Science, Democracy and Community Decisions on Fracking
Working Groups
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Working Group 1: Probing the State of the Science on Unconventional Oil and Gas
| Kevin Hurst (CHAIR) | Former Assistant Director, Energy R&D, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House |
| Peter Frumhoff (FACILITATOR) | Director for Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists |
| Paul Stern | Senior Scholar, Board on Environmental Change and Society, National Research Council |
| Jane Long | Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Advisor, Environmental Defense Fund; Associate Director at Large, Energy and Environment Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Susan Christopherson | Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University |
| Lisa McKenzie | Research Associate, Department of Environmental and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado |
| Seth B. Shonkoff | Executive Director, Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy |
| Timothy Kelsey | Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State; Co-Director, Center for Economic and Community Development, Penn State |
| Peter Gleick | President and Co-founder, Pacific Institute |
| Monika Freyman | Manager, Water Program, Ceres |
| Robert Kleinberg | Technical Lead, Unconventional Resources, Schlumberger-Doll Research |
| Mark Philbrick | AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Office of the Under Secretary, Department of Energy |
| Briana Mordick | Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council |
| Amy Myers Jaffe | Executive Director of Energy and Sustainability, Graduate School of Management, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis |
| Trevor M. Penning | Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
| Adam R. Brandt | Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University |
| Stephen Osborn | Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Catherine Gautier-Downes | Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Ted Parson | Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty co-director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Chris Weber | Researcher, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute |
| Aubrey Miller | Senior Medical Advisor, CAPT US Public Health Service, Office of the Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health |
| Daniel Tormey | Senior Principal, Vice President/Technical Director - Environment and Natural Resources Liability Management, Cardno ENTRIX |
| James McCarthy | Union of Concerned Scientists Board Chair |
Working Group 2: Understanding the Regulatory Landscape
| Kate Konschnik (CHAIR) | Policy Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School |
| Michelle Robinson (CO-FACILITATOR) | Director, Clean Vehicles Program, Union of Concerned Scientists |
| Megan Herzog (CO-FACILITATOR) | Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law & Policy |
| Nathan Richardson | Resident Scholar, Resources For the Future |
| Kristin Carden | Associate Attorney, Northern Rockies Office, Earthjustice |
| Shannon Ferrell | Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University |
| Sean Hecht | Executive Director, Environmental Law Center, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law |
| Jonathan Zasloff | Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law |
| Lewis Branscomb | Professor Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California |
| Bill Allayaud | California Director of Government Affairs, Environmental Working Group |
| Sara Rollet Gosman | Lecturer, Environmental Law and Policy Program, University of Michigan Law School |
| Mark Boling | President of V+ Development Solutions, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Southwestern Energy |
| John H. Quigley | Independent Consultant; former Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Steve Bennett | Supervisor, Ventura County |
| Beverlee E. Silva | Partner, Alston & Bird LLP |
| K. Eric Adair | Partner, Hinson Gravelle & Adair LLP |
| Jamie Hoyte | Assistant to the President of Harvard University; Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy; Of Counsel, A.D.S. Ventures |
| Mary L. Lyndon | Professor, St. John's University School of Law |
| Mark Brownstein | Associate Vice President and Chief Counsel, Climate and Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund |
| Damon Nagami | Senior attorney at NRDC with expertise in natural resources at state and local levels |
| Angela Johnson Meszaros | General counsel, Physicians for Social Responsibility |
| James Bradbury | Senior Associate, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute |
| Kurt Gottfried | Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Union of Concerned Scientists; Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, Cornell University |
| David G. Taylor | Director–Gas Storage Operations, Southern California Gas Company |
| Adrienne Alvord | California and Western States Director, Union of Concerned Scientists |
| Jason Marshall | Chief Deputy Director, California Department of Conservation |
Working Group 3: Access to Information and Citizen Engagement
| Tom Wilber (CHAIR) | Journalist and author |
| Patrick Field (FACILITATOR) | Managing Director, Consensus Building Institute; Associate Director, MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program |
| Alan Krupnick | Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Energy Economics and Policy, Resources for the Future |
| Larry Sanders | Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University |
| Dietram Scheufele | Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Heidi Welsh | Executive Director, Sustainable Investments Institute |
| Meghan Sahli-Wells | Vice Mayor, Culver City |
| Jose Bravo | Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance |
| Jean Goodwin | Professor, Program in Speech Communication, Department of English, Iowa State University |
| Hollin Kretzmann | Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity |
| Ken Weiss | Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times |
| Mark Gold | Associate Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Sofia Plagakis | Policy Analyst, Environmental Right to Know, Center for Effective Government |
| Miriam Rotkin-Ellman | Staff Scientist, Health Program, Natural Resources Defense Council |
| Jim McElfish | Senior Attorney and Director, Sustainable Use of Land Program, Environmental Law Institute |
| Madeline Stano | Staff Attorney, Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment |
| David Keane | Vice President of Policy and Corporate Affairs, BG Group; Chair, Industry Council for America’s Energy Coast |
| Kyle Ferrar | Coordinator, FracTracker CA, and environmental health scientist |
| Elizabeth Long | Professor and Department Chair, Department of Sociology, Rice University |
| Irma Muñoz | Founder and President, Mujeres de la Tierra |
| Martha Dina Argüello | Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility |
| Nancy Stephens | Union of Concerned Scientists Board Member |
| Mary Ann Sumner | Town Supervisor of Dryden, New York |
