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Appendix B: Biographies of Symposium Chairs and Presenters
Appendix B: Biographies of Symposium Chairs and Presenters
Pages 151-161
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He has received honorary doctoral degrees from fourteen universities, and was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President Bush. Barbara Andrews is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Chile in Santiago and a member of the Millennium Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology (ICDB)
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She is Editor-in-Chief of Weather, Climate, and Society, a journal of the American Meteorological Society, and a Special Research Scientist at Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. She has also served as Director of CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
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Griffin managed the Special Projects Program that included the Interagency Digital Libraries Initiatives and the International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research and Applications Testbeds program. He has been active in working groups for Federal high performance computing and communications programs, and serves on numerous domestic and international advisory committees related to digital libraries and advanced computing and networking infrastructure.
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In this role, Dr. Hayes is responsible for an integrated weather services program, supporting the delivery of a variety of weather, water, and climate services to government, industry, and the general public, including the preparation and delivery of weather warnings and predictions, and the exchange of data products and forecasts with international organizations.
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From 1997 to 2001, he was the Chair of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board, and also served on the Effluent Guidelines Committee of the United States National Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. From 1995 to 2000, he was the DuPont Young Professor/University Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts, where he helped establish the university System's Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, while serving as the Founding Director of the Lowell-based Center for Environmental Engineering, Science and Technology.
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. She serves on numerous national and international advisory boards and committees, particularly for projects and organizations focusing on innovations in education, equity and access in higher education, and international science and engineering.
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. She has specialized in Scientific and Technological Information Management, acting as the representative of Chile in various international experts committees, participating in projects of national and international scope focused on strengthening and guaranteeing accessibility and visibility of scientific and technological knowledge.
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He has widely published on South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy, the diplomacy in exile of the African National Congress (ANC) , Africa's international relations, and on the relevance of new information technologies for Africa.
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She has worked as a consultant promoting risk reduction, mitigation planning and providing emergency management training throughout Asia, USA, Latin America and Africa; was a Professor for American Military University in the Emergency and Disaster Management Department; and a Disaster Assistance Employee with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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He currently serves as the Team Leader of the USGS/NASA Landsat Science Team; Co-chairs the Land Cover Characteristics Implementation Team for GOFC-GOLD (Global Observations of Forests and Land Cover Dynamics) ; is a member of NASA's Land Cover and Land Use Change Science Team.
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, the UC Davis Faculty Research Award (highest research award) , and UC Davis Distinguished Public Service Award (highest service award)
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