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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
Gordon H. Orians is professor emeritus of zoology at the University of
Washington in Seattle. He received a Ph.D. in zoology in 1960 from the
University of California, Berkeley. From 1976 to 1986 he was director of
the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Washington.
Dr. Orians' research interests are evolution of vertebrate social systems;
factors determining the number of species an environment will support
on a sustained basis; plant-herbivore interactions; and ecology of rare
species. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Martin Alexander is Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Soil Science at
Cornell University. He has chaired or been a member of a variety of
advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
National Research Council, National Institutes of Health, and U.S. Army,
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and UNESCO,
and has consulted with many private companies on environmental pollu-
tion. Dr. Alexander's research interests are in the areas of soil and environ-
mental microbiology, and microbial transformations that are of environ-
mental or agricultural importance in natural environments. He received
a B.S. in 1951 from Rutgers University, and an M.S., in 1953, and Ph.D., in
1955, from the University of Wisconsin.
Patrick L. Brezonik is professor of environmental engineering at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota and director of the university's Water Resources
Research Center. His research interests are the eutrophication of lakes,
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nitrogen dynamics in natural water, acid rain, and organic matter in water.
He is a member of the Water Science and Technology Board and served
on the National Research Council's Committee on Inland Aquatic Eco-
systems and Committee to Review the Environmental Protection Agency's
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. Previously, he was
professor of water chemistry and environmental science at the University
of Florida. He obtained a Ph.D. in water chemistry in 1968 from the
University of Wisconsin.
Grace Brush is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environ-
mental Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. She received a B.A.
in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, an M.S. in 1951 from the Uni-
versity of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in 1956 from Harvard
University. Dr. Brush's research interests are relations between modern
pollen distributions in water and surface sediments and vegetation; set-
tling properties of pollen in water; mapping terrestrial vegetation; forest
patterns; and estuarine biostratigraphy.
Eville Gorham is Regents' Professor of Ecology and Botany at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, with research interests in the ecology and biogeo-
chemistry of wetlands, global warming, and acid rain, and the chemistry
of lakes and streams. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Dalhousie
University, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. He is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada, and a G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medallist of the American Society of
Limnology and Oceanography.
Anthony lanetos is Senior Vice President and Chief of Program at World
Resources Institute. He received an A.B. in biology in 1976 from Harvard
University, an M.A. in biology in 1978 from Princeton University, and a
Ph.D., also from Princeton University, in 1980. His research interests are
the relationships between ecological systems and the atmosphere, and in
the use of scientific information in public policy.
Arthur H. Johnson received an A.B. in geology in 1970 from Middlebury
College, an M.A. in geology in 1972 from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D.
from Cornell University in soil science in 1975. He joined the University
of Pennsylvania faculty in 1975 and is currently professor of geology. His
research has centered on the biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems, with
emphasis primarily on soil-water, soil-atmosphere, and soil-plant inter-
actions in montane forests. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Soil Science
Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy. He has par-
ticipated in several National Research Council activities, including the
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Committee on Long-Term Trends in Acid Deposition, the Panel on
Sources and Effects of Acid Deposition, the Panel on Mechanisms of Lake
Acidification, the Trends Committee, the NAS White Paper on Global
Change, and the Committee on Biological Markers of Air Pollution Stress
in Forests.
Daniel V. Markowitz received a B.A. in aquatic biology in 1977 from the
University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.S. in marine science in
1979 from University of the Pacific, and a Ph.D. in ecology in 1987 from
Kent State University. Dr. Markowitz has more than 15 years of experi-
ence in water quality evaluation, aquatic biology, project management,
and environmental policy development. He is currently Associate at
Malcolm Pirnie, in Akron, Ohio.
Stephen W. Pacala is professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Princeton University. He is also director of graduate studies for
the department associated faculty, Princeton Environmental Institute; and
codirector, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Carbon
Modeling Center at Princeton. His research interests are plant ecology;
global interactions of the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; math-
ematical modeling; and community ecology. Dr. Pacala received his B.A.
in 1978 from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in 1982 from Stanford
University.
lohn Pastor received a B.S. in geology in 1974 from the University of
Pennsylvania, an M.S. in soil science in 1977 and a Ph.D. in forestry and
soil science in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Pastor
is currently professor of biology and senior research associate, Natural
Resources Research Institute at the University of Minnesota; adjunct pro-
fessor, Department of Ecology and Behavioral Biology, University of Min-
nesota; and adjunct professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, also
at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are northern eco-
systems, nutrient cycling, climate change, forest productivity, timber man-
agement, and landscape ecology.
Gary W. Petersen is a professor of soil and land resources in the Depart-
ment of Agronomy in the College of Agricultural Sciences and codirector
of the Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources in the Environmental
Resources Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. His
research interests have been primarily in the areas of pedology, landscape
and watershed processes, land use, geographic information systems, and
remote sensing. He has worked very closely with the Natural Resources
Conservation Service in the areas of mapping, correlation, characteriza-
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lion, and interpretation. He is president of the Soil Science Society of
America. Dr. Peterson received a B.S. in soils in 1961, a M.S. in soil
chemistry in 1963, and a Ph.D. in soil genesis and morphology in 1965
from the University of Wisconsin.
lames R. Pratt is professor of environmental science at Portland State
University. His background includes degrees in biology from the Univer-
sity of Washington (B.A.) and Eastern Washington University (M.S.), and
a Ph.D. in zoology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni-
versity. He was previously on the faculty at Murray State University and
Pennsylvania State University, where he was a principal in the Environ-
mental Resource Management Program. Dr. Pratt's research interests are
microbial ecology, especially the effects of pollutants on microbial com-
munities; and the "forgotten" microbes, the protists, including their feed-
ing ecology, distribution, and taxonomy.
Terry Root is associate professor of natural resources at the University of
Michigan. She received a B.S. in 1975 from the University of New Mexico,
an M.A. in 1982 from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in 1987 from
Princeton University. Her research interests include ecological analyses
of the distribution and abundance patterns of species on a continental
scale; the physiological constraints on the distribution of wintering birds;
influence of global warming on the biogeography of species; large-scale
geographic examinations of the structure and composition of communi-
ties; applying quantitative information about the biogeography of species
to conservation and management problems; and analyzing the ecological
causes of rarity and commonness, and their effects on rare and endan-
gered species.
Michael L. Rosenzweig is professor and former head of ecology and
evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. He is editor-in-chief of
Evolutionary Ecology. He received an A.B. (1962) and a Ph.D. (1966) in
zoology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rosenzweig uses math-
ematical modeling to study species diversity, habitat selection, and popu-
lation interactions. With the late Robert MacArthur, he helped found
modern dynamical predation theory. His work on desert rodent ecology
in the United States and Israel established these systems as valuable
models for the investigation of general ecological questions. His isoleg
theories of habitat selection and their tests in birds and mammals have
been among the first to link the study of behavior to population dynamics
and community ecology. Dr. Rosenzweig's recent text, Species Diversity in
Space and Time (Cambridge University Press, 1995) synthesizes the pat-
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terns and processes operating on diversity at scales of up to the entire
planet and all of Phanerozoic time.
Milton Russell is a senior fellow at the Joint Institute for Energy and
Environment, professor emeritus of economics at the University of
Tennessee, and collaborating scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He was a member of the National Research Council Board on Environ-
mental Studies and Toxicology, chairs the Committee to Assess the North
American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO) Program
and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy
of Engineering Joint Committee on Cooperation in the Energy Futures of
China and the United States. Dr. Russell served as Assistant Administra-
tor for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983 to
1987. His current research activities are concentrated on environmental
policy in China and on waste management, especially cleanup of U.S.
Department of Energy sites. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Oklahoma in 1963.
Susan Stafford is Professor and Department Head of Applied Statistics
and Research Information Management, Colorado State University. Her
current interests are research information management, applied statistics,
multivariate analysis and experimental design, scientific databases, GIS
applications, and other data management topics. Dr. Stafford received
her Ph.D. in applied statistics in 1979 from the State University of New
York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
PROJECT DIRECTOR
David Policansky has a B.A. in biology from Stanford University and an
M.S. and Ph.D., biology, from the University of Oregon. He is associate
director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology at the
National Research Council. His interests include genetics, evolution, and
ecology, particularly the effects of fishing on fish populations, ecological
risk assessment, and natural resource management. He has directed
approximately 25 projects at the National Research Council on natural
resources and ecological risk assessment.
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