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arilyn A. Brown joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, she led several national scenario studies of climate change technology and policy options and held various leadership positions. Her current research addresses the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies, the design of policy options to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the evaluation of energy programs and policies . At Georgia Tech, her research projects have included an assessment of the $3 billion/year multi-agency R&D portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, analysis of the geography of metropolitan carbon footprints, development of a national climate change technology deployment strategy, and an assessment of the cost and availability of supply- and demand-side electricity resources in the Southeast.
Recognizing the need for policy innovations to promote sustainable energy solutions, Dr. Brown teaches Georgia Tech courses on Energy Policy and Technology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as a policy analysis capstone course for Masters students.?Dr. Brown has authored more than 200 publications including a recently published book on Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths and two special issues of energy journals. Her work has appeared in numerous venues including Science; Energy Policy; The Electricity Journal; Energy Efficiency, Annual Review of Energy and Environment; the Journal of Technology Transfer; Technology in Society; and Environment and Planning. S he has contributed chapters to more than a dozen books.?Check out the School of Public Policy's Working Paper series for some of her most recent writings.?Dr. Brown has also provided testimonies and Congressional briefings to Committees of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, and to numerous state agencies. In addition to informing national leaders about energy policy, she is also the author of Georgia Tech's quarterly energy sustainability index, the EnergyBuzz. Recent presentations and media interactions have included talks at meetings of the Council of State Government, National League of Cities, and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, along with various webcasts.
Dr. Brown serves on the board of directors of the Alliance to Save Energy, the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Technology Transfer and is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Among her honors and awards , Dr. Brown is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Brown's recent service to Federal Agencies includes participation on DOE review committees and the National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. In late 2008 she was appointed (from more than 1,000 nominees) to the National Academies' Committee on America's Climate Choices. She also participates on numerous advisory committees to universities and foundations across the country. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Brown collaborates with the Strategic Energy Institute, the Sloan Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, and the Enterprise Innovation Institute 's Science and Technology Innovation Program as the Director of Sustainability. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Certified Energy Manager.
Recent and Pending Research Projects: Marilyn Brown
• Principal Investigator, Brookings Institution, Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America (2007-2008).
• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Energy's Climate Change Technology Program, A Technical Review of the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program's R&D Portfolio
(2006).
• Principal Investigator, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Towards a Climate-Friendly Built Environment (2005).
• Co-PI with Susan Cozzens, National Science Foundation, Models of International Research Collaboration, National Science Foundation, (2008-2010).
• Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Energy's Climate Change Technology Program, Behavioral Research on the Design of Policy Options to Promote Energy-Efficient Buildings?(2008-2009).
• Co-PI with Jan Youtie, Georgia Board of Regents, Energy and Environmental Workforce Educational Needs: Supply and Demand in Georgia (2008-2009).
• Principal Investigator , Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and Appalachian Regional Commission, Potential for Energy Efficiency Improvements in the Appalachian Region, 2007-2009.
• Energy Foundation, An Assessment of the Cost and Availability of Supply- and Demand-Side Electricity Resources in the Southeast (Proposal submitted for funding in 2009).
Recent Courses Taught by Marilyn Brown
Energy Policy and Technology (PUBP 4803 and 8803) This course examines the policies and technologies affecting the production and use of energy, focusing in particular on innovative and sustainable energy options (e.g., for example, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, ethanol, and other alternative transportation fuels; smart buildings and advanced lighting; industrial ecology approaches; solar and wind systems; and clean coal as well as the next generation of nuclear energy). The course provides a fundamental understanding of energy systems, including historical trends of supply and demand, resources and technologies, and related economic, global climate change, and security issues. Policies will be examined at the national and international scale, as well as at the state and local level where novel approaches are often first launched.
The history of energy policy illustrates the close coupling of policy formulations with characteristics of markets and technologies. As a result, this course will examine the unique constellations of policies associated with different energy systems. Principles of policy analysis and theory will be introduced and illustrated throughout the course, including stakeholder assessment, market failure and externalities, benefit/cost analysis, and methods of program evaluation. In addition, students will receive an introduction to the engineering underpinnings of alternative technologies, and will become familiar with energy units and metrics.
Public Policy Analysis (PUBP 6201) This course focuses on the professional policy analyst's roles, institutional contexts, skill sets, politics, professional norms, ethics and, in general, the nature of the profession, in all its variety. The course involves considerable "hands on" work with cases, exercises and applied problem solving. Students are expected to come to the course with the tools developed in research design, statistics, cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, policy and political process, and substantive policy courses.
In the first part of the semester, students write a five-page policy brief related to a piece of legislation that is actively being pursued at the city, county, state, or federal level. In the second part of the semester, groups of students develop policy research papers on some contemporary policy topic. The papers are data-based (either qualitative or quantitative data), and the results are summarized in class presentations.
Recent Publications by Marilyn Brown
Brown, Marilyn A., Frank Southworth, and Andrea Sarzynski. 2009. "Policy Influences on the Carbon Footprints of metropolitan Areas,"forthcoming in Policy and Society .
Brown, Marilyn A., Frank Southworth, and Andrea Sarzynski. 2009. "Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America" forthcoming in The Metropolitan Blueprint (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution).
B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown. 2009. "Addressing Climate Change: Global or Local?" forthcoming in Fereidoon Sioshansi (ed.) Carbon Constrained: Future of Electricity (Elsevier Press).
Sovacool, Benjamin K. and Marilyn A. Brown. 2009. "Caling the Policy Response to Climate Change,"Forthcoming in Policy and Society .
Brown, Marilyn A. and Sharon (Jess) Chandler, 2008. "Governing Confusion: How Statutes, Fiscal Policy, and Regulations Impede Clean Energy Technologies,"Stanford Law and Policy Review, (19) 3: 472-509, http://slpr.stanford.edu/previous/Volume19.html#Issue3 .
Brown, Marilyn A. and Frank Southworth, 2008. "Mitigating Climate Change through Green Buildings and Smart Growth,"Environment and Planning A (40): 653-675.
Brown, Marilyn A. and Benjamin K. Sovacool, 2008. "Promoting a Level Playing Field for Energy Options: Electricity Alternatives and the Case of the Indian Point Energy Center,"Energy Efficiency , 1: 35-48.
Brown, Marilyn A. and Benjamin K. Sovacool, 2007. "Developing an 'Energy Sustainability Index' to Evaluate Energy Policy,"Interdisciplinary Science Review, 32 (4): 335-349.
Brown, Marilyn A.; Dan York; Martin Kushler, 2007. “Reduced Emissions and Lower Costs: Combining Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency into a Sustainable Energy Portfolio Standard,?The Electricity Journal, 20 (4): 62-72.
Brown, Marilyn A., Benjamin K. Sovacool, Richard F. Hirsh, 2006. "Assessing U.S. Energy Policy,"in Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Summer, pp. 5-11.
B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown. 2007. "The Compelling Tangle of Energy and American Society,"in Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths , in B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown (eds.) (Springer Press), pp. 1-22.
Brown, Marilyn A. 2007. "Energy Myth One: Today's Energy Crisis is 'Hype',"in B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown (eds.) (Springer Press), pp. 23-50.
B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown. 2007. "Replacing Myths with Maxims: Rethinking the Relationship Between Energy and American Society,"in B. K. Sovacool and M. A. Brown (eds.) (Springer Press), pp. 351-367.
A Sampling of Other Publications
Brown, Marilyn A.; Mark D. Levine; Walter Short; Jonathan G. Koomey, 2001. "Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future,"Energy Policy, 2001, 29 (14): 1179-1196.
Brown, Marilyn A. 2001. "Market Failures and Barriers as a Basis for Clean Energy Policies,"in Energy Policy , 29 (14): 1197-1207.
Brown, Marilyn A.; Mark D. Levine; Joseph P. Romm; A.H. Rosenfeld; J.G. Koomey, 1998. "Engineering-Economic Studies of Energy Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Opportunities and Challenges," Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 23: 287-385.
Brown, Marilyn A.; Walter Short. 2002. "The Impact of Clean Energy Policies on Renewable Energy Technologies,"Renewable Energy: Trends and Prospects, S.K. Majumdar, E. S. Miller and A. I. Panah (eds.), (Pennsylvania State University Press), pp. 426-450.
J. Romm; M.A. Brown; M.D. Levine; E. Petersen, "A Road Map for U.S. Carbon Reductions," Science, 275: 669-670, 1998.
Selected Presentations and Media Interactions by Marilyn Brown
Recent Media Interactions A short talk on Energy Efficiency, Conservation and Climate Change, at the Energy Independence for North America conference, July 5, 2007
A short podcast on green buildings
A recent Congressional briefing on renewable portfolio standards
A Debate at the Closing Session of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) Energy Conference, Washington, D.C., January 27, 2006.
A Sampling of Conference Presentations:
Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
U.S. National Laboratory Perspective on Energy Technology Innovation and Performance Assessment
Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Energy Efficiency: The Fifth Fuel for North America
Carbon Lock-In: Barriers and Enablers of a Climate-Friendly Future
The National Commission on Energy Policy: Ending the Energy Stalemate
Honors and Awards: Marilyn Brown
2008 Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College Endowed Professorship.
2007 Co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for co-authorship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change.
2006 Elected to the Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
2002 Commissioner, National Commission on Energy Policy.
2003 Anderson Medal of Applied Geography, Association of American Geographers.
2001 U. S. Department of Energy Awards "Research Partnership Award."
1998 "Champion of Energy Efficiency,"American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
1997 Oak Ridge National laboratory (ORNL), "Significant Event Award" for co-leading the five-laboratory study titled "Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions."
1997 ORNL, Significant Event Award in 1997 for the study ?Technology Opportunities to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions .?
1994 Corporate Honoree, YWCA Tribute to Women.
1993 ORNL, "Significant Event Award" for leading the "National Evaluation of DOE's Weatherization Assistance Program."
1993 Letter of commendation from Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary.
1992 Award for Distinguished Contribution, American Women in Science.
1989 ORNL, Citation for Research Excellence in 1989.
1988 Elected National Councilor of the Association of American Geographers, a 9,000-member organization
1987 Gold Medal Award issued by the Technology Transfer Society for the best paper published in the 1989-1990 Journal of Technology Transfer . Best Paper Award, The 12th Annual Meeting & International Symposium of the Technology Transfer Society, 1987.
1984 National Science Foundation Review Panel Member, Geography and Regional Science Division.
1976 C. C. Huntington Memorial Award, The Ohio State University, Department of Geography.
1973 University Fellow, The Ohio State University.
Recent Service to Federal Agencies by Marilyn Brown
2008 Member, Advisory Committee, DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Industrial Technologies Program.
2008 Member, National Academies' Committee on America's Climate Choices.
2007 Member, National Academies' Panel on America's Energy Choices: Energy Efficiency.
2006 Member, National Academies' Board of Energy and Environmental Systems.
2004 Member, National Academies' Committee on Alternatives to the Indian Point Nuclear Plant.
1996 Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, EPA Office of Research and Development.
Recent Testimonies and Congressional Briefings by Marilyn Brown
Expert Witness on Climate Change Technologies. Testimony before the Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science. Hearing on November 6, 2003.
Expert Witness, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearing on "Global Climate Change and Issues Related to Reducing Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions."May 2001
Congressional briefing hosted by the American Chemical Society's Science and Congress Project and was co-hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), December 15, 2008
Congressional briefing in a Hearing on Can a National Renewable Portfolio Standard Increase Energy Security, Reduce Emissions, and Lower Costs,?Sponsored by the Environment and Energy Study Institute, July 11, 2007
Energy Efficiency Workshop for staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee, March 2, 2007
State Legislative Briefings Testimony to North Carolina Legislative Commission on Global Climate change, ?Discussion of the technology options related to global climate change by sector,?April 25, 2006. Testimony to Tennessee State Legislature, 2003. Testimony to Georgia Legislative Committee, 2007.
Recent Advisory Committee Activities
• Natural Resources Defense Council (2008-2009)
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change (2008-2009)
• Council on Energy Competitiveness, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative (2007-2008)
• Energy and Environment Study Institute (2006-present)
• World Energy Engineering Congress, 2004-2007
• New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, 2000
• Energy and Environmental Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1998-99
• Iowa Energy Center (Chair), 1998-99
• University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center, 1996-98
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