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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2003. Letter Report on the Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10756.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2003. Letter Report on the Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10756.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2003. Letter Report on the Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10756.
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Suggested Citation:"Attachment A: Biographical Information." National Research Council. 2003. Letter Report on the Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10756.
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-~- Attachment A Biographical Information Committee to Review the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap Committee Members David E. Marks is the Moron and Claire Goulder Family Professor of Engineering Systems arid civil and Envi~-onrr~ental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the director for the Laboratory for Energy arid the Enviror~ment and coordinator for the Alliance ~r Global Sustainability at MIT. Dr. Marks, :rescarch interests include the organization and management of large-scale infrastructure systems with concern -for the anticipation and ~nitigatior~ of larger scale environmental and economic impacts. He has served on numerous ARC committees, chaired the Steering Co~nittee on Cooperation in Utban Water Management' and was a member of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management. Dr. Marks also sewed as chair of the U.S. Office of Technology Assess~nent~s Oversight Committee on Superband Stucly. He is the recipient of the ASCE Cuber Research Prize. Dr. Marks received his B.S.. and EMS. in environmental engineering Tom Cornell University and his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Jo~s HopLins University. Miriam IBalaban is professor and dean of the School for Scientific Co~nicat~on' Mario Negri Sud Institute for Biomedical and Pharmacological Research' Italy and is now at the Science and Technology Park of Ab~zzo' L'Aquila. She also is ~ research associate at the Center for Philosophy and History of Skiers Boston University. Ace. Balaban is the founder and ectitor-in-~hief of Desalination' the international journal on the science and tecI=~ogy of water desalting' and purification and has sew~ci in this position for over thirty-seven years. She also f6~ec3 the Desalination Directory, which contains over ~ 5~000 individuals' companies, and insttmlions active in the areas of water purification and desalination, ~ list of desalinatiQn and water purification publications' and ~ cumulative index of the Desalination journal. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Desalination Association arid is the secretary general of the Fiumpean Desalination Society. Ms Balaban received her B.Sc~ in chemistry fiom the University of Pennsylvania. B. Anatole Fala~,an is assistant manager Or the Water Resources Management Group at the Metropolitan Water District of Southem CaTifomia. Mr. Falagan has over twenty years of experience in civil engineering planning and design in water resources. Ffe currently oversees the MOOD's Iong-~ange whet resources planning anct program development for Metropolitan?s service area as well as the Coloraclo River and state Water p3:Qiect supplies. Me also Pearls the -MOOD Seawater Desalting Program, focusing on both research and development of seawater desalting plants. He received his B.S. in civil engineering and his M.S in water resources eng~:neer~g from ~itanior~ university, and has an MBA. f~otn the University of CalifQrnia? Irvine. Joseph G. Jacangelo is the manager of Municipal Technology for Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH), an international f;~ specializing in energy' infrastructure, water and wastewater issues. He also semes as the manager of the ~WLI Global Water Knowledge Center, and in this position

-7- he is responsible for water technology' application' and transfCr. Dr. Jacange1Q is an a~junct associate professor at the Tohns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Center for Water and Health. He is the vice chair of the Memlbra:~e Processes Committee of the American Water Works Association and chairs the International Water Association Disinfection Committee. Dr. Jacangelo received his MA. from Rutgers University and his Ph.~. in environmental health engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Kimberly L. Jones is associate professor of civil engineering at Howard University. Her research interests include physical-chemical treatment processes' membrane processes adsorption' mass transport' inter-facial pherromenon, water and waste~Fater treatment plant design' and water quality. Dr. tones is ~ member of the American Water Works ASSQCiatiOn, the American Society of Chili] Engineers, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors' the International Water ASSOGiaiiQn' and the Water Environment Federation. She was Presently named one of the '`Top Weiner in Science" by the National Technical Association. Dr. Jones received her :~.S. and AILS. in civil engineering from Howard University and University of I}{inois7 respectively' an] receive] her Ph.:~. in environmental engineering from the JQhOS Hopkins University. William J. Koros is the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair for Excellence in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include gas and liquid separations using membrane and bonier materials; fo~iQu and application of polymeric, ceramic, and carbon membranes; and st~c~re-penneability relationships. Do. Koros is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Merr~ane Science, board member of the Broth American Membrane Society' and managing editor for their newsletter, ~~embra-ne Quarterly. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and American :Instimte of Chemical Engineers' Clarence Ci. Gerhold Award and is a rnembe:r of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. AMOS received all of his degrees (B.S.^ M.~.- and Ph.D.) in chemical engineering from the University of Texas. John Letey' Jr. is Distinguished Professor In the department of soil arid environmental sciences at the LTnive:rsity of Califomia, Fiverside He is Director for the University of Califomia~s Center for Water Resources' which suppers water-~ated research and seeks to develop ecolo~ically-sound and economically efficient water management policies and programs in California. Flis research interests include agriculture ~~ana:,ement under saline conditions' soil stme~re anct infiItration, chemical transport through soil, and cooperative studies with resource economists to establish economically optimal ~nanage~nent strategies. Dr. I~etey is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America' American Society of Agronomy, and the American Association for Advancement of Science. He is ~ curlew member of the Water Science and Technology Board. LIe received his B.S. in agronomy -from Colorado State University and his Ph.D. in soil physics Mom the University of Illinois. Thomas M. Pankratz is vice president for CH2M HitI?s Global Water Group' with ~ focus on business development in intematiQual desalination anct water reuse projects. He has over twenty- five years of experience in the fields of water, desalination, and reuse and has par~icip~ed in the clevelopment of some of the wori67s largest and most technically advanced desalination projects. Previously, he was Corporate Projects director for Vivendi/~S Item also concentrating on

—Q— desalination and water-reuse projects. ~rQ1M 1991-1997' Mr. Pa~tz sewed as the Middle East regional manager for Aqua-Chem Inc. He serves on the board of directors for the International Desalination Association and is a ~nernber of the Europear~ Desalination Association. He received his B.A. degree in business administration -I Landford University. Richard ~ . Sakaji is ~ senior sanitary engineer at the California State Dcparto~ent of Health Sewices (DHS)' Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management. In this position' he reviews testing protocols fUr new water and wastewater treatment processes to ensure the technology produces acceptable quality water for the intended use. Dr. Sakaji RiSQ develops policy for w~ter-~reat~nent processes and indirect potable reuse applications. ]:n previous :roles at DWS' Dr. Salami designed water-quality series and helned develop water-~tv regulations . . ~ . . . ~ . . r ~ -it -1~ J --I He has also worked In the area A water quality tor public water agencies. Dr. Salami is ~ member of the American Chemical Society, the American Water Works Association and the American Institute for Chemical Engineers. He received his A.B. in biological sciences, AS. in sanitary engineering, and Ph.~. in civil engineering all from the University of Catifornia' Berkeley. Charles D. Turner is professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas, E! Paso. His primary research interests include membrane processing of brackish groundwater and surface water' desalting concentrate utilization, and membrane processes for water reuse and :reduction of disinfection byproducts. He has also conducted :research in water anti wastewater treatment' water economics, and water reuse. Dr. Turner is a member of numerous professional societies' including the American Society of Civil Fingineers, American Water Works Association' and the Water Environment Federation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering front the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, arid his -Ph.~. in environn~ental engineering from Colorado State university. t ' ~ ~ Mark Wilf is vice president of corporate technology at Hycitanautics, ~ Finn specializing in membrane separations. In this position, he oversees development of ~nemE'rane products and designs and evaluates commercial reverse osmosis plants. He has snore than 25 years of experie:nce in the membrane technology and clesalination -field. Before joining HyLiranautics, he served as head of ~:nemb:rane products at MekorQt Water Co. Ltd.? in Te! Aviv? Israel. Dr. Wilf was ~ member of the Research Advisor Council? which advised the Middle East Desalination Research Center on its research priorities. He is also ~ bet of the Intemational Desalination Association and the American Water Works Association. He received his Ph.~. in chemistry at Technior - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifd. Staff Mark C. Gibson is a program officer at the Amps Water Science and Technology Board and was responsible for the completion of this letter report. After joining the ARC in 1998? he first supported then directed the Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants that released three reports' culminating with Classifying Drinking Writer Cor~tarn~nants for Regulatory ~nsiJerat~on in 2001. He is currently directing three other series -for the Water Science and Technology Board and the Board on Life Sciences. His research interests include the

-~- develop~nent and implementation of dri~ing water stan~ar~s, aquatic ecQiQgy an~ entOmology' and environmental biology. Mr. Gibson received his B.~. in biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his M.S. in cnviron~:nental science and policy in biology Rom George Mason University. Stephanie E. Johnson is ~ pro grant v-fOeer with the Water Science and Technology Board. She received her B.A. Torn Vanderbilt University in chemistry and geology' and her M.~. in envi~Q~nental sciences Coin the University of Virginia. She is currently finishing her Phi. in Environn~ental Scie:~es at the University of Virginia on the subject of pesticide tr~spo~ and microbial bioavailability in soils. Her research interests include contaminant transports aqueous geochemistry' and hydrogeology. She joined the National Research Council in 2002. I Q. Sanders is a senior project assistant with the Water Science and Technology Board. He holds ~ B.A. in ant~o~Q1ogy ( 1998) from Trinity University He is a member of the American A3:;thropo1ogical Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Washingtor~ Association of Professional Anthropologists' and the American Tuctiar~ Science and Engineering Society. He is coauthor of "Sitting Down at the Table: Mediation and Resolution of Water Conflicts', I. Jones research interests include organizational culture' pQlitiCRt ecology, and environmental decision making. .

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The letter report reviews the Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Laboratories’ jointly produced Roadmap, which is intended to serve as a guide for federal agencies and other public and private organizations in their desalination research and technology investment decisions through 2020. The report recommends the continuation of these activities and commends the Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Laboratories for providing the leadership in this important national initiative.

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