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Appendix G: Biographical Information: Workshop Participants
Appendix G: Biographical Information: Workshop Participants
Pages 147-164
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recently retired from the position of the director of Technology-Energy Innovation and was responsible for Alcoa's environmental policy and global environmental programs.
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She has conducted research in Chile, Ghana, New Zealand, and the United States. Her work has been published in the journals Rural Sociology and Food Policy and several edited volumes including Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation; Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains and; Between the Local and the Global.
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Dr. Buford joined the Forest Service R&D National Program Staff in August, 1998, serving as na tional program leader for Quantitative Ecology Research and co-lead for Forest Service Global Change Research Program.
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Carberry is a past chair of the standing National Academy Committee on the Destruction of the Non-Stockpile Chemical Weapons, a founding member of the Green Power Market Development Group and of the Vision2020 Steering Committee, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering Committees on; Technologies for Sequestering CO2, and Metrics for Documenting Progress in Global Change Research. Since 1990, he has served on four other National Academies' Committees and has presented 30 lectures on environmental issues at 18 universities, given invited presentations at 63 public conferences worldwide and provided 21 literature interviews, or contributions.
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RANDALL FORTENBERY is the RENK Chair in Agribusiness, Agricultural and Applied Economics and the director of Renk Agribusiness Institute in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research program currently focuses on agricultural price performance in local and national markets.
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He joined NRDC in 1992 and worked 2 years before getting his master's degree and returned to NRDC in 1996 and working there since. He is a senior policy analyst and is responsible for working on energy policy and related issues including util ity restructuring, energy taxes, energy efficiency, renewables, and low-income services.
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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, the National Research Council, and the U.S.
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His work promotes the development of a Midwestern bioeconomy that stimulates rural economic development, makes improvements to air, soil, and water quality, and addresses global warming. He has a Masters Degree in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the University of Minnesota, and a B.A.
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He was raised on and is still active in the operation of his family's farm in Nebraska. He worked on rural development in the Baltics and Russia and in 1995 began working as the coordinator for the IATP's International Fellows Program, which informed officials from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe about international trade and agriculture issues.
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Dr. Miranowski has expertise in soil conservation, natural-resource management, water quality, land management, energy, global change, and agricultural research decision making.
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Previously, she coordinated the woody biomass efforts of the USDA Forest Service across programs and provided executive liaison and coordination between the USDA Forest Service and other federal agencies, state organizations and private interests. She has 25 years of Forest Service experience as: station director of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO; staff specialist in Forest Products and Harvesting Research, Washington, DC; and research engineer, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI.
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She leads the Office of Research and Development's biofuels effort and assists EPA's representative to the federal Biomass Research and Development Board and participates in sev eral interagency teams related to the development of a National Biofuels Action Plan. Her work focuses on looking at the sustainability of the biofuels system, including environmental and human health considerations of feedstock, technologies, distribution and use.
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, researching and providing outreach on climate change adaptation policy and practices. Recent projects in promoting re newable energy policy and climate stewardship include advising the Agriculture and Forestry Work Group of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming.
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LTER Network's Science Council and Executive Board. He is also program leader for sustainability in the Department of Energy's Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
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Dr. Selfa is currently working as the lead social scientist on an interdisciplinary water quality project assessing impacts of farmers' management behavior on water quality in an agricultural watershed in Central Kansas, and as the lead social scientist in a new interdisciplinary program in Agricultural Resource and Environment Manage ment.
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JEFFERY STEINER is national program leader for Agricultural System Competitiveness and Sustainability with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service– Office of National Programs in Beltsville, MD. He leads nineteen research projects around the country that are producing new kinds of technology and systems to help producers respond to changing environmental and market con ditions, enhance natural resources quality, and increase American food, fiber, and energy security.
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Patterns of energy usage by agricultural enterprises as well as emissions of greenhouse gases and the potential for carbon sequestration are continuing interests as well as international climate change treaties. For the year 2001-2002 he was awarded the Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems by the College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota.
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She served as chief of staff to a Wisconsin Congressman in Washington, DC; and, as executive director of na tional cooperative development entities. She has managed the legislative agenda at the state and national levels for cooperative trade associations representing all sizes and sectors of the United States economy including Fortune 500 agriculture cooperatives and minority-owned catering businesses; farm credit banks and consumer credit unions; New York City and rural, senior housing; urban food stores and rural energy services.
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