Keynote Speakers View the keynote presentation abstracts Dr. Ann M. Bartuska is Deputy Chief for Research and Development of the USDA Forest Service. Prior to coming to this position in January, 2004, she was Executive Director of the Invasive Species Initiative at The Nature Conservancy, supporting capacity building and policy development at a global scale. She has held numerous leadership positions in the USDA Forest Service, including serving as the first woman and first ecologist as Director of Forest Management. Dr. Bartuska is an ecosystem ecologist by training and was recently President of the Ecological Society of America. Joseph Chamie, former Director of the United Nations Population Division, currently heads Population Associates Inc. Dr. Chamie received his doctoral degree in sociology, majoring in the field of population, from the University of Michigan. He has worked in various regions of the world, specializing primarily in Asia and Africa. He has worked in national programs dealing with health and family planning issues. He has first-hand experience with the diverse problems of less developed countries as well as the more developed nations. For example, he lived for several years in a rural Indian village working in health and family planning; he also lived in areas of civil conflict, having spent six years with the United Nations in Beirut, Lebanon. He has also conducted research and taught at universities in the United States and abroad. He was with the United Nations in the field of population and development both overseas and in New York for more than a quarter century. Among other major duties, he was the deputy secretary-general for the 1994 United Nations International Conference for Population and Development. During his career with the United Nations, he was responsible for a variety of activities, including (a) estimates and projections of population; (b) assessing national population policies; (c) determinants and consequences of population trends; (d) population and development inter-relationships; and (e) international conferences on population and dev elopment. In addition to completing numerous studies issued under United Nations authorship, he also authored many studies in his own name in such areas as fertility, marriage, family planning, population estimates and projections, ageing, urbanization, international migration and population and development policy. William W. Shaw is Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, in the School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona where he has worked since 1974. He has degrees from UC Berkeley (Ecological Science), Utah State (Wildlife Management) and the University of Michigan (Natural Resources). His research interests encompass topics that combine biology and the socio-political dimensions of wildlife conservation. He has published widely on topics that deal with the effects of urbanization on wildlife resources. He has also worked on studies involving relationships between protected areas and local people in many countries throughout the world. In 1988, he received the Daniel Leedy award for Urban Wildlife Conservation. This award is given to one person each year in recognition of efforts to integrate conservation with urban planning and design. Since 1999 he has served as a scientific advisor to Pima County, Arizona and as chair of the Science and Technical Advisory Team for the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. This is a comprehensive land use plan and multi-species habitat conservation plan for a region comprising over 9,000 square miles in southern Arizona. Arthur J. Gold is Professor of Watershed Science and Program Leader
for Natural Resources at the University of Rhode Island. He received
his Ph.D.from the Department of Agricultural Engineering at Michigan
State University and his M.S. in Water Resources Management from the
University of Michigan. Dr. Gold’s career has focused on the application
of science and technology to improve the capacity of local decision makers
to manage their land and water resources. His research addresses knowledge
gaps regarding the effects of land use and natural features on water
quality, with particular focus on sources and sinks of nitrogen in mixed-use
watersheds. He has published extensively on riparian zone dynamics and
the use of GIS te chniques to scale up from the site level to the watershed
scale. His outreach activities are directed towards local and state decision-makers
and promote the use of locally-based information, including volunteer
monitoring and GIS decision support tools, to mitigate both cumulative
and site-specific effects of human alterations. In addition he has been
involved in the development and use of alternative and innovative onsite
wastewater technologies that can promote new “smart growth” developments
and abate historic pollution sources. Dr. Gold maintains an active graduate
program and is one of the principal scientists involved in NSF-funded,
Ph.D. IGERT training project entitled: Assessing Change in Coastal Ecosystems:
Integrating Natural and Social Sciences. Mark Eigenraam leads the research, development and application of bio-economic modelling in the Economics Branch of the Department of Primary Industries, Victoria. This work brings him into contact with a variety of industries, academic institutions and government agencies providing him with an intimate understanding of the complexity of sustainable resource management. Most recently he managed the development and application of 'EcoTender' - an auction based approach to the procurement of environmental goods and services - carbon, water quality/quantity, terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic function and saline land. EcoTender resulted in the development of spatial and temporal modelling framework (The Catchment Modelling Framework) which is used to estimate and evaluate the impact of changes in land practices. It is a unique system linking sustainable management regimes to complex biophysical systems. It is used to estimate the long run resource degradation or preservation outcomes both on and off site.
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