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Committee Biographies
ROBERT J. SERAFIN (chair) is Director Emeritus of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research. His technical interests are related to radar, remote sensing, and in situ sensing of the
atmosphere. He has expertise in the areas of signal processing theory, Doppler radar, lidar, and
passive remote sensing techniques, and in the use of such systems for applications including
severe weather detection, weather forecasting, precipitation estimation, and hydrological studies.
Dr. Serafin is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American
Meteorological Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
ERIC J. BARRON is Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Distinguished
Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. His professional experience encom-
passes scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, associate professor of marine
geology and geophysics at the University of Miami and director of the Earth System Science
Center. His specialty is paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. His research emphasizes global
change, specifically numerical models of the climate system and the study of climate change
throughout Earth history. Dr. Barron is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the
American Meteorological Society. He currently serves as chair of the NRC Board on Atmo-
spheric Sciences and Climate.
HOWARD B. BLUESTEIN is Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and a Noble
Foundation Presidential Professor. He received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His research interests are the observation and physical understanding of
weather phenomena on convective, mesoscale, and synoptic scales. Dr. Bluestein is a fellow of
the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale
Meteorological Studies. He is past chair of the National Science Foundation's Observing
Facilities Advisory Panel and a past member of the AMS Board of Meteorological and Oceano-
graphic Education in Universities. He is also the author of a textbook on synoptic-dynamic
meteorology. He is a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
STEVEN F. CLIFFORD is a Senior Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environ-
mental Sciences and the former director of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory. He
received his Ph.D. in engineering science from Dartmouth College. His research goals include
developing a global observing system using ground-based, airborne, and satellite remote sensing
systems, and using these observations as input to global air-sea circulation models for improving
forecasts of weather and climate change. He is a fellow of the Optical and Acoustical Societies of
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America, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member
of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteoro-
logical Society. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the NRC
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
LEWIS M. DUNCAN is Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. A space
and plasma physics researcher for more than two decades, he specializes in high-power radiowave
propagation and its applications in remote sensing and telecommunications. He has served as
head of the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Dr. Duncan has conducted public policy research on arms control, nuclear non-proliferation,
counterterrorism and emerging threats, and he recently played a key role in bringing the new
Institute for Security Technology Studies to Dartmouth.
MARGARET A. LEMONE is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Her scientific interests are in the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere's planetary boundary
layer and its interaction with the underlying surface and clouds, and the interaction of mesoscale
convection with the boundary layer and the surrounding atmosphere. Dr. LeMone is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science and the American Meteorological Society. She has served on the NRC's Panel on
Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling, and she currently is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering's Program Development Committee and the NRC Board on
Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
DAVID E. NEFF is a Senior Research Scientist in Civil Engineering and Co-director of the Wind
Engineering and Fluids Laboratory (WEFL) at Colorado State University (CSU). He received his
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from CSU, and his dissertation focused on physical modeling of heavy
plume dispersion. His research projects include the physical and numerical modeling of wind
turbine wake interactions; air quality prediction of pollutant recirculation in residential and
industrial ventilation systems; air quality prediction of pollutant emissions from fossil fuel and
nuclear power plant complexes; and hazard assessment from the accidental release of dense gases.
Dr. Neff played a key role in the development and maintenance of CSU's WEFL experimental
facility. He is a member of the American Association for Wind Engineering.
WILLIAM E. ODOM is a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at Hudson
Institute's Washington, D.C. office. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale University. As
Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's
signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant
Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General
Odom was Military Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew
Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked on strategic planning,
Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security
issues. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and received his Ph.D. from
Columbia University.
GENE J. PFEFFER works as a private consultant. He recently served as Colorado Springs Director
of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Office of Defense Programs, where he dealt with a wide range
of activities related to satellite systems and environmental sensors. Prior to this he was a consul-
tant to the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services, and served for three decades in the
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U.S. Air Force. His extensive military career includes serving as Vice Commander of the Air
Force Weather Service and Director of Weather for the North American Aerospace Defense
Command. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and he chaired their Board on
Private Sector Meteorology. Mr. Pfeffer holds Masters degrees in Meteorology and in Systems
Management.
KARL K. TUREKIAN is Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University and
Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. His research areas include atmospheric
geochemistry of cosmogonic, radon daughter and man-made radionuclides, surficial and ground-
water geochemistry of radionuclides marine geochemistry and the study of climate change over
geologic time. Dr. Turekian is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as
Editor of several major scientific journals and was on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
THOMAS J. WARNER is a Professor in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the
University of Colorado, and a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His
research interests include numerical modeling of mesoscale atmospheric phenomena and dynamics
(with special emphasis on hydrologic processes), regional climate modeling, and data assimilation.
A recent research emphasis has been the use of coupled atmospheric dynamic and dispersion
models for estimation of the effects of domestic and international releases of hazardous material.
He served on the NRC Panel on Model-Assimilated Data Sets for Atmospheric and Oceanic
Research and was a speaker at a recent Congressional Forum on "National Security and the Atmo-
sphere".
JOHN C. WYNGAARD is a Professor of Meteorology, Mechanical Engineering, and Geoenviron-
mental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He studies turbulence in the atmosphere
through direct observations and supercomputer simulation. He is interested in new observational
approaches, including ground-based remote sensing, as well as measurements from towers and
aircraft, and he studies the dynamic performance of turbulence sensors. Using the large-eddy
simulation technique, he is developing new representations of turbulence effects in meteorological
and oceanographic models of local to global scales. Dr. Wyngaard is a member of the NRC Board
on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
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