Attachment 3 OSTP/USGCRP Regional Climate Change Workshops Regional workshops being convened as part of the start-up phase of the National Assessment Fax: 202-358-4103 regional.workshops@usgerp.gov John H. (Jack) Gibbons is the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In these capacities, Dr. Gibbons is charged with providing access to authoritative information and expert scientific, engineering and technological advice for the President, Federal Officials and Congress, and with coordinating science and technology policy throughout the Federal Government. Dr. Gibbons co-chairs the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and manages the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). He is an internationally recognized scientist and an expert in energy and environmental issues who has a deep interest and concern about the support of science and the impacts of technology on society. Following his formal training in physics, he spent the next 15 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At Oak Ridge, Gibbons studied the structure of atomic nuclei, with emphasis on the role of neutron capture in the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in stars. In the late 60's, at the urging of Alvin M. Weinberg, he pioneered studies on how to use technology to conserve energy and minimize the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption. In 1973, at the start of the nation's first major energy crisis, Gibbons was appointed the first director of the Federal Office of Energy Conservation. Two years later he returned to Tennessee to direct the University of Tennessee Energy, Environment and Resources Center. In 1979, he returned to Washington to direct the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment which provides Congress with nonpartisan, comprehensive analyses on a broad spectrum of issues involving technology and public policy where his tenure lasted over 2 six-year terms prior to his Presidential appointment on February 2, 1993. Dr. Gibbons is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Other honors include the Federation of American Scientists Public Service Award; the AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize for sustained exceptional contributions to advancing science; the Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest from the American Physical Society; and medals from the German and French governments for fostering scientific cooperation. Dr. Gibbons was born in Harrisonburg, VA, in 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in from Duke University in 1954. His publications are numerous in the areas of energy and environmental policy, energy supply and demand, conservation, technology and policy, resource management and environmental problems, nuclear physics, and origins of solar system elements. Speeches and Testimony "Remarks at the Dael Wolfle Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA" "Remarks at The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring Awards Ceremony, Room 450, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, DC" delivered September 25, 1996 "Remarks at 12th Annual EPSCOR National Conference, Renaissance Hotel "Sound Science, Sound Policy: The Ozone Story" delivered September 19th, 1995 AAAS Forum -- "The First Rule of Tinkering" delivered June 26th, 1995 "Remarks at AAAS Policy Colloquium" delivered April 12th, 1995 "Remarks at the Wernher von Braun Lecture, Smithsonian, The New Frontier: Space Science and Technology in the Next Millennium" delivered March 22nd, 1995 "Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis for New Regulation" delivered February 6th, 1995 "Statement on FY96 Research and Development Budget" delivered February 6th, 1995 "Science in the National Interest" testimony delivered January 6, 1995 "Statement on National Space Transportation Policy" testimony delivered on "Technology for a Sustainable Future" delivered at the 1994 H. John Heinz Public "Science in the National Interest" testimony delivered August 4, 1994 "Plutonium and International Security" testimony delivered May 26, 1994 "Plutonium and National Security" speech to the Public Forum on Plutonium on May 4, 1994 |