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CSSP SEMI-ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2-4 MAY 2020 LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

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KAREN ANDRADE Civic Science Fellow Science Philanthropy Alliance

An interdisciplinary environmental health scientist by training, Karen Andrade has expertise in community-based participatory research and a robust track record of engaging diverse communities in science. The breadth and depth of her scientific knowledge is coupled with a firm conviction in the essential role of basic sciences, the benefit of cross-disciplinary approaches, and an enduring interest in exploring the role of science in society.

Karen recently completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford and the University of California, Davis, where she led biomedical and environmental health research to benefit marginalized and vulnerable communities. Her interest in exploring new paths to inspire support of, and engagement with, science led her to found and direct the University of California, Berkeley, Science Shop when she was a graduate student. This student-led organization facilitated research collaborations between Berkeley students and San Francisco Bay Area communities with environmental research needs. Karen is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, and earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy & Management from the University of California, Berkeley.

JEN BURKS Senior Policy Advisor Office of Senator Mazie K. Hirono

Jen Burks currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor for U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI). Jen has served in this role for six years, handling agriculture, natural resource, ocean, climate change, and environmental policy for the Senator. Prior to this, Jen served 8 months as a AAAS Congressional Science Policy Fellow in Senator Hirono’s office. Jen came to Washington, D.C. shortly after earning her PhD in Agronomy at Purdue University. At Purdue she participated in the Ecological Sciences and

Engineering Program where she researched the eco-physiology of three perennial bioenergy cropping systems. Jen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Earlham College with a Minor in Chemistry.


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MALCOLM BUTLER Association for Science Teacher Education University of Central Florida CSSP Board Chair

Malcolm B. Butler, Ph.D., is Professor of Science Education in the School of Teaching, Learning and Leadership at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. In addition to his faculty role, Dr. Butler is also Program Coordinator for the Bachelors and Masters Programs in Secondary Science Education. He is the current President of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), an international organization for professionals who are involved in the preparation and development of teachers of science at all levels. His teaching and research interests include multicultural science education, science and underserved students, K-12 pre-service and in-service science teacher

education, environmental education and physics education. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, the Journal of Science Teacher Education, Science Activities, the International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, and the Journal of Multicultural Education. His teaching and research have been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Education. Dr. Butler is also one of the authors of National Geographic Learning’s National Geographic Science, and Exploring Science, two national elementary science curriculum programs, as well as the book, Teaching Science to English Language Learners, published by Routledge.

AARON GOLDNER Senior Advisor on Energy & Transportation Policy Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Aaron received his bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University where he studied Earth and Environmental Science. After graduation from OSU, he spent time at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a post-baccalaureate fellow in their climate, ocean, and sea-ice modeling group where he looked out how climate change was affecting water resources. Following his work at Los Alamos, Aaron received his PhD from Purdue University where he studied climate dynamics and global climate modeling.

In addition to working on climate and energy modeling, he has spent the last several years working in public policy. Aaron’s work in policy has included working in the office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as the American Geophysical Union


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(AGU)-AAAS Congressional Science Fellow and at the Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis doing climate and energy policy. Currently, Aaron works in the Office of Senator Whitehouse as a senior advisor on energy and transportation policy.

CHRIS GRAVES President & Founder Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science

Christopher Graves was named founding President of the Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science in 2017 after serving 12 years as Global Chairman, Global CEO, and Regional (APAC) CEO for Ogilvy Public Relations. He also served as a member of the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Board and Executive Committee.

Graves joined Ogilvy after two decades in media and news, including 18 years with Dow Jones & The Wall Street Journal. He also headed all news & programming for the TV networks CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe.

Christopher was awarded a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in 2016 for his work in behavioral science in communications. He was elected life member to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2010, the most influential foreign policy think tank in the US.

Graves served two terms as chairman of the industry association, PR Council, and as a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations where he co-founded their behavioral insights initiative.

Christopher is an active and highly-rated public speaker. He appears as a guest expert on television news, and as a guest anchor on CNBC. He has chaired sessions with world leaders and CEOs at the World Economic Forum (Davos and Summer Davos in China) for more than a decade. He has also been a speaker at the United Nations, SXSW, The Clinton Global Initiative, the World Islamic Economic Forum, and has keynoted hundreds of summits and corporate meetings.

Awards include: a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency; ESOMAR World Congress top prize; Marketing Research Society Grand Prix; four WPP Atticus Awards including the Grand Prix (for thought leadership); ICCO Hall of Fame; Campaign Asia Hall of Fame; Top 25 Innovator (Holmes Report); Agency of the Year, Asia Pacific PR Professional of the Year, Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year; a news EMMY nomination and more than a dozen awards from The New York Film and Television Festivals and the Asian Television Awards.

Graves contributes frequently to the Harvard Business Review and was a contributing author of three McKinsey books: “Korea 2020;” and the business bestsellers “Reimagining Japan” and “Reimagining India.”


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ROSE HENDRICKS Kavii Science Fellow Society Civic Science

Rose Hendricks is the Kavli Civic Science Fellow, working with a group of science societies to expand collaboration in order to better support scientists who engage with diverse audiences. She is also a Research Fellow at the FrameWorks Institute, where she works to understand public thinking on science issues and researches strategies for improving communications on those issues. Rose is invested in science communication training, as a volunteer member of both the Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon) Leadership Team and the SciComm Trainers Network Core Team. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, studying the relationship between metaphor and cognition.

MAIZE HIRONO Senator from Hawaii

Mazie K. Hirono was elected to the Senate in 2012 and sworn in as Hawaii’s first female senator and the country’s first Asian-American woman senator. Throughout her time in the Senate, Hirono has fought on behalf of Hawaii families and communities whose voices are not often heard in Congress.

Hirono serves on the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. She is also the ranking member of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and the Judiciary

Subcommittee on The Constitution.

Born in Fukushima, Japan, Hirono was nearly eight years old when her mother brought her and her siblings to Hawaii to escape an abusive husband and seek a better life. Hirono served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1981 to 1994 and earned a reputation as an advocate for consumers and workers. After being elected as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor in 1994, Hirono led efforts to support Hawaii's tourism industry through visa reform. Voters in Hawaii’s second congressional district elected Hirono to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006.


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LISA KEEFE American Crystallography Association Principal Research, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute CSSP Board Chair-Elect

Dr. Keefe is a biophysicist whose work focuses on accelerating drug discovery through synchrotron-based structural biology. She is Vice President for Advancing Therapeutics at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) in Buffalo, NY, and Director of the Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association – Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT) located at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. At IMCA-CAT, her work is aimed at implementing state-of-the-art technology and innovative

approaches at the macromolecular crystallography beamline in order to leverage the power of synchrotron radiation for structure-based drug design. Through her leadership, IMCA-CAT has developed into a world-class research facility for the pharmaceutical industry.

A graduate of Vassar College, Dr. Keefe earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with certification from the American Chemical Society. She holds a doctoral degree in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Upon completing her doctorate, she was awarded a Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, working jointly with Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Dr. Keefe is an active member of the American Crystallographic Association, serving on Council as Past President (2019), President (2018), Vice President (2017), and Secretary (2003-2008). She currently serves as consultant to the International Union of Crystallography, Commission on Synchrotron and XFEL Radiation

ERICA KIMMERLING LISTEN – Leaders in Science & Technology Engagement Networks

Erica Kimmerling is the Senior Advisor for Science Engagement Policy and Partnerships at the Association of Science Centers. She manages the emerging network for Leaders in Science and Technology Engagement Networks (LISTEN) as ASTC’s Civic Science Fellow supported by the Kavli Foundation. She recently completed a Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences working on the Public Face of Science Project. In this role, Erica was the lead drafter of the project reports Perceptions of Science in America, Encountering Science in America, and a final project report with recommendations for building capacity


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for science communication and engagement. She completed a PhD in biomedical engineering as a National Institutes of Health Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Tufts University where her research focused on developing tissue-engineered models.

MICHAEL MOLONEY CEO American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Michael H. Moloney is the ninth CEO of the American Institute of Physics where he leads the federation’s programs serving the physical sciences community, including AIP’s ten Member Societies. Previously he was the Director for Space and Aeronautics at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—where in a 16-year career he worked on about 100 reports on physics, space sciences, materials science, aeronautics and many more topics. Moloney also spent 7 years as a foreign service officer for the Government of Ireland. He earned his PhD in physics from Trinity College Dublin.

SHARON MOSHER American Geosciences Institute The University of Texas at Austin CSSP Board Alumni Representative

Sharon Mosher is Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin and has held this position since 2009. She is a professor and holder of the William Stamps Farish Chair and has been a faculty member at the university since 1978. Dr. Mosher’s expertise is in structural geology, structural petrology, and tectonics. Her primary research interests are in deformation along plate boundaries, the evolution of complexly deformed terranes, strain analysis, deformation mechanisms, and the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation. She has supervised 19 Ph.D. and 35 M.S. students and was field camp director for 15 years. She was chair of the Department of

Geological Sciences from 2007-2009. Mosher received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1978 and M.Sc. from Brown University in 1975.

Mosher was President of the American Geoscience Institute (AGI) in 2012-13, President of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in 2000-2001, and 2004 Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, an organization representing ~1.5 million scientists nationwide. She is a founder and past chair of the board for GeoScienceWorld, an


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international journal aggregation for geoscientists. She is an active member in many geoscientific societies including GSA, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). She is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, from which she received the Distinguished Service Award in 2003, an honorary fellow of the Geological Society of London, and recipient of the Association of Women Geologists Outstanding Educator Award (1990). In 2016 she was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award from her alma mater, the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.

NAOMI ORESKES Professor of the History of Science Harvard University

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. A world-renowned geologist, historian of science and public speaker, she is a leading public intellectual on the role of science in society the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and on anti-scientific disinformation campaigns. Her book include including Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2014), Discerning Experts (University Chicago Press, 2019), Why Trust Science? (Princeton University Press,

2019), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Her opinion pieces have been published in many leading venues, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Times (London), Le Monde, and Frankfurter Allgemeine. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a new book project with Erik Conway, “The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea.”

JOEL SACHS Principal The Sachs Groups

Joel Sachs has led innovative marketing and sales programs for over 25 years – at large to small, late-staged to early-staged companies as either a consultant or marketing/sales executive. He was an early innovator in shifting organizations from traditional feature-focused push-marketing (all about the technology) to user-oriented pull-marketing (all about engaging on user issues). He recasts growth obstacles into expansion opportunities and focuses on created conversations that explore how users interpret website content, marketing collateral, and collaborative interactions to

achieve outstanding growth outcomes.


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Through the use of special tools and methodologies, such as, needs vs. wants vs. time assessment, user interaction mapping, and ears of the user analysis, Joel enables organizations to gain unique perspectives on members, member engagement behaviors, and society relationships. He has helped hardware, software, and service organizations leverage the user perspective to best position their offerings and themselves to accelerate engagement and growth.

Mr. Sachs served as CMO for Riptech and Exponential Storage and as SVP of Marketing and Sales at Arca, Syndata, and Intellitactics. He gained extensive management and technical experience working for Digital Equipment, GTE, Intermetrics, and MITRE. He is a graduate of Loyola (BA Math & Comp Sci) and Penn State (MA Math & MS Comp Sci). In addition, he was a CAES Fellow at MIT (Risk & Decision Analysis) and studied Business Process Re-engineering and Technology Adoption at Carnegie Mellon.

JENNIFER SHIEH Chief Scientist and Program Manager Office of Innovation and Technology Office of Investment and Innovation U.S. Small Business Administration

Dr. Jennifer Shieh advances technology commercialization through the Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs, building partnerships and coordinating policy across the 11 participating Federal agencies. She served as the Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she led national efforts to improve the transfer of federally-funded technologies from lab-to-market, advance Federal agency coordination on R&D infrastructure, and champion open innovation through prizes and citizen science. Previously, she

managed the Small Business Program for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and served as a Program Director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) SBIR Development Center, having joined NCI as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She was involved in product and customer development at Syapse, a precision medicine-focused startup, and mobile games startup Subversus Interactive. Dr. Shieh studied brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, then earned her PhD in neurosciences at Stanford University. She is co-author of the textbook Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience.


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PATRICIA SIMMONS National Science Teaching Association CSSP Board Member-at-Large

Patricia Simmons currently serves as the Director of STEM Special Initiatives at the NSTA. Prior to this position, she completed a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016-2018), working in the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Academic positions have included Professor and Head of the Department of STEM Education at North Carolina State University, the Orthwein Professorship of Life-long Learning in the Sciences at the University of Missouri-St. Louis,

Professor at the University of Georgia, and High School Science Teacher in Missouri. Much of her scholarship has focused on the role of technology as viable and valuable learning and research tools in science education, and more recently on policy in science and in STEM education. Her professional contributions include more than 200 publications and presentations at international and national meetings in science and STEM education (i.e., World Conference on Computers in Education, International Federation for Information Processing, Australian Science Education Association, AAAS, NARST, AERA, NCTM, among many others). Simmons was awarded over $50 million in externally funded federal and private grants for research, teacher education, and education projects. Simmons served as Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, President of the National Science Teachers Association, and President of the Association for Science Teacher Education. She received awards for excellence in teaching and in science education at UGA (Lily Teaching Fellowship), UMSL (Outstanding Faculty), ASTE (Outstanding Science Teacher Educator), and NSTA (two Gustav Ohaus Awards for Outstanding College Science Teaching), and the NSTA Distinguished Service to Science Education.


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DAVID SINCLAIR Biologist Harvard Medical School

David Sinclair is a tenured Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is best known for his work on genes and small molecules that delay aging by boosting the body’s defenses and for being the first reprogram and rejuvenate tissues in vivo. He has published over 200 scientific papers, is a co-inventor on over 50 patent and patent applications, and has co-founded a dozen biotechnology companies in the areas of rare diseases, inflammation, vaccines, infectious disease detection, eye diseases, diabetes, fertility, cancer, and biosecurity. His first book Lifespan became a New York Times best seller in 2019. He has a citation index (h-index) of 94, serves as

founder and Co-Chief Editor of the scientific journal Aging, is a board member of companies, and has received 36 awards including being one of Australia's leading scientists under 45, the Australian Medical Research Medal, the NIH Director’s Pioneer award, TIME magazine’s list of the “100 most influential people in the world” and the “Top 50 people in healthcare.” In 2018, he became the equivalent of a knight as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his work in medical research, science communication, and national security.

CHRIS VOLPE Executive Director Science Counts

Dr. Christopher Volpe is the executive director and a founding board member of ScienceCounts, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to bolstering public awareness of, and support for, scientific research.

Having an academic background in physical chemistry and two decades of private sector experience in marketing and branding of STEM outreach products, Dr. Volpe is developing data-driven social marketing strategies to foster stronger connections between the scientific community and the general public. He is a leading researcher of public attitudes towards science, and a strong advocate for science communication efforts that bring together a choir of voices from academia, industry, philanthropy, and government.

Previously, he served as president and co-founder of Prismatic Laser Programs LLC, the nation’s leading provider of STEM-based assembly programs to K-8 schools.


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JORY WEINTRAUB Science Communication Director Duke University

Jory Weintraub is the Science Communication Director and a Senior Lecturing Fellow with Duke University’s Initiative for Science & Society. In this position, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in science communication and provides science communication training for Duke faculty and postdocs. He is also the Director of the Duke Broader Impacts Resource Center, which he established to support the Duke University research community in its efforts to develop, implement, assess and disseminate broader impacts activities and initiatives.

He is one of the co-principal investigators of the NSF-funded ARIS (Advancing Research Impact in Society) Center, which works with scientists and engagement practitioners to build capacity, advance scholarship, grow partnerships and provide resources to help them engage with and demonstrate the impact of research in their communities and society.

Jory received his BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from The University of California at San Diego, and his PhD in Immunology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After completing his graduate studies, he completed an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in STEM Education. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Alliance for Broader Impacts (NABI), and serves on the Board of Directors of Science Communicators of North Carolina (SCONC). He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM), is a member of the editorial board of the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach, and serves on the Education Committee of the Society for the Study of Evolution. His work focuses on minority outreach, science communication/education/outreach, and faculty development.

IAN WILSON Structural Biologist Scripps Research

Dr. Wilson obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from Edinburgh University (1971), D. Phil. (1976) and D.Sc. (2000) in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University, and was awarded a D.Sc. (hon.) from University of St. Andrews (2007). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (1977-1982) and joined The Scripps Research Institute as a faculty member in 1982. He is currently Hansen Professor of Structural Biology and Chair of the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps Research. His laboratory focuses on the structural basis of immune recognition


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through determination of crystal structures of many antigen recognition receptors, including antibodies (>350), MHC class I and II, T cell receptor, NK receptor, cytokine receptors, Toll-like receptors and variable lymphocyte receptors. He has worked extensively on the structure and function of key glycoprotein antigens from enveloped viruses, including influenza virus, HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus. His current focus is on how influenza virus, HIV-1, HCV and the P. falciparum malaria parasite are recognized by broadly neutralizing and protective antibodies to inform on design of novel vaccines and therapeutics. His lab recently began working on the SAR2-CoV-2 spike protein in complex with antibodies to aid in vaccine and therapeutic design. From 2000–2016, Dr. Wilson directed the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG), a multi-institutional consortium that pioneered high-throughput structural methods and deposited 1600 novel structures in the Protein Data Bank. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has authored more than 800 papers, and is on the Statistical Board of Reviewing Editors of Science and the Editorial Board of Immunity.

PETE WYCKOFF Energy & Environmental Policy Advisor Office of Senator Tina Smith

Dr. Peter Wyckoff, Energy and Environment Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Tina Smith. Dr. Wyckoff has worked on climate and energy policy in Washington DC since 2016. He served as an Energy and Environment Policy Fellow for former Minnesota Senator Al Franken and then worked briefly at the Department of Energy and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. He currently serves as Energy and Environment Policy Advisor to Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, and leads her energy team. In the past year, Senator Smith has led the introduction of six pieces of clean energy legislation, including the Clean

Energy Standard Act of 2019 and the Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2019.

Prior to coming to Washington, Dr. Wyckoff had a first career in academia, and he is Professor Emeritus in Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris.


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Participant Biographies


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Martin Apple American Institute of Chemists Dr. Apple has pioneered areas of biochemistry, pharmaceutics, artificial intelligence, sustainable agriculture, systems of systems science, behavioral economics, green chemistry, teacher education and medicine. He initiated a world pioneering research institute in molecular genetics to improve yield and

nutrient quality of food plants, led a program to one of the first patented computer-assisted receptor-based drug designs, discovered new molecular tools to modify gene regulation, designed pioneering injectable systems for specific delivery of any drug to a designated specific tissue, designed, engineered and led a team that built the pioneering model of a pocket-size artificial kidney dialysis machine, initiated and led a special team into pioneering new cyber-security strategies, and managed – led several national scale long term NSF-funded studies of science teacher education. He was instrumental in the startup of five high tech companies.

David Baltensperger Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Dr. David Baltensperger began his role as Professor and Department Head of Soil and Crop Sciences in October 2005 and recently completed serving his role as Interim Department Head for Ecosystem Science and Management. Baltensperger provides leadership and administration for a large comprehensive program of research, teaching and extension in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences.

Baltensperger provides leadership and administration for a large comprehensive program of research, teaching and extension in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. Mason Berry Alamo Remedy Born on Texas soil and thankful for it. The family business is industrial infrastructure fabrication and construction founded in 1953 in Corpus Christi Texas operating today as Bay Ltd. My business is hemp, cannabis and Cannabinoid products. I support Agrilife.

Deborah Bronk Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Deborah Bronk joined Bigelow Laboratory in February 2018 as its president and CEO. She earned a Ph.D. in marine-estuarine and environmental sciences from the University of Maryland, and she has more than two decades of experience as a professor and an oceanographer. During that time,


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she has conducted more than 50 research cruises and field studies in freshwater and marine environments that stretch from pole to pole. Most recently, Deborah was the Moses D. Nunnally Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and department chair at Virginia Institute of Marine Science. She previously served as division director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Ocean Science and as president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

Sylvia Brouder American Society of Agronomy

William Carroll ACS - American Chemical Society Dr. William F. Carroll, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. He retired from Occidental Chemical Corporation in 2015 after 37 years and now heads his own company, Carroll Applied Science, LLC. He is also Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana.Bill has served as President and as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society, and is a Fellow of ACS as well as AAAS and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2009 he was chair of

the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

Bonnie Charpentier ACS - American Chemical Society American Chemical Society President 2019, Immediate Past President 2020.


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H.N. Cheng ACS - American Chemical Society H. N. Cheng (B.S., UCLA; Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is currently 2020 President-Elect of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and a member of ACS Board of Directors. His day job is with USDA Southern Regional Research Center. Prior to 2009, he was Senior Research Fellow at Hercules Incorporated (now Ashland, Inc.), where he held various managerial and R&D positions.

Jeffrey Cohen INFORMS EA

George Corcoran Society of Toxicology

Andy DeSoto Association for Psychological Science Andy DeSoto is the Director of Government Relations at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington, DC, USA. I advocate on behalf of APS and the field of psychological science, strengthening connections between science funders and basic and applied research psychologists and communicating science policy issues to members of APS and the public. As a cognitive psychologist, I contribute to APS science and metascience initiatives and serve as a scientific and academic adviser to association staff.


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John Downing Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography and Minnesota Sea Grant John Downing is Director of Minnesota Sea Grant College Program, and a past-president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). As a past Chair of the CSSP Executive Board he participated in visits to Congress on behalf of CSSP and as a member of the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies. He was a

Regent’s Excellence Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, and the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University.

Ksenija Gasic NAPB - National Association of Plant Breeders Dr. Ksenija Gasic is an Associate Professor of Horticulture, at the Clemson University with research emphasis on peach breeding and genetics. Her research is focused on development of high quality, disease resistant peach varieties adapted to environmental conditions of Southeastern US and involves characterization and utilization of peach genetic diversity, and development and utilization of genomic technology and computational approaches to improve breeding efficiency.

Nick Goeser American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America


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Michael Grusak Crop Science Society of America Dr. Mike Grusak is a USDA, Agricultural Research Service scientist and the Center Director of the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center in Fargo, North Dakota. He leads a program consisting of five research units where scientists encompass expertise ranging from crop plants to insects to food safety. The Center’s broad mission is to solve problems that will help farmers produce a safe, nutritious, and sustainable food supply. Prior to his appointment as Center Director in 2017, Dr. Grusak served as a Research Plant Physiologist at the USDA-ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) in Houston,

TX and a Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. He joined the CNRC in 1990 to develop an interdisciplinary program to link plant science and production agriculture with human nutrition concerns. His research involves understanding ways to enhance the nutritional quality of plant foods for human or animal consumption. His group also has contributed to clinical investigations by providing stable isotope-labeled plant material to study nutrient bioavailability and metabolism in humans. Dr. Grusak received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California-Davis. His research has been funded by USDA, NSF, NIH, the US Agency for International Development, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2016, he served as President of the Crop Science Society of America

Elizabeth Guertal Crop Science Society of America

Florencio Hernandez UCF - College of Community Innovation & Education Hernández is a Professor of Chemistry & Optics at the University of Central Florida. He is a servant leader with high integrity who believes in the importance of trust and transparency, the power of listening attentively, and the value of building teams and delegating. Hernandez has completed the Academic Leadership Academy, Chairs and Directors Program, and Provost Faculty Fellow, and is serving as the Chemistry graduate Coordinator, Vice-President of the Faculty and


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Staff Association, and the Interim Associate Dean of Research of the College of Community Innovation and Education, at UCF.

Skip Hobbs American Geosciences Institute (AGI) G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs is a geologist and Founder and Managing Partner of Ammonite Resources, a firm of international petroleum, mining and geothermal technical and business consultants. Hobbs holds a B.Sc. Degree in Geology from Yale College and a M.Sc. Degree in Petroleum Geology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London.

Lucinda Johnson Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Lucinda Johnson is currently Assoc. Director at the Natural Resources Research Institute of the Univ Minnesota Duluth. She was President of the Society for Freshwater Science from 2010-2011. Johnson received a PhD from Michigan State University. Johnson serves on EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors for ORD as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, and is a member of the Science Advisory Committee for the International Joint Commission, which oversees implementation of the Water Quality Agreement that regulates the

Laurentian Great Lakes.

Erin Jones Bayer U.S. LLC., Crop Science Division Erin Jones currently serves as Head of Sustainability & Outreach and is a member of the Plant Breeding Leadership Team for the Crop Science division of Bayer. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Erin’s team is focused on cultivating an understanding of breeding innovations and strengthening the positive environmental and societal impact of our business in agriculture.

Erin holds a MS in Crop Science from the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL, a MBA from Webster University in St. Louis, MO, and a BS in Agriculture and Education from Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. In her spare time, Erin is a member of the Young Friends Board at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, and enjoys traveling and hiking with her dog, Petey.


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Pinar Keskinocak INFORMS EA

Roxane Maranger ASLO - Assoc. for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography Roxane Maranger is a professor in Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry at the Université de Montréal in Québec Canada. She is currently the president elect of the Association of the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). Roxane's research focuses on the influence of global change on major biogeochemical cycles, water quality, and the emissions of greenhouses in both marine and freshwater ecosystems. Roxane is actively adapting participatory

approaches from the social innovation movement into her scientific research and leadership to address complex issues.

Carl McClary AAFS - American Academy of Forensic Sciences Carl McClary is the current President-Elect of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). He has been involved in the field of forensics for over 25 years, beginning as a forensic document examiner with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and currently with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Forensic Science Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.

Laura McConnell Bayer U.S. LLC Crop Science Division


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Claudia Mora Jackson School of Geosciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin Claudia Mora is Past President of the Geological Society of America and a Councilor for the International Union of Geological Sciences. She has been Professor and Dept. Head at the Univ. of Tennessee – Knoxville, spent a decade in management at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and recently started as Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Her observation: many environments, same issues and challenges!

Haskell Pitluck AAFS - American Academy of Forensic Sciences Hon. Haskell M. Pitluck, (Ret.) is a skilled mediator and arbitrator who garnered his extensive experience from serving as Circuit Judge, State of Illinois, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, McHenry County for 22 years.

Alonso Ramirez SFS - Society for Freshwater Science I am a professor at NC State University, where I teach ecology and conduct research in tropical stream ecosystems. I am member of the Society for Freshwater Science.

David Rose ACA - American Crystallographic Association In 2020, I am serving as Vice-President and in 2021 President of the American Crystallographic Association. While my career has been in Canada (Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo), I am originally from the US and did my graduate training in the UK. I am currently a Professor at the University of Waterloo and served 2 terms as Department Chair. My research is in understanding molecules that are important in human health and disease.


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Helen Schneider Lemay CSSP Helen Schneider-Lemay heads both the CSSP, Waterbird Society and ASLO business offices. She is also Executive Director of NARST. She is the president of The Schneider Group, Inc., an association and meeting management firm specializing in scientific socities.

Jennifer Tank SFS - Society for Freshwater Science Dr. Jennifer Tank is the Galla Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, and Director of the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI). Dr. Tank is a biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist who studies how nutrients and particles move through streams and rivers, with a focus on restoration and conservation efforts that improve the structure and function of flowing waters. Her research informs management and policy of freshwaters

especially around water quality in agricultural landscapes.

Brian Toby ACA - American Crystallographic Association Brian Toby is president of the American Crystallographic Association. He is a co-editor for the journal Powder Diffraction and a Fellow of the ACA and the International Centre for Diffraction Data. He is a is a physical chemist with a Ph.D. from Caltech and a B.A. from Rutgers. Currently a Senior Physicist, Group Leader and Chief Computational Scientist at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source, he previously held

positions at NIST, two companies and a university. April Ulery SSSA - Soil Science Society of America


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P.V. Vara Prasad CSSA - Crop Science Society of America

Jeffrey Volenec American Society of Agronomy

Ole Wendroth SSSA - Soil Science Society of America


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