Colloquium participant bios:

Attendees expected at the Academics in the Environment Colloquium:

Helen Ingram, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Ecology and Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation at University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on public participation and the ways in which public policies affect democracy. She is best known in the field of water researches for her contribution to the understanding of policy-making. She has authored ten books and over a hundred articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited books. Ingram's recent work encompasses the examination of public policy making processes and environmental policy.  She has written about the importance of framing and the role of science in structuring policy problems.  With collaborators Steve Rayner and Denise Lach, she has traced the ways in which agencies respond to new techno-scientific innovations. Professor Ingram teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars in public administration, formation of public policy, and environmental policy.

Bonnie McKay teaches at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where she is a professor in the Department of Human Ecology and member of graduate programs in anthropology, geography, and ecology and evolution. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1976 and has focused her research on the human dimensions of common pool resources and environmental change, especially in marine fisheries. Among her books are “The Question of the Commons” (with J. Acheson), “Oyster Wars and the Public Trust,” and “Enclosing the Commons” (with R. Apostle and K. Mickelsen). She has participated in many committees at the intersection of science and policy, including the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the scientific committee of the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council.

John Scholz is the Eppes Professor in Political Science at FSU. His research over the past 25 years focuses on government regulation of business and of natural resources. His most recent National Science Foundation –supported study of the governance of watersheds analyzes the factors that facilitate cooperation between stakeholders involved in watershed partnerships and other community-based environmental protection, and thus provides an excellent laboratory. Scholz and the other investigators have found that the NEP has strengthened the policy capabilities of local governance networks, creating greater trust, more extensive contacts, and broader participation in estuary policy matters. He is currently working with Bruce Stiftel of FSU to organize a conference in 2003 on water crises in Florida. That conference will focus specifically on the ability of the institutions governing various aspects of water usage to deal with the emerging conflicts among users.

Steve Rayner is Director of the ESRC Science in Society Programme, a national programme based at the Said Business School, where he also holds the position of professor of Science in Society. He was previously director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He also held appointments as professor of Environment and Public Affairs, Professor of Sociology, and as the Chief Social Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Before moving to Columbia University, Mr. Rayner held the rank of Chief Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Located in the Washing, D.C., office, he led the Global Change Research Group from 1991 to 1996. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Global Environmental Studies Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was responsible for research in policy, energy, and human systems.

David M. Freeman, Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University, has 35 years of experience in research, teaching, and policy analysis in social aspects of technology, natural resources, conflict, and local organizations for water management in the Western United States and South Asia. He has worked with the Peace Corps in South Asian program planning, with the USDA Forest Service in natural resources policy assessment, with the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development on matters of organizing local people for improving irrigation water management. Dr. Freeman has published extensively in the areas of social development, social choice, social conflict, and organizing local people to provide water-related common property resources with special attention to problems of productivity, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Three of his books that synthesize important aspects of his research life are: Technology and Society: Issues in Assessment, Conflict, and Choice (1974); Local Organizations for Social Development: Concepts and Cases of Irrigation Organizations (1989); and Choice Against Choice: Constructing A Policy Assessing Sociology for Social Development (1992). Dr. Freeman is currently working on a book manuscript examining problems of water organization and re-organization in the South Platte river basin tentative entitled: So Much More Than Rivers: The Social Organizations of Common Property Water Resources of Colorado’s Poudre and Platte.

Michael H. Glantz has worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for 29 years and headed the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) for 19 of those years. He became a Senior Scientist at NCAR in 1983 and to date remains the only social scientist to achieve that status. Glantz has a BS in Metallurgical Engineering and an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations for the University of Pennsylvania. He has edited and written a score of books and has published more than a hundred articles in various publications. Glantz has devoted more than 20 years of education and outreach to bring a greater understanding of the ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) process to the general public and potential users of ENSO information. He is currently developing a curriculum for the United Nations University to “educate the educators” in developing countries about the need to integrate climate information into the classrooms of the future.

Howard Ernst received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia, Ernst received several academic awards and fellowships, including the Governor's Fellowship, Bradley Fellowship, and University of Virginia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. Professor Ernst's research focuses on citizen influence on sub-national politics and

environmental public policy. His first book, Dangerous Democracy? The Battle Over Ballot Initiatives in America was co-edited with Larry Sabato and Bruce Larson and published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2002. Ernst serves as a Senior Scholar at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and as an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department of the United States Naval Academy.

Mark Cane, G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences at Columbia University, devised the first numerical model able to simulate El Nino, with Lamont colleague Dr. Stephen Zebiak. In 1985 this model was used to make the first physically based forecasts of El Nino. Over the years the Zebiak-Cane model has been the primary tool used by many investigators to enhance understanding of ENSO. Dr. Cane has also worked extensively on the impact of El Nino on human activity, especially agriculture. His 1994 paper showing the strong effect that El Nino has on the maize crop in Zimbabwe has been influential in prompting decision makers to factor climate variability into their deliberations. His efforts over many years were instrumental in the creation of the International Research Institute for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction. Dr. Cane has written almost 200 papers on a broad range of topics in oceanography and climatology. He has served on numerous international and national committees. In 1992 Dr. Cane received the Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society; the American Association of the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government..  She has held faculty appointments or visiting positions at several universities, including Cornell, Yale, Oxford, and Kyoto.  At Cornell, she founded and chaired the Department of Science and Technology Studies.  She has been a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) and Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s study center in Bellagio.  Her research centers on the role of science and technology in the authority structures of modern democratic societies, with a particular focus on the use of science in legal and political decision making.  She has written and lectured widely on problems of environmental regulation and risk management in the United States, Europe, and India.  Her books on these topics include Controlling Chemicals (1985), The Fifth Branch (1990), and Science at the Bar (1995).  Jasanoff has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Alex Pfaff is at Columbia University in SIPA, Economics, CERC and the IRI. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1995. The focus of Dr. Pfaff’s research has been the interaction between the environment and economic growth and development. He has worked on economic modeling of land-use and land-cover change and implications of land-use changes for net carbon emissions as well as species habitat and reserves, in both the Brazilian Amazon and Costa Rica, making use of satellite remote-sensing data. Outside of land use, Dr. Pfaff is working in three principal areas: theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between income growth and environmental quality; theoretical analysis of how best to give firms the right incentive to environmentally audit themselves; and, within multidisciplinary teams, applied research concerning water and/or climate, including on responses to the arsenic contamination of wells in Bangladesh and effective and equitable use of seasonal climate forecasts given frequent droughts in NE Brazil.

Warren M. Washington was born in Portland, Oregon, and earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in meteorology from Oregon State University. After completing his doctorate in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 1963 as a research scientist. In 1975 he was named senior scientist, and he currently is head of the Climate Change Research Section in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. His areas of expertise are atmospheric science and climate research, and he specializes in computer modeling of the earth's climate. In 1998 he was appointed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency Science Advisory Board. Washington is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Distinguished Alumnus and an Alumni Fellow of Pennsylvania State University and Oregon State University, and a member of the American Geophysical Union. From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the AAAS Board of Directors, and he served as president of AMS in 1994. Washington received the Le Verrier Medal of the Societe Meteorologique de France in 1995.  He was appointed to two six-year terms on the National Science Board in 1994 and 2000. He has been a Presidential Appointee under Carter, Reagan, Bush, Sr., Clinton, and Bush, Jr., administrations.

Dr. Samuel N. Luoma is a Senior Research Hydrologist with the US Geological Survey. Since 2000 he has served as the first Lead Scientist for the CALFED Bay-Delta program, an innovative, science-based program of environmental restoration over 40% of California’s watershed, and water management issues for 60% of California’s water supply.  His specific research interests are in the bioavailability and effects of pollutants in aquatic environments and developing better ways to merge environmental science and policy.  He is an author on more than 160 peer-reviewed publications.  He wrote the textbook, Introduction to Environmental Issues, in 1984; is an editorial advisor for the highly respected Marine Ecology Progress Series and is editor of Marine Environmental Research.  He is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was awarded the U. S. Department of Interior’s Distinguished Service Award, the University of California at Davis’ Wendell Kilgore award for environmental toxicology and the Soc. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s Government Service Award.  He has served nationally and internationally as an expert or advisor on technical issues and issues at the interface of science and environmental management, including the role of science in managing sustainable development, sediment quality criteria  (USEPA SAB Sub-committee), Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments (Canadian National Research Council, 1987; US National Research Council sub-committee, 2000-2), mining issues (UNESCO, Global Mining Initiative), selenium issues, environmental monitoring, and metal effects. 

Diana Liverman has been the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona (UA) since 1996 and has a permanent appointment as Professor of Geography and Regional Development.  In 2002 she served as Interim Dean of the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  Her current research focuses on the social causes and consequences of environmental change, especially in Mexico and Latin America.  Specific projects include studies on the changing role of the state and non-governmental organizations in managing the U.S.-Mexico border environment, the impacts of neoliberal policies and globalization on the environment in Latin America (e.g. privatization of water and land, free trade), and changing patterns of vulnerability to drought and other climate related natural hazards in Mexico.  She is also a principal investigator for the southwest regional climate assessment "CLIMAS", an NSF funded collaborative project to establish a Human-Environment Research Observatory on the U.S. Mexico border, and works on policy and international research with the UA Science and Technology Center for semiarid hydrology (SAHRA).

Attendees expected at the Ecosystem Restoration Colloquium:

Roger K. Patterson is Director of the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources. He has held this position since March 1999. Previously Mr. Patterson worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior for over 25 years. While working for Reclamation, Mr. Patterson served as regional director of both the Great Plains Region, Billings, MT, and the Mid Pacific Region, Sacramento, CA. Mr. Patterson was one of the founding members of the CALFED Project in California and currently serves as Nebraska’s Representative on the Governance Committee of the Platte River Cooperative Agreement.

Patrick Wright is the Director of the California Bay-Delta Authority, a consortium of over 20 state and federal agencies and public members working to improve the quality and reliability of the state’s water supplies and to restore the ecological health of the Bay/Delta estuarine system. He was previously Deputy Secretary of the California Resources Agency and served on the Board of the California Coastal Conservancy. Before joining The Resources Agency, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Regional Administrator of U.S. EPA and held a joint position as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Interior. He holds degrees from Oberlin College and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Dr. James F. Johnson currently serves as Chief, Planning and Policy Division at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dr. Johnson is responsible for the development of policies of Corps Civil Works missions, for review of all reports requiring a Washington level decision, and for development and coordination of the Corps’ legislative initiatives. He also manages a national interdisciplinary planning program developing new water resource investments for navigation, flood damage reduction, storm protection, and ecosystem restoration. Under his leadership, the Corps expends over $100 million annually for larger projects and an additional $90 million for small project and technical assistance programs and diverse mission-related research and development programs supporting these activities. Before returning to Headquarters in September 1998, he was Chief, Planning Division of the Baltimore District for thirteen years. Prior to his assignment in the Baltimore District, he spent fifteen years in Corps of Engineers Headquarters. His assignments included serving as Chief, Eastern Planning Management Branch with responsibility for oversight of Corps planning studies in the Eastern United States; heading the U.S. Water Resources Council task force that revised economic evaluation procedures for Federal water resources projects; and Acting Assistant Director of Civil Works for the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes region.

On November 3, 1998, Dr. Charles G. Groat became the 13the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the interior.  Dr. Charles (Chip) Groat is a distinguished professional in the earth science community with over 25 years of direct involvement in geological studies, energy and minerals resource assessment, ground-water occurrence and protection, geomorphic processes and landform evolution in desert areas, and coastal studies. Dr. Groat received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology (1962) from the University of Rochester, a Master of Science in Geology (1967) from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Geology (1970) from the University of Texas at Austin. Among his many professional affiliations, Groat is a member of the Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He has also served on over a dozen earth science boards and committees and has authored and contributed to numerous publications and articles on major issues involving earth resources and the environment.

Holly Stoerker serves as the executive director of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, a position she has held since 1983. The Association is an interstate organization formed by the Governors of the states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin to help coordinate the states’ river-related programs and policies and work with federal agencies that have river management responsibilities. Prior to creation of the Association, she was a member of the staff of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, one of the joint federal-state regional planning agencies formed pursuant to the 1965 Water Resources Planning Act and later dissolved by Presidential Executive Order in 1981. As Executive Director of the Association, Stoerker is involved in policy, planning, and legislative issues related to habitat restoration and protection, commercial navigation and channel maintenance, floodplain management and flood control, water quality management, water supply and interbasin diversions, and hazardous spill response.

Dale Strickland is Vice-President and Senior Ecologist with Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received a B.S. in Zoology (1969) and an M.S. in Wildlife Management (1972) from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D in Zoology from the University of Wyoming (1975).  Prior to his employment with WEST he served as a scientist and administrator with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and served on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of Wyoming. He has also taught courses in wildlife management and statistics as a visiting instructor at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Strickland is currently the Executive Director of the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership. He and his staff provide technical and administrative support of the Governance Committee, which oversees the development of The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (Program). The technical support includes assisting the Partnership in preparing an Integrated Monitoring and Research Plan and in the development of adaptive management for the Program. He and his staff currently are overseeing the implementation of several pilot projects designed to test protocols and provide baseline information for use in evaluating the biological response of the Program’s four target species and their habitat to water and land management activities.

Stuart Langton is the Senior Fellow at the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium at Florida State University.  In this role he serves as a consultant to the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force.  He also is President of Stuart Langton and Associates, a consultancy, through which he has served 400 clients since 1969.  Stuart Langton received a PhD in Philosophy from Boston University.  He has served on the faculties of Boston University, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the Whittemore School of Business and Economic at the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University where he held the endowed Chair of Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has directed 25 research projects, published over 50 articles, and edited five books including Citizen Participation in America and Environmental Leadership.

Richard Ring is the Associate Director for Administration, Business Practices and Workforce Development for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. Previously, Ring held positions as superintendent of the Everglades National Park and Dry Tortugas Park in Florida, and then Associate Director of Park Operations and Education for the National Park Service in D.C. Ring has also served as chairman of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration (Task Force) Working Group in Florida, an interagency task force established by the Secretary of the Interior to coordinate and direct ecosystem approach to Everglades Restoration. He attended Penn State University, University of Rhode Island and George Washington University, and received degrees in political science and public administration.

Curt Brown is the manager of the Platte River EIS Office, Great Plains Regions, in the Bureau of Reclamation. His office is currently conducting the NEPA analysis and public review for the proposed Platte River Endangered Species Recovery Program being developed jointly by the states of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado and the Department of the Interior. Previously, Mr. Brown was the program manager for the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission. He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1974, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1981. He has been employed by the Bureau of Reclamation for 23 years, and his areas of emphasis include collaborative resources management; public involvement and conflict resolution; policy development for planning, dam safety, endangered species, recreation, and water management; risk analysis and nonstructural solutions for dam safety; and non-market valuation methods for water resources management.

Kirk Emerson is the Director of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution appointed in 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Foundation.  In addition to overseeing the Institute’s programs and administration, Kirk provides early case consultation, process design, and facilitation services, primarily for interagency and intergovernmental conflicts.  In addition, Kirk works with federal agencies in developing environmental conflict resolution (ECR) programs through strategic planning, training, system design, and program evaluation. Prior to her work at the U.S. Institute, Kirk coordinated the environmental conflict resolution program at The University of Arizona’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, where she conducted research, taught, and directed several conflict management and public involvement projects involving water resources, endangered species, and western range policies.  Kirk has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on conflict resolution and environmental law and has written on environmental mediation, land use law, and environmental policy. 

Jeff Corbin has worked extensively on issues regarding water quality for the last 13 years for various State and Federal agencies, and most recently, for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF). With more than 110,000 members, CBF is the largest conservation organization working exclusively to Save the Bay. With headquarters in Annapolis, Md., and state offices in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, CBF works throughout the Chesapeake's 64,000-square-mile watershed to protect and restore the Bay with programs in environmental education, resource protection and restoration. Jeff is the Senior Scientist in CBF's Virginia Office where for the last 6 years he has worked on pollution issues ranging from water quality impacts from sewage treatment plants and industrial discharges to impacts from various agricultural and livestock activities. He has been deeply involved with the multi-state effort, spear-headed by EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program Office, to significantly reduce nutrient and sediment inputs into the Bay and it's tributaries.

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