from improved ocean observing activities; approaches to economic valuation of marine resources; policy issues surrounding use of ocean "space" for non-traditional activities, such as aquaculture and wind power; economics and management of marine aquaculture operations; economics of ocean plastics and removal of plastics from the oceans; and economic dimensions of climate change effects on marine ecosystems, shoreline change, and the carbon cycle.
|
From page 209... ...
Dr. Law holds several scientific advisory roles and strives to effectively communicate the scientific understanding of ocean plastics, including major knowledge gaps, to wide-ranging audiences including policy makers, industry groups, students, and the general public.
|
From page 210... ...
Schwartz serves as the chair of the West Coast Marine Debris Alliance, an organization that he helped found in 2008, initially as part of the West Coast Governors' Alliance on Ocean Health. From 2007 to 2010, Schwartz served as the chair of the California Ocean Protection Council's Marine Debris Steering Committee while it was drafting and adopting the first statewide Ocean Litter Strategy, and currently serves on the planning
|
From page 211... ...
A brief sampling includes an address to The Economist's Sustainability Summit in London in March 2019, a keynote address to the United Nations Environment Programme's Northwest Pacific Action Plan Marine Litter Workshop in Okinawa, Japan, in October 2013, and multiple presentations to both the 5th and 6th Marine Debris Conferences in 2011 and 2018.
|
From page 212... ...
The mission of the panel is to build momentum toward a sustainable ocean economy, where "effective protection, sustainable production and equitable prosperity go hand-in-hand." Dr. Sumaila received his Ph.D.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.