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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Planning Committee BiographiesDr.." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Planning Committee BiographiesDr.." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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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 Ready® 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 Ready® 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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Planning Committee BiographiesDr.." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Planning Committee BiographiesDr.." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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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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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Planning Committee BiographiesDr.." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem by individuals at the farm level and beyond. This summit served as a venue to bring the attention of important stakeholders to the issue and as an opportunity for experts from diverse disciplines to strategize in a coordinated way to address herbicide-resistant weeds.

In convening stakeholders for this event, participants took a step toward a recommendation from the 2010 National Research Council report The Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States that federal and state government agencies, private-sector technology developers, universities, farmer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders collaborate to document emerging weed-resistance problems and to develop cost-effective resistance-management programs and practices that preserve effective weed control. The summit provided the opportunity for stakeholders to explore the scientific basis of the emergence of herbicide resistance and to consider different perspectives on both opportunities and barriers to overcoming the problem of herbicide-resistant weeds. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds contains a brief synopsis of key points made by each speaker at the summit.

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