COMMITTEE ON BASIC RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN
THE EARTH SCIENCES
THOMAS H. JORDAN, Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
GAIL M. ASHLEY, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
MARK D. BARTON, University of Arizona, Tucson
STEPHEN J. BURGES, University of Washington, Seattle
KENNETH A. FARLEY, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
KATHERINE H. FREEMAN, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park
RAYMOND JEANLOZ, University of California, Berkeley
CHARLES R. MARSHALL, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
JOHN A. ORCUTT, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
FRANK M. RICHTER, University of Chicago, Illinois
LEIGH H. ROYDEN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
CHRISTOPHER H. SCHOLZ, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades,
New York
NOEL TYLER, The University of Texas, Austin
LAWRENCE P. WILDING, Texas A&M University, College Station
National Research Council Staff
ANNE M. LINN, Senior Staff Officer
VERNA J. BOWEN, Administrative Assistant
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