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PANEL ON COUPLED PROCESSES AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN
C. BARRY RALEIGH,
University of Hawaii,
Chairman
GEORGE A. THOMPSON,
Stanford University,
Vice-Chairman
WILLIAM F. BRACE,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ret.)
BARRY H. G. BRADY,
Dowell—Schlumberger
JOHN D. BREDEHOEFT,
U. S. Geological Survey
RAYMOND M. BURKE,
Humboldt State University
ROBERT O. FOURNIER,
U. S. Geological Survey
SABODH K. GARG,
S—Cubed
GEORGE M. HORNBERGER,
University of Virginia
ROBIN K. McGUIRE,
Risk Engineering, Inc.
AMOS M. NUR,
Stanford University
H. J. RAMEY,
Stanford University
EDWIN W. ROEDDER,
Harvard University
DOUGLAS RUMBLE,
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
W. GEOFFREY SPAULDING,
Dames & Moore
BRIAN P. WERNICKE,
California Institute of Technology
MARY LOU ZOBACK,
U. S. Geological Survey
National Research Council Staff
INA B. ALTERMAN, Senior Staff Officer
RICKY A. PAYNE, Project Assistant
BOARD ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
CHRIS G. WHIPPLE,
Clement International,
Chairman
CHARLES FAIRHURST,
University of Minnesota,
Vice-Chairman
COLIN J. ALLAN,
AECL Research, Whiteshell Laboratory
JEAN M. BAHR,
University of Wisconsin—Madison
LYNDA BROTHERS,
Davis Wright Tremaine
SOL BURSTEIN, Consultant,
Wisconsin Electric Power
PAUL BUSCH,
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
MELVIN W. CARTER,
Georgia Institute of Technology
CARON CHESS,
Rutgers University
E. WILLIAM COLGLAZIER,
National Academy of Sciences
B. JOHN GARRICK,
PLG, Inc.
ROBERT D. HATCHER,
University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DAVID H. MARKS,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PERRY L. McCARTY,
Stanford University
ROGER O. McCLELLAN,
Chemical Industry Institute of Technology
FRED W. McLAFFERTY,
Cornell University
D. KIRK NORDSTROM,
U. S. Geological Survey
GLENN PAULSON,
Illinois Institute of Technology
DAN W. REICHER,
Natural Resources Defense Council
Staff
PETER B. MYERS, Staff Director
CARL A. ANDERSON, Deputy Staff Director
INA B. ALTERMAN, Senior Staff Officer
ROBERT S. ANDREWS, Senior Staff Officer
ALEXANDRA BERNSTEIN, Research Associate
REBECCA D. ROSS, Administrative Assistant
RICKY A. PAYNE, Project Assistant
SHELLEY MYERS, Project Assistant
JAMES GLADDEN, Project Assistant
COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES
M. GORDON WOLMAN,
The Johns Hopkins University
ROBERT C. BEARDSLEY,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
B. CLARK BURCHFIEL,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PETER S. EAGLESON,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HELEN M. INGRAM,
University of Arizona
GENE E. LIKENS,
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
SYUKURO MANABE,
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
JACK E. OLIVER,
Cornell University
PHILLIP A. PALMER,
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
FRANK L. PARKER,
Vanderbilt University/Clemson University
DUNCAN T. PATTEN,
Arizona State University
MAXINE L. SAVITZ,
Allied Signal Aerospace Company
LARRY SMARR,
University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign
STEVEN M. STANLEY,
The Johns Hopkins University
SIR CRISPIN TICKELL,
Green College at the Radcliffe Observatory
KARL K. TUREKIAN,
Yale University
IRVIN L. WHITE,
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Staff
STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director
STEPHEN D. PARKER, Associate Executive Director
JANICE E. MEHLER, Assistant Executive Director
JEANETTE SPOON, Financial Officer
CARLITA PERRY, Administrative Assistant
ROBIN LEWIS, Senior Project Assistant