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The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) invites you to participate in the 5th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Forecasting Environmental Changes, to be held on February 3-4, 2005 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
The 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.
The opening keynote address will be delivered by James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who will draw upon his experience as former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Founder and former President of the World Resources Institute, and former Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to address opportunities for the United States to assert a leadership role in domestic and international environmental issues.
Three plenary roundtable discussions will address the following themes:
- Lessons Learned from Successful Environmental Forecasting Approaches
- Designing Ecological Forecasting Systems
- Applying Environmental Forecasting to Environmental Decisionmaking
Participants in roundtable plenary discussions will include:
- D. James Baker, President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences; former Administrator of NOAA
- Charles Groat, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey
- Bruce Hayden, Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia; Lead Investigator of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Design Consortium
- Adm. Conrad Lautenbacher, Administrator of NOAA; U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
- Margaret Leinen, Assistant Director of Geosciences at the National Science Foundation
- Thomas 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
All conferees will take part in one of 15 interactive breakout sessions and one of three 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 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 to register online, see pre-conference materials, obtain the latest program updates, and view links to travel and lodging options. A limited number of complimentary registrations are available to members of the NCSE University Affiliates Program (see the conference registration page or call 202-530-5810 for details). Please direct general conference questions to conference2005@NCSEonline.org.
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Craig M. Schiffries, Ph.D.
Conference Chair
National Council for Science and the Environment
1707 H Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-207-0003 (direct)
Tel: 202-530-5810 (main)
Fax: 202-628-4311
E-mail: schiffries@NCSEonline.org
www.NCSEonline.org
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