on environmental security, sustainability planning
support for the Colorado Army National Guard, and
technical advisory services in the U.S. Army’s first
bottom-up GHG inventories at multiple installations.
From 2003 to 2008, he was an environmental scientist
at Science Applications International Corporation
where he provided hands-on, federal sector support
in areas, such as federal agency sustainability, GHG
accounting and mitigation, institutional risk manage-
ment, pollution prevention and water security. Before
joining SAIC, Mr. Alcorn worked in the international
sustainability and water protection fields as a U.S.
Peace Corps Volunteer in Central and Eastern Europe.
He has participated in numerous conferences and has
authored publications on alternative operational fu-
els, institutional sustainability indicators, internation-
al public participation, the risk assessment paradigm
for critical infrastructure, environmental security and
state fragility, and implications of climate change on
U.S. access to space. He holds a BS in Environmental
Science and Political Science from Allegheny College,
and an MS in Environmental Science and Policy from
George Mason University. He is also a Certified En-
ergy Manager
Dr. Odelia Funke
Odelia Funke, Ph.D. in Political Science and MA
in International Relations from the University of Vir-
ginia; she is a founding member of the Association for
Politics and the Life Sciences.
She has over 30 years of experience with the En-
vironmental Protection Agency, working in environ-
mental policy, information access, information tech-
nology and policy, and rulemaking processes. She