Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Members of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem
JEAN M.BAHR, CHAIR, is professor the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she has been a faculty member since 1987. She served as chair of the Water Resources Management Program, UW Institute for Environmental Studies, from 1995–99 and she is also a member of the Geological Engineering Program faculty. Her current research focuses on the interactions between physical and chemical processes that control mass transport in ground water. She earned a B.A in geology from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied earth sciences (hydrogeology) from Stanford University. She has served as a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Radioactive Waste Management and several of its committees.
SCOTT W.NIXON, VICE-CHAIR, is professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate classes in oceanography and ecology. His current research interests include coastal ecology, with emphasis on estuaries, lagoons, and wetlands. He has served on three National Research Council committees including, most recently, the Committee on Coastal Oceans. Dr. Nixon received a B.A. in biology from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in botany/ecology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
JOHN S.ADAMS is professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He researches issues relating to North American cities, urban housing markets and housing policy, and regional economic development in the United States and the former Soviet Union. He has been a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley, and economic geographer in residence at the Bank of America World Headquarters in San Francisco. He was senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Institute for Raumordnung at the Economic University in Vienna and was on the geography faculty of Moscow State University. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Washington, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His most recent book, Minneapolis-St. Paul: People, Place, and Public Life, looks at the region’s growth and at what factors may affect the metropolitan area’s future. Adams holds two degree in economics and a doctorate in urban geography from the University of Minnesota.
LINDA K.BLUM is research associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her current research projects include study of mechanisms controlling bacterial community abundance, productivity, and structure in tidal marsh creeks; impacts of microbial processes on water quality; organic matter accretion in salt marsh sediments; and rhizosphere effects on organic matter decay in anaerobic sediments. Dr. Blum earned a B.S. and M.S. in forestry from Michigan Technological University and a Ph.D. in soil science from Cornell University.
PATRICK L.BREZONIK is professor of environmental engineering and director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his appointment at the University of Minnesota in the mid-1980s, Dr. Brezonik was professor of water chemistry and environmental science at the University of Florida. His research interests focus on biogeochemical processes in aquatic systems, with special emphasis on the impacts of human activity on water quality and element cycles in lakes. He has served as a member of the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board and as a member of several of its committees. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from Marquette University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
FRANK W.DAVIS is a Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara (USCB) with appointments in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and the Department of Geography. He received his B.A. in biology from Williams College and a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Department of Geography at UCSB in 1983, and established the UCSB Biogeography Lab in 1991. His research focuses on the ecology and management of California chaparral and oak woodlands, landscape ecology, regional conservation planning, and spatial decision support systems. He was Deputy Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis between 1995 and 1998, and currently directs the Sierra Nevada Network for Education and Research Page. Dr. Davis has been a member of three prior NRC committees.
WAYNE C.HUBER is professor and head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. Prior to moving to Oregon State in 1991, he served 23 years on the faculty of the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida where he engaged in several studies involving the hydrology and water quality of south Florida regions. His technical interests are principally in the areas of surface hydrology, stormwater management, nonpoint source pollution, and transport processes related to water quality. He is one of the original authors of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) and continues to maintain the model for the EPA. Dr. Huber holds a B.S. in engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a member of the NRC’s Committee on Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication.
STEPHEN R.HUMPHREY is dean of the College of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Florida where he also serves as affiliate professor of Latin American studies, wildlife ecology, and zoology. He also has been the curator in ecology for the Florida Museum of Natural History since 1980. Dr. Humphrey has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books on the effects of urbanization on wildlife. He holds B.A. in biology from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and a Ph.D. in zoology from Oklahoma State University. He is former chair of the Environmental Regulatory Commission of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and a member of the Florida Panther Technical Advisory Council of the Florida Game Commission.
DANIEL P.LOUCKS is professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in the application of economics, engineering, and systems theory to problems involving environmental and water resources development and management. Dr. Loucks has taught at a number of universities in the United States and abroad and has worked for the World Bank, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He also served as a consultant to a variety of government and international organizations concerned with resource development and management. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is currently a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Risk-Based Analyses for Flood Damage Reduction Studies.
KENNETH W.POTTER is professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His expertise is in hydrology and water resources, including hydrologic modeling, estimation of hydrologic risk, estimation of hydrologic budgets, watershed monitoring and assessment, and aquatic ecosystem restoration. He received his B.S. in geology from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He has served as a member of the NRC’s Water Science and Technology Board and several of its committees.
LARRY ROBINSON is director of the Environmental Sciences Institute at Florida A&M University where he is also a professor. At Florida A&M University he has led efforts to establish B.S. and Ph.D. programs in environmental science in 1998 and 1999, respectively. His research interests include environmental chemistry and the application of nuclear methods to detect trace elements in environmental matrices and environmental policy and management. Previously he was group leader of a neutron activation analysis laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). At ORNL he served on the National Laboratory Diversity Council and was President of the Oak Ridge Branch of the NAACP. Dr. Robinson earned a B.S. in chemistry, summa cum laude, from Memphis State University and a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
REBECCA R.SHARITZ is professor of botany at the University of Georgia and senior scientist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina, where she has been the Head of the Division of Wetlands Ecology. Her research focuses on ecological processes in wetlands, including factors affecting the structure and function of bottomland hardwood and swamp forest ecosystems, responses of wetland communities to environmental disturbances, and effects of land management practices on nearby wetland systems. Dr. Sharitz has served on several NRC committees including, The Committee on Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems: Science, Technology and Public Policy. She received a B.S. in biology from Roanoke College and a Ph.D. in botany and plant ecology from the University of North Carolina.
HENRY J.VAUX, JR. is professor of resource economics at the University of California, Riverside. He currently serves as Associate Vice President—Agricultural and Natural Resource Programs for the University of California system. He previously served as Director of the University of California Water Resource Center. His principal research interests are the economics of water use and water quality. Prior to joining the University of California he worked at the Office of Management and Budget and served on the staff of the National Water Commission. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1973. He recently served as chair of the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board.
JOHN VECCHIOLI retired as a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Resources Division in Tallahassee, Florida and as chief of the Florida District Program. Previously, he was responsible for quality assurance of all technical aspects of ground water programs in Florida. His research interests have included study of hydraulic and geochemical aspects of waste injection in Florida and of artificial recharge in Long Island, N.Y. He has also done research on ground water-surface water interactions in New Jersey and Florida. Mr. Vecchioli received his B.S. and M.S. in geology from Rutgers University. Mr. Vecchioli previously served on the NRC’s Committee on Ground Water Recharge.
JEFFREY R.WALTERS is Bailey Professor of Biology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a position he has held since 1994. His professional experience includes assistant, associate, and full professorships at North Carolina State University from 1980 until 1994. Dr. Walters has done extensive research and published many articles on the red-cockaded woodpeckers in North Carolina and Florida and he chaired an American Ornithologists Union Conservation Committee Review
that looked at the biology, status, and management of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow, a bird native to the Everglades. He is a fellow of the American Ornithologist Union, a member of Sigma Xi, American Society of Naturalists, Animal Behavior Society, Audubon Society, Cooper Ornithological Society, Ecological Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa, and many other scientific organizations. His research interests are in cooperative breeding in birds; reproductive biology of precocial birds; primate intragroup social behavior; evolution of cooperative breeding in birds; ecological basis of sensitivity to habitat fragmentation; kinship effects on behavior; and parental behavior on precocial birds. He holds a B.A. from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
