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Appendix A: Workshop Steering Group
Appendix A: Workshop Steering Group
Pages 29-34
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Dr. Yamamoto was a founding editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell and serves on numerous editorial boards, scientific advisory boards, and national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and sup port of biological research, and science education; he has served on the Coalition for the Life Sciences (formerly the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy)
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Dr. Chandler was elected to the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology Board of Directors 1999-2003 and elected president of the American Society of Plant Biologists for 2002.
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Field has, for more than a decade, led major experi ments on grassland responses to global change, experiments that integrate approaches from molecular biology to remote sensing. His activities in building the culture of global ecology include service on many national and international committees, including committees of the National Research Council, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the Earth System Science Partnership.
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He has received decorations from the governments of Colombia and Peru and was awarded the International Soil Science Award and the International Service in Agronomy Award. In 2001, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, awarded him a doctor honoris causa degree for his work on tropical soils in Africa and he was anointed as elder by the Luo community of Western Kenya, in recognition for his assistance in eliminating hunger from many villages in the region.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London, and the Royal Society of Canada.
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