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ESRI President Jack Dangermond to Address NCSE Conference
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Jack Dangermond, President and Founder of ESRI, will deliver a keynote
address at the National Council for Science and the Environment's (NCSE)
2005 conference on Forecasting Environmental Changes.  Dangermond is
internationally recognized as a pioneer in spatial analysis methods and
as one of the most influential people in Geographic Information Systems
(GIS).  He will address innovative tools and techniques that enable
decisionmakers to use geospatial data to improve environmental
forecasting.  ESRI, the world's fourth largest privately held software
company, is widely recognized as the technical and market leader in GIS
software.

NCSE's 5th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment:
Forecasting Environmental Changes will take place on February 3-4, 2005
at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in
Washington, DC.  This unique, interactive 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.

As previously announced, former EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus
will deliver the John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the
Environment.  Ruckelshaus will draw upon his distinguished career in
both the public and private sectors as a tireless advocate for balanced,
durable and broadly-supported solutions to environmental and
conservation issues.

The opening keynote address will be delivered by James Gustave Speth,
Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies.  Speth will draw upon his past experience as Administrator of
the United Nations Development Programme, Chair of the White House
Council on Environmental Quality, and Founder and President of the World
Resources Institute to address opportunities for the United States to
assert a leadership role in domestic and international environmental
issues.

Confirmed participants in roundtable plenary discussions will include:

.   D. James Baker, President and CEO of the Academy of Natural
Sciences; Former Administrator of NOAA
.   Ann Bartuska, Deputy Chief for Research and Development at the U.S.
Forest Service
.   Rita Colwell, Former Director of the National Science Foundation
.   Charles Groat, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey
.   Bruce Hayden, Professor at the University of Virginia; Lead
Investigator of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Design Consortium
.   Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Administrator of NOAA; Undersecretary
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
.   Margaret Leinen, Assistant Director of Geosciences at the National
Science Foundation
.   Thomas E. 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
.   Steven Stanley, Professor of Paleobiology at Johns Hopkins
University; Past President of the American Geological Institute

All conferees will take part in one of 18 interactive breakout sessions
and one of four 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 and view the
conference agenda, instructions for participating in the poster session,
and other conference details. Register by December 3rd to save 25
percent on conference registration.  General conference questions may be
directed to [log in to unmask]


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Craig Schiffries, Ph.D.
Conference Chair
National Council for Science and the Environment
1707 H Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-530-5810
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environmental decisionmaking. NCSE is supported by nearly 500 academic,
scientific, environmental, government and business organizations.

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