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BOARD ON GLOBAL CHANGE

EDWARD A. FRIEMAN, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Chairman

ERIC J. BARRON, Pennsylvania State University

ROBERT COSTANZA, Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics

JEFF DOZIER, University of California

PETER EAGLESON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PRISCILLA C. GREW, Minnesota Geological Survey

RICHARD E. HALLGREN, American Meteorological Society

ESTELLA LEOPOLD, University of Washington

PAMELA A. MATSON, NASA-Ames Research Center

VEERABHADRAN RAMANATHAN, University of California, San Diego

VERNON W. RUTTAN, University of Minnesota

ROBERT H. SOCOLOW, Princeton University

KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University

GUNTER WELLER, University of Alaska

Ex-Officio Members

(U.S. Members, ICSU Scientific Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP))

JAMES J. McCARTHY, Harvard University

JERRY M. MELILLO, The Ecosystem Center

S. ICHTIAQUE RASOOL, University of Paris VI

(U.S. Members, Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP))

MARGARET S. LEINEN, University of Rhode Island

JERRY D. MAHLMAN, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(U.S. Member, International Steering Committee for the Human Dimensions of Global Change Program)

HAROLD K. JACOBSON, University of Michigan

Staff

JOHN S. PERRY, Staff Director

CLAUDETTE BAYLOR-FLEMING, Administrative Assistant

DONALD H. HUNT, Consultant