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Appendix H
Panel Biographical Information
HENRY J. VAUX, JR., Chair, is Professor Emeritus of Resource Economics at
both the University of California in Berkley and Riverside. He is also Associate
Vice President Emeritus of the University of California system. He also pre-
viously served as director of California’s Center for Water Resources. His prin-
cipal research interests are the economics of water use, water quality, and water
marketing. 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 Com-
mission. Dr. Vaux has served on the NRC committees on Assessment of Water
Resources Research, Western Water Management, and Ground Water Recharge,
and Sustainable Underground Storage of Recoverable Water. He was chair of
the Water Science and Technology Board from 1994 to 2001. He is a National
Associate of The National Academies. Dr. Vaux received an A.B. from the Uni-
versity of California, Davis in biological sciences, an M.A. in natural resource
administration, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Michigan.
MICHAEL E. CAMPANA is Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State Uni-
versity (OSU), former Director of its Institute for Water and Watersheds, and
Emeritus Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New
Mexico. Prior to joining OSU in 2006 he held the Albert J. and Mary Jane Black
Chair of Hydrogeology and directed the Water Resources Program at the Uni-
versity of New Mexico, was a research hydrologist at the Desert Research Insti-
tute, and taught in the University of Nevada-Reno’s Hydrologic Sciences Pro-
gram. He has supervised 70 graduate students. His research and interests include
hydrophilanthropy, water resources management and policy, communications,
transboundary water resources, hydrogeology, and environmental fluid mechan-
ics, and he has published on a variety of topics. Dr. Campana was a Fulbright
Scholar to Belize and a Visiting Scientist at Research Institute for Groundwater
(Egypt) and the IAEA in Vienna. Central America and the South Caucasus are
the current foci of his international work. He has served on six NRC-NAS com-
mittees. Dr. Campana is Founder, President, and Treasurer of the Ann Campana
Judge Foundation (www.acjfoundation.org), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation
that funds and undertakes projects related to water, sanitation, and hygiene
(WASH) in Central America. He operates the WaterWired blog and Twitter. He
earned a B.S. in geology from the College of William and Mary, and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
JEROME B. GILBERT is a consulting engineer and founder of J. Gilbert, Inc.
His interests include integrated water supply and water quality planning and
management. Mr. Gilbert has managed local and regional utilities, and he has
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developed basin/watershed water quality and protection plans. He has super-
vised California's water rights and water quality planning and regulatory activi-
ties, chaired the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, and
led national and international water and water research associations. Areas of
experience include: authorship of state and national water legislation on water
rights, pollution control, water conservation and urban water management; op-
timization of regional water project development; groundwater remediation and
conjunctive use; economic analysis of alternative water improvement projects;
and planning of multipurpose water management efforts including remediation.
He has served on national panels related to control and remediation of ground
and surface water contamination, and the National Drinking Water Advisory
Council. Mr. Gilbert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He
received his B.S. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.S. from Stanford
University.
ALBERT E. GIORGI is President and Senior Fisheries Scientist at BioAna-
lysts, Inc. in Redmond, Washington. He has been conducting research on Pacific
Northwest salmonid resources since 1982. Prior to 1982, he was a research
scientist with NOAA in Seattle, Washington. He specializes in fish passage mi-
gratory behavior, juvenile salmon survival studies, and biological effects of hy-
droelectric facilities and operation. His research includes the use of radio tele-
metry, acoustic tags, and PIT-tag technologies. In addition to his research, he
acts as a technical analyst and advisor to public agencies and private parties. He
regularly teams with structural and hydraulic engineers in the design and evalua-
tion of fishways and fish bypass systems. He also has served on the NRC Com-
mittee on Water Resources Management, Instream Flows, and Salmon Survival
in the Columbia River. He received his B.A. and M.A. in biology from Hum-
boldt State University and his Ph.D. in fisheries from the University of Wash-
ington.
ROBERT J. HUGGETT is an independent consultant and Professor Emeritus
and former Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Virginia Insti-
tute of Marine Sciences at the College of William and Mary, where he was on
the faculty for more than 20 years. He also served as Professor of Zoology and
Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University
from 1997 to 2004. Dr. Huggett is an expert in aquatic biogeochemistry and
ecosystem management whose research involved the fate and effects of hazard-
ous substances in aquatic systems. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Assistant
Administrator for Research and Development for the U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency (EPA, where his responsibilities included planning and directing
the agency’s research program. During his time at the EPA, he served as Vice
Chair of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and Chair of the
Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and Solid Wastes, both of the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Huggett founded the EPA Star
Competitive Research Grants program and the EPA Star Graduate Fellowship
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program. He has served on the National Research Council’s (NRC) Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology, the Water Science and Technology
Board, and numerous study committees on wide ranging topics. Dr. Huggett
earned an M.S. in marine chemistry from the Scripps Institution of Oceanogra-
phy at the University of California at San Diego and completed his Ph.D. in ma-
rine science at the College of William and Mary.
CHRISTINE A. KLEIN is the Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at the Uni-
versity of Florida Levin College of Law, where she has been teaching since
2003. She offers courses on natural resources law, environmental law, water
law, and property. Previously, she was a member of the faculty of Michigan
State University College of Law, where she served as Environmental Law Pro-
gram Director. From 1989 to 1993, she was an Assistant Attorney General in the
Office of the Colorado Attorney General, Natural Resources Section, where she
specialized in water rights litigation. She has published widely on a variety of
water law and natural resources law topics. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury
College, Vermont; a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law; and
an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law, New York.
SAMUEL N. LUOMA is an emeritus Senior Research Hydrologist in the Water
Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, where he worked for 34
years. Dr. Luoma’s research centers on sediment processes, both natural and
human-induced, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area. He served as the
first lead on the CALFED Bay-delta program and is the Editor-in-Chief of San
Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science. Since 1992, he has published exten-
sively on the bioavailability and ecological effects of metals in aquatic environ-
ments. He has helped refine approaches to determine the toxicity of marine and
estuarine sediments. In 1999, he was invited to discuss how chemical speciation
influences metal bioavailability in sediments for the European Science Founda-
tion. He has served multiple times on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board Sub-
committee on Sediment Quality Criteria and on several NRC committees. Dr.
Luoma received his B.S. and M.S. in zoology from Montana State University,
Bozeman, and his Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of Hawaii, Ho-
nolulu.
THOMAS MILLER is Professor of Fisheries and Bioenergetics and Population
Dynamics at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science (UMCES-CBL), where he has been teaching
since 1994. Prior to UMCES-CBL, he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill Uni-
versity, Montreal, Canada, and research specialist with the Center for Great
Lakes Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research focuses on
population dynamics of aquatic animals, particularly in understanding recruit-
ment, feeding and bio-physical interactions, and early life history of fish and
crustaceans. He has been involved in the development of a Chesapeake Bay
fishery ecosystem plan, which includes detailed background information on fi-
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sheries, foodwebs, habitats and monitoring required to develop multispecies
stock assessments. Most recently, he has developed an interest in the sub-lethal
effects of contamination on Chesapeake Bay living resources using population
dynamic approaches. He received his B.Sc. (hons) in human and environmental
biology from the University of York, UK, and his M.S. in ecology and Ph.D. in
zoology and oceanography from North Carolina State University.
STEPHEN G. MONISMITH is Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
and directs the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford Universi-
ty. Prior to coming to Stanford, he spent 3 years in Perth (Australia) as a re-
search fellow at the University of Western Australia. Dr. Monismith’s research
in environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics involves the application of
fluid mechanics principles to the analysis of flow processes operating in rivers,
lakes, estuaries and the oceans. Making use of laboratory experimentation, nu-
merical modelling, and field measurements, his current research includes studies
of estuarine hydrodynamics and mixing processes, flows over coral reefs, wind
wave-turbulent flow interactions in the upper ocean, turbulence in density strati-
fied fluids, and physical-biological interactions in phytoplankton and benthic
systems. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California
at Berkeley.
JAYANTHA OBEYSEKERA directs the Hydrologic & Environmental Sys-
tems Modeling Department at the South Florida Water Management District,
where he is a lead member of a modeling team dealing with development and
applications of computer simulation models for Kissimmee River restoration
and the restoration of the Everglades Ecosystem. Prior to joining the South Flor-
ida Water Management District, he taught courses in hydrology and water re-
sources at Colorado State University, Fort Collins; George Washington Univer-
sity, Washington, DC; and at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.
Dr. Obeysekera has published numerous research articles in refereed journals in
the field of water resources. Dr. Obeysekera has more than 20 years of expe-
rience practicing water resources engineering with an emphasis on both stochas-
tic and deterministic modeling. He has taught short courses on modeling in the
Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the United States. He
was a member of the Surface Runoff Committee of the American Geophysical
Union and is currently serving as a member of a Federal Task Group on Hydro-
logic Modeling. He served as member of NRC’s Committee on Further Studies
of Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River. Dr. Obeysekera has
a B.S. degree in civil engineering from University of Sri Lanka; M.E. in hydrol-
ogy from University of Roorkee, India; and Ph.D. in civil engineering with spe-
cialization in water resources from Colorado State University.
HANS W. PAERL is Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences,
at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences,
Morehead City. His research includes microbially mediated nutrient cycling and
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primary production dynamics of aquatic ecosystems, environmental controls of
harmful algal blooms, and assessing the causes and consequences of man-made
and climatic (storms, floods) nutrient enrichment and hydrologic alterations of
inland, estuarine, and coastal waters. His studies have identified the importance
and ecological impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition as a new nitrogen
source supporting estuarine and coastal eutrophication. He is involved in the
development and application of microbial and biogeochemical indicators of aq-
uatic ecosystem condition and change in response to human and climatic pertur-
bations. He heads up the Neuse River Estuary Modeling and Monitoring Pro-
gram, and ferry-based water quality monitoring program, FerryMon, which em-
ploys environmental sensors and a various microbial indicators to assess near
real-time ecological condition of the Pamlico Sound System, the nation’s second
largest estuarine complex. In 2003 he was awarded the G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Award by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography for his work
in these fields and their application to interdisciplinary research, teaching and
management of aquatic ecosystems. He received his PhD from the University of
California-Davis.
MAX J. PFEFFER is International Professor of Development Sociology and
senior Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
University. His teaching concentrates on environmental sociology and sociolog-
ical theory. His research spans several areas including farm labor, rural labor
markets, international migration, land use, and environmental planning. The
empirical work covers a variety of rural and urban communities, including ru-
ral/urban fringe areas. Research sites include rural New York and Central
America. He has been awarded competitive grants from the National Institutes
of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Research Initiative and
its Fund for Rural America, and the Social Science Research Council. Dr. Pfef-
fer has published a wide range of scholarly articles and has written or co-edited
four books. He recently published (with John Schelhas) Saving Forests, Protect-
ing People? Environmental Conservation in Central America. He also pre-
viously served as the Associate Director of both the Cornell University Agricul-
tural Experiment Station and the Cornell University Center for the Environment.
He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
DESIREE D. TULLOS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological
and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Dr. Tullos also
consulted with Blue Land Water Infrastructure and with Barge, Waggoner,
Sumner, and Cannon before joining the faculty at Oregon State University. Her
research areas include ecohydraulics, river morphology and restoration, bioas-
sessment, and habitat and hydraulic modeling. She has done work on investiga-
tions of biological responses to restoration and engineered applications in rive-
rine ecosystems; development and evaluation of targeted and appropriate bioin-
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dicators for the assessment of engineered designs in riverine systems; assessing
effects of urban and agricultural activities and management practices on aquatic
ecosystem stability in developing countries. She received her B.S. in civil engi-
neering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her MC.E. in civil
engineering and Ph.D. in biological engineering from North Carolina State Uni-
versity, Raleigh.
STAFF
LAURA J. HELSABECK is a Staff Officer with the National Research Coun-
cil’s Water Science and Technology Board. Her interests include the use of
scientific information to enhance water policy and management decisions per-
taining to water quality and quantity. Since joining the National Research Coun-
cil, she has directed studies for a variety of topics including the Committee on
Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrology Sciences and the Committee on
U.S. Geologic Survey’s Water Resources Research. Dr. Helsabeck received her
B.A. from Clemson University, her M.S. from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D.
from The Ohio State University in Environmental Science. Her dissertation
work, Ibuprofen photolysis: Reaction kinetics, chemical mechanism, and bypro-
duct analysis, was awarded the Ellen C. Gonter Environmental Chemistry
Award by the American Chemical Society.
DAVID POLICANSKY is a Scholar with the Board on Environmental Studies
and Toxicology at the National Research Council, where he directs studies on
applied ecology and natural resource management. He chairs the Advisory
Council for the University of Alaska’s School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
and was a 2001 Harriman Scholar on the retracing of the 1899 Harriman Alaska
Expedition. His research interests include genetics; evolution; and ecology,
including the effects of fishing on fish populations; ecological risk assessment;
natural resource management; and how science is used in informing policy. He
has directed more than 30 projects at the National Research Council on natural
resources and ecological risk assessment.
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