Dr. Robert M. Simon has broad interests in energy and climate policy, science and technology policy, and historical research.
He retired in 2016 from his position as Principal Advisor to the Director for Energy, Transportation, and Resources at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP. He joined OSTP in 2013. From March to June 2013, he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.
From 1999 to 2013, he was the Democratic Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and the full committee Staff Director when Democrats were in the majority in the Senate. His work at the committee contributed to the enactment of 426 public laws in the areas of energy policy, public lands conservation, and natural resources management. He played a major role in the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
From 1989 to 1998, he was with the U.S. Department of Energy, where he was the founding Executive Director of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and then Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Research (1989-1993), and then assigned on detail as a technical and scientific advisor in the U.S. Senate (1993-1998).
In 2006, Dr. Simon was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, for his contributions to integrating science with public policy.
A graduate of Ursinus College, Dr. Simon received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT.
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Trinidad History and Genealogy by Robert M Simon
- The first key source of information is a comprehensive list of landowners and occupants, dating back to the original Spanish land grants and occupancies in 1782, compiled by the first civilian governor of Trinidad under the British, Sir Ralph James Woodford. He sent this document to the United Kingdom (UK) Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Earl Bathurst, in 1814. It provided the baseline of claims to land ownership in Trinidad that Woodford used in his efforts to regularize and improve land tenure in Trinidad.
- The second document is drawn from the submittal of Governor Woodford to the Colonial Department in 1822, to defend himself against charges of malfeasance levelled at him by the English allies of disaffected property owners in Trinidad. It goes over some of the same ground as the 1814 submittal (including the original Spanish land grants and occupancies), but by comparing the two, one can figure out names that were abbreviated in one or the other document and trace developments in land ownership from 1814 to 1822.
Taken together, these two sources contain over 3,200 references by names to landowners during this period. Since many names appear more than once, the number of unique landowners is less than 3,200.
I have created two comprehensive indexes, one by name and the other by location and then name, to help interested researchers quickly locate persons or places of interest to their research. The indexes point to variant spellings within and between the documents for the same person, to help the interested researcher find all the instances of a particular person.
If you print the document out using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, set the Orientation to “Auto,” print on both sides of the paper, and flip on the long edge. The document is at high enough resolution that you can easily see all the writing by zooming in on any given page on your computer screen, if the printed page is not sufficient for your needs.
Irish History and Genealogy by Robert M Simon
Science, Technology, and Energy Policy by Robert M Simon