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Appendix A: Committee on Smithsonian Scientific Research: Biographical Sketches
Pages 73-78

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... He has been elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations, including the American Society for Engineering Education. He has served on several National Academies panels; he was chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, cochair of the Fourth Decade Committee, and chair of the Task Group on Institutional Arrangements for Facilitating Research on the International Space Station.
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... Assistant Administrator for Water, the Wetland Experts Team of the Nature Conservancy, and the Technical Oversight Committee for restoration of the Hole-in-theDonut in Everglades National Park, for which she served as chair. In 1993-1995, she was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Wetland Characterization, and she has served as a consultant on wetlands to EPA's Science Advisory Board.
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... Astronomy Section, the US National Committee for the International Astronomical Union, and the Radio Astronomy Panel of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee and has served on other National Research Council committees, boards, and commissions and on the NAS Council. His research interests include radio galaxies, quasars and cosmology, and the development of new instrumentation for radio astronomy.
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... He works at the interface of zoology, botany, and geology. He has published papers on chemical embryology, paleontology, fish zoogeography, kinetics of phosphorus cycling, orientation of thaw lakes, management of trout populations, paleolimnology, theory of ice ages, chemical composition of lakes and rivers, folklore, crocodile behavior, geochemical cycles, interactions of climate and human culture, coring technology, and pollen analysis, especially of Alaska, Nova Scotia, and tropical Africa.
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... He is board-certified in veterinary pathology. His primary interests include pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious diseases, avian embryonic and neonatal pathology as related to captive propagation for recovery programs, population dynamics of infectious disease, and disease risk assessment for translocation and reintroduction programs.
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... 78 APPENDIX A paternal care, and conservation needs, and her research has focused on owl monkeys, till monkeys, tarriers, and femurs. Most recently, she has been continuing a long-term behavioral and demographic study of the Milne-Edwards sifaka (Propithecus diadems edwardsi)
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