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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release April 30, 1999

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES WALTER PARKER AS REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ARCTIC

RESEARCH COMMISSION

The President today announced his intention to appoint Walter Parker as the Academic Representative to the Arctic Research Commission.

Mr. Walter Parker, of Anchorage, Alaska, has served as a member of the Commission since 1995. He is currently President of Parker Associates, an Alaskan firm specializing in transportation and telecommunications planning and applications. He was Chair of the Alaska Oil Spill Commission, which investigated the wreck of the Exxon Valdez and Co-Chair of the Joint Federal/State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Regional and Urban Planning, Public Administration and Political Science at the University of Alaska. He was Chair of the Alaska Hazardous Substance Spill Technology Review Council and was past Chair of the Alaska Humanities Forum State Committee.

The Arctic Research Commission develops and recommends integrated national Arctic research policy; facilitates cooperation between the Federal, State and local governments with respect to Arctic research; and reviews Federal Arctic research programs and recommends improvements.

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