B2 Board of Advisors

C. Larrabee Winter

Deputy Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Larry Winter is Deputy Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His responsibilities include assisting with scientific leadership, providing administrative oversight, and helping formulate strategic goals, budgets, and programmatic priorities for the institution. Dr. Winter's research interests include the stochastic theory of subsurface flow and transport and the applications of parallel and distributed computing in scientific research. He has also applied Lagrangian simulations to modeling traffic flow for the Department of Transportation and to predicting locations in random terrain of military vehicles for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr. Winter has authored or co-authored over 26 journal articles and book chapters since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1982. He has organized over 10 workshops and sessions. While at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1990-2003, he led the Geoanalysis Group and the Computer Research and Applications Group. Dr. Winter's appointments also include a 1999-2002 term as science advisor to the New Mexico Governor's Office. Among his honors are a Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Publication Prize in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Operations Research and a Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award. Dr. Winter is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona.

Peter G. Backus

President, P B Trading Company, Inc.

Edward P. Bass

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Fine Line, Inc.

Anthony R. de Souza

Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council

William E. Dietrich

Professor, Earth and Planetary Science,
UC Berkeley

Adrián Fernandez Bremauntz

President, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico

James M. Gentile

President, Research Corporation

Nick Hanauer

Second Avenue Partners

Laura F. Huenneke

Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University

Jan Lesher

Director, Arizona Department of Commerce

Pamela A. Matson

Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Cherry A. Murray

Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jonathan T. Overpeck

Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth,
The University of Arizona

Henry N. Pollack, Chair

Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Peter H. Raven

Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Joaquin Ruiz

Dean, College of Science, The University of Arizona

Eugene G. Sander

Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona

José Sarukhán Kermez

Professor, Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Rick F. Shangraw

Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

Stephen G. Wells

President, Desert Research Institute

C. Larrabbee Winter

Deputy Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Ex-Officio Members

Lisa J. Graumlich

Director, School of Natural Resources, The University of Arizona

Arthur L. Herbst

Joseph B. DeLee Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

Travis E. Huxman

Director, B2 Earthscience; Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona

Pierre Meystre

Director, B2 Institute; Regents' Professor, Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Ramón Pacheco Aguilar

Director General, Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Mexico