Oak Ridge National Lab

Marilyn Brown is the Deputy Director of ORNL's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program. During her 15 years at ORNL, she has researched the design and impacts of policies and programs aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies.

Prior to coming to ORNL in 1984, Dr. Brown was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars on technological change, resource geography, and statistical analysis and modeling, she received two NSF grants and funding from other sources to support her research on the diffusion of energy innovations. She has a Ph.D. in geography from the Ohio State University where she was a University Fellow, a Masters Degree in resource planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a BA in political science (with a minor in mathematics) from Rutgers University. She has authored more than 140 publications and has received awards for her research from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Association of American Geographers, the Technology Transfer Society, and the Association of Women in Science. Dr. Brown sits on the boards of several energy and environmental organizations, including the Alliance to Save Energy and EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors.

She has served on advisory committees to NSF, EPA, LBNL, the University of Tennessee, and the Iowa Energy Center. She is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Technology Transfer and Applied Geographic Studies. She has recently been co-leader of the influential report "Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Emissions." (from: http://www.ornl.gov/HR_ORNL/WFD/ wh/whprofiles.htm)

For her leadership in applying the concepts of geography's innovative diffusion theories to addressing clean energy technology transfer processes and her pioneering role in the analysis and inperpretation of energy futures in the United States, the Applied Geography Specialty Group is pleased to present the 2004 Anderson Medal to Marilyn A. Brown.