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Marie Walsh joined
the Biomass Feedstock Development Program (BFDP)
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1993. Prior
to coming to Oak Ridge she was an American Association
for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science
Fellow and a policy analyst at U.S. Congress,
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). She worked
on the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization
Act and was project leader on the OTA study Agricultural
Materials as Industrial Raw Materials. Her
work in the BFDP involves biomass resource assessment
and policy analysis, is multidiscipline, and includes
integrating environmental and economic issues.
She has provided biomass resource supply curves
(urban wood wastes, mill residues, forestry residues,
agricultural residues, energy crops) for the DOE-EIA
National Energy Modeling System. Projects led
by Dr. Walsh have been used by U.S. Congress to
establish a pilot program to produce and use biomass
on Conservation Reserve Program Acres and by the
White House in support of Presidential Executive
Order 13134 establishing the Bioenergy Initiative.
She has served as the U.S. Representative to the
International Energy Agency Biomass Task XIII
and aided in developing BEAM, a techno-economic
model for bioproducts. As leader of the Integrated
Systems Analysis Task at BFDP, she continued to
conduct research and manage several projects.
Annual budget for the task ranged from $500,000
to $1,000,000. She has worked with local, state,
and national governments; industry; universities;
and non-profit organizations. She was named a
key referee by Elsevier Scientific Press and invited
to write a chapter on biomass resource assessment
for the premier edition of the Encyclopedia
of Energy.
Current
Position:
Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and Adjunct Associate Professor, Agricultural
Economics Department, University of Tennessee--Knoxville
Education:
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, University
of Minnesota, 1993
M.S., Agricultural and Applied Economics, University
of Minnesota, 1986
B.A., Biology and Chemistry, Illinois College,
1974
Professional
Experience:
Task Leader, Integrated Systems Analysis, Biomass
Feedstock Development Program, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, 1998-2002
Research Staff (1996-1998) and Research Associate
(1993-1996), ORNL
Policy Analyst, U.S. Congress--Office of Technology
Assessment, 1989-1991
AAAS Congressional Science Fellow, 1988-1989
Awards
and Other Recognition:
Member Gamma Sigma Delta and Sigma Xi; Key Referee,
Elsevier Scientific Press, 2002; YWCA Tribute
to Women Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Science and Technology (2001); Significant Event
Award, ORNL (2001); Member Scientific Advisory
Committee for Waginengen Inst. for Environment
and Climate Change; U.S. Representative to the
IEA Task XIII (Biomass Integrated Systems Analysis)
Selected
Publications/Presentations:
Sheehan, John, Andy Aden, Keith Paustian, Kendrick
Killian, John Brenner, Marie Walsh,
Richard Nelson (2003) Is ethanol made from corn
stover a sustainable transportation fuel?, Journal
of Industrial Ecology (submitted).
Nelson, Richard
G., Marie E. Walsh, John J. Sheehan,
Robin Graham (2003) Methodology to estimate removable
quantities of agricultural residues for bioenergy
and bioproduct use, Proceedings of the 25th
Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels
and Chemicals, (submitted).
Walsh,
Marie E., Daniel G. de la Torre Ugarte,
Hosein Shapouri, Stephen P. Slinsky (2003) Bioenergy
crop production in the United States: potential
quantities, land use changes, and economic impacts
on the agricultural sector, Environmental
and
Resource Economics, 00:1-21, 2003.
De La Torre
Ugarte, Daniel G., Marie E. Walsh,
Hosein Shapouri, Stephen P. Slinsky (2003) The
economic impacts of bioenergy crop production
on U.S. agriculture, USDA-OCE, Agricultural Economic
Report No. 816, February 2003.
Walsh,
Marie E. (2002) Biomass Resource Assessment,
Invited Chapter to Encyclopedia of Energy
English, Burton,
Jamey Menard, Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Marie
Walsh, Bob Wooley (2002) Potential regional
economic impacts of converting corn stover to
ethanol, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Feb.2-5.
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