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Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 39-46
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service includes chairing the National Weather Service Modernization Committee from 1996 to 1999 and the Committee on NASA-NOAA Transition of Research to Operations in 2002-2003. BERRIEN MOORE III, Co-chair, is a professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire.
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She has served as chair of the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science; chair of the National Science Foundation Geosciences Advisory Committee; Scientific Discipline Representative and URSI Representative for SCOSTEP; and commissioner of the American Meteorological Society.
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, and she was president of the Association of American Geographers in 1999-2000. She currently serves on the NRC Geographical Sciences Committee, the Committee on Disaster Research in the Social Sciences, and the Panel on Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making.
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He is the recipient of the 1999 American Meteorological Society's Jule G Charney Award for "penetrating research on four-dimensional data assimilation systems and numerical models." He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and of the Royal Meteorological Society, and is a member of the Irish Meteorological Society.
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The Advanced Technology Center is Lockheed Martin's primary multidisciplinary R&D laboratory, with a technology portfolio that encompasses optics and electro-optics; precision control systems; guidance and navigation; materials and structures; RF, photonics, and telecommunications; cryogenics and thermal sciences; space-science instrumentation; and modeling, simulation, and information science. The Advanced Technology Center also produces payload instrumentation for space-science missions and provides technology consulting for other operating units throughout the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
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From 1986 to 1992, Dr. Zoback created and led the World Stress Map project, an effort that actively involved 40 scientists from 30 different countries, with the objective of interpreting a wide variety of geologic and geophysical data on the present-day tectonic stress field.
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and was the American Institute of Physics' 1988-1989 AAAS Congressional Science Fellow. In addition to directing studies that have resulted in some 22 reports from the NRC, he is the author of research papers in the field of molecular spectroscopy; reports to Congress on arms control and space policy; and the monograph Continental Air Defense: A Neglected Dimension of Strategic Defense (University Press of America, 1990)
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