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| 287 Contributors Experts Interviewed or Consulted Mark Abkowitz holds an appointment as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University and serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. Dr. Abkowitz manages the risks associated with accidents, intentional acts, and natural disasters. He has a special interest in hazardous materials transportation safety and security, and in risk mitigation using advanced information technologies. James Bresee is currently a Chemical Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. He has served in many positions related to nuclear energy and waste, including Assistant Director to the Engineering Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Assistant Director for General Energy Development at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Director for the North Carolina Energy Institute, and Director of Repository Coordination Division, Office of Civilian Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy. Robert J. Budnitz is on the scientific staff at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is Associate Program Leader for nuclear power safety and security and radioactive waste management. Former positions were at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, where he was Director. He was President of Future Resources Associates, Inc., for 20 years. He has served on numerous investigative and advisory panels. Joanna Burger is Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers University. She was a founding member of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation and Stakeholder Participation, serves on the management board, and leads the Ecological Health Center. Her interests include environmental evaluation, ecotoxicology and ecological risk, biomonitoring and indicator development, effects of temperature and contaminants on behavioral development, risks and benefits of fish consumption, stakeholder-driven research, and stakeholder involvement. Caron Chess, an Associate Professor in Rutgers University’s Department of Human Ecology, conducts research on public participation and risk communication. She has authored peer-reviewed publications in academic journals as well as materials that are used widely by government and industry practitioners. She served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis. James H. Clarke is Professor of the Practice of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and 288 | The Reporter’s Handbook Materials. Dr. Clarke received his PhD in theoretical chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. B. John Garrick’s fields of practice are risk assessment and nuclear science and engineering. A founder of the firm PLG, Inc., he was appointed Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board in 2004 by President George W. Bush and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993. He served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis in 1989–90 and received that society’s most prestigious award, the Distinguished Achievement Award, in 1994. Michael Gochfeld is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and an original member of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation and Stakeholder Participation. He specializes in occupational medicine, environmental health and ecotoxicology, and risk assessment. Holly Harrington works in the Office of Public Affairs at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Previously, she held public affairs positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs and worked as a newspaper reporter. She is an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Washington DC. She holds a BA in journalism and an MS in mass communications. Tom Henry created the Toledo Blade’s environment-energy beat and began writing about nuclear power shortly after joining the newspaper in 1993. In 2006, he was awarded a fellowship at Vermont Law School and is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s finest writers about environmental law. Kathryn Higley is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State University and a member of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation and Stakeholder Participation management board. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on radioecology, dosimetry, radiation protection, radiochemistry, societal aspects of nuclear technology, and radiation biology. Her fields of interest include environmental transport and fate of radionuclides, radiochemistry, radiation dose assessment, neutron activation analysis, nuclear emergency response, and environmental regulations. Paul L. Joskow is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Dr...

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