Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species Special Report 291 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Study Committee Biographical Information
Study Committee Biographical Information
Pages 193-202
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He chairs the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel and is a member of the Science Advisory Team for the California Ocean Protection Council. He is past chair of the National Sea Grant Review Panel and has served on the National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources Advisory Council and the U.S.
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He previously held visiting scientist and research associate positions at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, was a research associate with the National Weather Service, and worked as a nuclear safety analyst for Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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He has served on a number of advisory committees addressing transportation, logistics, and trade issues, including the Canadian Federal Transportation Services Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade and the Multimodal Council of the Transportation Association of Canada. He has appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport on a number of occasions as well as before the Canadian Transport Commission.
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states and metropolitan areas, he is engaged in modeling projects in Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Japan, and Indonesia. His recent work on the Midwest regional economy has focused on the estimation of interstate trade flows as a prelude to the construction of a Midwest impact and forecasting model that is linked with a transportation network model.
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He is also director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network. His research focuses on biological invasions and aquatic community ecology, with particular emphasis on the Great Lakes, and uses genetic probes, mathematical modeling, and field studies to explore the importance of invasion vectors.
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From 1996 to 2001, he was associate director of Rand's Science and Technology Policy Institute, where his work provided research and analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other agencies of the executive branch. His recent projects include work on technical barriers to international trade, critical technologies, national innovation systems, and federal R&D portfolio decision making.
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He has also lectured extensively on Great Lakes water quantity issues. He is a former president of the International Association for Great Lakes Research and has served on several boards, task forces, and committees of the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, and other Great Lakes organizations.
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His research interests include environmental policy; the interaction of human activities and natural processes in altering the environment; and surficial earth processes with emphasis on erosion, sedimentation, and landform evolution. His recent publications address a variety of topics in environmental policy, including human and ecosystem health, water quality management, and the application of systems analysis in natural resources management.
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Her numerous publications address various topics in wetland ecology. They include a book chapter on prospects for the integrity of aquatic ecosystems and articles on the causes and consequences of invasive plants in wetlands and on the need for a regional restoration strategy for coastal mitigation in Southern California.
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Her research focuses on freshwater ecosystems, and she is involved in cooperative efforts with ecologists both inside and outside the university in efforts to develop practically oriented, holistic models of lake ecosystems that might prove useful in both rehabilitation and efforts to conserve aquatic community biodiversity.
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