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James Aiken is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine in the section of emergency medicine in the LSU school of medicine. His clinical responsibilities include educating and supervising emergency medicine resident patient care at the Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is also the medical director for emergency preparedness at the Medical Center of Louisiana. James served as a medical advisor to New Orleans for healthcare disaster response planning for the 2002 Super Bowl, and as the lead coordinator of the New Orleans integrated healthcare disaster response plan for the 2003 NCAA collegiate basketball Final Four event.

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Barbara Allen
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Barbara Allen is a native of south Louisiana and author of the recent book "Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes." She has extensively researched activism and activist-experts in the environmental movement in Louisiana and her current book is a study in why environmental regulation should not be turned over to the state. Currently she is investigating the problems confronting scientists doing environmental health research in Louisiana. She is currently the director of the science and technology studies department at Virginia Tech's Washington D.C. area campus.

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William Allen
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: From Shaman's Hut to Patent Office: Covering Native Rights in Latin America
2. Friday, Beat Dinner #5, 7:30 p.m. —
Balancing Work and Family Issues

William Allen is an author and independent journalist based in St. Louis and a Senior Fellow at the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources. At IJNR he helps shape educational programs for early and mid-career journalists and mentors science and environment writers. His first book, "Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica" (Oxford University Press, 2001; 2003 paperback), tells the story of the people, politics and ecology behind the world's first large-scale attempt to restore a ruined tropical forest.

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John Anfinson
Event: Sunday — Panoramas, Plagues, Pirogues and Pilots: Bringing the History of the Mississippi River to Life, 10:30 a.m.

John Anfinson is a historian with the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRRA), a unit of the National Park Service (NPS). The unit runs for 72 miles along the Mississippi River through the Twin Cities metropolitan area and includes four miles of the Minnesota River, above its confluence with the Mississippi. John has been studying the upper Mississippi River for over 20 years. In March 2003, the University of Minnesota Press published his book "The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi." John is a founding board member and currently vice-chair of Friends of the Mississippi River, an organization that focuses on the environmental health of the Mississippi in the Twin Cities area.

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Gary Ankley
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE LAND: Unintended Havoc: Pesticides, Papermill Wastes, and Other Hormonal Pollutants' Risks to Fish and Crops

Gary Ankley is a Research Toxicologist and Branch Chief with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ecology lab in Duluth, MN. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles on a broad spectrum of topics, including: development of methods and models to assess the bioavailability and toxicity of contaminants in effluents and sediments, assessment of the direct and indirect risks of solar ultraviolet radiation to aquatic life, and most recently evaluation of the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on aquatic animals, principally amphibians and fish.

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Stuart Appelbaum
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE COAST: Fixing Nature: The Politics of the Army Corps and Environmental Restoration

Stuart Appelbaum is the chief of the RECOVER (Restoration Coordination and Verification) Branch for the Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District. RECOVER is an interagency scientific and technical team responsible for ensuring that the goals and purposes of the Everglades restoration plan are achieved. He also is currently responsible for developing the regulations required by the Water Resources Development Act of 2000. He was responsible for leading the team that developed the restoration plan for the Everglades authorized by Congress in December 2000.

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Adam Babich
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?
2. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 6, 12:00 p.m. —
Nuts & Bolts of Environmental Justice — Following the Details

Adam Babich directs the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic which offers students the real-world experience of representing people who otherwise could not afford to enforce their rights under state and federal environmental laws. Now as Louisiana's only public-interest provider of environmental legal services, the clinic maintains a full and wide-ranging litigation docket. The clinic's 26 student attorneys litigate environmental "citizen suits" to abate industrial pollution, appeal permits for environmental pollution or destruction of wetlands, challenge agency regulations that fall short of legislative mandates, and prod agencies to perform statutory duties.

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Frances Backhouse
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 27, 12:00 p.m. —
Freelancing on the Environment

Frances Backhouse has written for magazines that range from Audubon, Canadian Wildlife and New Scientist to an obscure trade publication for electronics retailers. She has also written a variety of government reports and brochures; two published books (one about women in the Klondike gold rush, the other about hiking the Chilkoot Trail); and a work in progress (a book about North American woodpeckers).

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Len Bahr
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Len Bahr headed up the Louisiana Governor's office of coastal activities through the Edwards and Foster administrations through this year, coordinating the restoration program for the state and representing the governor on the Federal/State Breaux Act Task Force. He has been involved in the development of the LCA comprehensive restoration plan, due for completion in 2004. This year he earned the "Jimmie Davis Sunshine Award" as state employee of the year.

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Philip Bailey
Events:
1. Friday, Beat Dinner #7, 7:30 p.m. —
Decoding PR and Greenwashing
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Emerging Global Issues: What the Radar Screen is Missing

Philip Bailey is an independent writer and consultant living in Maine. As an environmental consultant Bailey works with clients in the business community as well as state governments. He is currently working on a book regarding sustainable businesses and non-profit efforts. In 1992, he founded the National Recycling Coalition's Buy Recycled Business Alliance program and prior to that Bailey worked for the governor of Colorado.

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Sandra Barbier
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 9, 12:00 p.m. —
Drilling Waste — RCRA-Exempt Hazards from Oil and Gas Exploration

Sandra Barbier is a reporter for The Times-Picayune, West Bank Bureau, located in Gretna, LA. She covers general assignment news, the Plaquemines Parish (county) school district, public housing and local environmental issues.

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John Barry
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 21, 12:00 p.m. —
Writing About Environment and Disease
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE COAST: Fixing Nature: The Politics of the Army Corps and Environmental Restoration
3. Sunday — Panoramas, Plagues, Pirogues and Pilots: Bringing the History of the Mississippi River to Life, 10:30 a.m.

John Barry is Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Center for Bioenvironmental Research, and has covered national politics and economics as Washington editor of Dun's Review. He has written four books. His first book, "The Ambition And The Power: A True Story Of Washington," was cited by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about Washington and Congress.

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Tony Beaubouef
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Pontchartrain: Dairies, Development and Clean Water

Tony Beaubouef is a district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Tony has been serving the land users of Washington and St. Tammany Parishes since 1988. During this time he has acquired a unique working knowledge of the eastern Florida Parishes, the people who live there and the land.

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Roy Beck
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: The Under-Reported Local Story: Why is Population Growing in Certain Areas?

Author and lecturer Roy Beck was one of the nation's first environment-beat newspaper reporters in the 1960s. A former chief Washington correspondent for the Booth Newspapers chain, he is the author of four public policy books. Beck is the executive director of NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation, a non-profit group that produces studies and educational materials that make the case for less U.S. population growth and lower immigration levels. He manages several websites, including SprawlCity.org which reports on Census Bureau and USDA data on the role population growth plays in driving the nation's urban sprawl.

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Perry Beeman
Events:
1. Friday, Beat Dinner #11, 8:15 p.m. —
Talkin' SEJ — Programs and the Future
2. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Termites and Historic Buildings

Perry Beeman is SEJ first vice president and programs chair. Perry has reported for The Des Moines Register since 1981. His work at The Register has included a number of award-winning investigative pieces. They included a 2002 package on interest groups' efforts to suppress the findings of scientists who assessed health threats from farm pollution. He also conducted a water-sampling effort that prompted the state's first comprehensive testing of state park swimming areas.

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Rick Blum
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT I: FOIA Update: Access to Environmental Information

Rick Blum coordinates a broad coalition that includes journalists, labor, and good government and environmental groups to fight the expansion of government secrecy. For several years Rick promoted public access to government information to safeguard public health and protect the environment. As a policy analyst at OMB Watch from 1997 to 2001, he helped bring together librarians, environmental groups, freedom-of-information advocates, and others in the 1999 fight to maintain public access to chemical accident risk management plans; drafted a section of the e-government law signed into law in 2002; gained experience in grassroots organizing; and has testified before Congress on EPA's science program.

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Joseph Booth
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session #4, 7:00 a.m. —
Mock Bio-Terrorism Attack: Is Your Newsroom Ready For This? Are You?

Joseph Booth is a Louisiana State Police major commanding the transportation and environmental safety section. His duties include hazardous material, explosives, and other emergency responses, the Louisiana Emergency Response Training Center, commercial vehicle enforcement, regulation and inspection of the explosives industry, and other related matters. Joseph is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He also is a member of the International Chiefs of Police Association and has served on the arson and explosives committee.

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Edgar Bordes Jr.
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Termites and Historic Buildings

Edgar Bordes Jr. has been administrator of the New Orleans mosquito control board since 1986, and a professional insect-fighter since 1959. He has served on entomological boards throughout the south, and works in both the pest control and public health fields.

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Dale Bosworth
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session #1, 7:00 a.m. —
Changing the Debate on Managing U.S. Forests and Grasslands

Dale Bosworth is chief of the U.S. Forest Service. He has been a forester since 1966, and worked as deputy director of forest management from 1990 to 1992. Bosworth has been regional forester for the Intermountain and Northern Regions of the U.S. Forest Service.

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Brenda Box
Events:
1. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Radio and the Environment: Using Sounds and Words to Get the Story Across
2. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Garbage and Wildlife Refuges

Brenda Box is a radio news correspondent with almost 24 years of experience in journalism and public relations. She is presently a reporter/anchor at WTOP-AM in Washington, D.C. She has been an anchor and reporter for CBS Radio Station Services, NBC/Mutual Radio and UPI Radio. Brenda has also worked for the National Wildlife Federation, The West Virginia Wildlife Federation and The Wilderness Society as a public relations specialist.

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Glen Boyd
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE LAND: Unintended Havoc: Pesticides, Papermill Wastes, and Other Hormonal Pollutants' Risks to Fish and Crops

Glen Boyd is assistant professor with the department of civil and environmental engineering at Tulane University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in design and management of water resources and municipal treatment systems. His current research is aimed at understanding reaction kinetics of disinfection processes with pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting contaminants. Glen also conducts research on remediation of contaminated groundwaters and protection of water quality in distribution systems.

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Douglas Brinkley
Event: Sunday — Panoramas, Plagues, Pirogues and Pilots: Bringing the History of the Mississippi River to Life, 10:30 a.m.

Douglas Brinkley currently serves as director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and is a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. Three of his biographies — "Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years," (Yale University Press, 1992), "Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal," with Townsend Hoopes (Alfred Knopf, 1992) and "The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House" (Viking Press, 1998) — were chosen as "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. Brinkley served as historical consultant/commentator for a five-hour documentary on the Mississippi River for A&E/The History Channel and as a commentator for "November Warriors," a 1996 documentary on presidential politics. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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James Bruggers
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II (Interactive Workshop): Covering Risk — A Risky Business
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT I: FOIA Update: Access to Environmental Information

James Bruggers covers the environmental for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal in Kentucky and served as SEJ president from October 2000 through October 2002. He's also worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington and California. In 1998-99, he was awarded a year on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus as Michigan Journalism Fellow. He has served as board liaison to the SEJ First Amendment Task Force since it was created last year.

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Susie Bruninga
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 5, 12:00 p.m. —
New Clean Water Act Policies — Hanging US Water Resources Out to Dry?

Susie Bruninga, senior reporter for BNA's Daily Environment Report, has covered Clean Water Act policy and regulation since 1997. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and just completed a master's degree in environmental policy and science from Johns Hopkins University.

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Steven Burke
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: GMOs: Panacea or Pandemic?

Steven Burke is senior vice president for corporate affairs and external relations at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. He has been an active participant in the national and international biotechnology communities since the mid-1980s, working in particular as an advocate for attention to educational, public and societal issues. He speaks frequently throughout the United States and Europe on the requirements, issues and strategies of biotechnology development.

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Dina Cappiello
Event: Thursday Tour — Do Oil and Water Mix?

Dina Cappiello is the environment writer for the Houston Chronicle. Before joining the paper in November, Cappiello covered the environment for the Times Union in Albany, NY, where she earned numerous awards for her articles on dredging PCBs from the Hudson River and acid rain in the Adirondacks.

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Kevin Carmody
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II (Interactive Workshop): Covering Risk — A Risky Business

Kevin Carmody is the environment writer for The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman. Carmody has won more than two dozen national and regional reporting honors including the George Polk, National Headliners and Thomas Stokes awards. His 1999 report on government misconduct in the beryllium poisoning of A-bomb scientists at Manhattan Project labs in Chicago during World War II prompted Congress to compensate the victims or their heirs.

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Craig Cheatham
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CITY: Lead and Metals Poisoning: Impacts from Car Exhausts, Industry and Lead Paint

Craig Cheatham joined KMOV Channel 4 as a full-time reporter in June 1999. Craig won awards this year for the investigative series "La Oroya, City of Lead." The two-part series examines the impact of toxic emissions from a lead smelter in a small Peruvian town. The issues raised in the KMOV broadcasts were the focus of a Peruvian congressional investigation.

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Felicia Coleman
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE COAST: Overfishing the Gulf — and the Globe

Felicia Coleman is currently an associate scholar scientist in the department of biological science at Florida State University. She is director of the Institute for Fishery Resource Ecology, a partnership with the National Marine Fisheries Service, and co-director of FSU's undergraduate academic certificate program in living marine resource ecology. Her research interests in reeffish population ecology led her to explore the effects of fishing on fish populations, and to question how (or whether) ecologically relevant information about exploited species was incorporated into management and governmental policy.

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Darron Collins
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 26, 12:00 p.m. —
From Turtles to Trees — South American Conservation
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Depleting the World's Mahogany — Brazil Tries to Spare the Forests

Darron Collins has been regional forest coordinator for the Latin America and Caribbean Secretariat of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) since 2001. Darron is responsible for the fundraising, development and implementation of forest conservation programs throughout Latin America. His areas of expertise include community forestry conservation, ethnobiology, mahogany conservation, indigenous peoples, and sustainable forest management. Darron lived for two years within two Q'eqchi' communities (the Q'eqchi' are a Mayan speaking people of northern Guatemala), where he gathered and analyzed the most extensive sample of ethnobotanical data available for the Q'eqchi'. He also speaks Q'eqchi'-Maya fluently.

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Richard Condrey
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Richard Condrey is a Louisiana native, raised in both New Orleans and Houma. He was primary author of the federal fishery management plan for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery; chaired the Gulf of Mexico's fishery management council's red drum stock assessment panel during the recovery of red fish; served as expert witness in fisheries for the state of Louisiana in the gill net ban; and is an advocate for ecosystem management of fisheries, especially as it relates to nontarget sharks, marine birds, and marine mammals and the mining of sand resources for coastal restoration.

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Ralph Costa
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE LAND: Endangered Forests: Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and the Pine Industry

Ralph Costa has been red-cockaded woodpecker recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1991. Based at Clemson University in South Carolina, he oversees the agency's efforts to protect the bird throughout its range in 11 southeastern states. From 1989 to 1991, Costa managed red-cockaded woodpecker protection as a wildlife biologist at the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida. He was a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Forest Service from 1979 to 1991.

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Fernanda Couzemenco
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: International History of Environmental Journalism

Fernanda Couzemenco is a Brazilian journalist working in the communication consultantship to TAMAR Project in Espírito Santo. Fernanda has been writing about environmental issues in various magazines, radios and sites in Espírito Santo since 1997.

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Tim Crockett
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: Stayin' Alive: Reporting Live from Harm's Way

Tim Crockett joined the Special Boat Service in 1992, seeing service in all environments from the jungle to the arctic, and eventually leading a maritime counter-terrorist team specializing in anti-piracy and anti-smuggling initiatives. He served in northern Iraq, and went on to become an instructor and assessor for U.K. Special Forces selection. Tim is a senior instructor of the "Surviving Hostile Regions" course for embedded journalists. He advises and works closely with media teams conducting training prior to deployment and has worked alongside them advising in the field, with deployments to Afghanistan a number of times, and the Amazon jungle of Brazil. Since October 2002 he has worked within a major U.S. news network for AKE, training their personnel to operate in hostile environments and co-coordinating all of their field safety requirements before, during and now post Gulf War.

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Windell Curole
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Windell Curole has been general manager for the South Lafource Levee District in Louisiana for 23 years. Windel has also been a member of the Coastal Zone Management Committee, and has served as part of coastal waterway and emergency preparedness groups.

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Doug Daigle
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE COAST: Bringing the Gulf Coast's Dead Zone to Life...What Will It Take?

Doug Daigle is lower river program director for the Mississippi River Basin Alliance (MRBA), a non-profit organization dedicated to protection and restoration of the health of the river system and the communities who depend on it. The issue of Gulf hypoxia is the major focus of the New Orleans office of MRBA.

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Eric Dannenmaier
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 19, 12:00 p.m. —
Environmental Triggers for Future Violent Conflicts
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Emerging Global Issues: What the Radar Screen is Missing

Eric Dannenmaier is director of the Tulane University's Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, working with governments and international institutions to design legal policy frameworks for sustainable international development. He joined Tulane in 2001 after 11 years in Washington DC, where he served for six years as Environmental Law Advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is currently part of a project responding to a Congressional mandate to study the connections between environmental stress and conflict vulnerability — and will be testing preliminary models in South Asia, Africa and South America.

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Elizabeth Davey
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
A Streetcar Named Progress

Elizabeth Davey is environmental coordinator at Tulane University in New Orleans. She works with Tulane students, staff and faculty to develop programs to make the campus more environmentally sustainable. Under her direction, a team of Tulane students has been the leading bicycle planning group in New Orleans for the past two years. They produced the most recent bicycle map of New Orleans, and worked as consultants on the New Orleans regional bicycle master plan.

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Donald Davis
Event: Thursday Tour — Do Oil and Water Mix?

Donald Davis joined Louisiana State University's research faculty in 1990. For the last 10 years he has served as the administrator of the Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program in the office of the Governor. In addition to his work with the oil and gas industry, Don has spent nearly 30 years investigating various human/land issues in Louisiana's wetlands.

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Mark Davis
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE COAST: Fixing Nature: The Politics of the Army Corps and Environmental Restoration

Mark Davis has been executive director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana since 1992. The Coalition is the principal public oversight organization dealing with the restoration and stewardship of coastal Louisiana, a place that has seen the loss of over a million acres of wetlands and barrier shoreline.

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Bill Dawson
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 3, 12:00 p.m. —
Covering Chemical Accidents in a Post-9/11 World
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Bhopal at 20: Contract Workers, Explosions and Chemical Plant Safety

Bill Dawson is a freelance journalist based in Houston and contributing writer for the University of Rhode Island's Environment Writer newsletter. He covered a variety of chemical-safety issues while he was on the environmental beat for the Houston Chronicle from 1984-2001. He also reported on chemical safety for the non-profit Center for Public Integrity, an investigative reporting organization in Washington.

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John DeCicco
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: Vehicle Fuel Efficiency and Emissions: What Would (Enlightened Soul of Your Choice Here) Drive?

John DeCicco specializes in automotive strategies at Environmental Defense. A mechanical engineer by training, John analyzes ways to improve efficiency and emissions of motor vehicles. He has published extensively on the subject, with recent studies addressing options for improving the fuel economy of gasoline-powered automobiles, including hybrid-electric vehicles; prospects for fuel cell vehicles; and market characterization of U.S. auto sector CO2 emissions. Among his credits is the "Green Book," an annual consumer guide that provides life-cycle based environmental ratings for cars and light trucks.

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Jackleen de La Harpe
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 22, 12:00 p.m. —
Ocean Issues — How to Report on the Other 70% of the Planet

Jackleen de La Harpe has been the executive director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting since 1997 when it was founded. Prior to the Metcalf Institute, she was a science writer at the graduate school of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and the editor of Maritimes, a marine and environmental research magazine for URI. She was a staff reporter at The Providence Journal before coming to GSO and has done extensive freelance writing and editing.

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James Diaz
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Climate Change and Emerging Disease: From Malaria and Dengue Fever to the West Nile and Norwalk Viruses

James Diaz, a native of New Orleans, is board-certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, pain management, general preventive medicine and public health, and occupational/environmental medicine. He currently serves as professor of public health and preventive medicine in the School of Public Health at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and as adjunct professor of health care management at the College of Business Administration, University of New Orleans. James studies occupational and environmental cancer and injury risk factors; environmental and tropical diseases of travelers; and emerging environmentally associated infectious diseases, particularly food-borne, waterborne and vector-borne diseases.

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Kenneth Ducote
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Environmental Justice and Neighborhood Buyouts

Kenneth Ducote is a native of New Orleans, presently on leave of absence as an administrator with the New Orleans Public Schools. A 31-year veteran of the New Orleans Public Schools, the last 15 of which were as director of facility planning and development, where, among other responsibilities, he represented the school district on all environmental issues, including asbestos, lead in paint and soil, indoor air quality, underground storage tanks, endangered species habitats, and three Superfund cleanups. Advocates the "my child" standard: No public official should ever allow any child to be exposed to a risk that the official would reasonably not allow his/her own child to be exposed to.

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Carlton Dufrechou
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Pontchartrain: Dairies, Development and Clean Water

Carlton Dufrechou is executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, which works to restore the Pontchartrain Basin near metro New Orleans. The projects Dufrechou has overseen include livestock waste retention lagoons, a 16,000-acre national wildlife refuge and curriculum guides for environmental educators. From 1986 to 1992, Dufrechou was a planner with the New Orleans district of the Corps of Engineers.

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Bill Dunbar
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session #3, 7:00 a.m. —
U.S. EPA PIO's

Bill Dunbar is a public affairs specialist for the EPA's Region 10 office in Seattle. Prior to coming to the EPA in 1999, Bill served for four years as the public affairs director for the Washington office of the Northwest Power Planning Council, an interstate compact that helps guide most federal spending and activities on the Columbia River.

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Catherine Chiappinelli Dunn
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans

Catherine Chiappinelli Dunn is deputy director of the Port of New Orleans development division, with responsibilities in environmental, cash flow management, utilities and special projects. She has been involved with more than $300 million of port capital improvement projects in her 14 years with the port.

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James Dutcher
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE LAND: TRI at 12: The Economics of Environmental Regulation

James Dutcher is the president of Dutcher Communications, a firm specializing in issue management, crisis communication, governmental and media relations. He was appointed by the governor of Maryland to the hazardous materials commission that was responsible for developing one of the first comprehensive Community Right to Know laws in the United States.

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Peter Dykstra
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 8:45 a.m. —
Eye of the Storm: What are the Media Doing Wrong with Natural Disaster Coverage?

Peter Dykstra is CNN's executive producer for science, technology, environment and space. He oversees the network's coverage on all four of those beats, as well as "Next@CNN," a one-hour program which airs on CNN on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. In 2001 and 2002, he supervised CNN's military desk as part of the network's coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Randall Edwards
Event: Friday, Beat Dinner #6, 7:30 p.m. —
Through the Looking Glass — Moving from Journalism to PR

Randall Edwards is the director of communications and marketing for the Ohio Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Edwards was a journalist for more than 20 years, writing for newspapers, magazines and online publications. He spent 15 years at the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, including five years as the newspaper's environment reporter. He was an active member of SEJ before leaving journalism and organized several regional SEJ conferences.

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Tia Edwards
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Tia Edwards currently serves as the director of public affairs and workforce development for the Louisiana Chemical Association. Just prior to that position, Edwards developed the newly created Baton Rouge Branch of INROADS/Louisiana, Inc., a nationally acclaimed non-profit career development and placement organization for minority college students. She is also an independent consultant to many non-profit and for profit agencies and organizations, providing grant writing, volunteer, mentor and staff training, college preparation workshops, job readiness training and self-esteem development, specifically for at-risk youth.

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Paul Epstein
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Climate Change and Emerging Disease: From Malaria and Dengue Fever to the West Nile and Norwalk Viruses

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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Dan Fagin
Events:
1. Friday, Beat Dinner #11, 8:15 p.m. —
Talkin' SEJ — Programs and the Future
2. Saturday, Breakfast Session #1, 7:00 a.m. —
Inside EPA: From Science to Policy to Enforcement

Dan Fagin, current President of the Society of Environmental Journalists, has been the environment writer at Newsday since 1991. His reporting has taken him everywhere from South Dakota Indian reservations and Mexican shantytowns to the wilds of suburban Long Island. He is also co-author of the book "Toxic Deception," named by Investigative Reporters and Editors as one of the three best investigative books of 1997. Fagin is also an adjunct professor at New York University, where he teaches environmental reporting to journalism graduate students.

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Judy Fahys
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CITY: Gov. Leavitt's Environmental Record

Judy Fahys covers environmental issues for the daily Salt Lake Tribune. As an environmental reporter, she has followed the Department of Environmental Quality under the Leavitt administration. Her primary areas of coverage include the nation's largest low-level nuclear waste facility, the legacy of uranium mining in Utah, air quality trends and plans for creation of a 100-acre parking lot for spent nuclear fuel on Indian reservation land about 50 miles from Salt Lake City.

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Ted Falgout
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Ted Falgout has been executive director of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission since 1978. The Port has over 130 companies, over $1 billion in infrastructure, 600 acres developed and an expansion of 700 acres in progress with a $27 million budget. Port Fourchon has developed into this nation's most significant energy port which plays a key role in furnishing the U.S. with 16% of its total oil and gas supply.

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Jeff Fleming
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Do Oil and Water Mix?
2. Friday, Beat Dinner #9, 8:00 p.m. —
Freewheeling Discussion with USFWS PAOs

Jeff Fleming serves as chief of the office of public affairs for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Previously, Fleming served as press secretary and legislative policy aide to U.S. Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee. He worked on conservation policy areas including the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act, conservation tax incentives, conservation provisions in the highway bill, migratory bird and fishery issues, and a range of natural resource funding issues.

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Peyton Fleming
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 25, 12:00 p.m. —
Covering Climate Change at the Local Level

Peyton Fleming oversees press communications for EPA's New England office in Boston. He has worked at EPA for four years after being a newspaper reporter for 12 years, including two years as an environmental reporter.

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William Fontenot
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

William Fontenot is a native of Louisiana and lives in Baton Rouge. He has worked as the community liaison officer for the Attorney General's office since 1978. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Clean Water Action and as president of the Council of the Mississippi River Basin Alliance.

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Byron Fortier
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Do Oil and Water Mix?
2. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Garbage and Wildlife Refuges

Byron Fortier is the supervisory park ranger for education and outreach at Southeast Louisiana Refuges. Prior to that he worked as an interpreter for the National Park Service.

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Jennifer Fox
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 7, 12:00 p.m. —
Environmental Signaling — Beyond Endocrine Disruptors
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE LAND: Unintended Havoc: Pesticides, Papermill Wastes, and Other Hormonal Pollutants' Risks to Fish and Crops

Jennifer Fox is currently a post doctoral fellow at the center for ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Oregon. Her current research focuses on how estrogen receptors adapt altered responses to hormones, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disrupting chemicals. Her doctoral work, published in the journal Nature, exposed the negative effects of environmental estrogens and endocrine disrupting chemicals on complex symbiotic signaling networks between plants and bacteria in the environment.

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Nancy Gaarder
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CITY: Lead and Metals Poisoning: Impacts from Car Exhausts, Industry and Lead Paint

Nancy Gaarder has been the environment and energy reporter at the Omaha, Neb., World-Herald since August 2001. From 1996 until 2001, she worked as a city editor at the World-Herald. Before that, she worked about 13 years in various capacities, from reporter to editor, at her hometown newspaper, the St. Joseph, Mo., News-Press and Gazette.

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Verne Gifford
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans

Verne Gifford began as chief of the operations department at Marine Safety Office New Orleans in June 2002. He directs environmental and marine casualty response and port and waterways safety and security at the Coast Guard's busiest marine safety office. This is his fifth tour of duty in the Coast Guard's marine safety program and his third tour in New Orleans.

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Adam Glenn
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: International History of Environmental Journalism
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Multimedia Reporting: Turning Around the Same Story for TV, Web, Newspaper, and Magazines
3. Friday, Beat Dinner #8, 7:30 p.m. —
Fellowships to Travel, Report, Study or Teach

Adam Glenn, senior producer for business, health and science and technology at ABCNEWS.com, has survived the Web since 1997 and been a working journalist in New York and Washington since 1982. Prior to joining ABCNEWS, Adam was executive editor of the environmental news service Greenwire, and Washington bureau chief for a Texas-based environment and safety newsletter publisher. He is also a long-time member of the SEJ, member of the SEJ editorial board and former co-editor of the SEJournal.

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Daniel Glick
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 14, 12:00 p.m. —
Ecoterrorism — Burgeoning Movement or Overblown Threat?
2. Friday, Beat Dinner #10, 8:00 p.m. —
Making the Leap from Newsstand to Bookstore

Daniel Glick is the author of "Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth," published by Public Affairs in spring 2003. The book is an account of a five-month, around-the-world trip he took with his two children after becoming a single dad and losing his brother to breast cancer. Their journey took them to places of great ecological wonder that are threatened by human development, including coral reefs in Australia, orangutan habitat in Borneo, Vietnam's remaining Javan rhino enclave, and southern Nepal, home of the endangered Bengal tiger.

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Bill Good
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Bill Good is the administrator of the coastal restoration division of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. He contributed to a number of projects, including: the Coast 2050 Plan, the development of the ecological review process, the first Breaux Act adaptive management review, the first Breaux Act report to congress, the "coastal wetlands conservation plan" and corresponding interagency MOA, the Christmas tree fence design and implementation program, terraces, wave-dampening fences, fore-shore dikes, the vegetative planting program, and the Breaux Act monitoring program.

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Peggy Grandpre
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Environmental Justice and Neighborhood Buyouts

Peggy Grandpre has been general manager of marketing for the Port of New Orleans since 1993. She promotes the port and interacts with international customers to bring business to the New Orleans area.

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Jason Groenewold
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CITY: Gov. Leavitt's Environmental Record

Jason Groenewold is director of FAIR, Families Against Incinerator Risk and HEAL Utah (Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah). FAIR and HEAL Utah are working to change the pattern of dumping nuclear and toxic waste in Utah, which is currently ranked second in the nation by the EPA for the total amount of toxins released to the environment each year.

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Michael Grunwald
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE COAST: Fixing Nature: The Politics of the Army Corps and Environmental Restoration

Michael Grunwald is a reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post. At the Post, he served as a Justice Department reporter, New York bureau chief and congressional correspondent before moving to an investigative beat. Mike is now taking a leave of absence from the Post to write a history of the Everglades for Simon & Schuster.

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Christopher Hallowell
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion
2. Sunday, Post-Conference Tour: A Coast on the Cusp of Collapse

Christopher Hallowell has a special interest in science and environmental journalism as well as in first person journalism. His latest book, "Holding Back the Sea" (2001), is a narrative account of the deteriorating Mississippi River delta and its implications for the rest of the country. He is also the author of "People of the Bayou," recently reprinted by Pelican Publishing. His books also include an historical overview of environmental writing ("Green Perspectives: Thinking and Writing about Nature and the Environment") and an update on gerontological research ("Growing Old, Staying Young"). Hallowell teaches journalism and directs the journalism program at Baruch College in New York City.

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Randy Hanchey
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Randy Hanchey currently works as the assistant secretary for coastal restoration and management in the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The department is responsible for managing a number of programs that address the critical problems of marsh and wetland losses in the Louisiana coastal zone, including the Federal/State Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (also known as the Breaux Act program), and state projects funded from the Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Trust Fund.

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Bob Hannah
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Bob Hannah is deputy secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. Previously, he worked in the DEQ's water division for eight years and the air division for 10 years, and was administrator of the environmental protection division, where he developed air pollution controls and water quality standards.

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James Harvey
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
A Streetcar Named Progress

James Harvey is a native of New Orleans. After three years in the U.S. Navy with the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, he returned to New Orleans and is an adjunct lecturer on transportation planning and policy analysis in the college of urban and public affairs at the University of New Orleans. James is also director of planning for the Greater New Orleans Regional Planning Commission.

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Steven Hayward
Event: Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session 12:00 p.m. —
Environmental Policy Debate

Steven Hayward is author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. Steven writes AEI's environmental policy outlook and also recently released "The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980." He is also a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.

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David Helvarg
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 13, 12:00 p.m. —
Marine Reserves — How Did They Become the Most Controversial Topic Since WMDs?
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE COAST: Overfishing the Gulf — and the Globe
3. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Backstage at the Aquarium

David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of two books, "Blue Frontier - Saving America's Living Seas," and "The War Against the Greens." He's worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, and covered a range of issues, reporting from every continent including Antarctica. He's a regular commentator for Marketplace radio, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, and a licensed private investigator.

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Gregg Henderson
Events:
1. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: From Formosan Termites to Zebra Mussels: How Invasive Species Impact Our Infrastructure and Economy
2. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Termites and Historic Buildings

Gregg Henderson worked as an electron microscopist for four years at the University of Pennsylvania before starting graduate work in urban entomology. He is charged with developing improved methods and products to control urban pests with special emphasis on the Formosan subterranean termite. Much of his research emphasis has been on developing methods and devices related to termite baiting and requires an understanding of the insect's biology. His program has graduated several graduate students working on various aspects of termite control and presently he has 12 employees in the urban entomology laboratory.

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David Hermance
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: Vehicle Fuel Efficiency and Emissions: What Would (Enlightened Soul of Your Choice Here) Drive?

David Hermance is executive engineer for environmental engineering at Toyota Technical Center U.S.A. (TTC). David is responsible for advanced technology vehicle communication for the North American market and emission regulatory activities in California.

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Bette Hileman
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 20, 12:00 p.m. —
Science Writing That's Savored by Readers and Scientists

Bette Hileman, senior editor at Chemical & Engineering News, taught chemistry, physics, math, earth science, biology, and whatever else was needed for seven years, mostly at the high school level in rural Virginia. Bette has been employed as a journalist writing articles on science and policy issues since 1981, first at Environmental Science & Technology magazine, and since 1984, at Chemical & Engineering News. She covers global climate change, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, genetically engineered crops and animals, mad cow disease, fluoridation of drinking water, and possible environmental causes of Parkinson's disease and early birth.

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Rick Hind
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 24, 12:00 p.m. —
Why is the New EU Chemicals Policy Causing Such a Stir?

Rick Hind has been the legislative director of the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign since 1991. His work involves legislation and exposés of the vulnerability of U.S. chemical plants to terrorism and accidents; global treaty negotiations on eliminating persistent organic pollutants at the UN as well as proposals in the EU, the U.S. and in other countries to phase out the use of PVC plastic in toys and other products as well as environmental justice struggles in the U.S. and globally.

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Mark Holmes
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Multimedia Reporting: Turning Around the Same Story for TV, Web, Newspaper, and Magazines

Mark Holmes is vice president for programming and content development for NationalGeographic.com. He oversees content development for National Geographic's Web sites. In various editorial capacities, Holmes has written, photographed, picture-edited, designed and illustrated features for a number of Society products, including books, CD-ROMs, educational media, magazines and Web sites. He introduced computers to the magazine's editorial process, and defined a style of computer usage that ultimately led to the vision that is NationalGeographic.com today. Prior to joining the Geographic staff, Holmes was a news artist for the Providence, RI, Journal-Bulletin.

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George Hopkins
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Pontchartrain: Dairies, Development and Clean Water

George Hopkins is president of the Hopkins Company, a 32-year-old architectural firm based in New Orleans. A house he designed won the 2003 House of the Year from New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles. Hopkins is registered as an architect in 24 states.

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Hugh Jackson
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 16, 12:00 p.m. —
Thirsty? Let the Market Decide — The Water Privatization Push

Hugh Jackson is a researcher and policy analyst with Public Citizen, the U.S. consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader. Focusing primarily on corporate efforts to privatize water in the United States, Jackson has been quoted in a variety of U.S. media outlets, from progressive publications such as Mother Jones to mainstream newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Prior to joining Public Citizen, Hugh spent 12 years covering energy, utilities, politics, labor and economics as an editor, reporter and columnist in Wyoming and Nevada.

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Jerry Jarrell
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 8:45 a.m. —
Eye of the Storm: What are the Media Doing Wrong with Natural Disaster Coverage?

Jerry Jarrell retired as director of the National Hurricane Center in January 2000, ending 42 years of forecasting tropical weather. Jarrell began forecasting tropical weather in the Navy in 1957. Jerry joined the National Hurricane Center in 1988 as deputy director. He became the sixth director of the National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center — National Hurricane Center on April 23, 1998. As director of the NHC, Jerry oversaw the dissemination of watches and warnings for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and eastern Pacific.

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Leo Kay
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session #3, 7:00 a.m. —
U.S. EPA PIO's

Leo Kay is the chief of the press and liaison team for the EPA Pacific Southwest office in San Francisco, which encompasses California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona. Prior to his current job, Leo was an EPA press officer for 10 years in San Francisco and Boston. He has served as an EPA spokesman on hundreds of issues, including the Columbia shuttle debris recovery efforts, the agency's post-9/11 activities and numerous other high profile cases. Prior to joining the EPA, Leo edited a newspaper in northern Alaska and contributed various freelance articles to newspapers in San Francisco and Boston.

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Sam Kazman
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: Vehicle Fuel Efficiency and Emissions: What Would (Enlightened Soul of Your Choice Here) Drive?

Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit free-market advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. In 1992 Sam won a federal appeals court ruling that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had illegally concealed the lethal safety effects of CAFE, the federal auto fuel economy program. This marked the first judicial remand of a CAFE standard in the program's history. He has also been involved in litigation on such issues as drinking water standards and advertising restrictions.

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Paul Keddy
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Pontchartrain: Dairies, Development and Clean Water

Paul Keddy is a professor of environmental studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. Previously he was a professor of biology and the environment in Canada and England. Keddy is developing a number of books with a variety of co-writers.

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Dorothy Allen Kellogg
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Bhopal at 20: Contract Workers, Explosions and Chemical Plant Safety

Dorothy Allen Kellogg is the leader of the American Chemistry Council's plant operations team. In her current capacity she has direct responsibilities for ACC's advocacy efforts on process safety, occupational safety and health, and facility security issues. She has also managed the association's Superfund and water issues.

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Alysia Kravitz
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: From Formosan Termites to Zebra Mussels: How Invasive Species Impact Our Infrastructure and Economy

Alysia Kravitz manages the invasive species initiative at the center for bioenvironmental research at Tulane and Xavier Universities in New Orleans. She is currently working with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Louisiana Sea Grant to develop the state management plan for aquatic invasive species in Louisiana.

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John Kunich
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 4, 12:00 p.m. —
Vanishing Biodiversity Hotspots — Why Isn't Mass Extinction Illegal?

John Kunich is a law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, RI. John spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, ending his career there as chief of the compliance and planning branch at the environmental law and litigation division, headquarters Air Force. He is also a published songwriter (20 songs published at present, both lyrics and music, primarily in the adult contemporary, showtune, and country styles).

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Joseph Labarriere
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans

Lt. Joseph Labarriere is an officer with the Port of New Orleans Harbor Police. He serves on the department's criminal investigation, internal affairs and anti-terrorism units.

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Ed Landgraf
Event: Thursday Tour — Coast 2050: Reconstructing Coastal Louisiana for Only $14 Billion

Ed Landgraf is environmental and community awareness coordinator for Shell Pipeline. Ed has worked in the pipeline industry for 13 years. He works in Shell Pipeline's Gulf of Mexico region, which includes the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and extends north into southern Illinois. His current assignments are to further develop and support Shell's release prevention and community education initiatives.

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Miranda La Rose
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 26, 12:00 p.m. —
From Turtles to Trees — South American Conservation

Miranda La Rose has been in journalism for the past 17 years. She is Amerindian origin born in a village called Santa Rosa, the largest Amerindian community in Guyana. She is on record as being the first Amerindian journalist in Guyana. Miranda has worked in Guyana's hinterland and in the city of Georgetown, where she now resides. She has gotten involved in covering environmental issues on the encouragement of her then 12-year-old daughter some four years ago who was/and still is active in her school's environmental club. Miranda is the president of the not-so-active Guyana Environmental Association of Journalists and the assistant secretary of the Guyana Press Association.

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Ursula Lennox
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Environmental Justice and Neighborhood Buyouts

Ursula Lennox is a senior remedial project manager with the EPA. She manages sites on the National Priorities List, and bought out the community at the Koppers Texarkana Superfund site. She also partially cleaned the Agriculture Street landfill in New Orleans, while facing lawsuits by residents and the city over the process.

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Leanne Klyza Linck
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 10, 12:00 p.m. —
Wildlife Megalinkages — A Proposed Solution to the North American Extinction Crisis

Wildlands Project executive director Leanne Klyza Linck has been active professionally in the conservation movement since 1982. Before joining the Wildlands Project in 1999, Leanne directed the outreach program at the Northern Forest Alliance and worked as a regional representative for the Sierra Club Northeast and Midwest regional field offices.

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Angela Logomasini
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 24, 12:00 p.m. —
Why is the New EU Chemicals Policy Causing Such a Stir?
2. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT I: FOIA Update: Access to Environmental Information

Angela Logomasini is director of risk and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. At CEI, Angela conducts research and analysis on environmental regulatory issues. Angela served as legislative assistant to Senator Sam Brownback from 1996-1998, advising the senator on energy and environmental issues. Before that she was environmental editor for the Research Institute of America (RIA), where she and another editor developed "The Environmental Source," a three-volume environmental compliance desk reference.

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Bob Luft
Event: Wednesday, Special Plenary Session, 4:00 p.m. —
Clearing the Air: How Two Corporate Giants Respond to Calls for Reduced Air Emissions

Bob Luft is a retired DuPont executive who has served on the Entergy board of directors since 1992. While at DuPont, he served as senior vice president, president of DuPont Europe, chairman of Dupont International and vice president of Information Systems. After retiring from DuPont in 1996, he served as chairman of Dupont Dow Elastomers. During his last assignment, he led a re-engineering of the businesses and functions which resulted in a cost reduction of more than 25 percent. He served on the boards of both the U.S. Chemical Manufacturers Association and the European Chemical Industry.

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Mark MacIntyre
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session #3, 7:00 a.m. —
U.S. EPA PIO's

Mark MacIntyre is a public affairs specialist and spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Seattle. For the past 10 years, Mark has publicly represented the EPA on a wide range of issues as well as spills and accidental releases. He is a founding member of the agency's national emergency communications and outreach team and conducts both internal and external media trainings and presentations for executives, managers and staff. Prior to joining EPA, he worked in a similar capacity for the Washington Department of Ecology in Olympia.

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Tom MacKenzie
Event: Friday, Beat Dinner #9, 8:00 p.m. —
Freewheeling Discussion with USFWS PAOs

Tom MacKenzie is the chief of media relations for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the southeast. The region includes 10 southeastern states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, more than 125 National Wildlife Refuges, and hundreds of endangered species, including the whooping crane, red wolf, Florida panther, manatee and sea turtles. He works with the media to explain and link up experts on a wide variety of issues, from law enforcement import/export cases to refuges and fishing special events.

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Michael Maher
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: The Under-Reported Local Story: Why is Population Growing in Certain Areas?

Michael Maher is associate professor and chair of the department of communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research centers on media coverage (or non coverage) of population-environment issues. Maher wrote a cover story on population reportage for the summer 1997 SEJournal; he has also written for Quill and Editor and Publisher, as well as for academic publications.

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Patrick McGinley
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT I: FOIA Update: Access to Environmental Information
2. Saturday, Breakfast Session #2, 7:00 a.m. —
FOIA Breakfast Workshop

Patrick McGinley is a professor at the college of law at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. McGinley has spent more than 30 years representing coalfield citizens in environmental cases, trying to defend Appalachian residents from the pollution caused by coal mining. McGinley also teaches public records law and, along with his wife and law partner, Suzanne Weise, has represented the media, including The Charleston Gazette, West Virginia's largest newspaper, in Freedom of Information Act cases.

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Rob McLaughlin
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Multimedia Reporting: Turning Around the Same Story for TV, Web, Newspaper, and Magazines

Rob McLaughlin is the executive producer of CBC Radio 3. Part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's strategy to expand and attract new audiences, CBC Radio 3 is an internationally renowned network of converged content delivered to audiences both over the air and on the Web.

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Craig McLean
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Emerging Global Issues: What the Radar Screen is Missing

Capt. Craig McLean is the director of NOAA's office of ocean exploration, created to conduct and promote a new era of exploration of the sea. Based on science and discovery, ocean exploration targets unexplored and unknown aspects of the sea. Craig is an active duty officer in NOAA's commissioned corps, with 20 years of service within the agency, at sea and ashore. The NOAA corps is one of the nation's seven uniformed services.

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Charles McManis
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: From Shaman's Hut to Patent Office: Covering Native Rights in Latin America

Charles McManis is a scholar who is active nationally and internationally in the area of intellectual property law. For more than 10 years, he has been a visiting lecturer at Nihon University College of Law and Economics and at the Japan Institute for International Business Law. His book, "Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell," is now in its fourth edition. He is also co-author of "Licensing of the Intellectual Property in the Digital Age." His forthcoming book, "Cases and Materials on the International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law," will be published by Carolina Academic Press.

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John McQuaid
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: From Formosan Termites to Zebra Mussels: How Invasive Species Impact Our Infrastructure and Economy

John McQuaid is a special projects reporter for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1997 for a series on global fisheries problems. Another series, on the Formosan termite, was a Pulitzer finalist. His work has also won national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism.

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Edward Melendez
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
A Streetcar Named Progress

Edward Melendez worked in operations, sales and business development positions for NeoSoft and NTT Communications, a multinational data carrier, prior to helping establish The Urban Conservancy. Prior to that he managed retail operations for PJ's Coffee, a New Orleans-based specialty coffee company.

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Scott Miller
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT III (Interactive Workshop): TV and the Environment: How to Make the Environmental Story Work on the Small Screen
2. Friday, Beat Dinner #9, 8:00 p.m. —
Freewheeling Discussion with USFWS PAOs

Scott Miller spent 23 years as a television journalist, including 15 years covering the environment for KING 5 TV, the NBC affiliate in Seattle. He covered environmental stories in every Western state. The range of topics included the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the rise of the property rights movement, the decline of West Coast salmon runs and the transport and disposal of radioactive waste. Miller is now using his experience in a new arena. In November 2002 he was named regional director of Resource Media, a non-profit dedicated to using strategic communications and media outreach to promote sound and sustainable environmental policies.

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Analisa Mir
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Analisa Mir is presently employed as the communications director for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. She is a native of the Republic of Panama and speaks three languages. As the media liaison for the department, she advises and trains the executive management staff in response to media activities; drafts news releases, and other written materials for the department; identifies potential public relations problems; and supervises the production of the agency quarterly publication.

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Joseph Mistich
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Pontchartrain: Dairies, Development and Clean Water

Joseph Mistich is director of public works for the city of Mandeville, LA. He is responsible for management of water and wastewater services, streets, drainage, sewerage treatment, and general maintenance. The Mandeville department of public works has incorporated wetland assimilation in its wastewater treatment system. This wetland assimilation project incorporates the disbursement of treated effluent into a 1,200-acre wetland, a process which has increased the flora and fauna of the wetland and serves as an impediment to saltwater intrusion from Lake Pontchartrain.

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William Muir
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: GMOs: Panacea or Pandemic?

William Muir is a professor of genetics at Purdue University. His professional appointments include National Research Council animal biotechnology, 2001-2002, associate editor poultry science: genetic section, and Editorial Board of genetics and molecular biology.

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Ransom Myers
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE COAST: Overfishing the Gulf — and the Globe

Ransom Myers holds the Killam Chair of Ocean Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His current, major research is on the meta-analysis of data from many oceanic populations. By treating each population as the output of a natural experiment, it is possible to discover patterns in nature that have not been seen before because of the dynamics of individual populations.

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John Nichols
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: GMOs: Panacea or Pandemic?

John Nichols writes about politics and public policy for The Nation. He has been to Europe, twice to Africa and to 20 different U.S. states working on stories related to GMOs, including biopiracy. John also has covered much of the World Trade Organization debate regarding free trade and the Americas. Based in Madison, WI, he is associate editor for the Capital Times and teaches journalism part-time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Dianne Nielson
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CITY: Gov. Leavitt's Environmental Record

Dianne Nielson is the executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Prior to her appointment by Governor Leavitt in 1993, Dianne directed the Utah division of oil, gas and mining, served as a member of the Utah board of oil, gas and mining, the state's conservation commission, and worked as senior economic geologist for the Utah geological survey. She has also conducted extensive exploration work with private industry.

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Susan North-Davis
Event: Thursday Tour — Bayou Trepagnier and LaBranche Wetlands

Susan North-Davis helps monitor the Bayou Trepagnier waterway. She has provided expert opinion on water quality, pollution and regulation issues, and also works with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana for the Bayou Trepagnier.

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Patrick Parenteau
Events:
1. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 23, 12:00 p.m. —
Fires, Bugs and Forest Policy — Protection or Ruse?
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE LAND: Endangered Forests: Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and the Pine Industry

Patrick Parenteau is professor of law and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Vermont Law School. He also holds an appointment at Dartmouth College where he co-teaches an interdisciplinary course on ecological law. In 1991 he served as special counsel to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the endangered species exemption process involving the northern spotted owl. Patrick has been involved in drafting and litigating key provisions of the Endangered Species Act and other federal environmental statutes.

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Laura Paskus
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 2, 12:00 p.m. —
Defense Environmental Exemptions — DOD's Sneak Attack on the Environment

Laura Paskus is an assistant editor at High Country News in Paonia, Col. She covers the Southwest, including Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, and edits the paper's book reviews.

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Michael Poirrier
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 18, 12:00 p.m. —
Global Seagrass Decline — Can Fish Survive on Naked Coasts?

Michael Poirrier is a research professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of New Orleans. NOAA funds his current Lake Pontchartrain research on the restoration of submersed aquatic vegetation and benthic invertebrates, and the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program funds his research on the environmental benefits of clam restoration.

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Gerald Poje
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?
2. Friday, Network Lunch, Table 3, 12:00 p.m. —
Covering Chemical Accidents in a Post-9/11 World
3. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Bhopal at 20: Contract Workers, Explosions and Chemical Plant Safety

Gerald Poje is a founding board member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and has served there since 1997. He investigated chemical explosions throughout the U.S., and has also spoken before Congress about chemical safety. Before joining the board, Gerald directed international programs and public health for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, focusing on issues of disease prevention, health promotion and environmental justice.

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John Pope
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Is the Chemical Corridor Really "Cancer Alley"? The Psychology and Epidemiology of Cancer Clusters

John Pope has been The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune's medical/health reporter since 1986. In 1999, Pope received a fellowship to the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland, and in 2001, he was a Knight Foundation fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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Carl Prine
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: Stayin' Alive: Reporting Live from Harm's Way

Carl Prine is an investigative reporter on the special projects desk at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He has won numerous national, state and local awards on a range of subjects, including national security, the environment, the business of narcotics, mine safety, and racial and gender discrimination. This year, he was a finalist for the Oakes Award honoring the country's best environmental reporting. A Marine infantry veteran, Carl was the Trib's embedded reporter in Iraq, traveling with the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Engineer Battalion from Kuwait to Baghdad and back. He has previously covered wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia and five other nations.

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Nancy Rabalais
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE COAST: Bringing the Gulf Coast's Dead Zone to Life...What Will It Take?

Nancy Rabalais is a professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium where she has been employed since 1983. Her research interests include the dynamics of hypoxic environments, interactions of large rivers with the coastal ocean, estuarine and coastal eutrophication, benthic ecology, and environmental effects of habitat alterations and contaminants.

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Anne Rolfes
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Anne Rolfes is the founder and executive director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), a non-profit environmental group that trains community members who live near petrochemical plants to monitor the facility by using "buckets," community-friendly air samplers. Anne was a member of the negotiating team for the Good Neighbor Initiative between Shell Motiva and the Concerned Citizens of Norco, Louisiana, that resulted in the successful relocation of the community. Anne has lived and worked in West Africa to combat destructive oil production practices there. She wrote "Shell Shocked Refugees," a report about Nigeria's Ogoni refugees and their struggle with Shell oil.

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David Ropeik
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II (Interactive Workshop): Covering Risk — A Risky Business

David Ropeik is director of risk communication for the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. He is co-author of "RISK, A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You" published by Houghton Mifflin in October 2002. David teaches risk communication, specializing in risk perception, the psychology of how people subconsciously relate to risk factors, "deciding" what to be afraid of and how afraid to be. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists for 10 years.

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Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: From Shaman's Hut to Patent Office: Covering Native Rights in Latin America

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a staff reporter at the Puerto Rican weekly Claridad. He is a SEJ Senior Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program and a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Ecology. His articles have appeared in the New York Daily News, E Magazine, the Earth Island Journal, the Ecologist, Corporate Watch, Alternet, the Mexican daily La Jornada, and many other media.

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David Sachsman
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The State of Environment Reporting in the South

David Sachsman is a professor of communication and public affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has been teaching journalism to students and professionals since 1969. David served as a Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar in 1978-79 in Nigeria, where he helped plan for the development of one of the first mass communication graduate degrees in west Africa.

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Mike Salinero
Events:
1. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The State of Environment Reporting in the South
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: The Under-Reported Local Story: Why is Population Growing in Certain Areas?

Mike Salinero is a capitol bureau reporter for The Tampa Tribune where he's covered environmental, health care and education issues for almost three years. Before that he was a general assignment and investigative reporter for The Huntsville (Ala.) Times. It was in Huntsville that Salinero carved out an environmental beat where little reporting of substance had been done before. A love of the outdoors spurred the interest along with a sense of outrage at state regulators' half-hearted efforts to protect the environment.

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Asbury Sallenger
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Hurricanes and Floods

Asbury Sallenger is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) oceanographer who studies the processes causing coastal erosion during extreme storms. He was the co-leader of the USGS Louisiana Barrier Island Erosion Study that produced a detailed assessment of the status and future of the islands. He is presently leader of the USGS National Coastal Change Assessment that examines storm-induced and long-term erosion throughout the United States.

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Rob Sargent
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 8, 12:00 p.m. —
Energy Policy — States Forge Ahead, Congress Stalls

Rob Sargent is currently the senior energy policy analyst for the National Association of State PIRGs (Center for Public Interest Research). He works with the state PIRGs across the nation on sustainable energy policies. He has been involved as a strategist in numerous successful campaigns, including the Massachusetts, California, New Mexico and New Jersey renewable portfolio standards, the adoption of the California Automobile Emission Standards (LEV/ZEV) programs in the Northeast, and in shaping state and regional climate plans.

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Donald Scavia
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE COAST: Bringing the Gulf Coast's Dead Zone to Life...What Will It Take?

As chief scientist of NOAA's National Ocean Service, Donald Scavia is responsible for the quality, integrity, and responsiveness of NOS' science programs, and for ensuring that NOS' operations and resource management are based on solid science and technology. He is associate editor for journals of the Ecological Society of America and the Estuarine Research Federation, and has served on the boards of directors for the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Scavia has been director of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and director of NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program. In those positions, he managed a wide range of coastal and Great Lakes programs in NOS research laboratories and monitoring and assessment offices, as well as its primary extramural research program.

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Mark Schexnayder
Event: Thursday Tour — Trouble on the Half-Shell

Mark Schexnayder is regional coastal advisor of the LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant. Mark started his professional career with the Marine Fisheries Division of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. He works with coastal fisheries, economic development, and environmental issues. Some of his current projects include: the Louisiana Marine Fisheries Museum in Lafitte, outreach programs for the Vietnamese commercial fishing community, the development of artificial reefs in the lake and rehabilitation of the New Orleans City Park lagoon system, extracting collagen and other products from fish processing byproducts and composting shrimp processor wastes.

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Julie Sibbing
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 5, 12:00 p.m. —
New Clean Water Act Policies — Hanging US Water Resources Out to Dry?

Julie Sibbing joined the staff of the National Wildlife Federation in May 2000. Her work for the Federation focuses on legislative and policy advocacy in support of strong wetlands protection and restoration programs and defense of the Federal Clean Water Act. She has worked extensively on wetlands policy issues over the past eight years and for the past five years has served as co-chair of the wetlands working group of the Clean Water Network, a coalition of more than 1,100 conservation groups across the country that work on water issues.

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Conrad Smith
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 8:45 a.m. —
Eye of the Storm: What are the Media Doing Wrong with Natural Disaster Coverage?

Conrad Smith taught aspiring journalists at Colorado State, Idaho State and Ohio State universities before his current position as professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He is author of "Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake" (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992) and many journal articles about how American news media report disasters. He also teaches federal land managers how to deal with journalists during wildfire disasters.

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Jack Strosnider
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE LAND: Nuclear Power

Jack Strosnider is deputy director of the office of nuclear regulatory research for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. From 1999 to 2002 he was the director of the division of engineering in NRC's office of nuclear reactor regulation. From 1990 to 1992 he was on assignment to the Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, France, where he was responsible for activities related to primary system integrity and regulatory inspection activities.

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Wilma Subra
Events:
1. Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Is the Chemical Corridor Really "Cancer Alley"? The Psychology and Epidemiology of Cancer Clusters
2. Saturday, Mini-Tour, 2:15 p.m. —
Environmental Justice and Neighborhood Buyouts

Wilma Subra founded Subra Company, Inc., a chemistry lab and environmental consulting firm in New Iberia, LA. Wilma provides assistance to citizens concerned with their environment by combining technical research and evaluation. This information is then presented to community members so that strategies may be developed to address their local struggles.

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Paul Templet
Events:
1. Thursday Tour — Do Oil and Water Mix?
2. Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE LAND: TRI at 12: The Economics of Environmental Regulation

Paul Templet is a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University. He has degrees in chemistry and physics, teaches environmental planning and management and conducts research concerning environmental management, risk assessment, energy analysis, industrial ecology and systems analysis of economic and environmental systems. He was Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality from 1988-1992 and has developed and implemented coastal management programs and national estuary and marine sanctuary programs in Louisiana and American Samoa. He is a member of the consultative group of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation, which works to facilitate environmental reporting in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

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Peter Thomson
Event: Friday, Network Lunch, Table 17, 12:00 p.m. —
Building the SEJ Endowment

Peter Thomson is SEJ's treasurer and head of its endowment drive. He was the founding editor and producer of NPR's Living On Earth, and in nearly 10 years at the program also served as senior editor, western bureau chief, special projects editor and senior correspondent. He left LOE in 2000 to travel around the world by boat and train. He's currently writing a book based in part on his travels. Peter has been an SEJ member since 1991 and has served on the board since 1998.

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Mark Udall
Event: Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:00 p.m. —
Environmental Policy Debate

Mark Udall is serving his third term representing Colorado's Second Congressional District. He is a member of the House Resources Committee, the Committee on Science and the Agriculture Committee. Mark also serves as the co-chair of the House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, and is a recognized national leader in promoting a balanced national energy plan that includes strong investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.

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Chuck Villarrubia
Event: Sunday, Post-Conference Tour: A Coast on the Cusp of Collapse

Chuck Villarrubia is a coastal resources scientist in the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Coastal Restoration Division. His primary areas of expertise are wildlife ecology and conservation biology. Chuck has also worked in south Florida as an environmental consultant, specializing in the impact of development on wetlands and estuarine ecosystems.

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Stephen Villavaso
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: The Under-Reported Local Story: Why is Population Growing in Certain Areas?

Stephen Villavaso is an environmental attorney and city planner specializing in solid waste permitting, brownfields redevelopment projects, environmental permitting and land use and zoning projects. During the past seven years he has managed the professional planning firm of Villavaso & Associates and is an adjunct professor at the University of New Orleans teaching courses in land use law, zoning, environmental planning and grant writing. In the year 2000 he started the Brownfields Redevelopment Professional, LLC, in order to provide a specific set of services in the areas of planning, management and permitting to contaminated sites and brownfields projects throughout the southeastern United States.

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Joseph Henry Vogel
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: From Shaman's Hut to Patent Office: Covering Native Rights in Latin America

Joseph Henry Vogel specializes in the economics of biodiversity and access to genetic resources. He has recently joined the Department of Economics at the University of Puerto Rico after having spent the last several years in the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Quito, Ecuador. His publications include "Genes for Sale" (Oxford University Press, 1994) and "The Biodiversity Cartel" (CARE, 2000, freely available at www.thebiodiversitycartel.com). Joseph has lectured at more than 150 venues around the world, explaining how the Convention on Biological Diversity morphs bioprospecting into biofraud.

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Don Wall
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
THE CRAFT III (Interactive Workshop): TV and the Environment: How to Make the Environmental Story Work on the Small Screen

Don Wall is the environmental reporter for WFAA-TV, Channel 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth, where he has worked for 14 years. Before that, he was an ABCNEWS producer for 11 years, in New York, Dallas and Washington, contributing to World News Tonight, 20/20, Good Morning America and This Week with David Brinkley. He is working on a masters in philosophy at the University of North Texas, specializing in environmental ethics. He taught "Science and Environmental Reporting" to graduate journalism students at UNT, spring semester, 2003.

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Mark Jerome Walters
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:00 p.m. —
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Climate Change and Emerging Disease: From Malaria and Dengue Fever to the West Nile and Norwalk Viruses

Mark Jerome Walters writes frequently about the connections between infectious disease and the environment. His most recent book, "Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them," will be published by Shearwater Books/Island Press this month. Mark is also the author of "A Shadow and a Song," the story of Florida's dusky seaside sparrow's extinction.

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Phyllis Windle
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CITY: From Formosan Termites to Zebra Mussels: How Invasive Species Impact Our Infrastructure and Economy

Phyllis Windle is a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, where she leads work on invasive species. She spent 14 years directing studies of natural resource policy at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Her work at OTA also included an evaluation of the African Development Foundation.

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James Lee Witt
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 8:45 a.m. —
Eye of the Storm: What are the Media Doing Wrong with Natural Disaster Coverage?

James Lee Witt is president of his own company, James Lee Witt Associates, which provides disaster mitigation planning and preparation. He has 10 years of experience in the field, having served as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1993 to 2001. During his tenure there, FEMA handled more than 345 Presidential-declared disasters, with activity in all 50 states. Witt owned a construction company, served as a county judge in Arkansas, and has also written "Stronger in the Broken Places," a book about his experiences in disaster relief.

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Patricia Woertz
Event: Wednesday, Special Plenary Session, 4:00 p.m. —
Clearing the Air: How Two Corporate Giants Respond to Calls for Reduced Air Emissions

Patricia Woertz is an executive vice president of ChevronTexaco Corp. She is responsible for directing the company's worldwide refining and marketing businesses in more than 180 countries throughout the world. Formerly president of Chevron Products, Patricia was instrumental in supporting the University of California at Riverside's "Study of Extremely Low Emission Vehicles," an investigation into the emerging generation of automobiles, their performance and impact upon the environment. For the past three years, she has been listed as one of Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business."

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Beverly Wright
Event: Thursday Tour — Chemical Corridor: "Cancer Alley" or Environmentalist Hype?

Beverly Wright is a professor of sociology and the founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. She has created a unique center at Xavier University. The DSCEJ is one of the few community/ university partnerships that addresses environmental and health inequities in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor, the area commonly referred to as Cancer Alley. Her most recent project has been an environmental justice analysis for the expansion of the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans.

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