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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11759.
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APPENDIX E
Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

RICHARD CHOULARTON is the contingency and response planning advisor for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). He is a specialist in planning emergency responses to humanitarian crises including famines. As a practitioner, Mr. Choularton’s main focus is on improving the use of good analysis in decision-making and planning processes in order to foster more timely and appropriate response to humanitarian crises. This includes the use of remote sensing to support early warning and response efforts. Prior to FEWS NET, Mr. Choularton served as the global focal point for contingency planning for the United Nations World Food Programme and as a member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Working Group for Preparedness and Contingency Planning. Mr. Choularton holds a B.A. in history and political science from Vanderbilt University and an M.Sc. in risk, crisis, and disaster management from the University of Leicester, U.K.


RITA COLWELL is chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., and distinguished university professor at both the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and the developing world. Dr. Colwell served as the eleventh director of the National Science Foundation, 1998-2004.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11759.
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Dr. Colwell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Colwell holds a B.S. in bacteriology and an M.S. in genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington.


ANTHONY C. JANETOS has been vice president of the Heinz Center since March 2003; he joined the center as a senior fellow in June 2002. Dr. Janetos also directs the center’s Global Change Program. Before coming to the Heinz Center, he served as vice president for science and research at the World Resources Institute and senior scientist for the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Earth Science. He was also program scientist for NASA’s Landsat 7 mission. He was a co-chair of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change and an author of the International Panel for Climate Change Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry and the Global Biodiversity Assessment. Dr. Janetos is chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Panel on Earth Science Applications and Societal Needs. Dr. Janetos graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University.


CHRISTIAN J. JOHANNSEN is professor emeritus of agronomy and director emeritus of the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS) at Purdue University. Dr. Johannsen first joined the agronomy faculty at Purdue University in 1963. He served as a program leader of LARS from 1966 to 1972. From 1972 to 1985, he held research and extension positions at the University of Missouri and was a visiting scientist at the University of California (1980-1981). In 1985, he returned to Purdue University as director of the Agricultural Data Network. From 1988 to 1996 he served as director of the Natural Resources Research Institute (renamed the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Institute in 1994), which had LARS within its structure. In 1996-1997, he was a visiting chief scientist with Space Imaging Inc. developing agricultural applications of remote sensing. He has served on many national and international committees and activities including the NRC Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21 (2001-2003), the Steering Committee for Space Applications and Commercialization (1999-2003), the Space Studies Board (1998-2001), and the Committee on Earth Studies (1995-1998).


MARC LEVY is associate director for science applications at the Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network (CIESIN) and is an

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11759.
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adjunct faculty member of the School of International and Public Affairs. His training is in political science, and he has published on environmental sustainability indicators, the effectiveness of international environmental institutions, social learning and environmental policy making, and environment-security connections. He led CIESIN’s work on the Environmental Sustainability Index and the Human Footprint, serves as a project scientist of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, coordinates CIESIN’s work for the Millennium Development Project, and directs work measuring state capacity. Before coming to CIESIN, Mr. Levy had teaching appointments at Princeton University and Williams College. He is a convening lead author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a member of the State Failure Task Force, and co-chair of the Planning Committee of the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Committee.


DAVID ROGERS is a professor of ecology and zoology at Oxford University. Dr. Rogers spent two years in Uganda studying the population ecology of the tsetse fly, an interest that developed into a fascination with trypanosomiasis epidemiology and then the epidemiology of other vector-borne diseases. Dr. Rogers realized the potential of remotely sensed satellite data in such studies in the early 1990s, and the Trypanosomaiasis and Land-use in Africa (TALA) Research Group—within the Department of Zoology at Oxford—continues to extend these applications to indirectly and directly transmitted diseases of many sorts and to the fields of conservation and biodiversity. Dr. Rogers has conducted research and international reviews on vector populations and remote sensing for organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and NASA. He is also a founding fellow of Green College. Dr. Rogers received his Ph.D. from Oxford University.


JAMES VERDIN leads early warning and environmental monitoring activities at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His research and applications interests are in the use of remote sensing and modeling to geographically characterize hydrological and agrometeorological processes. He has been part of the USGS team supporting the FEWS NET and other U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs since 1992. He has extensive project experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the western United States. Dr. Verdin holds a B.S. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; an M.S. in civil engineering from Colorado State University; and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11759.
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TERRY YATES is the vice president for research and economic development and a professor of biology and pathology at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Yates is also the curator of genomic resources at the University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology. His research interests are in surveillance and monitoring of Hantavirus in natural populations of mammals. Dr. Yates has served as director of the division of environmental biology at the National Science Foundation (NSF), chair of the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico, director of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, director of the Systematic Biology Program and head of the Systematic and Population Biology Cluster at NSF. He is a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Mammalogists, a trustee of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, and president of the Natural Science Collections Alliance. Dr. Yates received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, his M.S. from Texas A&M University, and his B.S. from Murray State University.

LIST OF WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Saud Amer, U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Sustainable Development

William Anderson, National Research Council

Joan Aron, Science Communication Studies

Tom Barnwell, Environmental Protection Agency

Ling Bian, University of Buffalo

Art Charo, National Research Council

Bob Chen, CIESIN, Columbia University

Richard Choularton, FEWS NET

Ric Cicone, ISciences

Christine Coussens, National Research Council

Melba Crawford, Purdue University

Brad Doorn, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Gary Eilerts, U.S. Agency for International Development

Michael Emch, University of North Carolina

Paul Epstein, Harvard University

Sallie Findley, Columbia University

Durland Fish, Yale University

Robert E. Ford, Loma Linda University

Chris Funk, University of California-Santa Barbara

Gregory Glass, Johns Hopkins University

Doug Goodin, Kansas State University

Steve Guptil, U.S. Geological Survey

Garik Gutman, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Speaker Biographies and List of Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2007. Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11759.
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Marc Imhoff, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tony Janetos, The Heinz Center

Chris Johannsen, Purdue University

John Kelmelis, U.S. State Department

Uriel Kitron, University of Illinois

Marc Levy, CIESIN, Columbia University

David Lobell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tom Loveland, U.S. Geological Survey

Kathleen Miner, U.S. State Department

Steve Nelson, Chemonics

Esra Ozdenerol, University of Memphis

Garry Peterson, McGill University

Dale Quattrochi, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Curt Reynolds, U.S. Department of Agriculture

David Rogers, Oxford University

David Skole, Michigan State University

Roy Stacy, Chemonics

Paul Stern, National Research Council

Jim Tucker, U.S. Global Change Research Program

Billie Turner, Clark University

James Verdin, U.S. Geological Survey

Firoz Verjee, George Washington University

Dan Walker, National Research Council

Charlie Walthall, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ray Wassel, National Research Council

Terry Yates, University of New Mexico

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Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types of data can provide information on changes in the Earth's surface and atmosphere that are critical for forecasting and responding to human welfare issues, such as disease outbreaks, food shortages, and floods.

This book summarizes a workshop on the potential contributions of remotely sensed data to land-use and land-cover change and ways to use physical, biological, temporal, and social characteristics of particular locations to support decisions about human welfare. The discussions focused on human health and food security, two aspects of human welfare in which remotely-sensed environmental conditions play a key role. Examples illustrating the possibilities for applying remote sensing for societal benefit are included throughout the report. As a result of the workshop, three themes were identified that, if fostered, could help realize the potential for the application of land remote sensing to decisions about human welfare: (1) integration of spatial data on environmental conditions derived from remote sensing with socioeconomic data; (2) communication between remote sensing scientists and decision makers to determine effective use of land remote sensing data for human welfare issues; and (3) acquisition and access to long-term environmental data and development of capacity to interpret these data.

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