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Appendix: Committee Biosketches
Pages 145-148

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... Dr. Fung has served on over a dozen National Academies committees, and is the co-lead author of the 2014 NAS-Royal Society publication "Climate Change, Evidence and Causes".
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... Author of over 100 peerreviewed journal articles and over 275 professional publications, he is a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies and recipient of the Transportation Research Board's Roy W Crum Award.
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... With expertise in modeling, statistical analysis, natural resource management, and policy analysis, he has been called upon to participate in domestic and international legislative, administrative, judicial, and educational processes. He recently served on the Department of the Interior's Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science.
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... He is a paleoecologist and paleoclimatologist, with research interests in understanding past climate change, peatland carbon dynamics, and carbon cycle–climate connections, in particular in high latitude and high altitude regions. He has led field research in Alaska, the Tibetan Plateau, Kamchatka, western Canada, Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula, studying carbon accumulation and climate sensitivity of peat-forming ecosystems.
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