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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 195-200

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From page 195...
... He has applied his expertise to situations involving nutrient enrichment, chemical contamination, use of pesticides and other chemical products, oil and gas operations, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, alternative energy projects, mining, invasive species, water management, and vulnerability assessments for climate change. As part of his risk assessment practice, he has developed exposure and food web models to evaluate how people and ecological receptors may be exposed to a variety of chemicals.
From page 196...
... His study topics include improving clinical trial participation and implementing skin cancer prevention interventions with adolescents and young adults. He is currently a site principal investigator for the Indigenous Samoan Program to Initiate Research Excellence funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
From page 197...
... Weiss University Professor of Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, a professor of nursing in the School of Nursing, and the director of the University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute on Health Economics, the Center for Public Health Initiatives, and the Penn Institute for Urban Research, and a distinguished fellow of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
From page 198...
... Her research focuses on human modifications to freshwater ecosystems such as land use change and restoration, widespread agriculture, urbanization, the release of novel contaminants, and hydrologic modifications associated with large dams. Her research spans ecosystems from small streams to large rivers and has been conducted throughout the world, and includes biogeochemistry, secondary production, food webs, carbon cycling, and the effects of emerging contaminants on ecosystem processes.
From page 199...
... He served as the department chair in civil and environmental engineering and was the founding director for the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Professor Westerhoff has garnered wide recognition for his work related to treatment and occurrence of emerging contaminants in water, including the nanoparticles ZnO and TiO2 that compose mineral suncreen UV filters.
From page 200...
... Dr. Woodley completed her doctorate in the Molecular, Cellular, and Pathobiology program at the Medical University of South Carolina, studying serine proteases in the kallikrein-kinin system, and received specialized training in virology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.


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