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Appendix C: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 54-59

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... He was awarded the NASA Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award and Maryland's Distinguished Young Scientist Award. In addition to being the CIRA director, he has been a chair and a member of the GEWEX Data and Assessments Panel and the NASA Earth Science Subcommittee.
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From page 55...
... His specialties include radiative transfer in the ocean-atmosphere system for visible light, particulate scattering in sea water, satellite infrared observations of sea surface temperature, kinematical studies of warm-core rings, transient processes in western boundary currents, tropical ecosystem function in the Caribbean and Arabian Seas, innovative approaches to developing diversity and K-12 education, and inter-disciplinary studies of climate change and severe weather impacts. His interests also include strategies to address the science/policy interface and public outreach.
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From page 56...
... Some specific processes Fricker investigates include subglacial hydrology by monitoring the activity of subglacial lakes under the ice streams, ice flexure from tidal activity in the grounding zone, basal melting and freezing under the ice shelves, and the propagation and evolution of active ice shelf rifts, which eventually lead to iceberg calving. She joined Scripps as a postgraduate researcher.
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From page 57...
... His research focuses on the simulation of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that determine atmospheric composition; the development of detailed numerical models of photochemistry and atmospheric radiation; and overall testing of global chemical transport models that describe ozone and other trace gases. Previously, Prather was a research fellow at Harvard University and then a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he managed NASA Headquarters programs on the upper atmosphere and aviation impacts.
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... He previously held the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Engineering and was the director of the Center for Space Research. His research interests include orbit mechanics, precision orbit determination, nonlinear parameter estimation, satellite data analysis, and the uses of methods from these areas to study the Earth and planetary system.
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From page 59...
... He was also an adjunct associate professor at the Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, part of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Waliser has earned multiple honors and awards, including the NASA Group Achievement Award, the JPL People Leadership Award, the JPL Magellan Award, and a fellowship from the American Meteorological Society.
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