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Appendix C: BIOGRAPHIES OF PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS, AND STAFF
Appendix C: BIOGRAPHIES OF PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS, AND STAFF
Pages 67-80
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He is past president of the Texas Environmental Education Partnership. He serves as the chair of the Monitoring and Research Committee of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program, and on advisory committees for the Texas Sea Grant Program and the Texas Environmental Research Consortium.
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Mr. Blackburn is also a professor in the Practice of Environmental Law in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, teaching courses in sustainable development and environmental law.
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Jordan Community Advocate Award presented by Texas Southern University in 2007, the National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation in 2001, and the Bob Eckhardt Lifetime Achievement Award for coastal preservation efforts from the General Land Office of the State of Texas in 1998. In 2004 Texas A&M press published his manuscript The Book of Texas Bays, which focuses upon the environmental health of Texas bays and discusses various facts and issues.
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Her recent work includes the State of the Bay: A Characterization of the Galveston Bay Ecosystem, Third Edition; the Galveston Bay Status and Trends Project; the Quiet Invasion Galveston Bay Invasive Species Field Guide Series; and the development of an Invasion Potential Scorecard for Aquarium Species. Lisa joined HARC in 2002 after working as a research associate for the Environmental Institute of Houston at the University of Houston, Clear Lake.
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She has served on the boards of the Alliance for Healthy Homes, Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention, Mothers for Clean Air, and Urban Harvest, and currently serves on the board of directors of Houston Tomorrow. She has also served on the Regional Air Quality Planning Committee of the Houston-Galveston Area Council and on the Clean Air Task Force of the Greater Houston Partnership.
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Ms. Hastings has over twenty years of experience analyzing an array of policy issues related to sustainable development, environmental protection, climate change, hazardous and solid waste management, water resources, market development for recycled products, and corporate sustainable development.
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Its mission is to provide a permanent home for the annual Houston Area Survey, stimulate other metropolitan research, sponsor educational programs, and engage in public outreach that advances understanding of pressing urban issues and fosters the development of more humane and sustainable cities. CAROL LEWIS is director of the Center for Transportation Training & Research and associate professor in the Department of Transportation Studies at Texas Southern University.
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She also served as the South Central Regional Associate, helping cities with climate action planning and local sustainability programs.
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Luke's Health Charities, Houston Metropolitan YMCA, and the Alley Theatre. She is a graduate of the Center for Houston's Future Leadership Forum, senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum, and a former trustee of St.
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His air quality research includes field forecasting support, numerical simulation, and diagnostic analysis of ozone events in Houston and Dallas for the Texas Air Quality Studies in 2000 and 2005-6. He teaches courses in weather analysis, weather forecasting, climatology, and atmospheric dynamics, and writes the Climate Abyss blog hosted by the Houston Chronicle.
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Dr. Palacio currently serves as chair of the Texas Public Health Coalition and previously served as president of the Texas Association of Local Health Officials and chair of the Harris County Healthcare Alliance.
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He has authored or co-authored two books and over ninety chapters, articles, papers, and technical reports. His published articles have appeared in a variety of journals including American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, Natural Hazards Review, Disasters, the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Landscape and Urban Planning and Ekistics.
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, National HUD Grantees Association Board Member, Houston Healthy Homes Coalition Co-Chair, Houston Consolidated Plan Advisory Committee Member, Texas Gulf Coast Asthma Coalition Chairperson, and others. She is co-director of the Texas Healthy Homes Training Center in Houston and Mentor of several lead programs nationwide and had worked internationally in Honduras and Costa Rica.
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He lectures at schools of architecture at Rice University and the University of Houston. In addition, he is on the convention program committees for the USGBC, Texas Society of Architects and serves as a committee chair of the AIA Education Committee.
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