Keith
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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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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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