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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 220-226
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is a corporate research fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he leads the laboratory's energy, environmental, and science and technology programs in developing countries. A former president of the Association of American Geographers, his research interests are in processes and mechanisms for realizing sustainable development, energy and environmental policy, and institutional capacity building.
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Previously, he was executive director of the Geography Education Standards Project, secretary general of the 27th International Geographi~1 IJninn Congress, editor of National Geographic Research & Exploration, and Editor of the Journal of Geography. He has also held positions as professor and visiting professor of geography at the George Washington University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the University of Minnesota, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
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In the area of public policy he has emphasized the interaction of science and decision making and resolution of conflicts between economic development and environmental preservation. His work has been funded by federal, state, and local agencies, ranging from the National Science Foundation, the U.S.
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and the ICA Commission on Visualization and is codirector of the Geographic Information Analysis Core of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. His research interests include the integration of cognitive and semiotic approaches to geoeferenced (particularly cartographic)
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He is a councilor of the American Geographical Society and North American editor of Progress in Human Geography. He has headed a National Science Foundation study exploring ways that geographers can contribute to a proposed initiative on democratization.
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His research interests include large-scale climate variability and change, land surface processes and their influences on climate, spatial interpolation over extensive geographic domains, and statistical evaluation of model performance. Grants primarily from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation have supported Professor Willmott's research since 1980.
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