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Appendix
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
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WALTER R. LYNN received a Ph.D. from Northwestern
University in 1963 and is an expert in environmental systems
engineering. He is currently Dean of the Faculty and Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Dr.
Lynn has served on several NAE and NRC committees, boards,
and panels and was the chairman of the Water Science and
Technology Board from 1982 to 1985. Currently, he is also
chairman of the New York State Water Resources Planning
Council.
JAMES W. BIGGAR is a Professor of Water Science, Depart-
ment of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of Califor-
nia, Davis. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University
of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Soil Physics from Utah State
University. His areas of expertise and research specialization
include unsaturated zone hydrology, water and soil chemistry, and
water quality.
LENORE S. CLESCERI received a B.S. in 1957 from Loyola
University, an M.S. in 1961 from Marquette University, and a
Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1963.
She is currently Associate Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests are kinet-
ics of microbial growth, microbial biotransformations, toxicology,
and limnology.
ROBERT A. GOLDSTEIN received a doctorate in nuclear
science and engineering from Columbia University in 1969. He is
presently a Program Manager in the Environment Division at the
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Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Dr.
Goldstein has published numerous papers, primarily in the areas
of ecosystems dynamics and modeling. His current research
interests include genetic ecology, systems ecology, and plant stress
ecology.
MARJORIE M. HOLLAND received an A.B. in botany in 1969
from Connecticut College, a B.A. in ecology in 1974 from Smith
College, and a Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst Five College Ph.D. Program. Her main research interests
are plant ecology and systematics, wetlands ecology, natural
resource management, impact assessment, and water policy
development. Dr. Holland is currently Director, Public Affairs
Office, Ecological Society of America and is also on the faculty of
George Mason University, Department of Biology.
GEORGE M. HORNBERGER obtained his Ph.D. from
Stanford University (hydrology) in 1970. He also holds a
bachelor's (1965) and a master's (1967) degree in civil engineering
from Drexel University.
As a professor at the University of
Virginia, he is currently interested in modeling of environmental
systems with uncertainty, hydrogeochemical response of small
catchments, and transport of bacteria in porous media.
PHILIP C. KEARNEY received a B.S. in 1955, an M.S. in 1957
from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1960. Dr. Kearney's research interests are pesticides,
metabolism of organic pesticides by soil microorganisms, and
enzymology of pesticides. He was previously at National Science
Foundation as a Biochemist. His areas of expertise are biochemis-
try and agriculture. Dr. Kearney is currently Deputy Area
Director, Natural Resources Institute, Agricultural Research
Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
SHLOMO P. NEWMAN is Regents' Professor of Hydrology,
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of
Arizona. He received a B.S. in geology in 1963 from Hebrew
University, an M.S. in engineering science in 1966, and a Ph.D. in
engineering science in 1968 from the University of California,
Berkeley. Dr. Neuman's research interests are ground water
modeling, flow and transport modeling, subsurface testing
methods, and stochastic hydrology.
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
EUGENE M. RASMUSSON received a Ph.D. in meteorology
from MIT in 1966. He is currently with the Department of
Meteorology, University of Maryland. He was previously a
meteorologist, hydrologist, and forecaster with the U.S. Weather
Bureau. Dr. Rasmusson served as a member of the NRC Tropical
Ocean and Global Atmosphere panel from 1983 to 1985. His
research interests include atmospheric general circulation, large-
scale water balance, air-sea interactions, tropical meteorology, and
climate variability.
CLIFFORD S. RUSSELL received a Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University in 1968 and is on the faculty at Vanderbilt
University's Institute for Public Political Sciences. He was
previously a research fellow in environmental economics at
Resources for the Future. He is regarded as an expert in public
choice theory applied to natural resources and environmental
policy and mathematical modeling of environmental quality
management problems.
PHILIP C. SINGER is a professor and Director of the water
resources program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental
sciences and engineering from Harvard University. From 1969 to
1973, he was on the faculty at University of Notre Dame; since
1973, he has been at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Singer
has consulted widely, won many honors for his work, and
published approximately 80 papers and reports principally
concerned with aspects of water chemistry and drinking water
quality. Dr. Singer was appointed to the Water Science and
Technology Board in 1990.
KENNETH N. WEAVER is Director, Maryland Geological
Survey. He received his B.S. from Franklin and Marshall College
in 1950 and an M.A. in 1952 and a Ph.D. in geology in 1954 from
The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Weaver's expertise is in
environ- mental and structural geology, geology of industrial
minerals, and research administration.
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