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Subject: ESRI President Jack Dangermond to Address NCSE Conference
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:34:36 -0500
From: Michele Shular <[log in to unmask]>
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*ESRI President Jack Dangermond to Address NCSE Conference
Register by December 3 to Save 25%*
*Jack Dangermond*, President and Founder of ESRI, will deliver a keynote
address at the National Council for Science and the Environment's (NCSE)
2005 conference on /Forecasting Environmental Changes/. Dangermond is
internationally recognized as a pioneer in spatial analysis methods and
as one of the most influential people in Geographic Information Systems
(GIS). He will address innovative tools and techniques that enable
decisionmakers to use geospatial data to improve environmental
forecasting. ESRI, the worlds fourth largest privately held software
company, is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in GIS
software.
NCSE's 5th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment:
/Forecasting Environmental Changes/ will take place on February 3-4,
2005 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in
Washington, DC. This unique, interactive conference will serve as a
forum for more than 700 leading scientists, engineers, policy makers,
government officials, business executives, and educators to assess our
ability to understand and forecast environmental changes and to identify
opportunities for improving these capabilities. It will bring together
researchers who study environmental conditions and trends with
decisionmakers who need that information.
As previously announced, former EPA Administrator *William D.
Ruckelshaus* will deliver the John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science
and the Environment. Ruckelshaus will draw upon his distinguished career
in both the public and private sectors as a tireless advocate for
balanced, durable and broadly-supported solutions to environmental and
conservation issues.
The opening keynote address will be delivered by *James Gustave Speth*,
Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies. Speth will draw upon his past experience as Administrator of
the United Nations Development Programme, Chair of the White House
Council on Environmental Quality, and Founder and President of the World
Resources Institute to address opportunities for the United States to
assert a leadership role in domestic and international environmental
issues.
Confirmed participants in roundtable plenary discussions will include:
*D. James Baker*, President and CEO of the Academy of Natural
Sciences; Former Administrator of NOAA
*Ann Bartuska*, Deputy Chief for Research and Development at the U.S.
Forest Service
* Rita Colwell*, Former Director of the National Science Foundation
*Charles Groat*, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey
*Bruce Hayden*, Professor at the University of Virginia; Lead
Investigator of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Design Consortium
*Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher*, Administrator of NOAA; Undersecretary
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
*Margaret Leinen*, Assistant Director of Geosciences at the National
Science Foundation
*Thomas E. Lovejoy*, President of The H. John Heinz III Center for
Science, Economics, and the Environment
*Ronald Pulliam*, Regent's Professor at the University of Georgia;
Former Director of the National Biological Service
*Steven Stanley*, Professor of Paleobiology at Johns Hopkins
University; Past President of the American Geological Institute
All conferees will take part in one of 18 interactive breakout sessions
and one of four symposia, where they will generate strategies to connect
institutions, fields of science and stakeholder communities to further
advance environmental forecasting and decisionmaking. Active
participation and lively discussion are encouraged in these sessions. A
poster session
<http://www.ncseonline.org/NCSEconference/2005conference/page.cfm?FID=3797>
will enable participants to share their research on topics related to
the major themes of the conference.
A report containing strategies developed at the conference will be
widely publicized and presented at briefings to the U.S. Congress,
federal, state and local governments, educational institutions, and the
general public.
Please visit the conference webpage
<http://www.ncseonline.org/ncseconference/2005conference> to register
online and view the conference agenda, instructions for participating in
the poster session, and other conference details. *Register
<http://www.ncseonline.org/ncseconference/2005conference> by December
3rd to save 25 percent on conference registration.* General conference
questions may be directed to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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Craig Schiffries, Ph.D.
Conference Chair
National Council for Science and the Environment
1707 H Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-530-5810
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The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is a
non-profit organization working to improve the scientific basis for
environmental decisionmaking. NCSE is supported by nearly 500 academic,
scientific, environmental, government and business organizations.
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Michele D. Shular, BSc earth science; MLIS
Geosciences Librarian
State University of New York at Buffalo
Science and Engineering Library
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Buffalo, NY 14260-1672
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