U.S. National Committee for Soil Science

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP Chair     Donald Sparks  S. Hallock du Pont Chair Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Marine Science and Policy Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN)  531 South College Ave., 152 Townsend Hall University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-2170 Phone: (302) 831-6378 or (302) 831-4335 or 2739 Fax: (302) 831-0605 Email: dlsparks@udel.edu                                              Committee members Ronald Amundson  Professor, Chair of Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California, Berkeley 145 Mulford Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: (510) 643-3788 Email: earthy@berkeley.edu Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Assistant Professor Soil Biogeochemistry School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced 5200 North Lake Rd. S&E Bldg., RM 302 Merced, CA 95343 Tel: (209) 228-4712 Fax: (209) 724-4459 Email: AABerhe@UCMerced.edu                                                                                   Pierre Bordenave Vice President/Environmental Services J.L. Patterson & Associates, Inc. InterMountain Resources 101 N. Fourth Suite 203 PO Box 1724 Sandpoint, ID 83864 Tel: (208) 263-9391 Fax: (208) 263-7013 Email: pierrebordenave@cs.com   Scott Fendorf  Professor Dept. of Earth System Science 473 Via Ortega Rd, Suite 140 Stanford University Stanford, CA  94305-4216 Tel.: (650) 723-5238 Fax: (650) 725-0958 Email: fendorf@stanford.edu                                                          Ty P. A. Ferré Assistant Professor Department of Hydrology and Water Resources University of Arizona Tucson, AZ  85721-0011 Tel: (520) 621-2952 Fax: (520) 621-1422 Email: ty@hwr.arizona.edu               Daniel Giménez Associate Professor Department of Environmental Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 14 College Farm Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901    Tel: (848)93 Fax: (732) 932-8644 Email: gimenez@envsci.rutgers.edu                                 Robin L. Graham Deputy Associate Lab Director Computing, Environment, Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue, Bldg 240 Argonne, IL 60439-4847 Tel: (630) 252-5677 Fax: (630) 252-6333 Email: Grahamrl@anl.gov Carol Johnston Professor Dept. of Biology & Microbiology South Dakota State University Box 2104A, Brookings, SD  57007-0647 Tel: (605) 688-6464 Fax:  (605) 688-6677 Email:  Carol.Johnston@sdstate.edu                                     Cindy H. Nakatsu Professor Purdue University Department of Agronomy Lilly Hall of Life Sciences 915 West State Street West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2054 Tel: (765) 496-2997 / (765) 496-2229 Fax: (765) 496-2926 Email: cnakatsu@purdue.edu                                            Pedro Sánchez Director, Tropical Agriculture and Co-Coordinator Millennium Project Hunger Task Force The Earth Institute at Columbia University Columbia University P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Lamont Hall 2G Palisades, NY  10964 Tel: (845) 365-8330 Fax:  (845) 680-4870 Email: sanchez@iri.columbia.edu  EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS     Past Chair Paul M. Bertsch Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology University of Kentucky Department of Plant and Soil Sciences N122N Ag Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091 Tel: (859) 257-1651 Email: paul.bertsch@uky.edu              Ex Officio SSSA Representative David Lindbo Professor, Soil-Environment Relations Department of Soil Science North Carolina State University PO Box 7619 Raleigh, NC 27695-7619 Phone: (919) 515 2643; Fax: (919) 515-2167 Email: david_lindbo@ncsu.edu                                  SOCIETY LIAISONS Geological Society of America Steven Driese Professor and Chair Department of Geology Baylor University One Bear Place #97354 Waco, TX 76798-7354 Tel: (254) 710-2177; Fax: (254) 710-2673 Steven_Driese@baylor.edu                                                                 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Ron Checkai Environmental Toxicology Branch Chief U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center RDCB-DRT-E E3150 5183 Blackhawk Road Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424 Tel: (410) 436-2129; Fax: (410) 436-7274 Email:Ronald.T.Checkai.Civ@mail.mil                                                            Soil Ecology Society Roman G. Kuperman  Environmental Toxicologist   U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center RDCB-DRT-E E564 5183 Blackhawk Road Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424 Tel: (410) 436-4697; Fax: (410) 612-5399 Email: roman.g.kuperman.civ@mail.mil                                                             Christine W. McEntee Executive Director/CEO AGU 2000 Florida Ave, NW, Washington, DC  20009 Tel:  (202) 777-7510 URL: http://www.agu.org/about/ed/                                                               Ecological Society of America Patrick Megonigal Senior Scientist and Curator Smithsonian Environmental Research Center P.O. Box 28 647 Contees Wharf Road Edgewater, MD 21037 Tel : (443) 482-2346 ; Fax: (443) 482-2380 Email: megonigalp@si.edu                                                                American Geophysical Union Yakov Pachepsky Soil Scientist Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Lab USDA, ARS, BA, ANRI, EMFSL 10300 Baltimore Avenue Building 173 Room 203, BARC-East Beltsville, MD 20705 Tel:  (301) 504-7468 Email: yakov.pachepsky@ars.usda.gov                                                               STAFF   Ester Sztein Assistant Director Board on International Scientific Organizations(BISO) The National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Tel: (202) 334 3049; Fax: (202) 334-2231 E-mail: esztein@nas.edu   Lina Stankute-Alexander Program Associate Board on International Scientific Organizations(BISO) The National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Tel: (202) 334-2517, Fax: (202) 334-2231 E-mail: lsalexander@nas.edu

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