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Andrea Travnicek, Ph.D. Dr. Andrea Travnicek was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science in the Department of the Interior in July 2017 and currently serves as the acting Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, overseeing the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation. Prior to joining Interior, Dr. Travnicek was appointed Senior Policy Advisor to Governors Hoeven and Dalrymple in North Dakota, where she was responsible for assessing issues throughout the State and providing direction for decision makers related to project development, legislation, and regulations at the State and Federal levels. Dr. Travnicek has over 12 years of research and work experience within the natural resources, energy, agriculture, communication, aviation, unmanned aircraft systems, geographic information systems, and public policy fields and has negotiated on water issues at the State, Federal, international, and tribal level. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management/Communication and has professional experience working in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Prior to her appointment in North Dakota, Dr. Travnicek was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, California, and has worked for the law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen in Bismarck and Ducks Unlimited in Washington, D.C.
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Jamie Huang Ms. Huang joined the Office of Management and Budget in 2014 as a policy analyst from the private sector. She possesses management, monitoring, and evaluation skills, with training in qualitative and quantitative analysis (database operation: STATA, ArcGIS). She received her bachelor of science degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her master’s in public policy and master of arts in Middle Eastern Studies—a dual degree from the University of Chicago.
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Ivan DeLoatch Mr. Ivan DeLoatch has served as the Executive Director of the FGDC for the past 14 years. Previously, he served as Chief of the Data Acquisition Branch in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Information. He earned a bachelor of science degree in biology from Bowie State University.
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Thomas Dabolt In July 2016, Mr. Dabolt joined DOI as the Geospatial Information Officer. Mr. Dabolt has served 20 years in the Federal Government. He started his career working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initially bringing geospatial expertise to the Nation’s water-quality monitoring and assessment program and later the entire EPA water program, with stints supporting Emergency Management, Drinking Water Management, and Waste Water Management. Prior to working with EPA, he contributed to the Nature Conservancy’s conservation design efforts in Colorado and ran several small businesses. Mr. Dabolt earned his master of science degree in Environmental Management from Duke University and his bachelor of science degree in Environmental Science from SUNY Plattsburgh.
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Kevin Murphy Kevin Murphy is the Program Executive for Earth Science Data Systems at NASA Headquarters. Mr. Murphy manages a portfolio of programs encompassing the Distributed Active Archive Centers, Science Investigator-led Processing Systems, and a number of competitively funded programs. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Murphy served as System Architect for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System, where he conceived, developed, and managed major system development projects, including near real-time systems, search engines, large-scale visualization systems, and https://Earthdata.nasa.gov. |
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Harvey Simon Mr. Harvey Simon has been EPA’s Geospatial Information Officer since July 2012 and is responsible for coordinating EPA’s geospatial program. Prior to that, he was Chief of the Information Services Branch in the Office of Information Analysis and Access, which is responsible for the Envirofacts database, a number of national geospatial applications and services, and operational management of the EPA GeoPlatform. Previously, Mr. Simon held the role of Geographic Information System (GIS) Coordinator for Region 2 and Chair of the EPA GIS Workgroup, including its Emergency Response GIS subgroup. Mr. Simon brings 29 years of GIS and risk analysis experience to his current position. He has an undergraduate and a master’s degree from the State University of New York. |
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Timothy Trainor Mr. Timothy Trainor is Chief of the Geography Division at the Census Bureau and is responsible for managing the MAF/TIGER System, a national resource of addresses and geospatial information to support data collection, tabulation, and dissemination for censuses and surveys. As a Rotary Fellow, he holds a postgraduate diploma in cartography from Glasgow University, Scotland. He has a master’s certificate in project management from George Washington University School of Business and Public Management and a bachelor of arts degree in history from Rutgers University. He leads the U.S. Delegation to the UN-Global Geospatial Information Management Committee. He serves as a vice president to the International Cartographic Association. |
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Appendix A