This year's conference is hosted by Stanford University in Stanford, CA, Wednesday-Sunday, September 5-9, 2007.

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One of the stops on Thursday tour "Ways of Wind and Wine: Making Energy and Wine Eco-Friendly" is the Buena Vista wind project at Altamont, pictured here. Photo courtesy of Babcock & Brown.

A-C	D-G	H-L
Aldhous, Peter	Daugherty, Rebecca	Hampton, Kate
Baker, David	Davidson, Kate Cheney	Hayden, Thomas
Baron, Nancy	Davis, Joseph	Hayes, Kim
Beeman, Perry	Davis, Sheila	Hayes, Randy
Benson, Sally	Detjen, Jim	Henry, Tom
Bettinger, James	Doney, Scott	Hinckley, Eve-Lyn
Blair, Luke	Dooley, Dan	Hogue, Cheryl
Boggs, Carol	Dykstra, Peter	Hopey, Don
Bogo, Jennifer	Ehrlich, Paul	Hulvey, Kris
Booth, Derek	Epstein, Paul	Ingalsbee, Timothy
Borenstein, Seth	Ewing, Reid	Inslee, Jay
Bowman, Chris	Fagin, Dan	Jackson, Richard
Braasch, Gary	Fahn, James	Jones, Michael
Brender, Mark	Fairley, Peter	Kay, Jane
Broadbent, Jack	Farrell, Alex	Kennedy, Donald
Bruggers, James	Ferguson, Bruce	Kimbell, Gail
Buckley, James	Field, Chris	Kline, Steven
Burnside, Jeff	Freeman, David	Koseff, Jeff
Caldwell, Meg	Freyberg, David	Kovarik, Bill
Candee, Hamilton	Friedman, Sharon	Krosnick, Jon
Cavanagh, Ralph	Funkhouser, Laura	Krupp, Fred
Cherry, Lynne	Gahran, Amy	Kvinta, Paul
Chiariello, Nona	George, Christy	Leavenworth, Stuart
Christensen, Jon	Gilroy, Leonard	Ledford, David
Cohen, Philippe	Glazer, Judy	Lee, Mike
Conover, David	Goodman, Amy	Light, Andrew
Conrad, Patricia	Gordon, Deborah	Limerick, Patricia
Contreras, Kevin	Goulder, Lawrence	Little, Jane Braxton
Cullen, Heidi	Gray, Tom	Liu Jianqiang
	Grumbles, Benjamin	Lubber, Mindy
	Guynup, Sharon	Lunch, Claire
		Lyman, Francesca

M-Q	R-S	T-Z
Margulis, Charles	Rangnes, Margrete Strand	Tanz, Jason
Matson, Pamela	Rey, Mark	Temple, Stanley
McClure, Robert	Rodriguez, Rick	Thompson, Anne
McIsaac, John	Rogers, Paul	Thompson Jr., Barton
Mecklin, John	Root, Terry	Tsuji, Joyce
Mensing, Donica	Sachsman, David	Vogel, David
Mooney, Harold	Schapiro, Mark	Waldie, Jerome
Motavalli, Jim	Scheraga, Joel	Walker, Chris
Moyer, Michael	Schleifstein, Mark	Ward, Bud
Muller, Judy	Schmidt, Karen	Ward Jr., Ken
Murphy, Tom	Schneider, Stephen	Weiser, Matt
Nastri, Wayne	Schoenberger, Karl	Weiss, Ken
Nichols, Mary	Scowcroft, Bob	Westbrook, Corry
Nielsen, John	Setziol, Ilsa	Wheeler, Tim
Paepcke, Andreas	Shimek, Steve	Whetzel, Carolyn
Palumbi, Steve	Shugar, Daniel	Wilson, Michael
Parsonnet, Julie	Shultz, George	Wolfe, David
Petersen, Leila Conners	Silberstein, Mark	Woodside, Christine
Porter, Vikki	Simons, Daniel
Poulson, David	Smith, Laura
Prince, Carol	Snow, Kat
	Steinbach, Tom
	Stephens, Scott
	Stevens, Jane
	Stover, Dawn
	Straubel, JB

Peter Aldhous
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Peter Aldhous is San Francisco bureau chief with New Scientist magazine. Before moving to California in October 2005, he spent five years as chief news and features editor for Nature. Peter's main interests lie in the biological and social sciences, and he has reported from countries including Cameroon, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and Vietnam. He is also a part-time lecturer in the science writing program at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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David Baker
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

David Baker has been practicing architecture for 28 years. He has received numerous awards, and in 1996, was selected as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He founded David Baker + Partners, Architects, in 1982 and now leads the firm with Peter MacKenzie and Kevin Wilcock. The firm is known for combining social concern with a signature design character. David is a board member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.

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Nancy Baron
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Nancy Baron, a zoologist and science writer, is the Ocean Science Outreach Director for SeaWeb and COMPASS (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea). She is also the lead communications trainer for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. In these capacities, she works with environmental scientists helping them translate their work effectively to journalists, the public and policy makers. She leads communications training workshops for academic scientists, graduate students and post docs. Baron has an interdisciplinary Masters degree in Global Marine Studies from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Zoology. The winner of numerous writing awards, she is also the author of a popular field guide, "Birds of the Pacific Northwest" (1997).

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Perry Beeman
Event: Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Perry Beeman is an SEJ board member, and a long-time reporter for The Des Moines Register, beginning his environmental coverage there full-time in 1991. In 2003, he won first place for outstanding beat reporting in the independently judged SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, and in 2004, he studied tropical ecology in Belize with a team from Loyola University in New Orleans and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

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Sally Benson
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

Sally M. Benson was appointed executive director of the Global Climate and Environment Project in March 2007. Sally is also a professor in the department of energy resources engineering in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford. A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Sally has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. Her research interests include geologic storage of CO2 in deep underground formations, technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon future, influence of climate change on critical habitats, biogeochemistry of selenium, and geotechnical instrumentation for subsurface characterization and monitoring.

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James Bettinger
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

James Bettinger is director of the John S. Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford. Before Stanford, Jim worked in newspapers for 20 years as a reporter, editorial writer and editor at the Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise, and then at the San Jose Mercury News as city editor. He has also taught courses in opinion writing, feature and analytical writing, literary journalism and creative non-fiction.

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Luke Blair
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

James "Luke" Blair is a geologist and the GIS manager for the USGS Earthquake Hazards team in Menlo Park, CA. Since graduating in 1996, he has worked as a soil scientist and GIS technician for the BLM in Coos Bay, OR; as a geologist and GIS specialist for the USGS in Reston, VA; and for a private geologic modeling company in central Pennsylvania specializing in GIS and 3D software, modeling environmental concerns (spills). In 2002 Luke re-joined the USGS, with the Earthquake Hazards team. He works closely with team scientists in mapping and modeling earthquake data, and strives to find new innovative methods of communicating important geologic hazard information to the public.

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Carol Boggs
Event: Sunday, Tour 10, 9:00 a.m. —
Reintroducing the Endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis): Is It Possible?

Carol L. Boggs is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford, and director of the school's program in human biology. She is currently studying environmental variation, using butterflies in central California and Colorado's Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

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Jennifer Bogo
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Jennifer Bogo is the senior science editor at Popular Mechanics, where she covers topics ranging from green architecture and astrobiology to alternative energy. Previously, she worked as a senior editor at Audubon magazine and at E/The Environmental Magazine. Her work also recently appeared in the anthology "Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature."

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Derek Booth
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Coastlines and Estuaries: Awash in Urban Poisons

Derek Booth is president of Stillwater Sciences, a geological research company in Seattle. Prior to joining Stillwater Sciences, he was a research professor at the University of Washington, where he remains affiliate professor in civil and environmental engineering and earth and space sciences. He led a four-year research effort funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that sparked changes to development design criteria and stormwater regulations across the Northwest.

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Seth Borenstein
Events:
Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change
Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Friday, Beat Dinner 1, 7:30 p.m. — Climate Change Naysayers: Reality Check!

Seth Borenstein is a science writer for The Associated Press and a member of SEJ for eight years. Based in Washington, D.C, he specializes in Earth sciences and climate change coverage. Before joining the AP in 2006, he was a national correspondent for the now departed Knight Ridder Newspapers, covering environment, disasters, and science.

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Chris Bowman
Events:
Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.
Friday, Breakout Lunch 2, 12:30 p.m. —
Judge for Yourself: How to Do Stories on Science Journal Articles
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Disease Detectives: How to Train a Journalistic Eye on Environmental Causes of Illness
Sunday - Wednesday, Post-Conference Tour, Journey to Lake Tahoe: Sapphire of the Sierra

Chris Bowman, environment and energy reporter for The Sacramento Bee, tries to compensate for his two-finger typing with stories that punch hard and deep: Developers unearthing naturally occurring asbestos; flavoring factories destroying workers' lungs; the world's largest cheese plant polluting with impunity; and the abuse of Mexican reforestation workers. His career began as a courthouse reporter for The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) Later, at The Hartford Courant, he uncovered fraud in bridge inspections after a deadly collapse on the Connecticut Turnpike. A Nieman Fellowship at Harvard ('95) inspired Chris to take up crew rowing at home and journalism mentoring abroad, including a three-month stint in Zimbabwe.

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Gary Braasch
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Gary Braasch is an environmental photographer and writer who is the 2006 recipient of the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography by the Sierra Club. Since 1980 he has documented natural history and environmental issues, from the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the ancient forests of the West Coast of North America, to global climate change. He has produced photographic assignments for major magazines, including National Geographic, Scientific American and Life. Gary has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Assn. and is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. University of California Press publishes his book, "Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World," in 2007.

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Mark Brender
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

Mark E. Brender joined GeoEye in January 2006 after eight years at Space Imaging as the vice president of Communications and Washington Operations. He has over 25 years of experience in public affairs, broadcast journalism and government relations and is responsible for all communications and marketing including brand awareness, reputation and issues management. Prior to joining Space Imaging, Mr. Brender was a broadcast journalist for ABC News where he spent 16 years as an assignment editor and editorial producer. In 1985 Mr. Brender established the Radio and Television News Directors Association 'Remote Sensing Task Force' to clear the way for high-resolution imagery to move into the commercial sector.

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Jack Broadbent
Event: Thursday Tour — Hole in the Donut: Environmental Justice in the Heart of Ecotopia

Jack Broadbent serves as the chief executive officer/air pollution control officer for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District). In this position, Mr. Broadbent is responsible for directing the Air District's programs to achieve and maintain healthy air quality for the 7 million people that reside in the nine county region of California's San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Broadbent joins the Air District after serving more than two and a half years as the Director of the Air Division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9. In that position, Mr. Broadbent was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Clean Air Act as well as indoor air quality and radiation programs for the Pacific Southwest region of the United States.

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James Bruggers
Events:
Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 7, 12:30 p.m. — Eco Blogging: Can It Make You a Better Journalist?

James Bruggers covers the environment for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and served as SEJ president from October 2000 through October 2002. He's worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky, and has been an SEJ board member since 1997. He was a founder of the SEJ First Amendment Task Force, and frequently uses the Toxics Release Inventory in his reporting. He also writes a blog, Watchdog Earth.

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James Buckley
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

James M. Buckley is president of Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC), a San Francisco-based non-profit housing development organization. CHC projects include construction of new tax credit-financed properties, renovation and preservation of threatened HUD-subsidized existing projects, and development of transit-oriented, mixed-use sites.

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Jeff Burnside
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 21, 12:30 p.m. — Meet the SEJ Board

Jeff Burnside is an SEJ board member, and part of the Special Projects Unit at WTVJ in Miami. Jeff broke the story regarding harm to marine mammals from low frequency active Navy sonar, documented concerns over rock mining threats to Miami-Dade wellheads where a million people get their drinking water, has traveled extensively to cover the decline of the world's coral reefs, and ventured to the bottom of the ocean aboard a scientific submersible during bioprospecting and chronicling the damage from bottom trawling. Burnside's investigative reporting recently won a national IRE certificate, a National Press Club award, and a Clarion award.

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Meg Caldwell
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE OCEAN: Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Restoration and Marine Reserves

Meg Caldwell is a senior lecturer at the Stanford School of Law. Her current research and teaching focuses on coastal law and policy, land use management and decision-making, the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, and developing private and public incentives for natural resource conservation. She has served as chairperson of the California Coastal Commission and board member of the California Coastal Conservancy Board and the California Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force.

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Hamilton Candee
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: A River Runs — Again?

Hamilton Candee is a senior attorney and the director of the National Resources Defence Council's western water project. He works on a range of California water issues, including protection and restoration of the San Joaquin River and the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. He has also litigated a number of cases on federal water policy in the West.

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Ralph Cavanagh
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Energy Subsidies: Winners and Losers

Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of NRDC's energy program, which he joined in 1979. Ralph has also been a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 2003, he served as a member of the advisory board for the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Ralph is currently a board member of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, the Renewable Northwest Project, the Northwest Energy Coalition and the Energy Center of Wisconsin. He is also a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation established in 2002.

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Lynne Cherry
Events:
Friday, Beat Dinner 8, 7:30 p.m. —
Writing Environmental and Nature Books for Kids: Keeping It Fun but Deep
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Corporate-Created Environmental Education. An Oxymoron?

Lynne Cherry is the author and/or illustrator of over 30 award-winning books for children. Her books, including "The Greak Kapok Tree," "A River Ran Wild" and "The Armadillo from Amarillo," teach children a respect for the earth.

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Nona Chiariello
Events:
Saturday, Mini-Tour 4, 3:00 p.m. — Field-Based Environmental Education at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Sunday, Tour 1, 9:00 a.m. — Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

Nona Chiariello coordinates research at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and is a research associate with the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment. Her research focuses on the effects of global environmental changes on interacting ecosystem properties such as primary production, temporal shifts in the growing season, and biological invasions. Together with ecologists, biogeochemists, hydrologists and others, she teaches a field methods course in which undergraduates and masters students conduct interdisciplinary studies of Jasper Ridge ecosystems.

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Jon Christensen
Events:
Thursday Tour — Sea Otters, Sustainable Seafood and Steinbeck
Friday, Beat Dinner 10, 4:30 p.m. —
Turning around a Troubled Fishery — Enjoy the Catch of the Day at Half Moon Bay
Sunday, Tour 10, 9:00 a.m. —
Reintroducing the Endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis): Is It Possible?

Jon Christensen has been a freelance environmental journalist and science writer for nearly 20 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, High Country News, and many other newspapers, magazines, journals, and radio and television shows, including "NOW" on PBS.

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Philippe Cohen
Event: Sunday, Tour 2, 9:00 a.m. —
Stanford University's First Green Building: An Attempt at Zero Carbon Emissions and Counting

Dr. Philippe S. Cohen is the administrative director of Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Dr. Cohen is responsible for the continuing ecological health of the Preserve and support of research and educational programs. He is dedicated to educating people on the importance of biological field stations such as JRBP, where long-term research can be carried out and work builds on years of research and monitoring. Prior to his current position, Dr. Cohen was the first resident director of the University of California Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center. As director and manager of these biological field stations, he has been involved in land management issues ranging from desert grazing, mining, and water rights, but in recent years has developed a particular interest in issues associated with the urban/wildland interface.

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David Conover
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Dr. David O. Conover is professor of Marine Science and dean and director of the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University, Long Island, N.Y. Much of his research involves species of great economic importance such as bluefish, striped bass, and Atlantic silversides. He has been the recipient of a Mote Eminent Scholar Chair in Fisheries Ecology and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. His most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, involves determination of the long-term evolutionary (Darwinian) impacts of size-selective harvest regimes on the productivity of marine fish stocks. He recently provided expert testimony at a U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on the impact of climate change on living marine resources.

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Patricia Conrad
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: A Rising Tide of Ocean Plagues

Dr. Patricia Conrad is a veterinarian and protozoologist at University of California, Davis. She leads a research team investigating the protozoal parasites that cause fatal brain infections in California sea otters. Her team is interested in the impact of fecal pathogen pollution in freshwater, estuary and marine ecosystems on wildlife and human populations. They also investigate how protozoal parasites are transmitted from land-based wildlife populations to marine mammals. The team has published on the ability of benthic invertebrates (e.g., mussels and clams) to concentrate pathogens and serve as bioindicators for environmental monitoring of protozoal and bacterial pathogens in marine and freshwater ecosystems. She has published extensively in the fields of veterinary parasitology and emerging infectious diseases.

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Kevin Contreras
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Kevin Contreras is land acquisitions specialist with the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, which manages over 4,000 acres in the Elkhorn Slough watershed in central Monterey Bay, California. He studied how chaparral recovers from wildfire and has developed skills in computer mapping, conservation land management, and vegetation sampling.

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Heidi Cullen
Events:
Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change
Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Heidi Cullen is the climate expert at The Weather Channel and a scientist formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Since October 2006, she has been host of "The Climate Code with Dr. Heidi Cullen," the first weekly television series to focus on climate issues. She has also appeared as a climate expert on national TV broadcasts and in several newspapers and magazines.

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Rebecca Daugherty
Event: Friday, Breakout Breakfast 2, 7:30 a.m. —
The Painless FOIA Letter

Rebecca Daugherty, SEJ board representative for the associate membership, is a former director of the FOI Service Center, a special project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she worked with journalists who encountered problems gaining access to public records, and on issues that threaten openness in state and federal governments. In 2001 she was inducted into the Freedom Forum's FOI Hall of Fame. She edited "Tapping Officials' Secrets," a guide to open government laws, "How to Use the Federal FOI Act," and various projects on access issues. She is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals, and currently serves on its board. She holds two journalism degrees from the University of Missouri and a law degree from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

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Kate Cheney Davidson
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Covering China's Environment

Kate Cheney Davidson works as a freelance radio and print journalist and as U.S. editor for China Dialogue, a bilingual media outlet focused on environmental issues. In her freelance work, Davidson covers a range of topics including climate change, water resources and land conservation. Her work has been published by Salon.com, National Geographic Adventure, Living on Earth, American Radio Works, and KQED. Her story on the declining water sources of Mt. Kilimanjaro was a part of a one-hour radio documentary on the impacts of climate change that won a 2006 George Polk award. At the University of California, Berkeley, she studied with China scholar Orville Schell.

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Joseph Davis
Events:
Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: Exploiting Databases: Environmental Indicators, Risk Screening and TRI

Joseph A. Davis is SEJ WatchDog Project Director, EJToday Editor, TipSheet Editor and a freelance writer/editor in Washington, D.C. He directs the WatchDog Project, an activity of SEJ's First Amendment Task Force that reports on secrecy trends and supports reporters' efforts to make better use of FOIA. He also edits EJToday, SEJ's daily selection of new and outstanding stories on environmental topics in print and on the air, and TipSheet, a biweekly electronic newsletter of story ideas and sources co-published by SEJ and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.

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Sheila Davis
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

Sheila Davis, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, has played a role in shaping the group's environmental policy in the high technology industry over the past 10 years. She is a co-founder of the Computer TakeBack Campaign, and her research and advocacy contributed to a successful ban on hazardous electronic waste from the California landfills and to the passage of the nation's first electronic recycling legislation. Sheila earned a B.A. from the University of California and worked as a journalist, state legislative aide and community developer before joining the SVTC.

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Jim Detjen
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. —
Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: On the Green Beat in Asia

Jim Detjen joined the Michigan State University (MSU) journalism school faculty in January 1995 as the Knight Chair in Journalism, the nation's only endowed chair in environmental reporting. He is also the director of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and MSU's environmental journalism program. He is the founding president of SEJ and a member of its board of directors. He is a co-founder of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists and served as its president from 1994 to 2000.

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Scott Doney
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Scott Doney, a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studies marine biogeochemistry and ecosystem dynamics, natural and human-driven climate change, and the global carbon cycle. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the MIT/WHOI Joint program in 1991 and was a postdoctoral fellow and later a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, before returning to Woods Hole in 2002. He was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2000 and was a 2004 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.

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Dan Dooley
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: A River Runs — Again?

Dan Dooley is city attorney for the city of Visalia, California, and is counsel to the Visalia Redevelopment Agency. Dan presently serves as chair of the board of trustees of Valley Children's Hospital, where he has served as a board member since 1994.

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Peter Dykstra
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

Peter Dykstra joined CNN in 1991, and is currently executive producer in charge of the network's coverage of Science, Technology, Environment, Space, and Weather. He was a part of the CNN teams which won an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1993 Mississippi River floods; a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina; and a Dupont-Columbia Award for coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. He also oversaw CNN's Military Desk during the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001, and Iraq in 2003. Prior to joining CNN, he wrote a regular column of media criticism for The Progressive Magazine, and served as media director for Greenpeace USA.

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Paul Ehrlich
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

Paul R. Ehrlich is co-founder of the field of coevolution. He studies the structure, dynamics, and genetics of natural butterfly populations. He may be best known for his work on the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues of population, resources, and the environment as matters of public policy. Currently, Paul's research group studies checkerspot butterflies, and is investigating ways that human-disturbed landscapes can be made more hospitable to biodiversity. A special interest of his is cultural evolution, especially with respect to environmental ethics.

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Paul Epstein
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Feverish Temperatures: Human Health on a Warmer Planet

Paul Epstein is associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health. Paul has worked in medical, teaching and research capacities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing.

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Reid Ewing
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Building for Life: Land-Use Planning for Healthier Communities

Reid Ewing is associate and research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland. He has written books for several major planning and development organizations: "Developing Successful New Communities" for the Urban Land Institute; "Best Development Practices" and "Transportation and Land Use Innovations" for the American Planning Association; and "Traffic Calming State-of-the-Practice" for the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

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Dan Fagin
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Disease Detectives: How to Train a Journalistic Eye on Environmental Causes of Illness

Dan Fagin is an associate professor of journalism and the director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. For 14 years he was the environment writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His stories on cancer epidemiology in 2003 won both of the best-known science journalism prizes in the United States. He is a co-author of the book "Toxic Deception" and is working on a book for Bantam/Random House that intertwines three story lines: the history of environmental cancer epidemiology, the half-century saga of the Toms River, N.J., childhood cancer cluster, and current research into gene-environment interactions. Fagin has been a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science and Religion at Cambridge University and was president of SEJ in 2003 and 2004.

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James Fahn
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: On the Green Beat in Asia

James Fahn is executive director of Earth Journalism Network, a project of Internews Network. He is also Internews Country Director for Thailand. James is a journalist who has primarily focused on environmental issues in developing countries. For nine years during the 1990s, Fahn was based in Thailand where he was a reporter and editor for The Nation, an English-language daily newspaper based in Bangkok, and hosted a television show. He was co-founder of the Thai Society of Environmental Journalists.

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Peter Fairley
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. — THE GLOBE: Covering China's Environment
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 4, 12:30 p.m. — Freelancing Around the World
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. — ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Future Fuels: How Far Can They Go?

Peter Fairley, an SEJ board member, is a ground-breaking energy and technology journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia. He is a contributing writer with Technology Review magazine, contributing editor with Spectrum, and author of the webjournal Carbon-Nation, covering developments in renewable energy, nuclear power, the sustainable use of fossil fuels and clean transportation technologies. An experienced foreign correspondent, Fairley has worked on assignment on four continents, from Bolivia to China and throughout Europe. Other publications where Peter's byline can be found include The Sunday Times of London, Canadian Business, Architectural Record and Popular Mechanics. Prior to freelancing Fairley served as Washington bureau chief and senior managing editor for Chemical Week, chronicling the global chemical industry's collision with the environment and its struggle to change. Fairley holds a master's degree from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and a B.Sc. in molecular biology from McGill University.

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Alex Farrell
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Future Fuels: How Far Can They Go?

Alex Farrell is an associate professor of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley and director of the university's Transportation Sustainability Research Center. His research and accomplishments span the arenas of transportation policy, the electric power sector, risk mitigation, and climate change. He has a degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked in the military, the private sector, at Harvard and at Carnegie Mellon University. Alex has published over two dozen peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and Energy Policy.

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Bruce Ferguson
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Coastlines and Estuaries: Awash in Urban Poisons

Bruce K. Ferguson is the Franklin Professor of Landscape Architecture in the University of Georgia's School of Environmental Design. A landscape architect specializing in urban environmental design, Ferguson's 1998 "Introduction to Stormwater" is the most frequently referenced book in the field. Harvard Professor Robert France referred to Ferguson as "the world expert in stormwater infiltration" based on Ferguson's 1994 book "Stormwater Infiltration." His 2005 Porous Pavements is the first comprehensive guide to porous surfaces, which have been called "the holy grail of environmental site design" and "potentially the biggest development in urban watersheds since the invention of the automobile."

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Chris Field
Event: Sunday, Tour 1, 9:00 a.m. — Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology, professor of biological sciences at Stanford, and faculty director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. For most of the last two decades, Chris has worked to establish the science of global ecology. His research emphasizes mechanisms that control the carbon cycle and its interactions with climate, from the molecular to the global scale. Field was a coordinating lead author for the 2007 IPCC, working group 2 Fourth Assessment Report, with responsibility for the chapter on North America. He is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America's Aldo Leopold Leadership Program and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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David Freeman
Event: Thursday Tour — Hole in the Donut: Environmental Justice in the Heart of Ecotopia

S. David Freeman is president of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners. He oversees the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together handle more than 40% of all imports to the U.S. David helped create the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in November 2006. The plan provides a comprehensive strategy for reducing air emissions from port operations by nearly 50 percent over a period of five years. David was also general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from 1997 to 2001, including the California electricity crisis in March 2001.

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David Freyberg
Event: Sunday, Tour 4, 9:00 a.m. — Searsville Dam and Reservoir: Managing an Old Dam in a Sensitive Environment

David L. Freyberg is associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. He is currently working with students studying the hydrology of wetland ecosystems, the exchange of water between reservoirs and their trapped sediments (especially Stanford's own Searsville Lake), the fate of old dams (Searsville again), and the pedagogy of fluid mechanics and engineering design.

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Sharon Friedman
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?

Sharon Friedman is the associate dean for Faculty and Staff in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University. She also is professor and director of the Science and Environmental Writing Program in the Department of Journalism and Communication. Her research focuses on how scientific, environmental and health issues are communicated to the public by the mass media. Currently, she is studying media coverage of potential environmental and health risks from nanotechnology. She is co-author of "Reporting on the Environment: A Handbook for Journalists," senior editor of "Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science," and "Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News," and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Laura Funkhouser
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Coastlines and Estuaries: Awash in Urban Poisons

Laura Funkhouser writes for Stormwater magazine on emerging paradigms. Among many activities as marketing manager for Forester Communications, she develops workshops and special programs for StormCon, the world's largest stormwater pollution prevention conference, and manages research for each of Forester's seven magazines. She has five years of publishing experience, ten years of marketing experience, and several years of experience in arts administration. In a previous life she was a contributing art critic to Visions Art Quarterly, a West Coast art journal; the Seattle Weekly; and the Santa Barbara Independent.

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Amy Gahran
Events:
Friday, Beat Dinner 3, 7:30 p.m. — Paying for Climate Change: Following the Money
Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

Amy Gahran is a self-employed "media consultant" based in Boulder, CO. For her, "media consultant" means she is a journalist, editor, community manager and a half-dozen other jobs involving online, social, and conversational media — as well as community media, citizen journalism, and the evolution of media and journalism. Amy edits the blog "E-Media Tidbits" at The Poynter Institute web site, works on a carbon tax tracking project in Boulder, and writes for SEJ's TipSheet.

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Christy George
Events:
Wednesday, SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, 6:00 p.m.
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Christy George, SEJ's first vice president of the board and programs chair, produces documentaries at Oregon Public Broadcasting. She started at OPB in 1997, creating a bureau covering the intersection of business and the environment for the Los-Angeles based national business show, "Marketplace." Before that, George edited foreign and national news for The Boston Herald and covered politics for WGBH-TV, where she won a New England Emmy for an investigative documentary about Massachusetts political corruption. She started out in 1976, covering noise and air pollution and neighborhood encroachment by Logan Airport for The East Boston Community News — a dream beat that led to jobs in print, radio and television. George shared in "Marketplace's" Peabody Award in 2001 and her special "Liquid Gold," on how water is being bought, sold and marketed like any other commodity, was part of "Marketplace's" 1998 winning submission for a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton award. A high school graduate, she was a 1990-91 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.

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Leonard Gilroy
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Building for Life: Land-Use Planning for Healthier Communities

Leonard Gilroy is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. Gilroy, a certified urban planner (AICP), researches housing, urban growth, privatization, and government reform issues. He is the managing editor of Privatization Watch, and editor of the Annual Privatization Report. His articles have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Examiner, and Rocky Mountain News. Gilroy designed and manages several Reason Web sites, and has co-authored several research reports through the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech.

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Judy Glazer
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

Judy Glazer, director for Global Social and Environmental Responsibility at Hewlett-Packard, implements environmental policy in HP's global supply chain. She manages HP's supplier code of conduct for labor, health and safety, environmental and ethics standards and oversees its global recycling program. Previous responsibilities included supplier diversity, ergonomics, packaging and electronic assembly reliability programs. Judy, who joined HP in 1989, holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Amy Goodman
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent news program airing on over 500 radio and television stations in North America. She recently began a weekly syndicated column with King Features. Amy and her brother, journalist David Goodman, co-authored the books "Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back" and "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them." In 1996, Amy helped launch Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!. She has reported on dozens of major issues and significant political figures, including Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as he returned from exile in 2004. She also worked on the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship," which exposed Chevron's role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers in the Niger Delta, who were protesting yet another oil spill in their community.

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Deborah Gordon
Event: Sunday, Tour 3, 9:00 a.m. —
Long-Term Studies of the Invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile)

Deborah M. Gordon is professor of biological sciences at Standford. She studies the behavior and ecology of ants, including a long-term study of harvester ants in Arizona and the invasive Argentine ant in California. Her book, "Ants at Work" (2000, Norton) was excerpted in the anthology "Best Science Writing of 2000."

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Lawrence Goulder
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Changing with Climate Change: Can Industries, Investors and Insurers Adapt?
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Energy Subsidies: Winners and Losers

Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University. His research examines the environmental and economic impacts of U.S. and international environmental policies, including policies to deal with climate change and pollution from power plants and automobiles. His work also explores the "sustainability" of consumption patterns in various countries. Goulder performs environmental policy analysis for various government agencies, business groups, and environmental organizations. At Stanford he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics and policy, and co-organizes a weekly seminar in public and environmental economics.

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Tom Gray
Event: Thursday Tour — Ways of Wind and Wine: Making Energy and Wine Eco-Friendly

Tom Gray is director of communications of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and has worked for AWEA, either as an employee or consultant, since 1980. In 2003, he was honored as a Wind Power Pioneer by the U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Powering America program. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative.

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Benjamin Grumbles
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Invasive Species: From Ballast Water to Island Invaders

Benjamin H. Grumbles was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 2004, as assistant administrator for the office of water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to his confirmation, Benjamin served as deputy assistant administrator for water and acting associate administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. For more than fifteen years, he served in various capacities on the House transportation and infrastructure committee staff, and was an adjunct professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, teaching a course on the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Ocean Dumping Act, and Oil Pollution Act.

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Sharon Guynup
Event: Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Sharon Guynup released her first book last year, "State of the Wild 2006: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans." She has written and edited on science and the environment for NationalGeographic.com, The New York Times Syndicate, Scientific American, Popular Science, Audubon, and other publications.

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Kate Hampton
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Which Way Out? Climate Policy and Politics in 2008 and Beyond

Kate Hampton is head of policy at Climate Change Capital (CCC), a specialist investment banking group, and is a policy advisor "Sherpa" for the European Union's High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment. Before joining CCC, Kate was head of the climate change campaign for Friends of the Earth International.

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Thomas Hayden
Event: Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 17, 12:30 p.m. —
Crisis in the Canopy: Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests

Tom Hayden left oceanography for journalism a decade ago, and soon discovered that he was better at writing about science than actually doing it. Formerly a reporter at Newsweek in New York and a senior writer at US News and World Report in Washington, DC, he recently discovered that he's also better at not having a regular job than having one. He now writes about science, the environment and culture as a freelancer for just about anyone who will pay, from National Geographic to Entertainment Weekly.

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Kim Hayes
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Kim Hayes, the stewardship director for the Elkhorn Slough Foundation since 2002, has more than 15 years' experience in California's central coast with natural resource management and environmental education. Prior to ESF, Kim worked with the University of California's Natural Reserve System and the California Department of Parks and Recreation.

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Randy Hayes
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE POLICY: Environmentally Honest Accounting

Randy Hayes, founder and board president of Rainforest Action Network, is a senior staffer with the International Forum on Globalization, a group which studies political and economic activities related to globalization. Randy's master's thesis at San Francisco State University was the film "The Four Corners," which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for "Best Student Documentary" in 1983. He is a contributing author to "Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible" (Berrett-Koehler, 2002).

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Tom Henry
Events: Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Saturday, Mini-Tour 5, 3:00 p.m. — Beam Me Up, Scotty!

Tom Henry created The (Toledo) Blade's environment beat after arriving there in 1993. He is a Michigan native who has been a journalist for 26 years in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida. He was a recipient last fall of the first "Great Laker" award for media coverage from Healing Our Waters, a consortium of 90-some zoos, aquariums, museums, parks, environment, outdoor, academic, and conservation groups from throughout the Great Lakes region.

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Eve-Lyn Hinckley
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour 4, 3:00 p.m. — Field-Based Environmental Education at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Eve-Lyn Hinckley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the interactions between hydrological and biogeochemical processes in intensively-managed systems. Currently, Eve-Lyn's research is in Northern California vineyards, where she is using her research results to help growers improve their water and nutrient management practices. While at Stanford, she's helped develop and teach several environmental studies courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Cheryl Hogue
Events:
Thursday Tour — Restoring the Bay's Edges: Birds and the Bounty of Tidal Marsh
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 5, 12:30 p.m. — Quicksilver Quandary: Where's That Recovered Mercury Going?
Friday, Beat Dinner 14, 6:45 p.m. — Greening the Capitol

Cheryl Hogue, SEJ's second vice president of the board and membership chair, has covered national environmental policy developments from Washington, D.C., since 1987. For the last five years, she has reported on pollution-related issues for Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. She also covered Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. During her time with BNA, she reported daily from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the negotiations on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

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Don Hopey
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 16, 12:30 p.m. —
Clean Water Act: Missing on the Mississippi River?
Friday, Beat Dinner 6, 7:30 p.m. —
Climate Change, Kids and Other Forest Issues: A Discussion with U.S. Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell
Saturday, Mini-Tour 3, 3:00 p.m. —
Room to Breathe: Open Space Preservation in the Silicon Valley

Don Hopey has covered the environment for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1992. He has written series about an 80-mile canoe trip through the Wild & Scenic sections of the Allegheny River, the "Wise Use" movement in Pennsylvania and problems with the nation's hazardous waste incinerators. He participated in an end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail by five eastern newspapers in 1995, hiking more than 500 miles from Virginia through Pennsylvania. Reports on the hike were reprinted in a book, "An Appalachian Adventure." He is co-author of "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Mid-Atlantic States," one of five guide books in a series that highlights the trail's social and natural history. He teaches an environmental issues and policy class at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Kris Hulvey
Event: Sunday, Tour 9, 9:00 a.m. —
How Do Native Species Declines Make California Grasslands More Vulnerable to Weed Invasion?

Kris Hulvey is a professor in the department of environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her work aims to determine if species' abundance declines are an important form of biodiversity loss. Currently, Kris is studying yellow starthistle, an invasive plant species in California. She is also a peer reviewer for the journals Ecological Applications and Okios. She is also helping to develop a management plan for introduced reindeer on St. George Island in Alaska.

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Timothy Ingalsbee
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Wildfire Policy and Issues

Timothy Ingalsbee is executive director of Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology. Formerly, he was director of the American Lands Alliance's Western Fire Ecology Center, which does research, analysis, education and advocacy on fire-related federal forest management issues. Timothy is also an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, currently teaching a graduate seminar on environmental sociology.

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Jay Inslee
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Californians on the Front Lines: The Shifting Politics of the Environment

Rep. Jay Inslee has been representing the First Congressional District in Washington State since 1999, and has had a seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee since 2005. His plan for clean energy is dubbed the "New Apollo Energy Act," and comes alongside his support for other legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Jay also has supported increased spending for port security and veterans' services. He backed the war in Afghanistan to root out terrorists; but he voted against the war in Iraq and has been an outspoken critic of administration policies there.

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Richard Jackson
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Feverish Temperatures: Human Health on a Warmer Planet

Richard Jackson, an adjunct professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, is former Director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2005 he began lecturing on climate change as a US public health and medical care issue and is the lead on a National Institute of Medicine Roundtable on this topic.

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Michael Jones
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

Michael Jones is chief technology officer of the Google Earth service for distributed geospatial visualization to users worldwide. He is co-founder of Keyhole, the company taken over by Google to create Google Earth. In addition, he is a technical presenter, an inventor with eleven issued U.S. patents, and an associate in several Silicon Valley projects. He was formerly president and CEO of Intrinsic Graphics, Director of Advanced Graphics Software at Silicon Graphics responsible for OpenGL, Performer, and all other graphics APIs, co-founder of a movie coloring company, and a computer graphics consultant during the 1980s. He has been a computer programmer since the fourth grade.

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Jane Kay
Events:
Thursday Tour — Restoring the Bay's Edges: Birds and the Bounty of Tidal Marsh
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 3, 12:30 p.m. — Is Global Warming Killing Our National Parks?
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Nature out of Sync: Why Are the Trees Flowering in January?

Jane Kay is environmental writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. She focuses on signals of global warming, the biological diversity of ecosystems and environmental health, including mercury in fish and chemicals in consumer products. Jane taught environment reporting at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, then directed its environmental journalism program.

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Donald Kennedy
Event: Friday, Breakout Lunch 2, 12:30 p.m. —
Judge for Yourself: How to Do Stories on Science Journal Articles

Donald Kennedy is President Emeritus of Stanford University; Bing Professor of environmental science and policy, and emeritus and editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Donald's work focuses on science and public policy, especially regulatory policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977 to 1979.

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Gail Kimbell
Event: Friday, Beat Dinner 6, 7:30 p.m. —
Climate Change, Kids and Other Forest Issues: A Discussion with U.S. Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell

Abigail (Gail) Kimbell is chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Gail served as regional forester of the Northern Region from February 2004-February 2007. She replaced former chief Dale Bosworth, who retired February 2, 2007. As Forest Service chief, Kimbell oversees an organization of over 30,000 employees and a budget of just over $4 billion. She is the 16th chief and the first woman to head the agency.

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Steven Kline
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Changing with Climate Change: Can Industries, Investors and Insurers Adapt?

Steven Kline is vice president for corporate environmental and federal affairs for Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation. He is in charge of PG&E's Washington, D.C., office, and is also responsible for the company's environmental policy. Steven serves on the advisory council for Resources for the Future and executive leadership council for The Nature Conservancy. He is also an active member of the board of trustees at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Jeff Koseff
Event: Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.

Jeff Koseff is co-director of Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, the William Alden and Martha Campbell professor of civil and environmental engineering, and professor of chemical engineering. His work focuses on the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments. Long-term research projects include understanding the transport of mass and energy in estuarine systems such as San Francisco Bay, and understanding how the coral reef systems of the Red Sea and Hawai'i and the kelp forest systems of California function.

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Bill Kovarik
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 6, 12:30 p.m. — SEJ 2008: Ready for Roanoke?
Saturday, Mini-Tour 8, 3:00 p.m. — The Greening of Stanford

Bill Kovarik, SEJ's board representative for the academic membership, is a professor of media studies at Radford University in southwestern Virginia, where he teaches science and environment writing, media history, media law and web design. Bill's professional experience includes reporting and editing for Jack Anderson, The Associated Press, The Charleston (SC) Courier, The Baltimore Sun, Time-Life Books, Latin American Energy Report and Appropriate Technology Times. His books include "The Forbidden Fuel" (1982), "Mass Media and Environmental Conflict" (with Mark Neuzil, 1996), and "Web Design for the Mass Media" (2001).

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Jon Krosnick
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change

Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who studies how the American public's beliefs and attitudes regarding environmental policy issues form, change over time, and influence individuals' political behavior. He has conducted a number of surveys related to public perception of climate change.

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Fred Krupp
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense, a national nonprofit organization that links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. Fred leads Environmental Defense's teams of scientists, economists and attorneys in achieving four main goals: stabilizing the Earth's climate, preserving species and habitat, protecting human health and safeguarding oceans and marine life. Since Fred joined Environmental Defense in 1984, its annual budget has increased from $3 million to $71.8 million, full-time staff increased from 50 to nearly 300, and membership expanded from 40,000 to more than 500,000.

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Paul Kvinta
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Paul Kvinta is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure magazine. He received a Templeton Journalism Fellowship in Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge in England in 2007, and a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University for 2007-2008. In 2005, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for reporting, and his story "Stomping Grounds" was included in the anthology "The Best American Magazine Writing 2005."

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Stuart Leavenworth
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Californians on the Front Lines: The Shifting Politics of the Environment

Stuart Leavenworth joined the editorial board of The Sacramento Bee in December of 2004 after working five years as The Bee's growth reporter and natural resources reporter. He now editorializes on the governor and a range of state and local issues. He also is a commentator on Capitol Public Radio, and launched a blog this year, The Hot House, on the state's climate laws.

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David Ledford
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

David Ledford has served as vice president/news and executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., since March 2004. He is a board member of the AP Managing Editors and is slated to be president in October 2008. Since earning a bachelor's degree in English in 1980, Ledford has worked as reporter and/or editor at the Daily News, The Spokesman-Review, The Trentonian and The Salt Lake Tribune. He held leadership positions at the Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader before joining Wilmington in 2004.

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Mike Lee
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 12, 12:30 p.m. —
Reaching Capacity? Exploring America's Population Problem
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Farm to Fork: Food Safety and Security

Mike Lee covers environmental issues for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Before that, he wrote about agriculture and biotechnology as a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, where he was part of a team that won national recognition for a series about biotech foods.

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Andrew Light
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Californians on the Front Lines: The Shifting Politics of the Environment

Andrew Light is associate professor of philosophy and public affairs, and adjunct professor of geography and public health genetics, at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has just finished a co-authored book, "Environment and Values" (forthcoming from Routledge), and is working on a monograph on ethical issues in restoration ecology, tentatively titled "Restoring the Culture of Nature." He co-founded the Society for Philosophy and Geography with Jonathan Smith (Texas A&M University) and co-edits the journal Ethics, Place, and Environment (Routledge) with Smith. The journal publishes interdisciplinary work on questions of space, place, and both urban and natural environments.

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Patricia Limerick
Event: Sunday, Western Environmental Myths: Will Your Next Story Be A Lie?, 11:00 a.m.

Patty Limerick is the faculty director and chair of the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is also a professor of history. In 1985 she published "Desert Passages," followed in 1987 by her best-known work, "The Legacy of Conquest," an overview and reinterpretation of Western American history. Many of her essays were collected in the book "Something in the Soil" in 2000, and in the summer of 2005 she served as a guest columnist for The New York Times.

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Jane Braxton Little
Events:
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions
Sunday - Wednesday, Post-Conference Tour, Journey to Lake Tahoe: Sapphire of the Sierra

Jane Braxton Little has written about California condors, wildland fire, deep sea exploration and other natural resource issues for over 40 national publications that include Audubon, Popular Mechanics, Wilderness, Nature Conservancy and Yes! She lives on 35 acres of forestland in the Feather River country of California's northern Sierra Nevada.

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Liu Jianqiang
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. — THE GLOBE: Covering China's Environment
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. — THE GLOBE: On the Green Beat in Asia

Mr. Liu Jianqiang is a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, for academic year 2007-2008, and senior reporter for Southern Weekend, one of the largest newspapers in China. With ten years' experience reporting, he focuses on investigative reporting and environmental issues. Liu Jianqiang has produced reports on the Three Gorges River dam, the Tiger Leaping Gorge dam on Yangtse River, genetically modified rice, environmental damage at the former Summer Palace, and Tibetan protection of the Sacred Mountains and lakes, making public conflicts of interest behind the scenes. He is currently writing a book about Tibet.

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Mindy Lubber
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Changing with Climate Change: Can Industries, Investors and Insurers Adapt?

Mindy S. Lubber is the president of Ceres, a U.S.-based group of investors and environmental activists working to improve corporate environmental and social practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an organization that coordinates investor responses to climate change. INCR has produced reports that explain climate risk to investors. Mindy is founder, president and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds, and founder of the National Environmental Law Center.

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Claire Lunch
Event: Sunday, Tour 1, 9:00 a.m. — Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

Claire Lunch is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. She is interested in the interface between plant- and ecosystem-level physiological processes, and the constraints that each can place on the other. Her dissertation, conducted in the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment, concerns the physiological responses of plants to global environmental change. In the past she has worked on ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics on the Colorado Plateau and in the Alaskan arctic, and on plant water relations in the Pacific Northwest. She received her Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2002.

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Francesca Lyman
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 19, 12:30 p.m. —
Can the Buyer Be Fair? Fair-Trade Coffee and Other Products
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Feverish Temperatures: Human Health on a Warmer Planet

Francesca Lyman, author of "The Greenhouse Trap: What We are Doing to the Atmosphere and How We Can Slow Global Warming," with World Resources Institute, is a freelance magazine writer who currently contributes to Ms. Magazine, Seattle Metropolitan, Horizon Air, and other magazines and newspapers. She has written about the environment often over her 20-year journalistic career, which has included being editor of Words by Wire syndication service, an environmental columnist for MSNBC, and a beat reporter for two New Jersey newspapers. She is a graduate of Bennington College.

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Charles Margulis
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Farm to Fork: Food Safety and Security

Charles Margulis is a researcher, policy analyst, and media relations coordinator for the Center for Food Safety, a non-profit challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives. Charles previously was the lead campaigner for the Greenpeace USA Genetic Engineering Campaign. His work with Greenpeace was featured in a Nova/Frontline documentary and a front-page report in The Wall Street Journal. Charles also works on sustainable food issues for the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit working to protect the public from toxic health threats and to promote safer production and products.

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Pamela Matson
Events:
Wednesday, Post-Dinner Welcoming Remarks, ~6:00 p.m.
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate

Pamela Matson is dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford. She is also a professor of environmental studies and a member of Stanford's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling and land/water interactions in tropical forests and agricultural systems, and on sustainability science. Together with hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, economists and agronomists, she analyzes the economic drivers and environmental consequences of land use and resource use decisions in developing world agricultural and natural ecosystems, with the objective of identifying practices that are economically and environmentally sustainable.

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Robert McClure
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Coastlines and Estuaries: Awash in Urban Poisons

Robert McClure has covered environment since the 1980s but only discovered the overwhelming problem known as stormwater in 2002. Since then he's covered stormwater and other woes of Puget Sound for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a campaign that sparked a major new state and federal restoration effort. McClure won numerous awards for reporting on subjects including the Everglades, Puget Sound and mining. Previously with South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and spent a year in the University of Michigan's Knight Wallace Fellows program. An SEJ board member and chairman of SEJournal's editorial board, McClure blogs at Dateline Earth.

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John McIsaac
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Green Chemistry: Toward a Less Toxic World

John McIsaac, director of Columbia Forest Products' public relations efforts, played a central role in the launch and commercialization of PureBond®, the composite wood industry's first cost-neutral, formaldehyde-free hardwood plywood panel. Columbia's proprietary soy-based adhesive system revolutionized the decorative panel industry, and raised public and regulator awareness of formaldehyde's effects on indoor air quality. McIsaac is currently working on a communications strategy for a new $250 million rice-straw fiberboard plant in Willows, California, which will produce formaldehyde-free MDF while recycling 20 percent of California's rice straw waste.

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John Mecklin
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

John Mecklin is the editor of High Country News, a non-profit biweekly news magazine based in Paonia, Colorado. HCN reports on the environment, politics, and culture of the 11 Western states. Before taking the job in 2006, he spent 12 years as head editor at the metropolitan news weeklies SF Weekly and Phoenix New Times. Earlier, John was an investigative reporter for the Houston Post, covering the Persian Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

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Donica Mensing
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?

Donica Mensing, associate professor, directs a new graduate program in Interactive Environmental Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. The program focuses on the communities and environment of Lake Tahoe as a case study. She is interested in the interaction between new forms of technology and the future of journalism, particularly as it relates to environmental decision making.

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Harold Mooney
Event: Sunday, Breakfast and Introductory Remarks, 8:00 a.m.

Dr. Harold Mooney is Paul S. Achilles professor of environmental biology at Stanford's Center for Environmental Sciences and Policy. Since obtaining his doctorate in 1960, he has researched convergent evolution, showing different plant species develop the same physiological characteristics in response to the same severe environments; carbon gain and carbon use in California plants; the effect of the invasion of different plant species on naturally occurring species under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), setting up the first global evaluation of invasive plant species; and changes in the global environment. Mooney played an international leadership role, especially with problems related to biodiversity and global warming, helping build the foundation for the field of global ecology. He is also past president of the Ecological Society of America.

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Jim Motavalli
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. — THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions
Saturday, Mini-Tour 7, 3:00 p.m. — Driving the Future: From Cellulosic Ethanol to Plug-In Hybrids

Jim Motavalli is the editor of the Norwalk, Connecticut-based E/The Environmental Magazine, the only independent national environmental bimonthly. He is the author of "Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works" (2002) and "Forward Drive: The Race to Build 'Clean' Cars for the Future" (2000), both published by Sierra Club Books/Random House. "Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change," which he edited, was based on reporting in E Magazine, and published by Routledge in 2004. His magazine's editorial team produced the book "Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth" (Plume, 2005). He writes regularly for The New York Times' Automobiles, Connecticut and Metro sections, and produces a weekly auto column, which appears in The Philadelphia Review and five other papers. He also writes the "Green Living" column for "Solutions," the Environmental Defense newsletter. Jim hosts a biweekly public affairs and music radio show on listener-supported WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Michael Moyer
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Michael Moyer is the executive editor of Popular Science, the world's largest science and technology magazine. He has earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley and studied towards a master's in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Judy Muller
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

Judy Muller, a television correspondent and National Public Radio commentator, is also on the faculty of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A regular contributor to NPR's "Morning Edition," she also wrote a book about her experiences as a journalist titled "Now This — Radio, Television and the Real World." Muller is also a contributing correspondent to "California Connected," a topical magazine broadcast that airs on public television stations throughout California.

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Tom Murphy
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

Tom Murphy is founder and editor-in-chief of "baby boomer" news site RedwoodAge.com. He is also author of "Web Rules: How the Internet is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices" (Dearborn Trade Publications, 2000). Before creating RedwoodAge, Tom was founding managing editor of MarketWatch.com.

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Wayne Nastri
Event: Friday, Breakout Breakfast 3, 7:30 a.m. —
EPA Roundtable: How the West was One — Partnering to Tame Diesel Emissions

Wayne Nastri is regional administrator for Region 9 (covering the Pacific southwest and tribal nations) for the Environmental Protection Agency. He helped launch a program to speed voluntary reductions of diesel emissions from ports, trucks and other federally regulated sources. Before being appointed to the EPA, Wayne was president of Environmental Mediation, an environmental and government relations firm.

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Mary Nichols
Event: Friday, CalEPA Press Conference, 5:30 p.m.

Mary Nichols became chair of the California Air Resources Board in July 2007. The State Senate must still confirm the appointment. She is on leave from the UCLA Institute of the Environment (IoE), where she served as director until her recent appointment to CARB. Previously, she served as the California Secretary for Resources; executive director of the Environment Now Foundation; assistant administrator of Air and Radiation for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Los Angeles office; private environmental law consultant; secretary of Environmental Affairs and chair of the Air Resources Board for the state of California; and attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles.

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John Nielsen
Event: Sunday, Western Environmental Myths: Will Your Next Story Be A Lie?, 11:00 a.m.

John Nielsen covers environmental issues for National Public Radio (NPR). His reports air regularly on "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition." He also prepares documentaries for the NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions series, which is heard on "Morning Edition." John's "Condor: To the Brink and Back — The Life and Times of One Giant Bird" (HarperCollins, 2006) focuses on the long-running fight to save the California condor, a giant rare vulture that used to be common near his childhood home, the tiny town of Piru, California.

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Andreas Paepcke
Event: Sunday, Tour 5, 9:00 a.m. — New Technological Tools for Field Research and Education

Dr. Andreas Paepcke is a senior research scientist and director of the Digital Library and BioACT Projects at Stanford. His interests include user interfaces for small devices, novel Web search facilities, and browsing facilities for digital artifacts that are difficult to index. He worked with students to create WebBase, an experimental storage system for Web contents. His work on small devices concentrates on methods for summarizing and transforming Web pages, on browsing images on small displays, and on facilities for biodiversity researchers, such as an in-field species identification tool.

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Steve Palumbi
Events:
Thursday Tour — Sea Otters, Sustainable Seafood and Steinbeck
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE OCEAN: Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Restoration and Marine Reserves

Steve Palumbi is a marine ecologist, and a Pew Fellow in marine conservation. His book "The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change" shows how rapid evolution is central to emerging problems in modern society. Steve has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterfly fishes. In 2002, Steve appeared in the TV series "The Future is Wild," a computer-animated exploration of the possible courses of evolution in the next few hundred million years.

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Julie Parsonnet
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Disease Detectives: How to Train a Journalistic Eye on Environmental Causes of Illness

Dr. Julie Parsonnet is associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases and geographic medicine) and of health research and policy at Stanford University. Her research focuses on infection as a cause of chronic disease; gastrointestinal neoplasms; interactions among microbial agents within the human host; epidemiology of diarrheal diseases and foodborne diseases.

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Leila Conners Petersen
Event: Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Leila Conners Petersen is founder and president of Tree Media Group. Conners Petersen is director, producer, and writer on "The 11th Hour," as well as the short films "Global Warning" and "Water Planet" (also with DiCaprio). Conners Petersen was associate editor at New Perspectives Quarterly and Global Viewpoint, focusing on international politics and social issues. She is now editor-at-large. She has been published in International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Wired. Conners Petersen is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Next, she will direct "Original Instructions," a film about nature's operating instructions.

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Vikki Porter
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

Vikki Porter is director of the Knight New Media Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. She was the founding director of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, also at the Annenberg School. Most recently, she was executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, California.

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David Poulson
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: Computer Workshop: Mapping the Environment

David Poulson is the associate director of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. He teaches computer-assisted, investigative and other environmental reporting courses in addition to organizing and teaching workshops for professional journalists. Prior to his arrival at the Knight Center in January of 2003, he had a 22-year career as a newspaper reporter and editor, mostly covering the environment.

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Carol Prince
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

Carol Prince has been the Deputy Director of External Affairs of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy since 1997. During the restoration of Crissy Field (1998 to 2001) she served as Communications Director of the $34 million revitalization project and continues to be the Crissy Field overseer for the Parks Conservancy. She is the former Deputy Director of the California Academy of Sciences.

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Margrete Strand Rangnes
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

Margrete Strand Rangnes joined the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program in 2004 after working for Washington-based Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. Margrete helps to facilitate the Sierra Club's Our World Is Not For Sale Network, the premier international network on WTO issues. She has extensive contacts in government, the media, and among other organizations working on trade issues in the U.S. and abroad. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Bergen, Norway.

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Mark Rey
Event: Thursday Tour — Sustainable Forestry and Organic Farming

Mark Rey was sworn in as the undersecretary for natural resources and environment by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on October 2, 2001. In that position, he oversees the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service. Mark was directly involved in nearly all the forestry and conservation legislation considered during the past several sessions of Congress, with principal responsibility for a number of public lands bills.

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Rick Rodriguez
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change

Rick Rodriguez is executive editor and senior vice president at The Sacramento Bee. He has worked for The Bee since 1982, beginning as a political writer at the newspaper's state Capitol Bureau. As executive editor, he is in charge of the overall news operations of The Bee, which has a daily circulation of 280,000 and a Sunday circulation of 320,000. Rick served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the nation's most influential editors' group, two years ago. He was the first Latino to head ASNE.

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Paul Rogers
Events:
Thursday Tour — Sustainable Forestry and Organic Farming
Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

Paul Rogers is the resources and environment reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, where he has worked since 1989. Paul is also managing editor of "QUEST," a TV and radio series about science and environmental issues in Northern California that airs weekly on KQED in San Francisco. He also teaches graduate science writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and serves as chairman of the board of the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources, a non-profit group that offers expedition-style learning programs for journalists.

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Terry Root
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Nature out of Sync: Why Are the Trees Flowering in January?

Terry Root is a senior fellow at Center for Environmental Science and Policy and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. She wrote "Atlas of Wintering North American Birds: An Analysis of Christmas Bird Count Data." Her work demonstrated that climate and/or vegetation are important factors shaping the ranges and abundances of birds. She was a lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, working group 2 Third Assessment Report, with responsibility for the impacts of climate change on wildlife. She currently is a lead author of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, working group 2 Fourth Assessment Report.

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David Sachsman
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?

David Sachsman teaches Public Communication and Environmental Issues at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His presentation to SEJ will report on a research project he co-heads examining the question: "What distinguishes environment reporters from other journalists?" In 2005, Dr. Sachsman led the team evaluating the U.S. Agency for International Development's environmental communication and education projects in more than thirty countries. Dr. Sachsman serves on the editorial board of SEJournal. In 1998, he served as co-chair of SEJ's national conference. He is widely published in environmental communication and media history, and co-author of several works on environmental risk communication, as well as "The Reporter's Environmental Handbook."

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Mark Schapiro
Events:
Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE POLICY: Environmentally Honest Accounting
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Green Chemistry: Toward a Less Toxic World

Mark Schapiro is the Center for Investigative Reporting's editorial director. He has been an investigative journalist for more than two decades and has been a correspondent on "NOW" with Bill Moyers, "FRONTLINE/World," and "Marketplace." His new book, "Exposed," will be published by Chelsea Green Publishing in September 2007.

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Joel Scheraga
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Feverish Temperatures: Human Health on a Warmer Planet

Joel D. Scheraga is the national program director for the Global Change Research Program and the Mercury Research Program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development. He is also the EPA principal representative to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by the U.S. government. He was a lead author of the CCSP Strategic Plan released in 2003.

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Mark Schleifstein
Events:
Wednesday, SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, 6:00 p.m.
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 10, 12:30 p.m. — Wetlands and Marshes: An Uncertain Future

Environment reporter Mark Schleifstein, an SEJ board member, has worked at The Times-Picayune since 1984. He is the co-author with John McQuaid of "Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms," published by Little, Brown & Co. His reporting during and after Hurricane Katrina was among the newspaper's stories honored with 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting and the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. Stories prior to Katrina on coastal science issues were honored in 2006 with a special award from the American Geophysical Union. The 2002 series he co-authored, "Washing Away: How south Louisiana is growing more vulnerable to a catastrophic hurricane," won the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2003 Excellence in Media award and the 2003 National Hurricane Conference media award. He also was a co-author of the 1996 series, "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?," which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Karen Schmidt
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Nanomaterials: Nifty or Naughty?

Karen F. Schmidt is an independent science reporter and writer based in California. She has 16 years' experience writing feature articles for magazines, including U.S. News & World Report, New Scientist, Science, National Wildlife, Science News and Earth. She hosts the podcast "Trips to the NanoFrontier" for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Stephen Schneider
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change

Stephen H. Schneider is professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies and a senior fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, at Stanford University. He has consulted for federal agencies and/or White House staff in six administrations. He is founder/editor of Climatic Change magazine.

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Karl Schoenberger
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

Karl Schoenberger is a researcher at U.C. Berkeley's Human Rights Center. A former correspondent in Asia for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune, his project on electronic waste recycling in China for the San Jose Mercury News won the Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting in 2003. Schoenberger wrote "Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace." He is a Stanford graduate.

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Bob Scowcroft
Event: Thursday Tour — Sustainable Forestry and Organic Farming

Bob Scowcroft is a co-founder of Organic Farming Research Foundation, serving as executive director since 1990. Bob specializes in information about the organic industry and as a resource to the media on organic issues. Bob has also served as executive director of California Certified Organic Farmers and as a national organizer on pesticide issues for Friends of the Earth.

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Ilsa Setziol
Event: Wednesday, SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, 6:00 p.m.

Ilsa Setziol is environment reporter for National Public Radio affiliate KPCC in Los Angeles. Many of her stories concern efforts to save endangered species and preserve open space in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. She contributes to syndicated programs, especially PRI's "Living on Earth" and "The California Report."

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Steve Shimek
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Steve Shimek is executive director of The Otter Project, a 4,000-member nonprofit organization dedicated to the recovery of the California sea otter and near shore ocean health. Steve also serves on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sea Otter Recovery Implementation Team and is co-chair of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary conservation working group.

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Daniel Shugar
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

Daniel Shugar is president of PowerLight Corporation, a solar power company in California. He has been active in the solar industry since 1988, managing Pacific Gas & Electric's solar projects research group.

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George Shultz
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was sworn in on July 16, 1982, as the 60th U.S. secretary of state and served until January 20, 1989. He is chairman of the J. P. Morgan Chase International Council, the Accenture Energy Advisory Board and the California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors. George was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on January 19, 1989. He also received the Seoul Peace Prize (1992), the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service (2001), and the Reagan Distinguished American Award (2002). The George Shultz National Foreign Service Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated on May 29, 2002. Shultz as named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2005.

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Mark Silberstein
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Mark Silberstein is the executive director of the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, founded in 1982 to conserve and restore Elkhorn Slough in the central Monterey Bay area of California, one of the state's premier coastal wetlands and estuaries. The Elkhorn Slough Foundation manages the largest conservation land holdings in the watershed with nearly 4,000 acres under its stewardship.

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Daniel Simons
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

Daniel Simons, AIA, LEED AP, is an associate at David Baker + Partners, Architects. Mr. Simons has an M.Arch. from the University of Washington. He has over 10 years of experience in design, construction document preparation, and construction administration. Daniel has focused on the field of multi-family housing, including both affordable and market-rate projects, and uses his knowledge of green building practices and progressive city planning to minimize the buildings' environmental impact while improving the quality of life for residents.

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Laura Smith
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Laura Smith is manager of the Monterey Project for The Nature Conservancy. Laura has a Master of Science in Forest Ecology from the University of Washington, and her career has included work with public natural resource agencies as well as over twenty years with The Nature Conservancy in Washington state and California. In Monterey County she focuses on the Conservancy's science-based approach to protecting biodiversity through acquiring key lands and conservation easements, managing Conservancy-owned lands, and working with the full array of partners (private and public) to develop and implement conservation programs.

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Kat Snow
Event: Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Kat Snow, KQED's news editor, came to the radio station in the summer of 2002, after steering the news staff at Salt Lake City station KUER through the 2002 Winter Olympics and a format change to an all-news station. Prior to her two years there as news director, Kat reported for six years on statewide issues at KUER. A 20-year veteran of radio, she has freelanced in radio and print, with credits in Newsweek, The Atlantic, MonitorRadio, NPR, the North Coast Times Eagle and several public radio stations and regional magazines in Oregon and Washington. She has won statewide and national awards for her individual work and for team projects.

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Tom Steinbach
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

Tom Steinbach is executive director of Greenbelt Alliance, which since 1958 has been protecting the San Francisco Bay Area's open space and making its cities better places to live. Since joining the organization in 1999, Tom has helped conserve more than 300,000 acres of open space. Among Tom's current priorities are helping craft effective land-use strategies for reaching greenhouse gas pollution-reduction targets established in California's climate change legislation.

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Scott Stephens
Event: Sunday, Tour 6, 9:00 a.m. —
Fire Ecology and Management within an Urban-Wildland Interface

Scott Stephens is associate professor of fire science at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been teaching for several years, focusing on the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. He studies past and future wildland fires, and fire policy.

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Jane Stevens
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?

Jane Stevens is a freelance multimedia journalist, who began her career as a copy editor at the Boston Globe, before moving into editing and reporting at the San Francisco Examiner. She founded a syndicated science and technology feature service with clients worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, and Asahi Shimbun's AERA Magazine. Jane has written for magazines and worked as a videojournalist. She has done multimedia reporting for The New York Times, Discovery Channel, and MSNBC.com. She teaches multimedia reporting at the University of California, Berkeley. She consults with news organizations transitioning to Web-centric operations. During 2007, she's revamping three science sites, and collaborating with Conservation International on the Great Turtle Race.

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Dawn Stover
Events:
Thursday Tour — Ways of Wind and Wine: Making Energy and Wine Eco-Friendly
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Dawn Stover is a freelance magazine writer and editor whose main focus is science journalism. She lives and works in a log cabin on 20 acres outside White Salmon, Washington. She is an editor-at-large for Popular Science magazine, where she was a staffer for 19 years. Previously, she worked at Harper's and Science Digest.

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JB Straubel
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

JB Straubel oversees the technical and engineering design of the electric car company Tesla Motors. He focuses on the battery, motor, power electronics, and high-level software sub-systems. Additionally, he evaluates new technology, manages vehicle systems testing, and interacts with key vendors. Before joining Tesla Motors, JB was the CTO and co-founder of the aerospace firm, Volacom Inc., where he invented and patented a new long-endurance hybrid electric propulsion concept that was later licensed to Boeing. He has also built an electric Porsche 944 that held a world EV racing record, a custom electric bicycle, and a pioneering hybrid trailer system.

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Jason Tanz
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Jason Tanz is a senior editor at Wired, where he heads up the magazine's business coverage. Previously, he was a senior editor at Fortune Small Business, an editor at Fortune and a writer at SmartMoney magazine. As a freelance writer, he has covered everything from mah-jongg tournaments to "nerdcore" rap. He is also the author of "Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America" (Bloomsbury USA, 2007).

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Stanley Temple
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Nature out of Sync: Why Are the Trees Flowering in January?

Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and former Chairman of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He has received the highest honors of The Society for Conservation Biology and The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and is a Fellow of The American Ornithologists' Union, The Explorer's Club, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Anne Thompson
Event: Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate

Anne Thompson is NBC News' chief environmental affairs correspondent. She reports on such issues as alternative fuels, global warming, land usage and new technologies for all NBC News broadcasts including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Today," on MSNBC, and online at MSNBC.com. In 2006, Thompson received the prestigious Gerald Loeb award, and she was part of the "Nightly News" team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism award and the Emmy award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2004, she was awarded the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business and financial journalism for series of reports that aired on "Nightly News" on the jobless economic recovery.

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Barton (Buzz) Thompson Jr.
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE POLICY: Environmentally Honest Accounting

Buzz Thompson is co-director of Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and the Robert E. Paradise professor of natural resources law. His research focuses on the sustainable use of natural resources and the effective reform of regulatory institutions. Buzz is also author of several books on water, the environment, and property.

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Joyce Tsuji
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Nanomaterials: Nifty or Naughty?

Joyce Tsuji is a toxicologist and principal scientist in Exponent's Health Sciences practice. She specializes in assessing exposure and risks associated with chemicals in the environment and in communication to regulators and the public. She has assessed exposure and health risks associated with chemicals in foods and consumer products such as cleaners, air fresheners, cosmetics, paint, and children's play equipment and building materials.

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David Vogel
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

David Vogel is professor of Business Ethics at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His research focuses on business-government relations with an emphasis on comparing international environmental and consumer regulation. He writes on corporate social responsibility and on religion and environmentalism, while teaching environmental policy and business ethics at Haas. Vogel, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, is currently working on a monograph on corporate social responsibility and writing a book comparing trends in risk regulation in the E.U. and the U.S.

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Jerome Waldie
Event: Sunday - Wednesday, Post-Conference Tour, Journey to Lake Tahoe: Sapphire of the Sierra

Jerome Waldie serves on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency governing board as a California Senate Rules Committee appointee. He joined the board in 1992, continuing a life-long career in politics. In 1958, five years out of law school, Waldie was elected state assemblyman for the eastern half of Contra Costa County. He learned legislative effectiveness from his Sacramento roommate, Jesse Unruh. The fabled Assembly Speaker chose Waldie to be his majority floor leader, a position he held until his election to Congress in 1966. Waldie spoke out against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, advocated full financial disclosure for public officials and leaned strongly environmental — banning DDT, creating Redwood National Park and opposing plans to divert Northern California river water to southern farms and cities.

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Chris Walker
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Changing with Climate Change: Can Industries, Investors and Insurers Adapt?

Chris Walker is spending 18 months as U.S. director of The Climate Group, a non-profit encouraging political and business action on climate change. He was previously head of Swiss Re's sustainability business development. Swiss Re is a Switzerland-based reinsurance company, which insures insurance companies.

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Bud Ward
Event: Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Bud Ward, a co-founder of SEJ, is a free-lance writer and independent environmental journalism educator. The editor of a new online Yale University magazine — the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media — Ward is founder and editor of www.environmentwriter.org, and founding editor of The Environmental Forum policy journal. He is contest administrator for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, and journalism manager of an NSF-funded workshop series involving journalists and leading climate scientists.

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Ken Ward Jr.
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 2, 7:30 a.m. — The Painless FOIA Letter
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 6, 12:30 p.m. — SEJ 2008: Ready for Roanoke?

Ken Ward Jr., a reporter for The Charleston (WV) Gazette since 1991, is a graduate of West Virginia University. He has received numerous regional and national reporting awards for his coverage of strip mining, pulp mills, timbering and medical waste incinerators. He is a three-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward Jr. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting and in 2000 received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Ward is also chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists' First Amendment Task Force. In 2006, he spent six months researching coal mine issues as an Alicia Patterson Fellow. The resulting series received a medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

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Matt Weiser
Events:
Thursday Tour — Saving the Inland Sea: Fish, Floods and Faucets in the California Delta
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 9, 12:30 p.m. — Dam Removal: Plumbing the Conflicts and Opportunities

Matt Weiser covers water and natural resources issues at The Sacramento Bee. He has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for 20 years. His 2006 coverage of flood risk in Sacramento and the California Delta earned first-place awards in environmental reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and Best of the West journalism competition.

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Ken Weiss
Events:
Thursday Tour — Sea Otters, Sustainable Seafood and Steinbeck
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: A Rising Tide of Ocean Plagues

Ken Weiss covers the coast and oceans for the Los Angeles Times. He was the lead writer of the five-day series entitled Altered Oceans that appeared last summer in the newspaper and remains on the web site. The series has won a number of national and international awards including the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, George Polk Award for environmental reporting, Columbia Journalism School's John B. Oakes Award, the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award, and American Geophysical Union's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. Before coming to the L.A. Times, Weiss spent six years in Washington, D.C., as a correspondent for newspapers owned by the New York Times and as a reporter for States News Service.

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Corry Westbrook
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Invasive Species: From Ballast Water to Island Invaders

Corry Westbrook is legislative director for the National Wildlife Federation. She is also a founding member of the National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species (NECIS), currently comprising fifteen national and regional conservation organizations including Union of Concerned Scientists, Great Lakes United, Audubon and other prominent groups. Ms. Westbrook is co-author of "Under Siege: Invasive Species on Military Bases," a report which showed that invasive species are negatively impacting training and readiness. This report was prepared in partnership with the Marine Corps and the Department of Defense. Ms. Westbrook has also worked with Congress for the past several years to try an ensure strong, comprehensive aquatic invasive species is introduced and passed.

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Tim Wheeler
Events:
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Building for Life: Land-Use Planning for Healthier Communities
Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Tim Wheeler, SEJ's current president of the board, covers growth for The Baltimore Sun. He has written about the environment frequently in his 30-year journalistic career, which included a decade as the beat reporter for The Evening Sun and then The Sun after the two papers merged. He spent two years as an editor helping to coordinate The Sun's medical, science, religion and environmental coverage, during which reporters for the paper won an SEJ award for spot-news coverage of a chemical-laden train fire in downtown Baltimore. His reporting on the Chesapeake Bay, childhood lead poisoning and other environmental topics also has won multiple awards. Before coming to Baltimore, he worked for newspapers in Richmond and Norfolk, VA., and for Media General News Service in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Carolyn Whetzel
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 3, 7:30 a.m. —
EPA Roundtable: How the West was One — Partnering to Tame Diesel Emissions
Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.

Carolyn Whetzel, SEJ's treasurer of the board and finance chair, is an environmental reporter for BNA, a private publisher headquartered in Washington, D.C. that covers legislative developments, federal and state laws and regulations, court decisions, and economic trends. Whetzel is based in California and covers a variety of state environmental issues including air and water quality, hazardous wastes, chemicals, and energy since 1992. Her work appears primarily in BNA's Daily Environment Report, Environment Reporter, Toxics Law Reporter, Chemical Regulation Reporter, Occupational Safety & Health Reporter, and Daily Report for Executives. Whetzel joined BNA in 1970 while attending George Washington University, but left four years later to travel and move to California. Before rejoining BNA, she wrote for in-house publications for several companies and institutions and was a freelance writer in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Dallas.

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Michael Wilson
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE POLICY: Green Chemistry: Toward a Less Toxic World

Michael P. Wilson, Ph.D., MPH, is an assistant research scientist at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, where he conducts research and practice in chemicals policy, green chemistry, occupational safety and health, and sustainable production. Dr. Wilson is the chief author of the 2006 report to the California Legislature, "Green Chemistry in California: A Framework for Leadership in Chemicals Policy and Innovation." This report has helped draw renewed attention to the myriad problems of the contemporary chemical production system and the need for modern policies that motivate industry investment in green chemistry at a level commensurate with the scale and pace of chemical production.

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David Wolfe
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE CLIMATE: Nature out of Sync: Why Are the Trees Flowering in January?

David W. Wolfe is professor of plant ecology in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell, a member of Cornell's Biogeochemistry Program, and on the advisory boards for the NY Water Resources Institute and the NY Department of Environmental Conservation Climate Change Planning Committee. He is an expert on the effects of climate change and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on plants, soils, and ecosystems. His recent research documenting earlier spring bloom date of lilacs, apples, and grapes in the Northeast received national media attention. Dr. Wolfe was lead author of the Northeast Climate Change Impacts Assessment released July 2007.

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Christine Woodside
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Christine Woodside is a writer and editor from Deep River, Connecticut. She is the author of "The Homeowner's Guide to Energy Independence: Alternative Power Sources for the Average American" (Lyons Press, 2006). Chris is the editor of Appalachia, a conservation and mountaineering journal, and the former environmental reporter for The Day, a daily in New London, Connecticut. She was a fellow of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting in Rhode Island in 1999 and now serves on its advisory board. She hiked the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1987.

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