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Appendix B
Planning Committee Biographies
Dr. Charles J. Arntzen was appointed to an endowed chair at Arizona State University in
2000. Previously, he had served as President and CEO of Boyce Thompson Institute--a not-
for-profit corporation affiliated with Cornell University. He also served as Director of
Research at the DuPont Company; as Director of the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
at Michigan State University; and as Deputy Chancellor for Agriculture and Dean, College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in
the Texas A&M University System. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
1983. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received
the Award for Superior Service from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, served as
Chairman of the National Biotechnology Policy Board of the National Institutes of Health,
and served for eight years on the Editorial Board of Science. From 2001 to 2009, he was a
member of President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and
from 2004 to 2009, he served on the National Nanotechnology Oversight Board. Dr.
Arntzen's private-sector service includes membership on the Board of Directors of several
companies, including DeKalb Genetics (prior to sale to Monsanto). He currently serves on
the Board of Directors of Advanced BioNutrition, Inc. and is on the Advisory Boards of the
Burrill and Company's Agbio Capital Funds and The Nutraceuticals Fund.
Dr. Harold D. Coble is an agronomist and weed scientist with the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP). In this position, he serves as
the Weed Science Liaison with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working on
herbicide tolerance reassessments, registration and re-registration, and pest resistance
management. He also serves as the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coordinator for
OPMP and as Chairman of the Federal IPM Coordinating Committee. Dr. Coble was a weed
science professor in the Crop Science Department at North Carolina State University for 30
years before taking the USDA position. His research interests included weed biology and
ecology, economic threshold development, and management of weed resistance to
herbicides. He is a member of the Southern Weed Science Society, the Weed Science Society
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of America (WSSA), and the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), and he
served as President of both WSSA and CAST. Dr. Coble is a native of North Carolina and
holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University in Crop Science and a Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois in Agronomy.
Dr. David Ervin is Professor of Environmental Management, Professor of Economics, and
Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. He teaches
courses in the economics of sustainability, business environmental management, and
environmental and ecological economics. His research program includes genetically
engineered crops and agricultural sustainability, university-industry relationships in
agricultural biotechnology, ecosystem service management, and business environmental
management. He is the Principal Investigator of "Ecosystem Services for Urbanizing
Regions," an Integrated Graduate Education, Research, and Training (IGERT) program and
Co-principal Investigator of "Spatially-Explicit Assessment of Ecosystem Services Shifts
under Climate Change," both funded by the National Science Foundation. Recent
publications include "The Theory and Practice of Genetically Engineered Crops and
Agricultural Sustainability," in Sustainability; "Valuing Ecological Systems and Services" in
F1000 Biology Reports; "Academic-Industrial Relationships, Academic Scientists' Values,
and Agricultural Biotechnology" in Research Policy; and "Are Biotechnology and Sustainable
Agriculture Compatible?" in Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. Prior appointments
include Professor and Head of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State
University, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia,
Chief of Resource Policy Branch in the USDA Economic Research Service, and Director of
Policy Studies for the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture. Dr. Ervin also
recently was Chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on the Impact of
Biotechnology on Farm-Level Economics and Sustainability. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees
from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University.
Dr. Jodie S. Holt is Professor of Plant Physiology and recent past Chair of the Department
of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). She received
her B.S. degree in Botany from the University of Georgia and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Botany from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on physiological and
population ecology of invasive exotic weeds in wildlands and agricultural weeds in
croplands, and ecological approaches for weed management and habitat restoration. She is
co-author of Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and
NaturalResource Management (3rd edition), which was released in 2007. Holt is an elected
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Weed Science
Society of America, where she is also an Associate Editor of the journal, Invasive Plant
Science and Management, and has served in various leadership roles. She has been Principal
Investigator on federal, regional, and statewide extramural grants and served as Panel
Manager for the USDA National Research Initiative and Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative Competitive Grants Programs. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate
courses at UC Riverside and in 2008 won the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award. More
recently, she has been involved in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
outreach programs for K-12 students in the southern California area. In 2010, the San
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Diego Botanical Garden awarded her the Paul Ecke, Jr. Award of Excellence for her work
promoting plants and conservation.
Dr. Terrance Hurley graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University in
1995. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the
University of Minnesota, where his primary research interest is the profitability, risk, and
regulation of genetically engineered crops. He was one of the first agricultural economists
to quantify the tradeoffs between the risk of insect resistance to Bt toxin and the long-term
productivity of Bt corn, which resulted in the 2001 Outstanding Journal of Agricultural and
Resource Economics Article award. He has worked closely with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency on insect-resistance management requirements for Bt crops including
service on two FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panels. More recently, he is among the first
agricultural economists to quantify the effect of glyphosate weed resistance on the benefits
of the Roundup ReadyŽ weed-management program to farmers and the potential for using
herbicide rebates to increase the use of residual herbicides for controlling glyphosate-
resistant weeds in the Roundup ReadyŽ weed-management program. He currently serves
as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agronomy Journal,
and Environmental Biosafety Research and recently served as Associate Editor for the
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Dr. Raymond Jussaume is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Michigan
State University. His academic degrees are from Southeastern Massachusetts University
(B.A., Political Science, 1976), the University of Georgia (M.A., Political Science, 1981), and
Cornell University (Ph.D., Development Sociology, 1987), and he served as a Peace Corps
volunteer in the Republic of Niger from 1978 to 1980. Most of his scholarship falls within
the general theme of development sociology, with a particular emphasis on sustainable
development. Dr. Jussaume also has academic interests in the sociology of community and
of agriculture. He has conducted field research in China, Japan, and France and has
extensive experience working on interdisciplinary teams. Some of his more recent work
has focused on how the evolution of the interactions between local and global agri-food
systems may be affecting sustainable local development. He has published one book, nearly
50 peer-reviewed journal articles and academic book chapters, and numerous bulletins and
popular manuscripts that have disseminated the results of his research to citizens. Dr.
Jussaume recently served on the NRC Committee on the Impact of Biotechnology on Farm-
Level Economics and Sustainability.
Dr. Micheal Owen is Associate Chair and Professor of Agronomy and Extension Weed
Science at Iowa State University. He has extensive expertise in weed dynamics and
integrated pest management and crop risk management. His objective in extension
programming is to develop information about weed biology, ecology, and herbicides that
can be used by growers to manage weeds with cost efficiency and environmental
sensitivity. His work is focused on supporting management systems that emphasize a
combination of alternative strategies and conventional technology. Dr. Owen has published
extensively on farm-level attitudes toward transgenic crops and their impacts, selection
pressure, herbicide resistance, and other weed life-history traits; tillage practices; and
many other pertinent issues. Dr. Owen served on the NRC Committee on the Impact of
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Biotechnology on Farm-Level Economics and Sustainability. He has a Ph.D. in
Agronomy/Weed Science from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Jill Schroeder is Professor of Weed Science and Interim Chair of the Department of
Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science at New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces. She earned a B.A. in Biology from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, an M.S. in
Soil Science from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy/Weed Science from
the University of Georgia. Her research program concentrates on weed management in
irrigated crops with an emphasis on collaborative projects investigating biological
interactions among pests and how these pest complexes affect management. She has
received a number of competitive grants to support her research and has served on
regional and national competitive grant panels, including as Panel Manager for the USDA-
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service National Research Initiative,
Weed Biology and Weed Management Program, and Panel Chair for the USDA Agricultural
Research Service National Program 304F Peer Review Panel, Office of Scientific Quality
Review. Her society memberships include the Weed Science Society of America, serving as
Secretary, Vice President, President-elect, President, and Past-President on the WSSA
Board of Directors; and the Western Society of Weed Science where she served as
Secretary, President-elect, President, and Past-President. Dr. Schroeder is currently serving
as the WSSA Subject Matter Expert and Liaison to the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Pesticide Programs, Registration Division.
Dr. David Shaw is the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at
Mississippi State University (MSU). He began his career at MSU in 1985 as an Assistant
Professor of Weed Science. His research focused particularly on optimizing pest
management practices to maintain farm productivity while improving surface water
protection and management and on development of best management practices for
protection of surface waters from pesticides. He has also provided leadership in herbicide-
resistance management issues and is participating in one of the largest long-term field
projects on glyphosate-resistance management ever established. Because of his
developmental efforts in applying spatial technologies to these research areas, MSU
appointed Dr. Shaw as the first Director of the Remote Sensing Technologies Center (RSTC)
in 1998. The RSTC was merged into the Geosystems Research Institute in 2003, and Dr.
Shaw served as its director until his current appointment, which began in January 2010.
Honors and awards include MSU's highest distinction as a Giles Distinguished Professor in
1998, the Ralph E. Powe Research Award (MSU's highest recognition for research) in 2000,
election as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008,
the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Cameron University in 1999, and the Grantsmanship
Award from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station in 1997. He has
received several awards from Weed Science Society of America, including the Research
Award, the Education Award, and recognition as a Fellow in the organization. He is the
Past-President of the WSSA and currently chairs its S-71 Herbicide Resistance Education
Committee and its Task Force on Herbicide Resistance Education. Dr. Shaw also chairs the
task force developing the USDA-APHIS report on Herbicide Resistance Best Management
Practices and Recommendations and the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
task force on Impacts of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds on Tillage Systems. He is leading the
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effort to develop a comprehensive suite of educational materials on resistance
management based on sound scientific principles. Dr. Shaw received a Ph.D. in Weed
Science from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 1985, an M.S. from OSU in 1983, and a
B.S. from Cameron University in 1981.
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