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Biographical Sketches
Lester B. Lave (chair until May 9, 2011) was the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor
of Economics and Finance, a professor of engineering and public policy, and director of the
university’s Green Design Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University before his death in
2011. Dr. Lave’s work focused on environmental quality and risk management, and more
specifically on modeling the effects of global climate change, improving social regulations,
risk perception and communication, the value of information in tests for carcinogenicity,
highway safety, electricity generation and use, and pollution prevention. As the head of the
university-wide Green Design Initiative, Dr. Lave collaborated with private businesses and
with government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy to address the fundamen-
tal problems in pollution prevention. A recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award
of the Society for Risk Analysis, Dr. Lave was a member of the Institute of Medicine and
served on numerous NRC committees, including the Panel on Energy Efficiency as chair
and Committee on America’s Energy Future as a member. Dr. Lave received his Ph.D. in
economics from Harvard University.
Ingrid C. Burke (cochair from May 9, 2011) is director of the Haub School and Ruckelshaus
Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. She also is a
professor and holds a Wyoming Excellence Chair in the Departments of Botany and Renew-
able Resources. She is a former professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in
the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Dr. Burke is an ecosystem
scientist, with particular expertise in carbon and nitrogen cycling of semi-arid ecosystems.
She directed the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research team for 6 years, as well
as other large interdisciplinary research teams funded by the National Science Foundation,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration,
and the National Institutes of Health. She was designated a U.S. Presidential Faculty Fel-
low, has served on the NRC Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology, and was a
member of the NRC committee tasked with developing recommendations on A New Biol-
ogy for the 21st Century: Ensuring That the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution.
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Dr. Burke also serves as an associate editor for the journal Ecological Applications and is the
new chair of the advisory committee for the Greater Yellowstone National Environmental
Observatory Network research site. She received her Ph.D. in botany from the University
of Wyoming.
Wallace E. Tyner (cochair from May 9, 2011) is the James and Lois Ackerman Professor
of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and co-director of the Purdue Center for
Research on Energy Systems and Policy. His research interests are in the areas of energy,
agricultural, and natural resource policy analysis, and structural and sectoral adjustment
in developing economies. His work in energy economics has encompassed oil, natural gas,
coal, oil shale, biomass, ethanol from agricultural sources, and solar energy. Most of his
recent work has focused on economic and policy analysis for biofuels, with international
work on agricultural trade and policy issues in developing economies. Dr. Tyner received
the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Distinguished Policy Con-
tribution Award in 2005. In 2007 he received the “Energy Patriot Award” from Senator
Richard Lugar. In 2009, he was named the Outstanding Graduate Educator in the College
of Agriculture, received the College Team award (with colleagues) for biofuel research,
and received (with colleagues) the AAEA Quality of Communication award. He teaches
a graduate course in benefit-cost analysis. Dr. Tyner is author or co-author of three books:
Energy Resources and Economic Development in India, Western Coal: Promise or Problem (with R.
J. Kalter), and A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy (with Lance McK-
inzie and Tim Baker). Dr. Tyner has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
Virginia H. Dale is director of the Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, corporate fellow, and
group leader of the Landscape Ecology and Regional Analysis Group in the Environmental
Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is also an adjunct professor in the
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Forestry, Wildlife
and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Dale’s primary research interests are in
landscape design for bioenergy, environmental decision-making, land-use change, land-
scape ecology, and ecological modeling. She has worked on developing tools for resource
management, vegetation recovery subsequent to disturbances, effects of climate change on
forests, and integrating socioeconomic and ecological models of land-use change. Dr. Dale
has served on national scientific advisory boards for five federal agencies (the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy,
and Interior). She has also served on several NRC committees. She is editor-in-chief of the
journal Environmental Management and is on the editorial board for Ecological Indicators,
Ecological Economics, and the Journal of Land Use Science. She was chair of the U.S. Regional
Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology and has served on the
scientific review team for The Nature Conservancy. She served on the Executive Commit-
tee of the Policy Team for Southern Appalachian Assessment, which won Vice President
Gore’s Hammer Award. Dr. Dale has a Ph.D. in mathematical ecology from the University
of Washington.
Kathleen E. Halvorsen is an associate professor of natural resource policy at Michigan
Technological University. She has a joint appointment with the Department of Social Sci-
ences and the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. Her research focuses
on two main areas. One relates to the development of woody bioenergy in the United States
and includes identification of barriers and opportunities related to this development. She
views bioenergy as an important tool in the climate change mitigation toolbox. Her other
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area of research is aimed at understanding relationships to water resources in the United
States and Mexico. That research includes risk perceptions of water-borne disease and
ecosystem service protection. Over the years, she also has studied public participation
and organizational change within the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Dr.
Halvorsen received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Jason D. Hill is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include the technologi-
cal, environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainable bioenergy production from
current and next-generation feedstocks. His work on the life-cycle impacts of transportation
biofuels has been published in the journals Science and the Proceedings of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences of the United States of America. His current research focuses on the effects that
the expanding global biofuel industry is having on climate change, land use, biodiversity,
and human health. Dr. Hill has testified before U.S. Senate committees on the use of diverse
prairie biomass for biofuel production and on the greenhouse-gas implications of ethanol
and biodiesel. He has also performed independent analysis for the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, NRC, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Hill served on
the NRC Steering Committee on Expanding Biofuel Production: Sustainability and Transi-
tion to Advanced Biofuels. Dr. Hill received his Ph.D. in plant biological sciences from the
University of Minnesota.
Stephen R. Kaffka is director of the California Biomass Collaborative and extension spe-
cialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is chair
of the BioEnergy Work Group for the University of California’s Division of Agriculture
and Natural Resources. From 2003 to 2007, he was director of the Long Term Research on
Agricultural Systems Project, in which he led the development of current and new projects
focusing on sustainable agriculture. His commodity assignments include sugar and oilseed
crops. Since joining the university in 1992, he has also carried out research on water qual-
ity and agriculture in the Upper Klamath Basin, and the reuse of saline drainage water for
crop, forage, energy biomass feedstocks, and livestock production in salt-affected areas of
the San Joaquin Valley. He participates on several advisory committees for the California
Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board, including the Bioenergy Inter-
agency Work Group as an ex officio member. He has received meritorious service awards
from the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists and the Soil and Water Conservation
Society. He is past president of the California chapter of the American Society of Agronomy
and past section leader for the American Society of Agronomy’s division on environmental
quality. He holds a Ph.D. in agronomy from Cornell University.
Kirk C. Klasing is a professor of animal nutrition in the Department of Animal Science at
the University of California, Davis. His research into the impact of nutrition on immuno-
chemistry and disease resistance encompasses three interrelated areas. He examines the
impact of an immune response against infectious diseases on growth and reproduction. He
is interested in identifying the cytokines and hormones that the immune system releases
in order to direct nutritional resources towards defense instead of growth and reproduc-
tion. Dr. Klasing strives to quantify the nutritional costs of these immune defenses, and
investigates the impact of an animal’s diet on the immune response. He also explores the
diverse nutritional and immune strategies of carnivorous, nectarivorous, herbivorous, and
granivorous animals. Dr. Klasing has served on several NRC committees, including the
Committee on Minerals and Toxic Substances in Diets and Water for Animals as chair and
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the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources as a current member. He has received the
Poultry Science Research Award from the Poultry Science Association, the BioServ Award
from the American Institute of Nutrition, and the Lilly Animal Scientist Award. He holds a
Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University.
Stephen J. McGovern has over 35 years of experience in the refining and petrochemical
industries. He has been a principal of PetroTech Consultants since 2000, providing consult-
ing services on various refining technologies, including clean fuel projects and refining
economics. He has assisted numerous refiners in the evaluation of gasoline and diesel
desulfurization technologies, catalytic cracking, and environmental issues. He has pro-
vided technical advice to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and commercial
enterprises for the production of biofuels. Previously, he was with Mobil Technology Com-
pany, where he was involved in process development and refinery technical support. Dr.
McGovern has 17 patents and has written many publications. He has lectured, published,
and consulted on refining technology and environmental issues. He is a licensed profes-
sional engineer in New Jersey and a past director of the Fuels and Petrochemicals Division
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering
from Princeton University.
John A. Miranowski is a professor of agricultural economics and of environmental and
resource economics at Iowa State University. His background is in natural resource man-
agement, agricultural research decision-making, and environmental policy. He served as
chair of the Department of Economics from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Miranowski has further ex-
pertise in soil conservation, water quality, land management, energy, and global change.
He has previously served as director of the Resources and Technology Division of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, 1984-1994; as executive coordinator
of the Secretary of Agriculture’s Policy Coordination Council, and special assistant to the
deputy secretary of agriculture, 1990-1991; and as the Gilbert F. White Fellow at Resources
for the Future, 1981-1982. Dr. Miranowski headed the U.S. delegation to the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development Joint Working Party on Agriculture and the
Environment, 1993-1995. He has served as a member of the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Risk Assessment of Federal Coordinating Committee on Science, Education, and Technol-
ogy, 1990-1992; director of the Executive Board of the Association of Environmental and
Resource Economists, 1989-1992; and director of the Executive Board of the American
Agricultural Economics Association, 1987-1990. Dr. Miranowski served as a member of the
NRC Panel on Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels, and the Committee on Expanding
Biofuel Production—Lessons from the Upper Midwest for Sustainability. He received his
Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Aristides A. N. Patrinos is president of Synthetic Genomics. He served on the staff of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
in 1988 and led the development of DOE’s program in global environmental change. From
1995 to 2006, Dr. Patrinos was the associate director for biological and environmental re-
search in DOE’s Office of Science, where he oversaw research activities in the human and
microbial genome, structural biology, nuclear medicine, and global environmental change.
He also directed the DOE component of the U.S. Human Genome Project and was the
DOE representative to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Climate Change
Technology Program. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, in-
cluding three Presidential Rank Awards for meritorious and distinguished service and
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two Secretary of Energy gold medals. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society, and a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Geophysical Union. He has
served on the NRC Committees on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science
Program and on America’s Energy Future. Dr. Patrinos received his Ph.D. in mechanical
and astronautical sciences from Northwestern University.
Jerald L. Schnoor is the Allen S. Henry Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and
codirector of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University
of Iowa. Dr. Schnoor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his pio-
neering work using mathematical models in science-policy decisions. He testified several
times before Congress on the environmental effects of acid deposition and the importance
of passing the 1990 Clean Air Act. Dr. Schnoor chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development from
2000-2004. Currently, he is one of three co-directors for the National Science Foundation
Project Office on a Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environ-
mental Research (CLEANER). As editor-in-chief of Environmental Science and Technology, Dr.
Schnoor guides the journal in both environmental engineering and environmental science.
His research interests are in mathematical modeling of water quality, phytoremediation,
and impact of carbon emissions on global change. He conducts research on the aquatic
effects modeling of acid precipitation, global change and biogeochemistry, groundwater
and hazardous wastes, and exposure risk assessment modeling. Dr. Schnoor has served
on several NRC committees including the Committee on Water Implications of Biofuels
Production in the United States and the Civil Engineering Peer Committee. Dr. Schnoor
received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Texas.
David Schweikhardt is a professor in the Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Department at Michigan State University. He specializes in agricultural and international
trade policy. In particular, his work examines the implications of North American Free
Trade Agreement and the Uruguay Round Agreement of General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade on U.S. and Michigan agriculture; analysis of U.S. commodity programs; law, eco-
nomics, and the analysis of changes in legal and economic institutions; political economy
of agricultural and trade policy decision-making processes; legal issues in commodity
checkoff programs; and labeling of genetically modified food products. Dr. Schweikhardt
received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University.
Theresa L. Selfa is assistant professor in environmental studies at the State University of
New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). Her current re-
search focuses on biofuel policy and attitudes. Additional research interests include food
and agriculture, development, and political ecology. Prior to joining the SUNY-ESF faculty,
she was assistant professor of sociology at Kansas State University. She has expertise in
rural, environmental, agricultural, and development sociology, with research experience
in Brazil, Philippines, Europe, and the United States. She was a postdoctoral associate in
Washington State on a project examining alternative agriculture and food systems. She
has worked on interdisciplinary water quality projects assessing impacts of farmers’ man-
agement behavior on water quality in an agricultural watershed in central Kansas and in
Devon, England. She is the principal investigator on a study on the impacts of biofuels
on rural communities in Kansas and Iowa funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and
is a coprincipal investigator on research assessing farmers’ land-use decisions regarding
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advanced biofuel crops funded by the National Science Foundation. Her work has been
published in Society and Natural Resources, Environment and Planning A, Renewable Agricul-
ture and Food Systems, and Environmental Science and Policy. Dr. Selfa received her Ph.D. in
development sociology from Cornell University.
Brent Sohngen is a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Devel-
opment Economics at Ohio State University. His research interest is in modeling land-use
and land-cover change, economics of nonpoint source pollution, and valuing environmen-
tal change. Projects that he is working on include one on forests, economics, and global cli-
mate change, and the global timber market and forestry data project. Dr. Sohngen received
his Ph.D. in natural resource and environmental economics from Yale University.
J. Andres Soria is an assistant professor of wood chemistry in the Department of Forest
Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He also has an appointment with the School
of Applied Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
He worked as a researcher and instructor at the University of Idaho from 2002 to 2005.
Dr. Soria’s research involves utilizing waste and undervalued biomass to create products
ranging from fuels, additives, and chemical feedstocks from Alaskan species. Dr. Soria
also performs research on agricultural byproducts and wastes. He teaches courses in the
area of energy and forest products. Dr. Soria’s honors include a 2005 Outstanding Gradu-
ate Student, Department of Forest Products, University of Idaho; a Stillinger Endowment
recipient, University of Idaho, 2002-2005; and a Foster Fellowship recipient, University of
Idaho, 2003-2005. He earned his Ph.D. in natural resources from the University of Idaho.
