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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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