Update: Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World

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To celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, the National Council for Science and the Environment invites you to participate in the virtual continuation of 9th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: “Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World,” through the updated website.

The website features streaming videos of keynote addresses by

    ·   Cristian Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

And the 9th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment,

You should not miss the video of the conversation among NCSE Lifetime Achievement Awardees

    ·   Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

    ·   Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden

    ·   George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society

Moderated by Rita Colwell, Former Director, National Science Foundation.

The website also contains

• Recommendations for a New Biodiversity Agenda – developed through 32 breakout sessions.
• Power point presentations from plenaries and symposia
• Winning videos from our Youth Video Contest– several of which will be included in the Environmental Film Festival In the Nation's Capital.
• Memorandum to the Energy and Environment Transition Team of President-Elect Barack Obama Energy and Environment: Science and Policy
• News and Resources

Other Conference speakers:

   ·    Thomas Lovejoy, President, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

   ·    Eric Chivian, Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

   ·    Ron Pulliam, Former Director, National Biological Service

   ·    Stephen Hubbell, Founder and Chairman, National Council for Science and the Environment

   ·     Susan Haseltine, Associate Director for Biology, U.S. Geological Survey

   ·     William J. Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

   ·     Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of the Interior

   ·     Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity

   ·     Carl Safina, President, Blue Ocean Institute

   ·     Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO, Conservation International

   ·     Rodger Schlickeisen, President, Defenders of Wildlife

   ·     Mary Glackin, Assistant Administrator, NOAA

   ·     Dan Martin, Environmental Policy Advisor to the Obama campaign 

Session Topics include:

• Climate Change
• Ocean
• Freshwater
• Forests
• Agriculture
• Health
• Invasive Species
• Endangered Species
• Communication
• Values
• Encylopedia of Life
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry