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Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Partial ListofAttending Organizations Environmental GroupWorking Environmental Film Festival intheNation’s Capital Environmental Defense Fund IslandInstitute Earth Lab Marine University Duke FriendsDorsal Defenders of Wildlife SearchDeep Foundation/Google ofthe Cry Water Law FoundationConservation Coastal America Climate Central Clean Virginia Waterways Action Clean Ocean Center for Solutions Ocean Scripps Center andConservation, forBiodiversity Marine Center for Healthfor theGlobalEnvironment atHarvard Center for Consumer Freedom Care2.com California Alliance Coastkeeper Institute Blue Ocean Blue Frontier Campaign &Diamond,Beveridge PC Coalition Ocean Antarctic andSouthern Meteorological American Society Altamaha Riverkeeper Longline Fishermen’sAlaska Association ListofAttending Organizations Partial Institution ofOceanography Institution School Medical Joint Ocean Commission Ocean Initiative Joint ofNature Union for theConservation International LongshoreInternational and Warehouse Union(ILWU) Gulf Restoration Network Greenpeace USA Green Media Toolshed Global Solver Foundation University George Mason Friends oftheEarth Forest Trends NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative NOAA andHumanHealthInitiative Oceans of theEnvironment, School University Nicholas Duke EnglandAquarium New National Wildlife Federation Administration andAtmospheric National Oceanic Smithsonian ofNaturalHistory, National Museum Foundation Sanctuary National Marine National Geographic Society National Coalition forConservation Marine National Aquarium inDC Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Monterey Bay Aquarium MK&Co./Fish for theFuture Foundation University Miami 2Maine Miami StrandingCenter Mammal Marine Fish Network Marine Conservation BiologyInstitute Conservation Marine Foundation binSultan LivingOceans Khaled Scripps Institution ofOceanography, Institution Scripps UCSD Channelkeeper Santa Barbara SandyHook SeaLife Foundation San Francisco Film Ocean Festival San DiegoCoastkeeper S.E.A.S. S.D.I./Atlantic Coast Watch Roz Savage, LLC ShorelineRichmond Citizen Response Restore America’s Estuaries Relief Reef Project AWARE Foundation Resource Ocean Port Orford Team Council Pacific Conservation Marine Pew Environment Group Council Pacific Conservation Marine PacificInstitute PacificGeoscience Centre -NRCAN Pacific Environment Coastkeeper Orange County Rep. of SamOffice Farr, CA-17 Oceana Institute River Ocean FuturesOcean Society DefendersOcean Alliance Research Conservation Ocean Conservancy Ocean Champions Ocean New York School Harbor Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Sanctuaries Marine ofNational NOAA Office Surfrider Foundation/DC ChapterSurfrider Foundation MontereySurfrider Chapter Foundation Surfrider Stratus Consulting Strategic Solutions Ocean Smith College Club Sierra Sherman’s Lagoon Sheavly Consultants Shark Trust Wines Advisors Generation Seventh SeaWeb Yale University Classroom Foundation World Observatory/Ocean Ocean WiLDCOAST Waterkeeper Alliance Wallace &Associates Virginia Shorekeeper Eastern Coast Institute Urban United Nations Environment Programme UCLA ofStateU.S. Department U.S. Coast Guard Tybee Center Science IslandMarine The Whaleman Foundation ProjectThe Ocean FoundationThe Ocean The Nature Conservancy The Billfish Foundation The Aspen Institute Texas Foundation Coastal Chapter Bend -Surfrider Partial ListofAttending Organizations / CMS Secretariat

Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Agenda Location: The George Washington Center Marvin University 2009 8, March Sunday, Location: Carnegie Institution Location: Washington Office, Google DC Saturday, Marc Agenda 10:30 12:15–1:15 9:30–10:15 9:00–9:30 8:30–9:00 7:00–10:00 1:00–5:00 –12:00

Lessons From Explorers: Why Conservation Needs Exploration Ocean Earth inGoogle Workshop ! ! ! ! ! Catgories: Introduction: Wendy andDavid Helvarg Benchley Blue Frontier “Peter Benchley” Awards Luncheon LemonickMichael (Climate Central) Terry Tamminen ofQueensland, (University Hoegh-Guldberg Australia), Ove (7thGeneration), (Oceana) Hirshfield Mike Moderator/Organizer: ClimatePlenary: andOcean NOAA Administrator Dr. Lubchenco Jane (invited) Keynote Address Welcome byMusic Peter Maybarduk complimentsofLegal FoodsRefreshments Sea afterwards andShark Trust Wines Sala(NationalGeographic) Enric Panelists: Sylvia Earle, Philippe Cousteau, Capt. Roz Savage Phil (USNRet.), Rower), (Ocean Renaud DavidOrganizer: Guggenheim Google Organizer: Coffee, Donatedtea, danish.treats from Endangered SpeciesChocolate Co. and Whale Tails Chips

Policy: Rep. SamFarr PresentedPolicy: (D-CA). by David Wilmot (to bepresented thefollowing day) (OCS Coalition). PresentedHero RichardCharter oftheSeas: by Warner Chabot(CA. LCV) Youth Award: champ). Presented Zander Srodes (seaturtle by Wallace “J.” (Ocean Nichols Studios).Presented (Sea Shelley Mark Media: Echo) by Philippe Cousteau (Earth Presented (Scripps). Knowlton JeremyScience: andNancy Sala(National Jackson by Enric Revolution) Geographic) h 7,2 from SummitSponsors 009

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Breakout /Panels Sessions (1) and theland Author BillMcKibben management to theocean Leesa Cobbin Kiribati; (PortOrford, Oregon)—How asmallgroup brought offishermen ecosystem CA; Greg Stone (NEAquarium)—How theworld’s wasestablished largest reserve oceanwilderness in NC;Steve Station)—The Palumbi Marine ofMonterey Bay, ofthe recovery (Director Hopkins story Panelists: Todd Carolina Coastal Federation)—6,000 (North Miller acre wetland restoration project (Smithsonian Institution) Knowlton Nancy Moderator: SeaweedPlenary: Success Stories The Future ofSustainableSeafood [Google5.0(GoogleOcean)] Miller Educators Association), Carolina IanSanchez(South Environmental Low Education), Country Steve Panelists: Francesca Cava (NationalGeographic), Adam Frederick (President, NationalMarine Leslie Moderator: Tamminen (OCS Research Coalition) Foundation/JunkMarine sailors), RichardCharter Raft Panelists: Steve Fleischli (President, Waterkeeper Paschal andJoel Alliance),Marcus Erikson (Algalita Action) CindyZipf(Clean Ocean Moderator: toSolutions Pollution Debris &Marine Heberger Matt (PacificUniversity), Institute) Panelists: Dr. AmandaStaudt(National Wildlife Federation), Tony (Monmouth MacDonald Adina Abeles (CenterModerator: for Solutions) Ocean Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change Breakout /Panels Sessions (2) Nature Conservancy) Dr. Hewawasam (The Indumathi Species), (UNEPConventionPanelists: Hepworth onMigratory GustafLundin Carl (IUCN),Robert Islands) Dr.Moderator: ofDelaware BilianaCicin-Sain(University andGlobalForum onOceans, Coasts and Field Commission Ocean Initiative) –Joint (NOAA), Institute LauraCantral (Meridian Blueaquaculture NeilSimms(Kona company), John Conservancy), (Ocean Group), Dorsett Chris LonglinePanelists: Fisherman’s (Alaska LindaBehnken Environment (PEW Association), Mann Chris forage fishandfishing) (ELI),(double sessiononaquaculture, Mengerink BruceStedmanModerators: (MFCN),Kathryn Kim (Scripps), Panelists:Warner (NOAA), (Oceana) BillGerwick Carolyn Sotka Frith (Harvard) Kathleen Moderator: Defense Fund), (Environmental JimMcElfish Institute) Law Panelists: Tom (Attorney Jensen for Energy Ocean AmandaLeland Developers), (Environmental (Rising Sterne Jack Moderator: Tides Strategies) Marine Education Marine America’sRenewing GlobalLeadership onOceans The Future ofSustainableSeafood The Ocean andHumanHealth Clean Ocean Energy ( End ofNature

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Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Agenda Location: The George Washington University 2009 9, March Monday, Location: Hall Ocean Sant SmithsonianMuseumofNatural History 12:30–2:00 10:45–12:15 2:15–3:30 8:45–10:30 8:15–8:45 7:00–10:00

Celebration Evening oftheSea Event Program), Organic (MOM’S LauraHolley Market) –My Panelists: Hayes (Founder, Randy (Greenpeace Hocevar John Rainforest Ocean Network), Action NedDaly(SeaWeb’sModerator: Seafood ChoicesAlliance) StrategiesMarket for theOcean Research, NOAA) Eder (U.S. ArcticResearch Commission), Richard W. Oceanicand Atmospheric of Spinrad(Office Panelists: StephanieJohn Oliver(Columbia Pfirman (U.S. University), Michele Coast Guard), Longo : Moderator HeinzCenter) Thomas E.Lovejoy (The The ArcticMeltdown: What aChangingfor ArcticMeans Ocean Planet Our Union), Dr. Cox Joe (Chamber ofShippingAmerica) (Humane Society), NaomiRose President, Longshore International Panelists: and (Vice David PettitRadisich Joe Warehouse (NRDC), Dragon(Pacific Jackie Environment)Moderator: Greening Ports andShipping Breakout /Panels Sessions (1) (NPR), Anne News) Thompson (NBCNightly Panelists: (NationalGeographic), Bourne Joel Reporter Baltimore Sun),Radio Tim Wheeler (The David Helvarg (BlueFrontierModerator: Campaign) Blue Beat MediaLuncheon George Stafford, Babb-Brott Oceans andDeerin for Coasts Massachusetts Undersecretary New Chrisman, forCalifornia NaturalResources Mike Secretary York ofState Secretary Deputy SarahChasis(NRDC) Moderator: StatePlenary: andRegionalInitiatives Rep. SamFarr(D-RI), Bordallo DelegateMadeleine (Guam) (D-CA), White Sutley, HouseCouncil onEnvironmental ChairNancy Quality Senator Sheldon Whitehouse David Moderator: Wilmot Champions) (Ocean Administration AdvancingPlenary: Federal Ocean Policy inthe111thCongress andtheObama FoundationSponsored binSultanLivingOceans by Khaled Food, Holmes. by Music Mark drinks, speakers,entertainment. Coffee, tea, danish

9:00 Location: Capitol Hill Tuesday, March 10,2009 Location: Club Science 3:45–5:00 10:30–4:00 4:30–5:30 8:00–11:00 5:30–6:45 5:00–5:30 Am

Reconvene anddiscuss—Environment andPublic Works room (Dirkson–406) Celebration Second oftheSea Evening Event Ocean Funding Workshop Breakout /Panels Sessions (2) Visits to Representatives andSenators Visits Caucus members, withHouseOcean on Capitol others Meet Hill Meeting Rep. SamFarr’s Boxer’s andSenator Barbara offices Hillspaceandlead providing Caucus HouseOcean Organizer: FoundationOrganized by DCChapter Surfrider films, andothertreats ocean-themeddrinks Surf home and to take issues/solutionsfor toA summingupofkeystone Movementofficials to elected theOcean take Blue Plenary: Vision andBeyond Trainer: (Care2.com) Rardin Eric Training for HillDay Visits Jim Cartoonist Toomey, AuthorsDeborahCramer Safinaand Carl Panelists: Artist Wyland, Marine Sherman’s NationalGeographic photographer Skerry, Brian Lagoon (Shark Marks Melanie TrustModerator: Wines) and Artists Writers for theSea Buck Bagot(BlueFrontier Campaign), John Foundation)Weber (Surfrider Workshop onField Organizing Natural Resources Committee) Zeke Grader(Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Jean Associations), Flemma (Consultant, House Evening Transition to DCEnvironmental Film Festival—2009 Ocean Theme Hill Day www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org orbreak

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Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Speakers New early the County Mercer years.forthe to18 In elected was she ‘90s FundDefense Environmental of member board a was and 1980s the in Federation Environmental Jersey New the co-founded She issues. tion Peter Benchley, making films about marine animals and ocean conserva BENCHLEY WENDY PacificManagement North Council from 1992–2001. Fishery the on served and 1991, since Fishermen’sLonglineAssociation Alaska of Director Executive the been has Behnken Ms. Science. vironmental En and Forestry of YaleSchool the from master’s a earned she 1990 In troller/longliner.small a of owner/operator the as 1991, since and, hand deck a as since—both ever Sea Bering and Alaska of Gulf the in boats fishing on worked has Behnken Ms. Sitka. of out longliner operated and owned family small a on working summer a after figuratively) and ally BEHNKEN LINDA group,cacy BlueFrontier Campaign. advo ocean the to advisor organization field a also is Foundation.Buck Gamiliel the of member a HI, Honolulu, in Equity Community for Action Faithfor campaigns preservation housing low-income HUD-subsidized rebuild the development. Additionally, Buck to selection Center’s Neighborhood heights San Bernal the in and developmentFrancisco, housing public Alemany the at crime violent in reduction percent 50 a to led has that Alemany Campaign Abatement led Violence and conceived He programs. service social establish as well as developments, their from dealers drug violent remove housing HUD-subsidized of residents helped projects, reduction violence street policing/ community directed and organized has Buck appropriations. ProgramAssistance Homeless McKinney-Vento HUD in billion) $1 (over percent50 increasefacilitateda homeless,people.has cally disabled He housing needs chroni special for of development the profit supporting non- national a Housing, Supportive for Corporation the is client mary pri company’s The campaigns. advocacy Congressional for organizing BAGOT BUCK inGloucester. Beach Harbor Good at surfs and MA Ipswich, in daughters two and wife his with lives he College; Bowdoin from Studies Environmental and Government in BA a has Deerin Development. Coastal and Planning for Director sistant As the as recently most serving Management, Zone Coastal of Office MA the in MEPA,worked joining he Before Commonwealth. the in ects proj development major of review environmental the managing Act, Policy Environmental Massachusetts the of Director and Review Impact Environmentalfor Secretary Assistant as served previously Deerin 2008. of Act Oceans the under Massachusetts’waters, for of anocean plan management the development and is managing of Energy he Affairs, Office Environmental Executive the in Secretary Assistant As review. impact environmental and issues management coastal on focus a with field, environmental the in experience of years 18 has Deerin agement. Man Zone Coastal of Office Massachusetts Director, and Management BABB-BROTT DEERIN from ofCalifornia,ence andManagement theUniversity SantaBarbara. Master’sEcologyher in fromand University Cornell Environmental in Sci and taught outdoor education and maritime history. She received her BA trails, backcountry built diving, SCUBA taught Adina Previously, public. the and media the both to work their communicate to scientists trained and policy, marine to scientists and science marine connect to worked COMPASSforCaliforniaProgram Managershe the where was Adinater, Cen the joining Before oceans. and coasts the and change climate on tions where she is developing the Center’s long-term strategic initiatives ABELES ADINA Speakers s h Picpl t ao ad Company and Bagot at Principal the is is the Planning Director for the Center for Ocean Solu Ocean for Center the for Director Planning the is first traveled to Alaska in 1982. She was hooked (liter hooked was She 1982. in Alaska to traveled first spent 40 years on the ocean with her late husband, late her with ocean the on years 40 spent is Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Zone Coastal and Ocean for Secretary Assistant is helped organize successful il operation Field ------(Women for Service), and the Marianas Association for andtheMarianas Persons for withDis Service), (Women Famalaoan Inetnon Y Society, Symphony Guam the Women’sof Clubs, Council Guam the founding Bordallo with extensive, been also has nity commu the in involvement Her 1954. in KUAM broadcaster television and radio local with career public her began Bordallo Congresswoman Healthcare the (CAPAC)Taskof Caucus Chair as Forcewell as CAPAC.for con of as tinue the Secretary Congressionalher service also Asian Pacific America will Bordallo Ms. Committee. Services Armed House the on and Resources Natural on Committee House the on service her tinue con to Bordallo Ms. appointed has Pelosi Nancy Speaker term. fourth Bordallo’sMs. is Congress 111th The organizations. non-governmental and Guam of Government the executivelegislativeof the and branches in experience service public of years forty Congressoverto brings dallo Bor Ms. 2003. in Representatives of House U.S. the in Guam represent BORDALLOZ. CONGRESSWOMANMADELEINE world. the around populations shark of devastation the on emphasis with special issues conservation ocean on working currently is Benchley Ms. 2008. until served and Councilwoman Borough Princeton a as elected was she 1996 In years. three for served Freeholdersand of Board Jersey Grant, Lawrence Hall of Science, Monterey Aquarium. While working working with the National While Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration she became Aquarium. Monterey Science, of Hall Lawrence Grant, with the Federal Government and other educational institutions like Sea partnership in developed Standards Education National with concepts ocean aligned have that Life”projects forLiteracy” and “Oceans “Ocean the of development the in role lead a took also Cava Formerly,Ms.tive. develop and promote California’s Education and the Environment Initia to California with partnership the in NGS’lead is She Foundation. tion Educa Society’s Geographic National the for Manager Project Literacy CAVA M. FRANCESCA issuesatthestate, regional,coastal policy andnationallevels. and ocean on working experience extensive has Laura law, marine in management of Florida ocean and coastal resources. With a background improve to how about recommendations make to Chiles Lawton ernor for the Florida Governor’s Ocean Committee, appointed by the late Gov staffas of served also she management 1998–2000, From resources. coastal and and ocean use the improving on Congress and the President to recommendations develop to 2001 in presidential appointed a commission Policy, Ocean on Commission U.S. the for Governance for Director Associate the was Laura Meridian, joining to Prior projects. related policy ocean other and Initiative Commission Ocean Joint the to time her of much devotes Meridian’s in Laura office, Washington,DC CANTRAL LAURA Outside, andmany otherpublications. Science, Audubon, in appeared work Bourne’sGeographic, National at tenure his to Prior programs. radio and television numerous on peared change, and a contributor to the book text editor and essayist for National Geographic’s special issue on climate was recently,Bourne Most system. protection Orleans’ hurricane rebuilt drilled in the Arctic wellNational Wildlife Refuge, oil and the weaknesses in New only the of results the including media, national the in stories He’sseveral biofuels. tobroken rush the and Orleans, New of future the forsues magazine,Alaska’sthe on exploration oil including Slope, North Environment,he’sthe forEditor environmentalis coveredSenior major BOURNE JOEL in roles organizations throughoutcommunity herlife. leadership of dozens in been has and Associations Women’s Pacific Asia of Federation the of President past a also was She abilities. is a contributing writer for National Geographic. A former A Geographic. National for writer contributing a is is a Senior Mediator with Meridian Institute. Working Working Institute. Meridian with Mediator Senior a is currently serves as the Environment and Ocean Ocean and Environment the as serves currently Visions of Paradise became the first woman to woman first the became . Bourne has ap ------the first woman promoted to the rank of Captain and served in several community. Dr. Cicin-Sain is Co-Chair and Head of Secretariat of the command positions aboard NOAA’s research vessels. She served as Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands and has served as a policy Commissioner of the California Coastal Commission, and as Director of advisor to: UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the National Marine Sanctuary and National Estuarine Research Reserve World Bank, UNEP, Inter-American Development Bank; Governments of Program. Ms. Cava received her B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Uni- Albania, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, R.O. Korea, United States, versity of Alaska and an M.P.A. degree from Harvard University. Vietnam; and U.S. coastal states and counties. She is the author of over WARNER CHABOT became the Chief Executive Officer of the California 100 publications in marine policy, with an emphasis on cross-cutting League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) in January 2009. For more than issues related to integrated ocean and coastal governance. Dr. Cicin- 30 years, Chabot has managed successful regional, state, and national Sain served in NOAA and the Department of Housing and Urban De- campaigns to elect progressive candidates and achieve landmark en- velopment; was a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara vironmental laws and policies. Chabot comes to CLCV from the Ocean (UCSB); founder and director of UCSB’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center; Conservancy, where he served as Vice-President for Campaign Strategies and a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Inter- and, previously, as Vice President for Regional Operations. governmental Oceanographic Commission, and at the East-West Center in Hawaii. She was born in Italy and spent her early years in Argentina, RICHARD CHARTER serves as Co-Chair of the National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Coalition, and he has been working for nearly three decades She speaks English, Spanish, and French fluently, as well as some Italian, with local elected officials, Members of Congress, state legislators, and Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Portuguese. NGO conservation organizations to ensure continued protection for sen- Leesa Cobb is the Executive Director of Port Orford Ocean Resource sitive coastlines threatened by offshore oil and gas drilling. Richard was Team (POORT), a community-based fisheries organization on the responsible for developing the twenty-seven-year bipartisan congres- southern Oregon coast. The mission of the organization is to engage sional moratorium on offshore oil and gas leasing which, until this year, Port Orford fishers and other community members in developing and has prevented new drilling along the U.S. West Coast, the East Coast, and implementing a strategic plan and framework that ensures the long- in Southwest Florida. Richard also coordinated the local government term sustainability of the Port Orford marine ecosystem and social sys- support, which led to the creation of the Gulf of the Farallones, Cordell tem dependent on it. Leesa and her husband own a commercial fishing Bank, Channel Islands, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries. boat and fish for blackcod, tuna, salmon, rockfish, and halibut out of Port He currently works for Defenders of Wildlife on ocean protection issues Orford. She worked five years for the Groundfish Disaster and Salmon throughout the Pacific Rim and serves on the Department of Energy’s Disaster Programs. Methane Hydrates Advisory Committee. Richard also currently Chairs the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. PHILIPPE COUSTEAU is the 29-year-old son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member SARAH CHASIS is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Coun- of the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father cil, Inc. and serves as Director of its Ocean Initiative. She has been a long- through EarthEcho International, a non-profit organization he founded time advocate for healthy oceans. She has worked to protect sensitive with his sister and mother and of which he serves as CEO. EarthEcho is ocean areas from offshore oil drilling, improve oil spill prevention, protect focused on youth leadership and education around ocean conservation. the public from swimming in polluted waters, and strengthen domestic Philippe is the Chief Ocean Correspondent for Animal Planet, where he and international fisheries management. In recognition of her work, Ms. works on various ocean and water-focused documentary programs, in- Chasis was selected as the first Coastal Steward of the Year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She has served on numerous cluding “Ocean’s Deadliest,” which he completed after his co-host Steve boards and commissions, including the Marine Board of the National Re- Irwin was fatally wounded during their expedition. Philippe is currently search Council, and is currently adjunct professor of law at the New York a host for Oceans, a new High Definition Discovery Channel/BBC co- University School of Law. In 2007, she received the Smith College Medal production that explores the state of our world’s oceans and major seas. awarded to women who have risen to the top of their fields. He is the host and narrator for his own one hour special on Discovery Channel called The Loch Ness Monster Revealed, premiering in Feb MIKE CHRISMAN, a fourth generation Californian, was named California 2009. Philippe is also hosting, narrating and co-producing a 3D Imax film Secretary for Natural Resources by Gov. Schwarzenegger in November on the Chesapeake Bay for 2010. 2003. As a member of the governor’s cabinet, Secretary Chrisman serves as his chief advisor on issues related to the states’ natural, historic, and JOSEPH J. COX graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy on cultural resources. He also chairs the California Ocean Protection Council. February 10, 1967 and within a few days sailed for Vietnam. He spent two In leading the Natural Resources Agency, Secretary Chrisman oversees years on the Vietnam sealift and several years sailing as second and third policies, activities, and a budget of $6.1 billion and 17,000 employees in mate to other parts of the world. He returned to the academy for one 25 departments, commissions, boards and conservancies. The issues run year to help institute a new midshipman leadership program. After leav- the natural resources gamut from conservation, water, fish and game, ing the Academy, he worked for the Maritime Standards Office of the forestry, parks, energy, coastal, marine and landscape. Prior to his ap- Department of Labor where he eventually became a Program Manager pointment, Secretary Chrisman served as Region Manager for Southern of the Cargo Gear Certification Program. He then accepted a position as California Edison from 1996 to 2003. Secretary Chrisman holds a Master Marine Coordinator at the American shipowners’ association, the Cham- of Science degree in Agricultural Education and a Bachelor of Science ber of Shipping of America, and was elected President/CEO in 1997. Mr. degree in Agronomy and Plant Science from the University of Arizona. Cox has a Master’s degree in Safety Management from the University of DC Washington, 7–10 • March

He is an owner and partner of Visalia’s Chrisman Ranches, a family ranch- Southern California and was an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia ing and farming business in Tulare County. Community College and Prince George’s Community College for ten BILIANA CICIN-SAIN (Ph.D. in political science, UCLA, postdoctoral train- years. He has attended over seventy meetings of the International Mari- ing, Harvard University) is Director of the Gerard J. Mangone Center for time Organization on the U. S. delegation. He is the U.S. shipowner rep- Marine Policy and Professor of Marine Policy at the University of Dela- resentative to the International Labor Organization in Geneva. He serves ware’s College of Earth and Marine Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the as President/Treasurer of the Marine Gas Hazards Control Program, is a international journal Ocean & Coastal Management. She is a leader in member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, is Vice the field of integrated coastal and ocean governance and has forged President of the International Cargo Gear Bureau and is Chairman of the

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She has a B.S. from Florida State University, an M.S. and and chair of the Advisory Council for the Harte Research Institute for Gulf International Search Deep of president is Earle NOAA, of scientist chief field research scientist. a as Former author,experience with lecturer and explorer,oceanographer, an is Congress of Library the Legend”by ing SYLVIAEARLE and groups to proactively advocate for healthy publicoceans. individuals mobilizing experience of years twenty her turns now Jackie lover, water life-long and 1993 since diver certified A corporations. care health largest nations the of caregiversoversome 10,000 employedby organizing successfully campaigns, numerous conducted has She ers. work healthcare for union growing California’sfastest with experience organizing successful on draws Jackie activist, political and social soned A sea noise. ocean increased from particularly traffic, vessel large from sanctuaries California’s marine protecting in media the and icy-makers, advances ocean conservation by engaging local residents, students, pol Campaign Sanctuaries Marine Rim.Pacific The the aroundenvironment the protects and decision-making environmental in voice larger a have Environment, an organization that promotes grassroots communities to DRAGON JACKIE regionalGulf ofMexico officein Austin, Texas. sues of toCommerce. the Secretary He is based in Conservancy’s Ocean is resource marine living on advice provides that Committee Advisory Commerce’sof FisheriesDepartment Marine the of member a currently is He law. environmental and science fisheries marine in background a has Chris conservation. fish for broad build to cy’sefforts support public , called “Her Deepness” by the New York Times and a “Liv and YorkTimes New the Deepness”by called “Her , heads up the Marine Sanctuaries Campaign at Pacific at Campaign Sanctuaries Marine the up heads ------ductions. Earle is the author of many books on the ocean, including Sea of Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance from 2003 to 2007. During Change: A Message of the Oceans and, most recently, Ocean: An Illus- that time, he led the organization through enormous growth, including trated Atlas, with Linda K. Glover. Earle has led more than 60 expeditions the expansion of the Waterkeeper grassroots model to 162 communi- and logged more than 6,000 hours underwater, including leading the ties across six continents. As Executive Director and Baykeeper for the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970 and Santa Monica Baykeeper Steve sued the City of Los Angeles for its illegal setting a record for solo diving to a depth of 1,000 meters (3,300 feet). discharges of raw sewage into local waters—which resulted in a finding that the City violated federal laws more than 3,600 times and eventually MICHELE LONGO EDER received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins Univer- led to a $2 billion settlement agreement for restoration of the city’s sew- sity in 1976 and her law degree from Lewis and Clark in Portland, Oregon age infrastructure. Steve also has helped draft and secure passage of nu- in 1979. She has practiced law for 30 years on the Oregon Coast, repre- merous California state legislative measures. Steve has served as an Ad- senting, among other clients, commercial fishing businesses and their junct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law and as President associations. Michele has been a partner with her husband, Bob Eder of the California Coastkeeper Alliance, a member of the Los Angeles/ in a family owned commercial fishing business for 20 years. A two-term Long Beach Harbor Safety Committee, a member of the Steering Com- member of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Michele was appointed mittee for the City of Los Angeles’ Integrated Resources Plan and was by President George W. Bush in 2004, and will continue to serve until a founder and is the current President of Energy Independence Now, 2012. The jurisdiction of the Commission includes the Bering Sea as well a non-profit organization dedicated to a clean, renewable energy and as the Arctic. Since 2005, she has also been a member of the North Pa- transportation in California. He holds a law degree from UCLA School of cific Research Board. In 2009, Michele was appointed as a member of Law and a Bachelor’s Degree with honors from the University of Colo- the National Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Advisory Committee. In rado, Boulder, with majors in Environmental, Population & Organismic 2008, Michele published her first book, entitled “Salt in Our Blood: The Biology; Economics; and Environmental Conservation. He is also the Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife.” author of a novel about violence in American high schools, My Sweet MARCUS ERIKSEN received his Ph.D. in Science Education from Univer- Butterfly (2006). sity of Southern California, and his M.A. and B.S. from the University of J. ADAM FREDERICK is a Marine Education Specialist with Maryland Sea New Orleans. During this academic career Marcus worked many differ- Grant Extension Program at the University of Maryland, where he helps ent jobs, ranging from Research Assistant in University of New Orleans develop interactive lessons for the website and is the co-editor of The Vertebrate Paleontology Lab to Educator and Exhibit Supervisor at the Headwater newsletter. He serves as an education collaborator at the Los Angeles Zoo. He teaches and conducts research in earth science, Center of Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Biotech- lectures at schools and museums and supervises an annual field course nology Institute. He works with 3rd to 12th grade students and teach- in paleontology in Wyoming. Currently he is AMRF’s Director of Research ers and the National Aquarium Conservation Education department in and Education and hosts “Commando Weather,” a series of public service aquaculture projects to promote habitat restoration. His signature edu- announcements about the science of weather, for the Weather Channel. cation programs include the Chesapeake Teacher Research Fellowship In 2006, he won the H. David Nahai Water Quality Award in Education, that gives teachers the opportunity to work alongside research scientists, presented by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. In and the Aquaculture in Action program that places aquaculture systems 2005, Marcus created Watershed Wonders, an educational video series into the formal classroom as tool for teaching science. He received his packaged with curriculum materials for Junior and Senior High Schools. B.S. in Biology/Education from Slippery Rock University, PA and an M.S. Marcus recently published his first book, titled “My River Home” (Beacon in Environmental Biology from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Mr. Press, 2007) chronicling his experience as a marine in the 1991 Gulf War Frederick spent 22 years teaching biology, chemistry, and environmental and a rafting journey 2000 miles down the Mississippi River on a raft of science. He is now the current President-Elect of the National Marine plastic bottles. Educators Association. CONGRESSMAN SAM FARR, a fifth-generation Californian, represents the KATHLEEN FRITH is the Assistant Director of the Center for Health and the state’s beautiful Central Coast, encompassing Monterey County’s majes- Global Environment at Harvard Medical School where her work focuses tic Big Sur coastline, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the on improving communication and public understanding of human beaches of Santa Cruz County. Rep. Farr, known for his passion for ocean health and global environmental change connections. She co-directs a issues, has worked tirelessly to bolster the nation’s ocean resources. His Healthy and Sustainable Food Program promoting a food system that most notable legislation is the “Oceans Conservation, Education, and Na- is both healthy for humans and the environment, and directs a Healthy tional Strategy for the 21st Century Act,” known as Oceans-21. The com- Ocean, Healthy Humans program that inspires people to realize how prehensive reform bill would create a national ocean policy for the first human health depends upon marine ecosystems. She served as Execu- time and creates national and regional advisory boards and a Cabinet- tive producer of the Award-winning film Once Upon a Tide. Kathleen level National Ocean Advisor. Rep. Farr has also introduced bills regulat- was the Public Information Officer for the Bermuda Biological Station ing cruise ship dumping and promoting the recovery of the Southern for Research. She holds degrees in marine biology from the University Sea Otter. of California Santa Cruz and in science journalism from Boston Univer- JOHN FIELD is a Research Fishery Biologist with the Southwest Fisheries sity’s Knight Center for Science Journalism. Kathleen fills advisory roles Science Center in Santa Cruz, California. He received his undergraduate in a number of science education and communication projects, and has degree from the University of California in Santa Cruz in 1994, and a Mas- published articles, as well as peer-reviewed journals. ters in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington in 1997. In 1998 DC Washington, 7–10 • March

WILLIAM (Bill) GERWICK, Ph.D. is a Professor of Oceanography and Phar- he was a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow with the House Resources Committee, maceutical Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs but returned to graduate school to seek a doctorate from the University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of of Washington in 1999, where his research explored ecosystem modeling California San Diego. His research focuses on the discovery of novel bio- and management approaches for the California Current. Current activities active natural products from marine algae and cyanobacteria, especially include developing stock assessment models and management advice those with anticancer, anti-tropical disease or neurotoxic properties. He for West Coast groundfish fisheries, as well as investigating the ecology has contributed to the development of bio-fuels from marine algae and and trophic interactions of jumbo squid in the California Current. cyanobacteria. Dr. Gerwick received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the Uni- STEVE FLEISCHLI assumed the role of President of Waterkeeper Alliance versity of California Davis, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps

from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in June 2007. Mr. Fleischli held the position Institution of Oceanography. He held a postdoctoral position in the Summit Blue Vision

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He is president of the nonprofit organi DAVIDGUGGENHEIM E. and women. men fishing and stocks fish of protection the championing PCFFA the Hero” by the of Department Commerce recognizing his work and that of an “Environmental named was Grader 1998, In effort. primary its stocks fish of conservation and habitat fish of restoration the PCFFAmade has organization, trade a Although Network. 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GRADER, Full Professor attheCollege ofPharmacy, Oregon State University. became then and Connecticut, of University the at Pharmacy of School , founder of Rainforest works Action fromNetwork, the U.S. is a researcher at the non-profit Pacific Institute in Institute Pacific non-profit the at researcher a is is a marine scientist, conservation policy special policy conservation scientist, marine a is grew up in the fishing industry along California’s along industry fishing the in up grew ------life policy and executive division (now DEFRA). He was also appointed also was He DEFRA). (now division executive and policy life wild global of Head as was post UK recent most His years. 25 for vant ser civil UNEP, British with involvementa his was to PriorMr.Hepworth Nairobi. in headquarters UNEP EnvironmentforConventionsat Director (GRASP), and on coral reefs in developing countries. 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David is also a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer He’sPoland,forin workshops led journalists Turkey, Tunisia,and Slovakia Pacifica. and radio, AP Marketplace, for work He’sradio Sierra. done and Science Popular Smithsonian, Times, LA York New Times, The including Channel, work has and appearedothers.print covery in His publications Dis PBS, The for documentaries broadcast 40 he’sthan more produced continentincludingAntarctica.Anaward-winningfrom journalist, every range of issues from science military to the AIDS epidemic, and reported a war correspondent in Ireland Northern and Central America, covered a as worked Award.Helvarg literary Melville Herman 2007 the and Award ocean activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine’s 2005 Leadership Coastal Conservation Guide, organizerand of several Ocean ‘Blue the Vision’of editor Summits He’sfor Warriors. Rescue and Ocean the Save to Ways 50 Greens, the Against WarFrontier, The Blue books, four of thor DAVIDHELVARG system-basedestuarinemanagement,pollution,toxicsandnutrientand eco management, fisheries biology, marine particular in areas, policy and creasing fishpopulations. in and habitat, restoring and protecting pollution, stopping at aimed efforts advocacy their led he Foundation,where Bay Chesapeake the at tion. From 1996 until 2001, he was Vice President for Resource Protection Oceana’s policy advocacy is solidly based on the latest scientific informa as America, wellcampaigns as in and cacy that ensuring North activities Oceana’sadvo overseeing for responsible is He oceans. world’s the of health the restoring and protecting to dedicated organization vocacy ad non-profit international an Oceana, at Scientist Chief and Oceans, Ph.D. HIRSHFIELD,F. MICHAEL Board ofthe Association. Science Western Marine Ocean Indian mittee of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands and sits on the Com Steering the of member a as serves level,she global the At Lanka. women’s Sri coastal in a forassociation livelihoods sustainable promote to advisor technical the as serves She program. Rehabilitation Tsunami Emergency the on worked she India, In the regionWorldBank. of Africa the for Strategy Management Resources Marine a developing to ership in the World Bank’s African portfolio. Dr. Hewawasam also provided lead ership to design and implement the largest marine and coastal program resourceco-managed management. In Tanzania, she provided the lead and based community and areas marine offshore and nearshore the of governance strengthening, institutional on particularly focusing ment, manage resources marine and coastal in specialized Hewawasam Dr. the at WorldBank, decades two overprofessional spanning careera ing Dur Policy. Marine in Ph.D. a and development international in degree the Pacific. She holds anInternational law degreeand (Ll. B. (Hons.),Asia aMasters East in program development and conservation regional est Policy Advisor on Public Funding for the Coral Triangle Initiative, the larg HEWAWASANINDUMATHIE to enforce wildlife laws inUK. action joint effective for model established an now NGOs, and thorities au police UK with (PAW) Crime Wildlife against Action for Partnership the co-chaired and conceived Hepworth Mr. 1995, In 2000). 1997-April (June Species–CITES Endangered in Trade International on Convention the of Chair elected was into and (FEI) review Agency Environmental State independent Finnish the chair to Finland of Government the by Dr. Hirshfield has broad experience in a variety of scientific, technical technical scientific, of variety a in experience broad has Hirshfield Dr. is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the au the and Campaign Frontier Blue the of President is is the Executive Secretary of the UNEP / Convention/ UNEP the of Executivethe Secretary is serves as The Nature Conservancy’s Senior Senior Conservancy’s Nature The as serves is Senior Vice President, North American American North President, Vice Senior is ------ecology. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1977 and an A.B. from Princeton University in 1970. JOHN HOCEVAR is the Director of Greenpeace USA’s oceans programs, has led two scientific expeditions to the Bering Sea, confronted factory fishing in Chesapeake Bay, and coordinated the UN lobbying efforts for the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. He has overseen Greenpeace USA’s efforts to end commercial whaling, stop overfishing, and establish a global network of marine reserves, working with scientists, policy mak- ers, and business leaders. Hocevar has conducted undersea research in New England, Florida, Alaska, and throughout the Caribbean. He earned a Masters in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University, and an undergraduate degree in evolutionary ecology at the University of Con- necticut. Prior to working for Greenpeace, Hocevar founded Students for a Free Tibet, where he worked alongside Tibetans seeking to regain their independence. OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG is currently Foundation Professor and Director of the Centre for Marine Studies at The University of Queensland. Hoegh- Guldberg has held academic positions at UCLA, Stanford University, The University of Sydney and The University of Queensland and is currently a member of the Australian Climate Group; the Royal Society (London) Marine Advisory Network; and the Board of Editing Reviewers at Science Magazine. He also heads a large research laboratory (over 27 researchers & students) that focuses on how global warming and ocean acidification are affecting and will affect coral reefs now and into the future. He completed his BSc Hons at the University of Sydney and Ph.D. at UCLA in 1989. He has been recognized in 1999 with the Eureka Prize for “ground-breaking research into the physiological basis of coral bleach- ing”. His published works include over 100 refereed publications and book chapters (currently ranked the 4th and 5th most cited author in the fields of ‘global warming’ and ‘coral reef ecology’. JEREMY BRADFORD COOK JACKSON is the William E. and Mary B. Ritter Pro- fessor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Marine Biodiver- sity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La VIVIANA M. JIMÉNEZ currently divides her time between serving as the Jolla, California. He is also a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian UNEP / Convention on Migratory Species’ Regional Representative for Institution. Dr. Jackson is the author of more than 100 scientific publica- North America, where she seeks to encourage US leadership in the tions and five books. His current research includes the long-term impacts global conservation of migratory species; and overseeing the DC office of human activities on the oceans, coral reef ecology, and the ecological of the Blue Frontier Campaign. Viviana served as CFO and Senior Pro- and evolutionary consequences of the gradual formation of the Isthmus gram Officer at The Ocean Foundation—a marine conservation funder. of Panama. Dr. Jackson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and She also worked at the Earth Policy Institute researching and writing on Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. key environmental issues alongside ‘environmental guru’ Lester R. Brown. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and honorary degrees, including In 2001, she led the creation and implementation of community-based the Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service of the Smithsonian sustainable development standards for several communities in Costa Institution in 1997, the UCSD Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Sci- Rica. Viviana received her degree from Universidad Externado in her na- ence and Engineering in 2002, and the International Award for Research tive Colombia, and continued her studies at American University and in Ecology and Conservation Biology of the BBVA Foundation in 2007. Dr. Georgetown University. She is an advisor to the Boyd N. Lyon Sea Turtle Jackson’s work on overfishing was chosen by Discover magazine as the Fund. outstanding environmental achievement of 2001. NANCY KNOWLTON holds the Sant Chair in Marine Science at the Smith- TOM JENSEN serves as Chair of Sonnenschein’s firm-wide Committee sonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on on Environmental Sustainability and leads their renewable energy and the ecology, evolution and conservation of coral reef organisms. Her natural resources practice. He is a nationally recognized expert in natural analyses have led to the now widespread recognition that estimates of resources, energy and environmental law and policy. He represents busi- marine diversity are probably too low by a factor of ten. Dr. Knowlton ness, government and nonprofit clients before federal and state regula- received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her Ph.D. March 7–10 • Washington, DC Washington, 7–10 • March tory agencies and Congress. He also represents clients in transactions, at the University of California at Berkeley, and was a professor at Yale commercial disputes and regulatory enforcement actions. Mr. Jensen’s University prior to moving to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute clients have included federal and tribal governments, electric utilities, in Panama. Later, she joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at independent power producers, pipelines, universities, trade associations, the University of California at San Diego, where she became the found- oil and gas producers and service companies, fishing interests, conser- ing Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She vation organizations, environmental sustainability certification bodies, is an elected fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Ameri- investment banks, hedge funds and other law firms. can Association for the Advancement of Science and an Aldo Leopold Mr. Jensen was Formerly majority counsel to the U.S. Senate Commit- Leadership Fellow. She currently serves on the National Geographic So- tee on Energy and Natural Resources and a senior official in the President’s ciety’s Committee on Research and Exploration and Conservation Trust

Council on Environmental Quality. Committee, chairs the World Bank’s Targeted Research Program for Coral Summit Blue Vision

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Sci of Master a holds New He YorkUniversities.and Hopkins Johns bia, Colum Princeton, at journalism environmental and science taught has 2007.”Writing He Nature and Science American “Best anthology the in featuredforwas which TIME story cover a and books,four of author the is Lemonick Post. Washington The and Scientist New Wired, American, Discover,for Scientific written also has He years. 21 nearly for magazine LEMONICK MICHAEL Population Biologyfrom Purdue University. and Evolution Ecology, in B.S., a and Maine of University from Biology Marine in M.S., a received Amanda (2003). 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Management and Rehabilitation Reef Coral Indonesia’s Bill’s book Future.The End of Nature is a classic work on Durable the environmental crisis the and Communities of Wealth The Economy: Deep including, books, ten of author the is He environment. the and culture MCKIBBEN BILL articles. numerous and books several of author is He 1986. in staff ELI’s joining before Office Solicitor’s Interior’s the of Department U.S. the at and tice College Dickinson and Yale Law School, McElfish in worked private prac of graduate A management. zone coastal and energy offshore on work ELI’s leads He use. land and energy, wetlands, mining, biodiversity, ter, Land Program at the Environmental Law work Institute. includes His wa MCELFISH JIM from Management of International Thunderbird. Masters a and Business International in BS a holds Melanie TrustWines. 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It timedia content search. Prior to joining Google in 2004, Steve studied has been excerpted for major nature writing anthologies, and is pub- computer science at Stanford University and helped teach introductory lished in 20 languages. programming courses to undergraduates. McKibben is a scholar in residence in Environmental Studies at Middle- TODD MILLER is executive director and founder of the North Carolina bury College. He led the largest demonstration to date in America about Coastal Federation that has worked with citizens since 1982 to protect climate change and founded stepitup07.org in 2007, which is building local and restore the environment of coastal North Carolina. Todd is a native movements to support curbs on carbon emissions. of coastal North Carolina, and received his undergraduate degree in En- KATHRYN J. MENGERINK is Staff Attorney and Director of the Ocean Pro- vironmental Sciences and master degree in City and Regional Planning gram at the Enironmental Law Institute, Kathryn Mengerink is a marine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The federation has scientist and environmental lawyer. Dr. Mengerink’s major research in- nearly 9,000 members and 18 employees with three offices located in terests are ocean and coastal law and policy and bridging the gap be- Ocean, Wilmington and Manteo, NC. It has three main program areas: tween science, law, and policy. She leads a project to develop practical environmental advocacy and lobbying; habitat and water quality resto- guidance for implementing ocean and coastal ecosystem-based man- ration and preservation; and environmental education. Since 1997 the agement. Other projects include assessing the feasibility of developing federation has engaged in over $30 million in land acquisition and res- ecosystem-based management in the U.S. Arctic, examining compliance toration projects that have protected and restored nearly 10,000 acres of and enforcement in U.S. fisheries management, and assessing the laws, property in eastern NC. policies and institutions that affect marine conservation in Hawai`i. She is a Lecturer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and is a mem- RALPH NADER is a consumer advocate, lawyer, author, and has been ber of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Marine Biodiversity and named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Americans Conservation at SIO. She serves on the editorial board for the Sea Grant in the Twentieth Century. For over four decades Ralph Nader has ex- Law and Policy Journal. She served as research associate at the Law of posed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 the Sea Institute examining illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. public interest groups to advocate for solutions. His efforts have helped She holds a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from SIO (University of California, San to create a framework of laws, regulatory agencies, and federal standards Diego) and a J.D. with a Certificate of Specialization in Environmental that have improved the quality of life for two generations of Americans. Law from Boalt Hall, School of Law (University of California, Berkeley). His groups were instrumental in enacting the Occupational Safety and STEVE MILLER is a Product Manager at Google in Mountain View, CA where Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency he works on both Ocean in Google Earth and Google Earth Outreach, an (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Safe Drinking effort to foster public benefit use of online mapping tools. Since joining Water Act. In the past decade, Nader has dedicated himself to putting Google he’s also worked on product development in Google’s AdSense people back in charge of America’s democracy, launching three major and Mobile teams, covering everything from fraud prevention to mul- presidential campaigns.

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University, American University, Washington George at Sea the of Law taught and School, Justice Naval and College, Defense NATO College, WarNaval the at warfare naval of law the and law international taught has Law.He of School of Virginia University the S.J.D.from and LL.M. his and Washington, of University the at J.D. his completed Oliver captain. a as Navy the from retired he Appeals, Criminal of Court Corps Marine Navy- Judge, Chief the as served having after 2003, In Washington,D.C. ments at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy, and several U.S. cities, including spent working on international and ocean law been and policy. has He career had assign his of Most advocate. a judge as then and officer fare war surface a U.S. as Navy,the first in years 30 for served Oliver 1973, in Lawthe and Sea.”the of curity Aftergraduating from Stanford University program, Se LL.M. “National the in seminar a teaches he Center,where Law Georgetown the at professor adjunct an also is He headquarters. OLIVER T.JOHN is the Senior Ocean Policy Advisor at U.S. Coast Guard Coast U.S. at Advisor Policy Ocean Senior the is received his Ph.D.receivedof his University fromWashington in ------ity, goodsmovement, energy andenvironmental justice issues. Pettit’s work at NRDC involves litigation and advocacy regarding air qual Mr.UCLA. at taught has and practice, private in and service public in tor is a 1975 graduate of of Law.the UCLA School as a litiga He has worked Mr.Council.PettitDefense Resources Natural the Programat Quality Air DAVID PETTIT in apaddlefrom theAtlantic Coast ofFlorida to Orleans. New Network Restoration Gulf the as well as NRDC with again partnering be NJ,to LBI, will 21. Washington,she promoteOceans tosummer ThisDC, frompaddle 500-mile recentlyMargoteemedshort, a on NRDC with up difference.a Most make can person one that reach, could she everyone as well as children,tion,” young two her show to needed she felt Margo “ocean awareness and conservation.” Seeing the danger in “all talk, no ac way, she was able to garner significant media attention for herthe mission of along others and Trust, Land Mordecai Trust, Environmental tional Na the Foundation, Surfrider of Chapters Coast East the with working by Maine; to Miami from ocean the and waterways inland the to took she kids, her and ocean the of future the for concern her by Motivated world’soceans. the threatening problems about awareness raise to fort ef an in north miles 2,000 some paddle to expedition 11-week an on 2007 May in Beach Miami from out set environmentalist, and canoeist PELLEGRINO MARGO Station.Steve isaPewMarine Fellow Conservation. inMarine AugusttoStanfordin 2002 University University’s fromHopkins Harvard a Bachelor of Science Degree in Oceanography in 1979. During his 25- his During 1979. in Oceanography in Degree Science of Bachelor a earned he where Academy Naval States United the at began ography ocean in career His Foundation. Oceans Living Sultan bin Khaled the RENAUD,CAPTAING. (Ret) PHILIP USN Pedro, atthePortofLos Angeles. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Joe is a graduate of UCLA and grew up in San as serves a Harbor Commissioner, appointed to that post by Los Angeles air while maintaining good jobs at the nation’s largest complex. port Joe at the center of efforts by the LA Harbor Commission to promote cleaner been has Joe standards.environmental better and families, working for jobs better of union’sgoals the towardtwin union’s course challenging the chart helped Radisich Joe Ports. Coast West around communities local and environment, the workers, protect to measures other adopt and fuel cleaner use to companies shipping encouraged has dards,and stan air cleaner supported has advocacy, militant and independence of tradition a maintain to continues union States.Today the United the of Coast West the on employees representswarehouse and that dockworkers 50,000 union waterfront progressive a (ILWU), Union house JOE RADISICH sachusetts. in WoodsSurvey Geological Hole,Mas US the oceanographerwith and Science; on Committee Representatives of House U.S. the for scientist staff Germany; GEOMAR, and Kiel of University the at scientist research Forecast.”also the was Understanding She Warming: exhibition “Global with the American Museum of to Natural develop History the award-winning worked she where Fund Defense Environmental the at scientist senior a was Pfirman Barnard, joining to Prior Education. and Research of NSF’sPolar fice Programs Environmental and Committee for Advisory Research Polar Science’sBoard, andhaschaired bothNSF’s Of Committee tothe Advisory Office of Academy National the of member a tors, Direc and Deans Environmental of Council the of president is Pfirman namics dy of Arctic sea ice, glaciers, and Arctic sediment Arctic and contaminant transport. surging on research in engaged been has Pfirman career, her Throughout University. Colgate from Geology in B.A. a and Engineering, Oceanographic and Oceanography in Program Joint tion Institu Oceanographic Hole Woodsthe of Technology at Institute setts receivedPh.D.a Geophysicsand from Geology Massachu the Marine in She University. Columbia College, Barnard at Science Environmental of PFIRMAN STEPHANIE is a Senior Attorney and Director of the Southern California is Vice-President Longshoreof the International and Ware is Hirschorn Professor and Chair of the Department Professor Department the of Hirschorn Chair is and , a resident of Medford Lakes, New Jersey, an avid an Jersey, New Lakes, Medford of resident a , is the current Executive Director of Director Executive current the is ------year naval career, he completed a Masters Degree in Meteorology and has put environmental education in the curriculum of over 30 schools Oceanography and an MBA in Technology Management. CAPT Renaud’s in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. He recently completed a kayak ex- final assignment in the Navy was Commanding Officer of the Naval pedition and filmed a documentary across the state of South Carolina Oceanographic Office where he directed an organization of approxi- from the mountains to the sea. Students followed his journey from their mately 1200 military, civil service and contractor personnel, and seven classrooms, meeting him at the water’s edge to learn about their con- oceanographic survey ships forward-deployed around the world. He is nections to the watershed and the ocean. Ian has worked with conserva- refining the scientific portfolio of the Living Oceans Foundation and is tion projects from sea turtle protection to alternative energy and serves focusing the organization on the study of coral reef resilience, remote on the Charleston Green Committee. He helped start the first B99 biod- sensing and habitat mapping, education and outreach, and marine iesel distribution company in the Charleston area. Using a bio-fueled science knowledge management operations. From 2010–2012, Phil powered school bus to transport students to various parks and wildlife Renaud will lead the Living Oceans Foundation on its Global Reef Ex- refuges, he teaches them about their connections to the natural world. pedition: Science Without Borders® program; a global circumnavigation Ian is a diver at the South Carolina Aquarium. With his family roots in to survey coral reefs across gradients of biodiversity and anthropogenic the Caribbean, he has always had a passion for the protection of ocean stress with the objective of providing enhanced scientific knowledge to resources. Ian lives with his wife and daughter near the ocean’s edge in stimulate coral reef conservation and management actions. Charleston, SC. NAOMI A. ROSE, Ph.D. is Senior Scientist for Humane Society International ROZ SAVAGE is an ocean rower, author, blogger and speaker. She left an (HSI), the international arm of The Humane Society of the United States 11-year career as a technology/management consultant to row solo (HSUS), the nation’s largest animal protection organization. She has been across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. In summer 2008 she became the first instrumental in formulating policy opposing the capture and captivity woman ever to row solo from California to Hawaii. In May 2009 she will of marine mammals for public display. She is actively involved in several set out on the second stage of her Pacific row, from Hawaii to the Mar- campaigns and coalitions addressing problems associated with capture, shall Islands. The third and final stage of her Pacific row to Australia will captivity, and particularly swim-with-the-dolphin programs, both in the take place in 2010. If successful, she will be the first woman ever to row U.S. and abroad. Dr. Rose is HSI’s scientific representative to the Inter- solo across the Pacific. She uses her ocean adventures to inspire people national Whaling Commission (IWC) Scientific Committee where she to take action on environmental issues. Last year she drew attention to focuses on the subcommittees addressing environmental concerns and plastic pollution in the oceans, asking people to reduce their use of plas- whale watching. She also advises the campaign on dolphin-safe tuna. tic by using re-usable grocery bags, coffee mugs and water bottles. In Dr. Rose received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at 2009 the focus will shift to climate change, and she will be urging people Santa Cruz in 1992 and came to work for The HSUS in 1993. She joined to reduce CO2 emissions as participants in her Pull Together initiative. the HSI staff in 2004. MARK SHELLEY is a Founder and the Executive Director of Sea Studios CARL SAFINA grew up fascinated by the ocean and its creatures. He Foundation, a non-profit team of filmmakers, scientists and social entre- now works to highlight, explain, and solve problems facing the oceans’ preneurs, united by common passion to inspire a healthy and sustain- wildlife. Dr. Carl Safina is author of more than a hundred publications, able future. Sea Studios Foundation is the culmination of Mark’s lifelong including the books Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross and ambition to harness the power of film-making to spotlight some of the Voyage of the Turtle. His conservation work has been profiled in the New most pressing issues of our times—from climate change to invasive York Times, on Nightline, and in the Bill Moyers television special “Earth species, from the loss of biological diversity to the loss of large preda- on Edge.” Safina is a recipient of the Pew Scholar’s Award in Conserva- tors and landscape fragmentation, and the vital role of our oceans in tion and the Environment, a World Wildlife Fund Senior Fellowship, the Earth’s life support systems. A producer of many award-winning films, Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for lit- Sea Studios Foundation is best known for its award-winning National erature, and a MacArthur Prize, among others. He is now president of Geographic prime-time series, Shape of Life, and Strange Days on Planet Blue Ocean Institute, a non-profit he co-founded in 2003, which seeks to Earth, hosted by Edward Norton. Mark graduated from Stanford Univer- inspire a closer relationship with the sea. sity in Biology and conducted research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for two years. Mark was Program Director of Oceanics School. ENRIC SALA is a marine ecologist who has dedicated his career to under- As a National Geographic filmmaker and Senior Series Producer Mark has standing and finding ways to mitigate human impacts on marine life. been part of numerous award-winning exhibit and television programs. After a decade at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he is currently Mark is an expert SCUBA diver, submersible pilot, and airplane pilot with a National Geographic Fellow and a researcher at the Spanish National an instrument rating, and an aspiring sustainable farmer. Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Dr. Enric Sala is actively engaged NEIL ANTHONY SIMS is the Co-founder and President of Kona Blue Water in research, exploration, communication and application of scientific Farms, LLC, and the Founding President of the Ocean Stewards Institute. knowledge related to the conservation of marine ecosystems. His re- Kona Blue is the USA’s first integrated marine fish hatchery and open search aims at providing the essential amount of information needed ocean fish farm, off the Big Island of Hawaii. The company is a leader in for policy change. His scientific publications are widely recognized and the expansion of the environmentally sound production of the ocean’s used for conservation efforts such as the creation of marine reserves. He finest fish. The Ocean Stewards is a trade association that advocates for is currently leading a global marine conservation initiative at National rational, considered development of offshore aquaculture in the Ameri- Geographic Society. Enric is a 2005 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, a cas. Sims has a B.Sc. in Marine Biology / Zoology (James Cook University) 2006 Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, a 2007 National Geographic DC Washington, 7–10 • March

and an M.Sc. in Zoology (University of New South Wales). In the 1980’s, he Emerging Explorer, and a 2008 Young Global Leader at the World Eco- led the development of the Research Division of the Cook Islands’ gov- nomic Forum in Davos. He also received the 2006 Prince of Asturias ernment’s Ministry of Marine Resources, in the South Pacific. Throughout Award to Communication and Humanities with National Geographic. the 1990’s, he served in several research and consulting capacities, focus- Enric’s experience and scientific expertise contributes to his service on ing on aquaculture hatchery development and environmental impacts in scientific advisory boards of international environmental organizations. the South Pacific, South-East Asia, and Australia. Since 1993, he has been IAN SANCHEZ is a naturalist and eco-prenuer dedicated to using nature based in Kona, Hawaii, where he has led more than 35 federally funded to enhance the lives of young people. As the Executive Director of the research projects in aquaculture development, worth over $5 million. Lowcountry Environmental Education Program (LEEP), he has brought This research led to the development of pearl oyster hatchery techniques

together numerous organizations, scientists, and educators. Ian’s work and the expansion of open ocean aquaculture in the Americas. Summit Blue Vision

Speakers Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Speakers and policy, research, NWF’s for expertise scientific provides she where STAUDT AMANDA DR. with eco-tourism.involved become to plans Zander future the In program. Shore A Adopt the in participate students age school elementary of crew a Posse Up Pick the waterways. The and Turtle students Talksschool high Team,of group a ico, are Books andCosta sentto Rica. children free around theglobe. Bahamas, Trinidad,Mex Panama,the in students with it shared and ida Zander, has taken his interactive seminar to youngsters throughout Flor 2007. in written was Tortoise, Gopher The book, second A French). and pany the seminars (200,000 books have been printed in English, Spanish, their natural resources. In 2004, Zander wrote an activity book to accom of stewards become to kids empower to and world, marine the in face life sea and turtles that plight the to people young enlighten to signed de was that seminar educational an Talks” is “Turtle adults. and dents stu of thousands to presented been has classroom traveling the years, seven past the for and then, Since old. years eleven was he when show SRODES ZANDER the highestaward given to acivilianby ofNavy. theU.S. Department Award, Service Civilian Distinguished the as well as Award Rank dential Presi a of recipient the is Spinrad Program.Partnership Oceanographic National the of establishment the for document guiding the as served as a report by CORE entitled, “Oceans 2000: Bridging the Millennia,” which such community oceanographic the impact that documents damental ography issues of marine science journals, and served as Editor-in-Chief of special several and optics ocean on textbook a of editor the is articles, scientific 50 than more published has Spinrad (CORE). Education and research and education for the forConsortium Oceanographic Research directing and Research, Naval of Office the at managing research oceanographic Inc., Tech, Sea of President the as serving Sciences, Ocean for Laboratory Bigelow at scientist research a as working include ences experi UNESCO.His of Commission Oceanographic Intergovernmental the to representative States’ permanent United the as served has and Technology and Science Ocean on Subcommittee Joint House White of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. In addition, Spinrad the co-chairs W.RICHARD SPINRAD RowBacktoHow brought Life”. they Monterey Bay andCannery book a Billionaire: the and Mayor of Otter,progressentitled tentativelythe in “The co-author a is And 2008. early in published OHH on report University of Miami in 2001. She is a co-author of the first comprehensive the at (RSMAS) Sciences Atmospheric and Marine of School Rosenstiel the from Policy and Affairs Marine in M.A. her received Carolyn health. human and oceans of field partnership-dependent and terdisciplinary COMPASS)Aquariums,in Bay the Monterey to and her England led has (New organizations non-profit and Service) Park National (NOAA, ment govern Universities), Stanford and (Duke academia in health risks. Carolyn’scareer public and reduce health human to benefits enhance to Lakes Great and coasts ocean, the of management and understanding improve to mission OHHI the achieve and partnerships, build to (OHHI) CAROLYN SOTKA GEO,port, Smithsonian,Esquire andAudubon. featured in magazines such as Illustrated, Sports US News and World Re images had or for assignment on worked also has Brian photographer, award-winning An squid. and turtles sea reserves, marine Bahamas, the last remaining coral pristine reefs, the plight of the whale,right of sharks planet’s the as such subjects on focused have features NGM Other ries. sto cover world’s both fisheries, the in decrease alarming the to waters frozenin survive seal’sto struggle harp the from stories of range wide a rapher for National Geographic Magazine for whom he has documented derwater environments. Since 1998 he has been an assignment photog BRIAN SKERRY Turtle Talksalsomentors groups youngof students Floridain adoptto magazine. He has also co-authored or contributed to many fun is a photojournalist wildlifespecializing in marine and un works with NOAA’s Oceans and Human Health Initiative created Turtleroad Talkseco-literacy environmental an serves as Assistant Administrator of NOAA’s of Office Administrator Assistant as serves is National Wildlife Federation Climate Scientist, Scientist, Climate Federation Wildlife National is Ocean ------conducting researchconducting U.S. concerning DOEnuclearweapons facilities. resolution and strategic planning, and managed a $6.25M fund for NGOs dispute on (Egypt) WaterAuthority Alexandria the to consulted culture, loss. He has also guided the (ME) Governor’s Task Force on AquaMarine wetlands / subsidence coastal Mexico of Gulf on a symposium and national Symposium Policy Lakes Great and Ocean Governor’s (NY) the co-managed he years recent In companies. and five NGOs directed environmental has and Harvard, at lecturer a been has MIT, and ington Washof University at trained was Stedman Bruce 2007, since Network STEDMAN BRUCE University.ences from Harvard atmospheric sciences and an A.B. in environmental engineering and sci in Ph.D. a holds She assessments. change global effective for practices best and transportation, affect weather surface and climate of how temperature, records past climate, climate of forcing supporting radiative for research, strategy change U.S. the including topics on dozen a reports than more author helped and Committee Research Climate Academies National the directed she research, change climate support that agencies federal the and community scientific the between liaison key a As weather. and quality, air change, climate on focused work her where Academies, National the at officer program senior a was Staudt warming will affect aquatic habitatsglobal in California. how Prior to joining NWF,and weather, Dr. extreme in changes Bay, Chesapeake the in focusedrise has sea-levelwarming. She on global on outreachactivities IRP Steering Committee. Sutley worked for California Governor Gray Da forGrayCalifornia Governor Committee.worked Steering Sutley IRP the Legislationand Committee,and Communications Bay-Delta, on tee Commit Special Committee,Executive the of member and Committee Stewardship and Planning Waterthe for Chair as California Southern of Metropolitan Waterthe forDistrict Directors of Board the on served she and Environment for the city of Los Angeles, California. As Deputy Mayor, forMayorEnergy Deputy the was she Quality.appointment, Priorher to NANCY SUTLEY International. Council for Advisory Conservation the Marine co-chairs and Zealand, New Auckland, of University the at Laboratory Magazine. Environment, and he has authored many articles for Island the of nians Year”the by five “Bosto the of one named was Sea,”he at and “Victory story cover 2008 September the in featured recently was work His accomplishment. this for 2007 of Heroes Society’s Geographic National the of one named was and Kiribati of country the in Islands nix fort to create the world’s largest marine protected area around the Phoe ef the Dr. led 2002, has Since films. Stone conservation marine of series award-winning an produced and world, the throughout lectured ticles, including journals, science England Aquarium. Dr. Stone’s work is published in leading international S. StoneGregory for development ofrenewabletional policy energy intheoceans. na appropriate on developers technology and utilities, ronmentalists, envi among consensus crafting at Fundaimed Defense Environmental for process a led and of conceived has year,he last the During Obama. tor. He was an official advisor to the NOAA transition for President Barack ten years, and spent eight years as a public interest environmental litiga levelnational the forat last the legislation ocean plementing policy and involved forzation actively been has and oceans the im and shaping in organi political national first the Champions, Ocean of counsel general and co-founder the is He Club. Sierra the and Conservancy, Ocean the Foundation, Greenpeace, the Pew Charitable PackardTrusts, the Oak Lucile Foundation, and David the Fund, Defense Environmental including foundations, and organizations national and state local, of range wide a represented and advised has He experience. of decades two nearly STERNE JACK won the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award for Nature and the and Nature for Award Book Outdoor National 2003 the won Dr. Stone is Honorary Associate Professor at the Leigh Marine Marine Leigh the ProfessorAssociateat Honorary Dr.is Stone is an environmental lawyer and strategic consultant with consultant strategic and lawyer environmental an is is the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental is Vice President for ProgramsGlobal Marine at the New is Executive Director of the Marine Fish Conservation Conservation Fish Marine the of Director Executive is Boston Globe Boston Nature ; he has written popular books and ar and books popular written has he ; for 2008. Additionally,for2008. book his Smithsonian National Geographic magazine Ice ------vis as Energy Advisor, managing state and federal regulations, legislative affairs, finances and press relations. She served as Deputy Secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations in the California EPA from 1999- 2003. She advised on water and air pollution policy, and established budget and legislative priorities. During the administration of President We build the political power to William J. Clinton, Sutley worked for the EPA as a Senior Policy Advisor to realize a blue vision. In ‘08, we helped the Regional Administrator in San Francisco and special assistant to the elect 28 pro-ocean Congressional Administrator in Washington, D.C. Sutley received her Bachelors degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard candidates. Now we’re working with University. these champions to pass strong oceans TERRY TAMMINEN founded the Santa Monica BayKeeper in 1993, and legislation. Please join us. served as the Executive Director of the Environment Now Foundation in Santa Monica, CA, where he co-founded the Frank G. Wells Environmen- tal Law Clinic at the School of Law, University of California Los Angeles. In 2003, he was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later as Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor. In April 2007, he was named the Cullman Senior Fellow and Director of the Climate Policy Program of The New America Foundation. In September 2007, he was appointed as an Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors. Terry is a published author who currently lectures and consults a variety of clients on climate and energy policy. LESLIE MINTZ TAMMINEN is a special advisor to Lt. Governor John Gara- mendi, and the California Economic Development Commission. She also works as an environmental consultant with Seventh Generation Advi- sors, in Santa Monica, CA. Formerly, Leslie was the Legislative Director and staff attorney for the environmental nonprofit organization Heal the Bay from 1997 to 2008. With Heal the Bay she was responsible for devel- opment and implementation of statewide water quality legislation, and To find out more about how you can become an Ocean Champion, visit the first-ever state Education and the Environment Initiative, a require- ment for environmental education principles and curricula develop- cean hampiOns Org ment in all core disciplines in public schools for K–12. Leslie is a graduate O c . of the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Southern Blue Vision Qtr Page Ad r3.indd 1 2/20/09 5:00 PM California Law Center. She now lives in the Los Angeles area with her son JOHN WEBER is the Northeast Regional Manager for the Surfrider Foun- and husband Terry Tamminen. dation and was the organization’s first East Coast employee when hired nearly four years ago. His job is to assist the all-volunteer chapters from JIM TOOMEY is the creator of the daily comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, New Jersey to Massachusetts (seven Chapters) and he was a long time which appears in over 200 newspapers and six languages around the volunteer for the Jersey Shore Chapter before being hired. After graduat- world. Sherman’s Lagoon features a cast of undersea characters who ing from the University of Richmond with a BS in Biology in 1990, John team up to battle the encroachment of civilization in their remote went to work for environmental and social justice organizations doing tropical paradise. Jim has just finished his sixteenth book, Confessions grassroots community organizing. With New Jersey Citizen Action, John of a Swinging Single Sea Turtle, published by Andrews McMeel. He also continued to organize affected communities around the issue of lead serves on the board of directors of Blue Frontier Campaign, a non-profit poisoning prevention. Along the way he helped create and run the organization that promotes marine conservation. Jim holds a Bachelor Newark Partnership for Lead Safe Children; a broad coalition of health, of Science in mechanical engineering, and a Masters of Environmental child care, housing, and parent groups working together to eliminate Management from Duke University, and a Master of Arts from Stanford lead poisoning in Newark, NJ and the entire state. For this work he won University. an EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award in 2001. John lives in Brad- KIMBERLY A. WARNER, Ph.D. is the Marine Pollution Scientist at Oceana. ley Beach, NJ with his wife Bridget and son Hans. Dr. Warner has researched mercury cycling and effects and has broad SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I), a member of the Senate Envi- experience with contaminant behavior, fate and toxicity in many aquatic ronment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and a sailor and diver, has systems. As a Senior Scientist with a consulting firm, Dr. Warner provided been active in addressing global climate change’s its threat to ocean environmental consulting and litigation support on coastal and contam- and coastal ecosystems. He authored an amendment to support invest- inated sediment issues. She also worked as a Research Scientist at the ments in America’s oceans and coasts as part of the Senate’s FY09 bud- University of Alabama, where she researched mercury transformations get resolution, and fought successfully to make sure climate change leg- DC Washington, 7–10 • March and distributions in water, sediment and fish, worked with the public islation passed by the EPW committee included protections for coastal and stakeholders on policy options, and taught courses in ecology and communities, wildlife, and land and marine ecosystems. Whitehouse, ethics. She has previously held research positions and fellowships at who traveled to Greenland last summer to see firsthand the effects of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Chesapeake Research Con- climate change on its massive ice cap, has worked closely with Rhode sortium in Maryland and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Island’s environmental community to raise awareness of the potential Massachusetts. Dr. Warner holds a Ph.D. in Marine, Estuarine and Envi- impact of global warming on the Ocean State. In August 2008, he held ronmental Sciences from the University of Maryland and a B.S. (summa an official field briefing of the EPW Committee at the University of Rhode cum laude) in Environmental Science from the University of the District Island’s Bay Campus to examine global warming’s impacts on Narragan-

of Columbia. sett Bay. Whitehouse has also been a champion for coastal and estuarine Summit Blue Vision

Speakers Blue Vision Summit March 7–10 • Washington, DC Speakers includ 1993, since programs conservation numerous supported has of the undersea universe. non-proand beauty fit His FoundationWyland power raw the capturing years, twenty-five than more for globe the of reaches farthest the traveled has diver,tographer,he SCUBA writer, and pho sculptor,painter, accomplished An conservation. resource marine for advocate leading a and influences, creative unique most America’s WYLAND, of Oceanography, ofCalifornia, University SanDiego. Institution Scripps from biology Ph.D. receivedmarine his Davidness. in AwareEnvironmentalfor Students Co-Founded also he where Georgia of University the from B.S. and M.S. his received David DC. Washington, in Board Studies Council’s Ocean Research National the at years several PolicyFellowship Marine Grant Davidspent receivedSea and National a largeof fishes. ocean voiceintoleading forzations the conservation the he worked to build this coalition of six national and international organi Executive Director of the Ocean Wildlife Campaign where for eight years the as served Champions VoterFund,he Ocean and Champions Ocean co-founding to Prior wildlife. their and oceans on solely focused zation organi political Co- national and first-ever the President Champions, Ocean the of Founder is David advocacy. political and governance non-profit policy, environmental science, ocean in experience of years WILMOTDAVID biologist, children.and marine andtheirtwo expert environmentalpolicy an Sandra, wife his with Island Rhode port, New in lives Whitehouse 2006, in Senate the to Elected 2007. in (ERA) Restoration Act Estuary the to reauthorize fighting habitats,successfully Marine Life Artist Wyland has earned the distinction as one of one as distinction the earned has Wyland Artist Life Marine is a passionate ocean enthusiast who has over twenty twenty over has who enthusiast ocean passionate a is ------DC), 2002–present. Cindy Zipf has received numerous awards on behalf behalf on awards numerous received has Zipf Cindy 2002–present. DC), entandcharterisa board member, Blue Frontier DC), Campaign (Washington, (Washington, 1993–pres Jersey, New Alliance of Endowment Environmental Coast the 1990–present, 1987–present, NJ), Hook, (Sandy ety science.a specialemphasisinmarine with Affairs Marine Geographyand in B.A. a with Island Rhode of versity motivated to engage in Ms.advocacy work. Zipf becameis a graduate of the Uni Zipf NJ, Hook, Sandy on group membership coastal a national Society, Littoral American the and Service Fisheries Marine National the with internships After biologist. marine a becoming of goal a with shore Jersey the on up grew Zipf legislation. coastal key on and ments sedi contaminated on policies protection ocean drive to level national of NJ by finding environmentally sound alternatives. Zipf also works ona coast the off dumpsites eight-ocean all close to campaign the led fully tions and a professional staff of 8 full time-time employees. COA success organiza 150 boasts NJ.coalition Today, the Hook, Sandy on quartered head is COA coast. NJ/NY the off waters the for issues pollution on ocean working coalition broad-based environmental non-profit a (COA), ZIPF CINDYA. year.billion people every 1 estimated an by viewed is and continents, four on countries twelve spans that murals life marine size life ninety-one than more of series epic project—an mural Wall Whaling monumental Wyland’s ing non-governmental organizations,non-governmental foundations, media. andthenews and government local and regional, national, from Action Ocean Clean of if evs n eea bad icuig te mrcn itrl Soci Littoral American the including: boards several on serves Zipf is a founder and Executive Director of Clean Ocean Action Action Ocean Clean of DirectorExecutive and founder a is ------“I commend the Blue Frontier Campaign and its continuous efforts to strengthen ocean and coastal conservation. The Campaign’s commitment to providing resources to grassroots organizations working to protect and restore our seas, and raising public awareness of the challenges facing these groups is greatly appreciated.”

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