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Ronald L. Sass is the Harry C and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Natural Science Emeritus. He has been a member of the Rice faculty since 1958 and past Chairman of the Biology Department, and the Ecology Department. He is currently a Fellow in Climate Science Policy at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy Sass received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Southern California and his B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratories studying neutron scattering. As a Guggenheim Fellow he was a member of the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at Cambridge University. He served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow with NASA at the Langley Research Center in Virginia, Alaska and Canada. Sass's recent interests are in the area of science policy. For the prior twenty- five years his research focused on wetland sources of biogenic radiatively active atmospheric trace gases. He served as a co-convenor of the focus group on Exchange of Methane in Rice Cultivation (RICE). He consulted for the EPA and the UNDP. He also worked with the IPCC to establish guidelines and values for national greenhouse gas inventories throughout the world.
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John Anderson
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Jim Bouldin
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John Nielsen-Gammon
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Barry Lefer
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Kerry Emanuel
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Mauri Pelto
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Lulu Liu
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Andreas Schmittner
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Scott Denning
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Jeremy Shakun
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Michael Tobis
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Sean Bryan
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Stephanie Thomas
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Sean Robinson
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Daniel Cohan
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Judith Curry
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Will Howard
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Eric Galbraith
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Muge Komurcu
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Ron Sass
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David Hone
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Eric Steig
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Tracy Hester
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Shi-Ling Hsu
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Bob Inglis
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Jed Anderson
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Josiah Neeley
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Andy OBrien
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Peter Sinclair
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