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 connect decisionmakers with researchers who study environmental conditions and trends.   

  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 www.NCSEonline.org/NCSEconference/2005conference 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 conference2005@NCSEonline.org.