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Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographies
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holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He was a Humboldt Fellow at Universität Tübingen, Germany, served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, was chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico.
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He is also increasingly concerned with how plant diversity can best be conserved for the future, and how it can be used in sustainable ways for human benefit. Professor Crane has studied plants and vegetation in several parts of the world and has undertaken research on living plants in numerous families in order to establish a secure basis for comparison with fossil material.
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His current research interests include paleobiology and macroevolution, speciation and extinction, ecology and paleoecology of coral reefs, marine conservation, and bryozoans and mollusks. His past research interests included historical patterns of diversity and extinction in tropical America in relation to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama and the ecology and conservation of tropical coastal communities.
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Dr. Reichman has been a program officer in the ecology program at the National Science Foundation, associate vice provost for research and director of Konza Prairie Research Natural Area at Kansas State University, and assistant director for research in the National Biological Service in the Department of the Interior.
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at the Australian National University before spending 15 years as a research scientist with the marine program at the Australian Geological Survey Organisation. During this time he participated in numerous research cruises -- many as chief or cochief scientist -- and most recently was co-chief scientist for Ocean Drilling Program Leg 182.
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in international peace and conflict resolution from Arcadia University, specializing in resource extraction and conflict in sub-Sahara Africa.
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