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where he investigated meridional energy fluxes focusing on observational error budget and on model-data inter-comparisons. In 1993, he moved to Jim Anderson's atmospheric science group in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where he has worked for the past six years as a Research Associate.

At Harvard, David collaborated with Jim Anderson on the design of an integrated payload and an observing mission to study water-vapor, cirrus clouds and stratospheric-troposphere exchange. He led the development and field deployment of a new Fourier-transform spectrometer for high radiometric accuracy for use on the NASA ER2 high altitude aircraft. He was also project scientist on a proposal for a small satellite to establish an accurate benchmark of infrared radiance observations with the purpose of monitoring climate change.

While the bulk of his work at EPP will focus on policy issues, he plans to continue his collaboration with Jim Anderson and to explore possible collaborations with the other EPP faculty working on issues of air pollution and atmospheric science.

David grew up in Canada. He is an avid outdoorsman and has made extensive trips in the Canadian arctic. He and his wife, Susan Poole, have two children.

Where Are They Now?

EPP - Ph.D. Graduate - 1984

David Scott
Principal Consultant
Oracle Corporation
600 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, 10th Floor
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3J2, CANADA
514+985-6926 (tel); 514+843-4737 (fax);
dscott@ca.oracle.com

After several years of managing his own company, David is now engaged in consulting activities related to enterprise computing, including applications of distributed object technology. His client include major firms and government agencies in Quebec and throughout Canada. David is also adjunct professor at Concordia University in Montreal, where he teaches courses in Java and Perl programming and web techniques.

EPP - Ph.D. Graduate - 1988

Susan (Bobbi) Bailey
Network Management Systems Planning
AT&T
4B242, 900 Rts. 202/206 North
Bedminster, NJ 07921
908+234-3506 (tel); 908+234-8639 (fax);
srbailey@att.com

Bobbi leads an organization of planners, engineers, and developers of operational support systems to support AT&T's Network Operations Center (NOC). This Center provides centralized traffic/service and congestion management for AT&T services. Her biggest project this year is turning up AT&T's brand new "NOC 2000," which provides network management capabilities for AT&T's traditional telephone business as well as growing areas such as data and wireless networks.

 

Sun Studies Chinese Air Pollution Control

EPP Ph.D. student Guodong Sun recently returned from six weeks of field work in China, where he investigated the history of air pollution control in the cities of Hohhot, Benxi, Taiyuan, Binzhou, and Nantong. Although China has had standards for air pollution emissions since 1973, and standards for ambient air quality since 1983, Sun discovered through interviews with environmental protection officials that the implementation of these standards has varied greatly from city to city. Sun focused his comparative analysis on three policies implemented between 1975 and 1990: retrofitting of coal boilers with particulate controls, the substitution of coal briquettes for raw coal in residential cooking and heating, and the establishment of Control Zones for Combustion Smoke. According to Sun, the factors that most influence the rate of adoption of particulate control measures include economic development level, local coal price, pre-abatement pollution levels, local industrial structure, and residential heating demand.

Review and Consent in Human Tissue Research

While most research involving tissue samples from human subjects should be subject to review by institutional review boards (IRBs), "some human tissue research is being performed without IRB approval" according to a study reported in Science by Jon Merz (EPP Ph.D. 1991) and coworkers. Results from a sample of 105 papers published in nine journals over a three-month period show that in most cases, failure to obtain IRB approval spring from investigators not understanding the requirements. "Multivariate statistical analysis showed that consent was more likely to be secured for genetic studies and less likely to be secured for studies using tissues collected only for clinical purposes" the paper reports.

Merz et al. recommend that "investigators adopt, and IRBs should require, procedures to anonomize samples." They suggest that those holding tissues should require IRB approvals before granting researchers access and suggest several strategies to increase compliance. "IRB approval is not just an ethical nicety," they conclude. "Compliance with human subjects' regulations ensures a level of social control over and integrity of the scientific enterprise."

The paper titled "IRB Review and Consent in Human Tissue Research" appeared in the March 12, 1999 issue of Science. For details contact Jon Merz at: merz@mail.med.upenn.edu.

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