AC-ERE Member Biographies

SANDRA BEGAY-CAMPBELL

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JILL BUBIER

Jill L. Bubier is the Marjorie Fisher Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Mount Holyoke College, and a member of the Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Faculty at University of Massachusetts. She is also an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at University of New Hampshire. She received her B.A. from Bowdoin College, M.Sc. in Botany from University of Vermont, J.D. in Environmental Law from University of Maine School of Law, and Ph.D. in Physical Geography and Biogeochemistry from McGill University. From 1983-1988 she was a staff attorney and research associate at the Marine Law Institute, University of Maine School of Law, where she researched legal developments in the management of marine resources, particularly fisheries and coastal zone resources. Before joining the faculty at Mount Holyoke College in 1998, she received a Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire from 1995-1998. She collaborated with several teams of scientists in field and laboratory research for the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS), a U.S.- Canadian collaborative study of boreal forest processes and interactions with the atmosphere. She recently became Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Mount Holyoke, where she is known for training and mentoring women undergraduate students in her research program.

Prof. Bubiers research interests include northern ecosystem responses to climate change, wetland plant ecology, carbon cycling, trace gas fluxes, remote sensing, permafrost dynamics, and ecosystem succession. Most recently, she has been investigating the impact of elevated atmospheric nitrogen on the carbon balance of boreal peatlands. She received a National Science Foundation Career Award for her research on understanding the effects of global climate and environmental change on northern peatlands, and is on the steering committee of a network to foster globalization of northern peatland ecosystem research. She has served on numerous review panels for NASA, NSF and the Academy of Finland. Awards include the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Research Award in 2005, an Excellence in Refereeing Citation from the American Geophysical Union in 2004, and a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for Career Advancement in 2002. (Term expiration: December 2009)

CYNTHIA BURROWS

Dr. Cynthia J. Burrows is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah were she leads an active group investigating the chemistry and biochemistry of oxidative damage to DNA. Her early training was in organic chemistry at the University of Colorado (B. A. 1975) and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1982), followed by a NSF-CNRS postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (1981-83). From 1983-1995, she held the positions of Assistant through Full Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1995, she returned to the West as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah.

Prof. Burrows research program rests at the interface of organic, inorganic and biological chemistry. Her long-standing interest in the mechanisms of transition metal-mediated oxidation led to a focus on oxidative DNA damage in recent years. These studies now range from the identification of new heterocyclic compounds and the mechanisms by which they are formed during DNA oxidation to the investigation of the biological effects of these lesions on DNA replication and repair.

Prof. Burrows has been a member of numerous editorial boards and review panels; she also served as Associate Editor of Organic Letters from its inception until 2002, and is currently Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the AAAS and the recipient of the Robert Parry Teaching Award at the University of Utah; her research was recently recognized with the ACS Utah Award and the University of Utahs Distinguished Creative and Scholarly Research Award. (Term expiration: 2009)

JOHN CRITTENDEN

John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., P.E., N.A.E., is the Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and Hightower Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. His research interests include Pollution Prevention, Physical Chemical Treatment Processes (Ion Exchange, Oxidation Processes, Catalytic Oxidation, Photocatalytic Oxidation, Electrocatalysis, Adsorption, Electro-Adsorption, Air Stripping), Transport of Organics in Saturated and Unsaturated Groundwater, Modeling of Fixed-Bed Reactors and Adsorbers (Photocatalysis, Low Temperature Catalysis in Aqueous and Gas Phases, Transport of Organics in Saturated and Unsaturated Groundwater), Sol-Gel Chemistry for Preparation of Zeolites and Catalysts, Surface Chemistry and Thermodynamics (Prediction of Adsorption Capacities and Surface Catalyzed Rate Constants), Mass Transfer, Numerical Methods, amd Modeling of Wastewater and Water Treatment Processes. (Term expiration: December 2009)

SUSAN CUTTER

Dr. Susan Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of
South Carolina. She is also the Director of the Hazards Research Lab, a research and
training center that integrates geographical information processing techniques with
hazards analysis and management. She is the co-founding editor of an interdisciplinary
journal, Environmental Hazards, published by Elsevier.

Dr. Cutter has been working in the risk and hazards fields for more than twenty-five
years and is a nationally recognized scholar in this field. She has authored or edited
eight books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. Her most recent book, American
Hazardscapes, for the Joseph Henry Press/National Academy of Sciences, chronicles the increasing hazard vulnerability to natural disaster events in the United States during the last thirty years.

In 1999, Dr. Cutter was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a testimonial to her research accomplishments in the field. Her stature within the discipline of geography was recognized by her election
as President of the Association of American Geographers in 1999-2000. (Term expiration: December 2010)

ERIC JOLLY

Dr. Eric J. Jolly is the president of the Science Museum of Minnesota, which is among the nations largest and most-esteemed science museums. He leads a museum that develops and presents educational programs, films and exhibits to 1.3 million people in the upper Midwest and to millions more around the world through its traveling program.

Dr. Jolly is known for his contributions to mathematics and science eworking with such groups as the American Association for the Advancement of ScienNational Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Science Teachers Association. Dr. Jollys work with youth, families, and communities includes diverse organizations such as Youth Alive!, The InnovaCenter, American Youth Policy Forum, the American Museum of Natural History commuoutreach division, the Open Society Institutes Youth Media Programs and the AAAS HeaFamilies 2010 project.

Prior to joining the Science Museum of Minnesota, Dr. Jolly served as senior scientist and vice president for Education Development Center in Newton, Mass. His responsibilities included fundraising, cultivating relationships with scientific and educational organizations, and coordinating intra-divisional programs. Dr. Jolly has served as senior fellow for the UCLA School of Public Policy, an Osher Fellow for the Exploratorium of San Francisco, and as a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow. He is a member of numerous honor societies, including Sigma Xi, Phi Eta Sigma, Mortarboard, and Golden Key. He is also a life member of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Dr. Jolly has a PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma. His undergraduate studies were physics and psychology. (Term expiration: xxxx)

TERESA JORDAN

Dr. Jordan is closely associated with the multidisciplinary Cornell Andes Project. She has been a member of the sedimentary-basins panel of the Solid-Earth Sciences Study of the National Research Council, a representative to the Joint Technical Program Committee of the Geological Society of America (GSA), and a member of the organizing committee of the 1990 meeting of the Northeast GSA. Jordan is a fellow of the GSA and an honorary member of the Asociación Geológica Argentina, a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the International Association of Sedimentologists, and the Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología. She has conducted short courses on sedimentary-basin evolution and analysis for Argentine earth scientists. (Term expiration: December 2009)

ALAN KAY

Dr. Alan Kay, President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc., is best known for the ideas of personal computing, the intimate laptop computer, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented programming. His deep interests in children and education were the catalysts for these ideas, and they continue to be a source of inspiration to him.

One of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, (PARC) he led one of the several groups that together developed modern workstations (and the forerunners of the Macintosh), Smalltalk, the overlapping window interface, Desktop Publishing, the Ethernet, Laser printing, and network "client-servers."

Prior to his work at Xerox, Dr. Kay was a member of the University of Utah ARPA research team that developed 3-D graphics. There he earned a doctorate (with distinction) in 1969 for the development of the first graphical object-oriented personal computer. He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Colorado. Kay also participated in the original design of the ARPANet, which later became the Internet.

After Xerox PARC, Kay was Chief Scientist of Atari, a Fellow of Apple Computer for 12 years, 5 years as Vice President of Research and Development at The Walt Disney Company and 3 years as Sr. Fellow at the Hewlett-Packard Company. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization located in Glendale, CA, and continues as the organization'’s President. (Term Expiration: June 2011)

JOHN MOORE

In 2006, Dr. John Moore was selected to serve as the Director of the Natural
Resource Ecology Lab (NREL). Previously, Dr. Moore was a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Mathematics and Science Teaching (MAST)
Institute at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). John created MAST, patterned after NREL, to balance basic research in education with applications to the K-20 community and to serve as a vehicle to affect public policy. Under Moores leadership, MAST is today an institute with four centers that has garnered over $5 million.

Dr. Moore earned his B.A. in zoology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He then earned an M.S. in statistics, and a second M.S. and his Ph.D. in zoology at CSU. He remained at CSU holding positions as a post-doc and a research associate with NREL before joining the faculty at UNC. While at UNC, he remained as an NREL affiliated scientist and has been involved with the Long_Term Ecological Research Project, GK-12 Program, Center for Learning and Teaching in the West, and planning efforts for the NEON project. (Term expiration: December 2009)

NORINE NOONAN

Dr. Norine E. Noonan is the Regional Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Prior to this position, she was Dean of the School of Sciences and Mathematics at the College of Charleston. She has also served as Executive Director of the National Space Science and Technology Center and as the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Prior to joining the EPA, Dr. Noonan was Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Florida Institute of Technology. Before joining Florida Tech, Dr. Noonan was Chief of the Science and Space Programs Branch, Energy and Science Division, at the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Smithsonian Institution, and other agencies.

She had a lead role in developing and implementing civil space policy and was the lead OMB staff member for monitoring and evaluating federal research and development enterprises, including education. She has published widely in science and in science and technology policy. She lectures on the Federal budget, strategic leadership, and on the Government Performance and Results Act. Dr. Noonan served as the past chair of the National Science Foundations (NSF) Advisory Committee for Government Performance and Results Act Assessment and the NSF Business and Operations Advisory Committee.

Dr. Noonan is a member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and served on its Board of Directors. She is also a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2005 she received the Public Service Medal from NASA.

Dr. Noonan received her B.A. in zoology from the University of Vermont, summa cum laude, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in cell biology from Princeton University.
(Term Expires: December 2011)

NANCY RABALAIS

Nancy Rabalais is Executive Director and Professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Dr. Rabalais' research interests include the dynamics of hypoxic environments, interactions of large rivers with the coastal ocean, estuarine and coastal eutrophication, environmental effects of habitat alterations and contaminants, and science policy.

Dr. Rabalais was a Member, then Chair, of the Ocean Studies Board of the NRC (2000-2005), and served the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel (2002-2006). She is a National Associate of the National Academies of Science. Dr. Rabalais is currently serving as a Member of the NRC Review of Water and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network, and just completed membership on the NRC Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act committee. She is currently Co-Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee, Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme; Member, SCOR Working Group #128 on Natural and Human-Induced Hypoxia and Consequences for Coastal Areas; Science Advisor, Björn Carlson Foundation for the Baltic Sea  Baltic Sea 2020; Chair, Executive Board, NOAAs Coastal Restoration and Enhancement through Science and Technology; Member, Board of Directors, GCOOS, Gulf of Mexico Regional Association for Ocean.US; and Member, National Sea Grant Program National Review Panel

Dr. Rabalais is an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow, a Past President of the Estuarine Research Federation, a National Associate of the National Academies of Science, and past Chair of the Ocean Studies Board of The National Academies. She received the 2002 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award for coastal research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and several research and environmental awards for her work on the causes and consequences of Gulf hypoxa.

She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Biology from Texas A&I University, and her Ph.D. in Zoology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1983. (Term expiration: June 2010)

DAVID REJESKI

David Rejeski directs the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. For the past four years he has also been the Director of the Foresight and Governance Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, an initiative designed to facilitate better long-term thinking and planning in the public sector.

He was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Universitys School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an agency representative (from EPA) to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Before moving to CEQ, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on a variety of technology and R&D issues, including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Initiative.

Before moving to OSTP, he was head of the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. He spent four years in Hamburg, Germany, working for the Environmental Agency, Department of Public Health, and Department of Urban Renewal and, in the late 1970s, founded and co-directed a non-profit involved in energy conservation and renewable energy technologies.

He has written extensively on science, technology, and policy issues, in areas ranging from genetics to electronic commerce and pervasive computing and is the co-editor of the recent book: Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution, Island Press (2004).

He sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agencys Science Advisory Board; the National Science Foundations Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education; the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the National Council of Advisors of the Center for the Study of the Presidency; the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Greening of Industry Network, and the University of Michigans Corporate Environmental Management Program. He has graduate degrees in public administration and environmental design from Harvard and Yale. (Term expiration: December 2009)

JAMES RICE

My research interests focus on the environment geochemistry of naturally-occurring colloidal particles in the waters, sediments and soils of the earths surface. Most natural colloidal systems are composites formed by the interaction of a heterogeneous mixture of organic molecules and inorganic substances such as amorphous aluminosilicates, clays and iron oxides. We are characterizing the surface chemistry and morphology of these materials, and are exploring how they interact with each other, and with environmental contaminants.

Our current and on-going projects include chemical characterizations of the organic components of the colloid, determination of the nature of the binding by cations of the organic and inorganic colloidal components, and studies of the impact of colloidal charge on aggregation behavior. We have found that a reaction-limited cluster model is appropriate for describing aggregation behavior. Once sorbed, we have found that a small, but environmentally important, fraction of the organic matter is entrapped inside surface pores. This entrapped organic matter has a tremendous affinity for hydrophobic organic components, an affinity much greater than that of the other organic components of the colloids. These materials are extremely important in the fate and transport of organic contaminants through natural sys tems. We are currently exploring the mechanisms by which PAHs and PCBs bind to these colloids, and the role that lipids play in the binding process. Using heaxfluorobenzene and 19 F solid state NMR, we have, for the first time clearly demonstrated spectroscopically that two distinct chemical environments exist into which these contaminants can be bound. This is an active area of research within the group and is currently funded by the Office of Naval Research.

We use a variety of analytical techniques in our investigations. These include the use of solution and solid-state NMR, pyrolysis mass spectrometry, electrospray ionization chromatography, small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), and laser light scattering. The SAXS experiments are being done at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, while ESI FT ICE MS experiments are being done at the National Science Foun-dations National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.

Because we are interested in chemistry and geochemistry, every project we undertake involves field work; we want to study chemistry that occurs in a natural system, not a in a laboratory beaker! We sam-ple natural systems to isolate the colloids they contain, and to monitor the fate and transport of contaminants. Because of this field-oriented approach, the research that we are performing provides society with the answers needed to make sound decisions about the environment we live in. (Term expiration: xxxx)

OSVALDO SALA

Osvaldo Sala is the Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology at Brown University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies and Brown Universitys Environmental Change Initiative, which facilitates interdisciplinary research and teaching on environmental change at Brown. As president of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment and a coordinating lead author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Sala is an international leader in ecological science and global environmental policy.

Sala has explored several topics throughout his career from water controls on carbon and nitrogen dynamics arid and semi-arid ecosystems and the consequences of changes in biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems to the development of biodiversity scenarios for the next 50 years. He is particularly interested in working with scenarios as a way of simplifying, understanding, and communicating the complex relationships that emerge from the study of social-ecological systems. While pursuing all these different questions, he used different tools from direct observations, manipulative field experiments, to simulation modeling. His work encompasses a broad range of scales from the globe to specific regions. He has worked in the Patagonian steppe, annual grasslands of California, steppes of Colorado and deserts of Southern Africa and currently he has experiments in the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico. His work is reflected in more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and several co-authored books.

Sala has served as editor of Global Change Biology, the president of the Argentinean Society of Ecology, and a member of the governing board of the Ecological Society of America. Osvaldo Sala is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Argentinean National Academy of Sciences, and the Argentinean National Academy of Physical and Natural Sciences. (Term expiration: December 2009)

SUSAN STAFFORD (CHAIR)

From her start as Dean of the University of Minnesota College of Natural Resources (October 2002), Susan G. Stafford has focused her energies on raising the college's academic and administrative performance to the next level. Her collaborative, energetic, and enthusiastic style of leadership has advanced the college's student enrollment, public and private financial support, and service to local, national and international communities. Stafford has also forged several successful partnerships between the college and other University units.

Stafford most recently served as head of the Forest Sciences Department at Colorado State University. Her background includes nearly 20 years as a professor in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University (OSU). Her academic specialty is in the interface of statistics, ecology, and research information management. In 1994 she served as a visiting division director at the National Science Foundation where she managed a $55 million competitive grants program. She also served for a year as the first faculty associate to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at OSU. Stafford obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Statistics and M.S. in Quantitative Ecology from S.U.N.Y. College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She has a B.S. in Biology from Syracuse University.

In Minnesota and across the nation Stafford's work has received widespread acclaim. In 2003 she served on the Governor's Advisory Task Force on the Competitiveness of Minnesota's Primary Forest Products Industry. In 2004 Twin Cities Business Monthly named Stafford a 'mover and shaker' in Minnesota's biotechnology industry. In 1997 she received the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award for outstanding professional achievement through teaching, scholarship and service. The same year she also received the Women of Achievement Award for her extraordinary efforts in furthering the advancement of the Women of Oregon. These combined experiences provide her with a depth of understanding of the issues facing the departments in the University of Minnesota College of Natural Resources.

Stafford spent her formative years in Syracuse, NY and lives with her husband in Roseville, MN. (Term expiration: December 2009)

JOSEPH TRAVIS

Joseph Travis is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his doctoral degree from Duke University. Travis joined the faculty in Biological Science at Florida State in 1980 and rose through the faculty ranks, serving as Chair of the Biological Science Department chair from 1991-1997 and from 2000-2005 as Director of the Program in Computational Science.

Travis research has been concentrated at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology, focused particularly on how ecological forces act as agents of natural selection on life histories. His early work investigated how predators, crowding, and environmental uncertainty selected for patterns of growth and development in larval amphibians. Subsequent work focused on how several selective agents - thermal regime, salinity, predators, and mating preferences - acted in different combinations in different populations to maintain striking local differences among populations in the morphology, life history and reproductive characters of the livebearing fish, the sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna). The chief subject of his present research is how different patterns of numerical dynamics in local populations exert different selective pressures on the life history and mating behavior of the least killifish, Heterandria formosa.

All of this research has balanced ecological with genetic components. The recent work with least killifish populations has included ecological studies of comparative numerical dynamics, predator-prey interactions, and trophic structure; it has also included genetic analyses of population structure, paternity patterns in natural populations, and quantitative characters. Students from the Travis lab have worked on a variety of topics from species interactions in Amazonian frogs to the genetic and environmental controls of color pattern and retinal characteristics of bluefin killifish. The National Science Foundation has supported Travis research since 1981 and awards from the NSF have helped train twenty doctoral students (fourteen completed dissertations, six current students), eight masters degree students, and provided stipend support for nearly one hundred graduate and undergraduate students since 1981. His current research is supported by two awards from the National Science Foundation and an award from the Alabama Wildlife Commission.

Travis has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Oecologia, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, and The American Naturalist. He served as editor of The American Naturalist from 1998 to 2002 and as Vice-President (1994) and President (2005) of the American Society of Naturalists. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Travis has served on several program advisory panels for the National Science Foundation: Population Biology, Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Sites, and Undergraduate Mentorships in Environmental Biology. He is currently serving on the Advisory Council for the Directorate in Biological Sciences. From 1999-2002, he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, chairing the board in 2001-2002. He has served on several external review panels for biology departments at various universities and continues to serve the National Marine Fisheries Service as a member of the Recovery Science Review Panel for Pacific Salmon. (Term expiration: December 2009)