Towards a Climate-Friendly Built Environment
Marilyn A. Brown
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is the Deputy Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Engineering Science and Technology Division. During her 20 years at ORNL, Dr. Brown has researched the impacts of policies and programs aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies with a particular focus on energy-efficient buildings. She has led several energy technology and policy scenario studies and is a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of energy futures in the United States. She has authored more than 140 publications and has been an expert witness in hearings before Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
Dr. Brown serves on the boards of directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance to Save Energy, and on the editorial boards of several journals. She is also a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Prior to coming to Oak Ridge, she was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Brown has a PhD in Geography from the Ohio State University and a Masters Degree in Resource Planning from the University of Massachusetts. She is also a Certified Energy Manager.
Frank Southworth
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Frank Southworth is a member of the Senior Research Staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). For the past 30 years he has been engaged in theoretical and applied research into the relationships between land use, travel demand, transportation supply and human behavior. From 1975 to 1977 he was a research officer at the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of Leeds. He joined the Civil Engineering faculty at the University of Illinois in 1978 and moved to Oak Ridge in 1984. Since joining ORNL he has carried out research for a variety of federal agencies including the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Commerce, Defense and Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and Agency for International Development.
Dr. Southworth is an author of over 130 articles and technical reports and has contributed to the development of twenty three software systems, the majority involving the use and display of geographic information. He has served on regional and national peer review panels addressing different aspects of transportation systems planning and currently serves on a number of Transportation Research Board Committees.
Dr Southworth has a B.A. (Honors, 1972) and Ph. D (1977) in Geography from the University of Leeds in England.
Therese Stovall
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Therese Stovall is a Senior Research Engineer at the Building Technology Group at Oak Ridge National Lab where her research regarding building energy conservation issues stretches back to the Hood River Conservation Project in the early 1980s. Her projects have recently included an assessment of building retrofit options and laboratory evaluations of a variety of insulation materials. She has also been active in the area of vacuum insulation panels and had given invited keynote presentations at two International Symposia of the Vacuum Insulation Association. She received her BSME from Purdue University and her MSME from the University of Tennessee.