ESE-faculty-list NCSE's 13th National Conference: Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience

[Lee, Linda S]

Registration Open for NCSE's 13th National Conference: Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience (Purdue gets 5 free registrations as a member of NCSE)

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Early Bird Registration ($395)
available through October 26, 2012


The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)<http://ncseonline.org/> invites you to attend its 13th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Disasters and Environment: Science, Preparedness, and Resilience.  The conference will explore six interconnected themes:

 *   Cascading Disasters
 *   Intersection of the Built and Natural Environments
 *   Disasters as Mechanisms of Ecosystem Change


 *   Rethinking Recovery and Expanding the Vision of Mitigation
 *   Human Behavior and its Consequences
 *   "No Regrets" Resilience Case Studies

For three memorable days, join 1,200 scientists, disaster planners and practitioners, government, civil society, and business leaders to network, share your experience, and work across traditional boundaries to develop strategies and launch new partnerships and initiatives to improve forecasting, preparedness, responsiveness, and resilience of communities to environmental disasters of all types.

Explore the conference website<http://www.disastersandenvironment.org/> -- view the agenda<http://www.environmentaldisasters.net/topics/view/81252/>, register, and join us in January for what has been called "Davos for the Environment."   Watch videos of talks given by Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations; W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); and Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why.   Listen to interviews with Franklin Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America; Margaret Davidson, Director, Coastal Services Center, NOAA; and David Applegate, Associate Director of Natural Hazards, USGS.

Keynote Speakers
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Margareta Wahlström
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations

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W. Craig Fugate
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

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Amanda Ripley
Author of
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why

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Mark Tercek
President and CEO,
The Nature Conservancy

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Jane Lubchenco
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator

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Rowan Douglas
CEO, Willis Re Global Analytics and Chairman, Willis Research Network



Featured Speakers (to date):

Thomas Armstrong
Director, U.S. Global Change Research Program, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Chad Briggs
Minerva Chair, Air War College, U.S. Air Force

Kitty Courtney
Marine Environmental Scientist, Tetra Tech

Susan Cutter
Carolina Distinguished Professor and Director, Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina

Gerald Galloway
Research Professor, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland

Peter Jutro
Deputy Director for Science and Policy, U.S. EPA, ORD/National Homeland Security Research Center

David Kaufman
Director of Policy and Program Analysis, FEMA

Paul Kelly
Energy & Ocean Consultant; Member, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy; President Emeritus, Gulf of Mexico Foundation

Nancy Kete
Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation

Gary Machlis
Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service

Marcia McNutt
Director, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Timothy Mousseau
Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina

James Murley
Executive Director, South Florida Regional Planning Council

Margaret Hiza Redsteer
Research Scientist, USGS

Christopher Shore
Director, Natural Environment and Climate Issues, World Vision International

Ellis Stanley
Vice President, Western Emergency Management Services, Dewberry

Bill Walker
Gulf of Mexico Alliance Management Team; Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources



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