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B Biographical Sketches of Principal Contributors
Pages 339-344

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... Dr. Allen's current research is assessing the response of vegetation to rising levels of carbon dioxide and global climate change.
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... in Physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1955. He was vice president of the Weather Modification Company of San Jose, California, senior physicist at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, and a consultant for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
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... He is a member of the advisory panel on paleoclimate formed by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center, and he chairs the University of Arizona's Coordinating Committee on Global Change. HELEN INGRAM is director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy in Tucson, Arizona.
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... He manages a diverse water resources research program that includes: water quality, water supply, hydroelectric power, and environmental components. He holds a Ph.D.
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... Continental-Scale International Project of the World Climate Research Program. His interests include the development of orographic precipitation models to analyze spatial distribution of precipitation in the western United States for input to hydrologic models and to assess information content of precipitation and snow measurement networks.
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... He has served on the National Research Council's Polar Research Board, several committees under the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and the Space Science Board. He is a member of the NOAA Climate and Global Change advisory panel and has served as an editor of scientific journals.
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