Biographical Sketches of Committee Members - Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives - page 173

Appendix A
Biographical Sketches of Committee
Members
FRANKLIN M.ORR, JR., chair, is the Beal Professor and Dean of the
School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. His research interests include
multicomponent fluid phase equilibrium and its interactions with multiphase
flow in porous media. Previously he served as chair of the Petroleum
Engineering Department at Stanford University and held positions at the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Shell Development Company, and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is a member of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is vice-chair of the board of
directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and member of the
board of directors of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships in
Science and Engineering. He is also a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and has served as chair on the Panel for Review of the Energy
Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey.
GARY A.DAVIS is the founder and director of the University of
Tennessee Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, a senior fellow at
the University of Tennessee Energy, Environment, and Resources Center, and
an adjunct professor of environmental law at the University of Tennessee. He
holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a
J.D. from the University of Tennessee. He has conducted research on the life-
cycle environmental impacts of products, substitutes for polluting products, and
policies to encourage the use of cleaner products and processes. Mr. Davis has
been working on technical and policy issues related to pollution prevention for
more than 20 years. He has published numerous topics and articles on a variety
of environmental issues. He was previously with the California Governor's
Office, where he worked on hazardous waste and hazardous substance policy.
He has also practiced environmental law for 17 years.