This year's conference is hosted by Stanford University in Stanford, CA, Wednesday-Sunday, September 5-9, 2007.

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One of the stops on Thursday tour "Ways of Wind and Wine: Making Energy and Wine Eco-Friendly" is the Buena Vista wind project at Altamont, pictured here. Photo courtesy of Babcock & Brown.

A-C	D-G	H-L
Aldhous, Peter	Daugherty, Rebecca	Hampton, Kate
Baker, David	Davidson, Kate Cheney	Hayden, Thomas
Baron, Nancy	Davis, Joseph	Hayes, Kim
Beeman, Perry	Davis, Sheila	Hayes, Randy
Benson, Sally	Detjen, Jim	Henry, Tom
Bettinger, James	Doney, Scott	Hinckley, Eve-Lyn
Blair, Luke	Dooley, Dan	Hogue, Cheryl
Boggs, Carol	Dykstra, Peter	Hopey, Don
Bogo, Jennifer	Ehrlich, Paul	Hulvey, Kris
Booth, Derek	Epstein, Paul	Ingalsbee, Timothy
Borenstein, Seth	Ewing, Reid	Inslee, Jay
Bowman, Chris	Fagin, Dan	Jackson, Richard
Braasch, Gary	Fahn, James	Jones, Michael
Brender, Mark	Fairley, Peter	Kay, Jane
Broadbent, Jack	Farrell, Alex	Kennedy, Donald
Bruggers, James	Ferguson, Bruce	Kimbell, Gail
Buckley, James	Field, Chris	Kline, Steven
Burnside, Jeff	Freeman, David	Koseff, Jeff
Caldwell, Meg	Freyberg, David	Kovarik, Bill
Candee, Hamilton	Friedman, Sharon	Krosnick, Jon
Cavanagh, Ralph	Funkhouser, Laura	Krupp, Fred
Cherry, Lynne	Gahran, Amy	Kvinta, Paul
Chiariello, Nona	George, Christy	Leavenworth, Stuart
Christensen, Jon	Gilroy, Leonard	Ledford, David
Cohen, Philippe	Glazer, Judy	Lee, Mike
Conover, David	Goodman, Amy	Light, Andrew
Conrad, Patricia	Gordon, Deborah	Limerick, Patricia
Contreras, Kevin	Goulder, Lawrence	Little, Jane Braxton
Cullen, Heidi	Gray, Tom	Liu Jianqiang
	Grumbles, Benjamin	Lubber, Mindy
	Guynup, Sharon	Lunch, Claire
		Lyman, Francesca

M-Q	R-S	T-Z
Margulis, Charles	Rangnes, Margrete Strand	Tanz, Jason
Matson, Pamela	Rey, Mark	Temple, Stanley
McClure, Robert	Rodriguez, Rick	Thompson, Anne
McIsaac, John	Rogers, Paul	Thompson Jr., Barton
Mecklin, John	Root, Terry	Tsuji, Joyce
Mensing, Donica	Sachsman, David	Vogel, David
Mooney, Harold	Schapiro, Mark	Waldie, Jerome
Motavalli, Jim	Scheraga, Joel	Walker, Chris
Moyer, Michael	Schleifstein, Mark	Ward, Bud
Muller, Judy	Schmidt, Karen	Ward Jr., Ken
Murphy, Tom	Schneider, Stephen	Weiser, Matt
Nastri, Wayne	Schoenberger, Karl	Weiss, Ken
Nichols, Mary	Scowcroft, Bob	Westbrook, Corry
Nielsen, John	Setziol, Ilsa	Wheeler, Tim
Paepcke, Andreas	Shimek, Steve	Whetzel, Carolyn
Palumbi, Steve	Shugar, Daniel	Wilson, Michael
Parsonnet, Julie	Shultz, George	Wolfe, David
Petersen, Leila Conners	Silberstein, Mark	Woodside, Christine
Porter, Vikki	Simons, Daniel
Poulson, David	Smith, Laura
Prince, Carol	Snow, Kat
	Steinbach, Tom
	Stephens, Scott
	Stevens, Jane
	Stover, Dawn
	Straubel, JB

Peter Aldhous
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Peter Aldhous is San Francisco bureau chief with New Scientist magazine. Before moving to California in October 2005, he spent five years as chief news and features editor for Nature. Peter's main interests lie in the biological and social sciences, and he has reported from countries including Cameroon, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and Vietnam. He is also a part-time lecturer in the science writing program at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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David Baker
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

David Baker has been practicing architecture for 28 years. He has received numerous awards, and in 1996, was selected as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He founded David Baker + Partners, Architects, in 1982 and now leads the firm with Peter MacKenzie and Kevin Wilcock. The firm is known for combining social concern with a signature design character. David is a board member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.

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Nancy Baron
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Nancy Baron, a zoologist and science writer, is the Ocean Science Outreach Director for SeaWeb and COMPASS (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea). She is also the lead communications trainer for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. In these capacities, she works with environmental scientists helping them translate their work effectively to journalists, the public and policy makers. She leads communications training workshops for academic scientists, graduate students and post docs. Baron has an interdisciplinary Masters degree in Global Marine Studies from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Zoology. The winner of numerous writing awards, she is also the author of a popular field guide, "Birds of the Pacific Northwest" (1997).

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Perry Beeman
Event: Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. — Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions

Perry Beeman is an SEJ board member, and a long-time reporter for The Des Moines Register, beginning his environmental coverage there full-time in 1991. In 2003, he won first place for outstanding beat reporting in the independently judged SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, and in 2004, he studied tropical ecology in Belize with a team from Loyola University in New Orleans and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

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Sally Benson
Event: Wednesday, Evening Plenary, 7:00 p.m. —
Clean, Secure & Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?

Sally M. Benson was appointed executive director of the Global Climate and Environment Project in March 2007. Sally is also a professor in the department of energy resources engineering in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford. A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Sally has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. Her research interests include geologic storage of CO2 in deep underground formations, technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon future, influence of climate change on critical habitats, biogeochemistry of selenium, and geotechnical instrumentation for subsurface characterization and monitoring.

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James Bettinger
Event: Saturday, Plenary, 1:00 p.m. — Toward a New Journalism

James Bettinger is director of the John S. Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford. Before Stanford, Jim worked in newspapers for 20 years as a reporter, editorial writer and editor at the Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise, and then at the San Jose Mercury News as city editor. He has also taught courses in opinion writing, feature and analytical writing, literary journalism and creative non-fiction.

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Luke Blair
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

James "Luke" Blair is a geologist and the GIS manager for the USGS Earthquake Hazards team in Menlo Park, CA. Since graduating in 1996, he has worked as a soil scientist and GIS technician for the BLM in Coos Bay, OR; as a geologist and GIS specialist for the USGS in Reston, VA; and for a private geologic modeling company in central Pennsylvania specializing in GIS and 3D software, modeling environmental concerns (spills). In 2002 Luke re-joined the USGS, with the Earthquake Hazards team. He works closely with team scientists in mapping and modeling earthquake data, and strives to find new innovative methods of communicating important geologic hazard information to the public.

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Carol Boggs
Event: Sunday, Tour 10, 9:00 a.m. —
Reintroducing the Endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis): Is It Possible?

Carol L. Boggs is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford, and director of the school's program in human biology. She is currently studying environmental variation, using butterflies in central California and Colorado's Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

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Jennifer Bogo
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: The Freelance Pitch-Slam: Back By Popular Demand

Jennifer Bogo is the senior science editor at Popular Mechanics, where she covers topics ranging from green architecture and astrobiology to alternative energy. Previously, she worked as a senior editor at Audubon magazine and at E/The Environmental Magazine. Her work also recently appeared in the anthology "Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature."

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Derek Booth
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Coastlines and Estuaries: Awash in Urban Poisons

Derek Booth is president of Stillwater Sciences, a geological research company in Seattle. Prior to joining Stillwater Sciences, he was a research professor at the University of Washington, where he remains affiliate professor in civil and environmental engineering and earth and space sciences. He led a four-year research effort funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that sparked changes to development design criteria and stormwater regulations across the Northwest.

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Seth Borenstein
Events:
Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change
Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Friday, Beat Dinner 1, 7:30 p.m. — Climate Change Naysayers: Reality Check!

Seth Borenstein is a science writer for The Associated Press and a member of SEJ for eight years. Based in Washington, D.C, he specializes in Earth sciences and climate change coverage. Before joining the AP in 2006, he was a national correspondent for the now departed Knight Ridder Newspapers, covering environment, disasters, and science.

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Chris Bowman
Events:
Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.
Friday, Breakout Lunch 2, 12:30 p.m. —
Judge for Yourself: How to Do Stories on Science Journal Articles
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Disease Detectives: How to Train a Journalistic Eye on Environmental Causes of Illness
Sunday - Wednesday, Post-Conference Tour, Journey to Lake Tahoe: Sapphire of the Sierra

Chris Bowman, environment and energy reporter for The Sacramento Bee, tries to compensate for his two-finger typing with stories that punch hard and deep: Developers unearthing naturally occurring asbestos; flavoring factories destroying workers' lungs; the world's largest cheese plant polluting with impunity; and the abuse of Mexican reforestation workers. His career began as a courthouse reporter for The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) Later, at The Hartford Courant, he uncovered fraud in bridge inspections after a deadly collapse on the Connecticut Turnpike. A Nieman Fellowship at Harvard ('95) inspired Chris to take up crew rowing at home and journalism mentoring abroad, including a three-month stint in Zimbabwe.

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Gary Braasch
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Gary Braasch is an environmental photographer and writer who is the 2006 recipient of the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography by the Sierra Club. Since 1980 he has documented natural history and environmental issues, from the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the ancient forests of the West Coast of North America, to global climate change. He has produced photographic assignments for major magazines, including National Geographic, Scientific American and Life. Gary has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Assn. and is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. University of California Press publishes his book, "Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World," in 2007.

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Mark Brender
Event: Saturday, Breakfast Plenary, 7:00 a.m. — The Big Picture: Using Satellite Imagery to Enhance Your Reporting

Mark E. Brender joined GeoEye in January 2006 after eight years at Space Imaging as the vice president of Communications and Washington Operations. He has over 25 years of experience in public affairs, broadcast journalism and government relations and is responsible for all communications and marketing including brand awareness, reputation and issues management. Prior to joining Space Imaging, Mr. Brender was a broadcast journalist for ABC News where he spent 16 years as an assignment editor and editorial producer. In 1985 Mr. Brender established the Radio and Television News Directors Association 'Remote Sensing Task Force' to clear the way for high-resolution imagery to move into the commercial sector.

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Jack Broadbent
Event: Thursday Tour — Hole in the Donut: Environmental Justice in the Heart of Ecotopia

Jack Broadbent serves as the chief executive officer/air pollution control officer for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District). In this position, Mr. Broadbent is responsible for directing the Air District's programs to achieve and maintain healthy air quality for the 7 million people that reside in the nine county region of California's San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Broadbent joins the Air District after serving more than two and a half years as the Director of the Air Division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9. In that position, Mr. Broadbent was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Clean Air Act as well as indoor air quality and radiation programs for the Pacific Southwest region of the United States.

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James Bruggers
Events:
Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 7, 12:30 p.m. — Eco Blogging: Can It Make You a Better Journalist?

James Bruggers covers the environment for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and served as SEJ president from October 2000 through October 2002. He's worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky, and has been an SEJ board member since 1997. He was a founder of the SEJ First Amendment Task Force, and frequently uses the Toxics Release Inventory in his reporting. He also writes a blog, Watchdog Earth.

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James Buckley
Event: Thursday Tour — Green Buildings to Greenbelts: San Francisco Has It All

James M. Buckley is president of Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC), a San Francisco-based non-profit housing development organization. CHC projects include construction of new tax credit-financed properties, renovation and preservation of threatened HUD-subsidized existing projects, and development of transit-oriented, mixed-use sites.

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Jeff Burnside
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 21, 12:30 p.m. — Meet the SEJ Board

Jeff Burnside is an SEJ board member, and part of the Special Projects Unit at WTVJ in Miami. Jeff broke the story regarding harm to marine mammals from low frequency active Navy sonar, documented concerns over rock mining threats to Miami-Dade wellheads where a million people get their drinking water, has traveled extensively to cover the decline of the world's coral reefs, and ventured to the bottom of the ocean aboard a scientific submersible during bioprospecting and chronicling the damage from bottom trawling. Burnside's investigative reporting recently won a national IRE certificate, a National Press Club award, and a Clarion award.

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Meg Caldwell
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE OCEAN: Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Restoration and Marine Reserves

Meg Caldwell is a senior lecturer at the Stanford School of Law. Her current research and teaching focuses on coastal law and policy, land use management and decision-making, the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, and developing private and public incentives for natural resource conservation. She has served as chairperson of the California Coastal Commission and board member of the California Coastal Conservancy Board and the California Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force.

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Hamilton Candee
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: A River Runs — Again?

Hamilton Candee is a senior attorney and the director of the National Resources Defence Council's western water project. He works on a range of California water issues, including protection and restoration of the San Joaquin River and the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. He has also litigated a number of cases on federal water policy in the West.

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Ralph Cavanagh
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
ENERGY AND RESOURCES: Energy Subsidies: Winners and Losers

Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of NRDC's energy program, which he joined in 1979. Ralph has also been a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 2003, he served as a member of the advisory board for the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Ralph is currently a board member of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, the Renewable Northwest Project, the Northwest Energy Coalition and the Energy Center of Wisconsin. He is also a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation established in 2002.

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Lynne Cherry
Events:
Friday, Beat Dinner 8, 7:30 p.m. —
Writing Environmental and Nature Books for Kids: Keeping It Fun but Deep
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Corporate-Created Environmental Education. An Oxymoron?

Lynne Cherry is the author and/or illustrator of over 30 award-winning books for children. Her books, including "The Greak Kapok Tree," "A River Ran Wild" and "The Armadillo from Amarillo," teach children a respect for the earth.

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Nona Chiariello
Events:
Saturday, Mini-Tour 4, 3:00 p.m. — Field-Based Environmental Education at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Sunday, Tour 1, 9:00 a.m. — Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

Nona Chiariello coordinates research at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and is a research associate with the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment. Her research focuses on the effects of global environmental changes on interacting ecosystem properties such as primary production, temporal shifts in the growing season, and biological invasions. Together with ecologists, biogeochemists, hydrologists and others, she teaches a field methods course in which undergraduates and masters students conduct interdisciplinary studies of Jasper Ridge ecosystems.

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Jon Christensen
Events:
Thursday Tour — Sea Otters, Sustainable Seafood and Steinbeck
Friday, Beat Dinner 10, 4:30 p.m. —
Turning around a Troubled Fishery — Enjoy the Catch of the Day at Half Moon Bay
Sunday, Tour 10, 9:00 a.m. —
Reintroducing the Endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis): Is It Possible?

Jon Christensen has been a freelance environmental journalist and science writer for nearly 20 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, High Country News, and many other newspapers, magazines, journals, and radio and television shows, including "NOW" on PBS.

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Philippe Cohen
Event: Sunday, Tour 2, 9:00 a.m. —
Stanford University's First Green Building: An Attempt at Zero Carbon Emissions and Counting

Dr. Philippe S. Cohen is the administrative director of Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Dr. Cohen is responsible for the continuing ecological health of the Preserve and support of research and educational programs. He is dedicated to educating people on the importance of biological field stations such as JRBP, where long-term research can be carried out and work builds on years of research and monitoring. Prior to his current position, Dr. Cohen was the first resident director of the University of California Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center. As director and manager of these biological field stations, he has been involved in land management issues ranging from desert grazing, mining, and water rights, but in recent years has developed a particular interest in issues associated with the urban/wildland interface.

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David Conover
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change

Dr. David O. Conover is professor of Marine Science and dean and director of the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University, Long Island, N.Y. Much of his research involves species of great economic importance such as bluefish, striped bass, and Atlantic silversides. He has been the recipient of a Mote Eminent Scholar Chair in Fisheries Ecology and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. His most recent research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, involves determination of the long-term evolutionary (Darwinian) impacts of size-selective harvest regimes on the productivity of marine fish stocks. He recently provided expert testimony at a U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on the impact of climate change on living marine resources.

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Patricia Conrad
Events:
Friday, Breakout Breakfast 1, 7:30 a.m. —
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Why Journalists and Scientists Just Don't Communicate
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: A Rising Tide of Ocean Plagues

Dr. Patricia Conrad is a veterinarian and protozoologist at University of California, Davis. She leads a research team investigating the protozoal parasites that cause fatal brain infections in California sea otters. Her team is interested in the impact of fecal pathogen pollution in freshwater, estuary and marine ecosystems on wildlife and human populations. They also investigate how protozoal parasites are transmitted from land-based wildlife populations to marine mammals. The team has published on the ability of benthic invertebrates (e.g., mussels and clams) to concentrate pathogens and serve as bioindicators for environmental monitoring of protozoal and bacterial pathogens in marine and freshwater ecosystems. She has published extensively in the fields of veterinary parasitology and emerging infectious diseases.

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Kevin Contreras
Event: Thursday Tour — Kayaking a Coastal Estuary

Kevin Contreras is land acquisitions specialist with the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, which manages over 4,000 acres in the Elkhorn Slough watershed in central Monterey Bay, California. He studied how chaparral recovers from wildfire and has developed skills in computer mapping, conservation land management, and vegetation sampling.

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Heidi Cullen
Events:
Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Covering Climate Change
Saturday, Climate Change Goes Mainstream, 9:00 p.m.

Heidi Cullen is the climate expert at The Weather Channel and a scientist formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Since October 2006, she has been host of "The Climate Code with Dr. Heidi Cullen," the first weekly television series to focus on climate issues. She has also appeared as a climate expert on national TV broadcasts and in several newspapers and magazines.

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Rebecca Daugherty
Event: Friday, Breakout Breakfast 2, 7:30 a.m. —
The Painless FOIA Letter

Rebecca Daugherty, SEJ board representative for the associate membership, is a former director of the FOI Service Center, a special project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she worked with journalists who encountered problems gaining access to public records, and on issues that threaten openness in state and federal governments. In 2001 she was inducted into the Freedom Forum's FOI Hall of Fame. She edited "Tapping Officials' Secrets," a guide to open government laws, "How to Use the Federal FOI Act," and various projects on access issues. She is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals, and currently serves on its board. She holds two journalism degrees from the University of Missouri and a law degree from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

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Kate Cheney Davidson
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Covering China's Environment

Kate Cheney Davidson works as a freelance radio and print journalist and as U.S. editor for China Dialogue, a bilingual media outlet focused on environmental issues. In her freelance work, Davidson covers a range of topics including climate change, water resources and land conservation. Her work has been published by Salon.com, National Geographic Adventure, Living on Earth, American Radio Works, and KQED. Her story on the declining water sources of Mt. Kilimanjaro was a part of a one-hour radio documentary on the impacts of climate change that won a 2006 George Polk award. At the University of California, Berkeley, she studied with China scholar Orville Schell.

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Joseph Davis
Events:
Friday, Breakout Lunch 1, 12:30 p.m. —
Care and Feeding of Whistleblowers and Agency Sources: A Reporter's Guide
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT I: Exploiting Databases: Environmental Indicators, Risk Screening and TRI

Joseph A. Davis is SEJ WatchDog Project Director, EJToday Editor, TipSheet Editor and a freelance writer/editor in Washington, D.C. He directs the WatchDog Project, an activity of SEJ's First Amendment Task Force that reports on secrecy trends and supports reporters' efforts to make better use of FOIA. He also edits EJToday, SEJ's daily selection of new and outstanding stories on environmental topics in print and on the air, and TipSheet, a biweekly electronic newsletter of story ideas and sources co-published by SEJ and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.

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Sheila Davis
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE GLOBE: Trade and Environmental Degradation

Sheila Davis, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, has played a role in shaping the group's environmental policy in the high technology industry over the past 10 years. She is a co-founder of the Computer TakeBack Campaign, and her research and advocacy contributed to a successful ban on hazardous electronic waste from the California landfills and to the passage of the nation's first electronic recycling legislation. Sheila earned a B.A. from the University of California and worked as a journalist, state legislative aide and community developer before joining the SVTC.

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Jim Detjen
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Teaching Environmental Journalism: What Distinguishes This Beat from Others?
Friday, Breakout Lunch 3, 12:30 p.m. —
Speed Mentoring: Get Answers to Career Questions
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: On the Green Beat in Asia

Jim Detjen joined the Michigan State University (MSU) journalism school faculty in January 1995 as the Knight Chair in Journalism, the nation's only endowed chair in environmental reporting. He is also the director of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and MSU's environmental journalism program. He is the founding president of SEJ and a member of its board of directors. He is a co-founder of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists and served as its president from 1994 to 2000.

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Scott Doney
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE OCEAN: Balmy Waters: From Acidification to Melting Ice, the Sea-Side of Climate Change