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C Biographical Information for Committee Members and Staff STEVEN R. BOHLEN, Chair, is president of Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) , a consortium of 29 premier oceanographic research institutions that serves the U.S. scientific community through management of large-scale, global research programs in marine geology, geophysics, and oceanography. Dr. Bohlen graduated from Dartmouth College in 1974 and received a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University of Michigan in 1979. After 3 years as a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA, he joined the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was an assistant and then tenured associate professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His research focused on the chemical and physical evolution of the Earth's continental lithosphere. In 1988, Dr. Bohlen accepted a research position with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and held a joint appointment at Stanford University as a consulting professor. In 1995 he became the associate chief geologist for science at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, where he was responsible for the health and direction of the research programs of the Geologic Division, including earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazard reduction programs; the global seismographic network; energy and mineral resource assessment; climate change; ecosystems; and coastal and marine geology programs.
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0 PORTALS TO THE UNIVERSE Plan, the Polar Research Board (1987-1991) , and the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1989-1991)
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APPENDIX C International Astronomical Union's Commission 42 on Close Binaries and as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal, and is currently editor of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Dr. Szkody served on the NRC Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (1996-1997)
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PORTALS TO THE UNIVERSE CATHERINE A. GRUBER is an assistant editor with the Space Studies Board (SSB) . She joined the SSB as a senior program assistant in 1995. Ms. Gruber first came to the NRC in 1988 as a senior secretary for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and has also worked as an outreach assistant for the National Academy of Sciences-Smithsonian Institution's National Science Resources Center. She was a research assistant (chemist)
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