[Imc-newsroom] Environmental Conference, biotech talks, this Mon-Tues
Danielle Chynoweth
chyn at onthejob.net
Tue Mar 20 15:20:02 CST 2001
Check out the Horizons2000 Environmental Conference at the
Illini Union this Monday and Tuesday, march 25-26:
http://www.environ.uiuc.edu./horizons2001/agenda.htm
imc - we should record these sessions - i'll bring it up at the next mtg
brandy - there's a talk on weather
sehvilla - there's a number of talks on GMOs
sdasers - there's a performance series
permaculturalists - there's a talk about restoring the Illinois River
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A badly pasted version of the agenda follows:
Monday March 26, 2001
8:30 - 10:30a.m., Room A - Invasive Species - Evan Delucia and Larry
Hanks, Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PEEB)
- Peter McEvoy, Department of Entomology, Oregon State Unversity
³Plant Invasions: Causes, Consequences and Cures²
- Dr. Andrew Suarez, University of California at Davis - "Priorities
in the study of biological invasions: insights from invasive ants.
10:45a.m. - 12:45p.m., Room A - Impacts of Climate Change on the Midwest
Critical Research Initiative
One of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st Century is
the concerns about major changes in our climate associated with
increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases. Climate change could have major impacts on the social,
economic and environmental systems in the Midwest. This talk will
summarize our current understanding of climate change and the potential
ramifications on the Midwest.
- Don Wuebbles, Department of Atmosphereic Science, UIUC - "Impacts
of Climaqte Change on the Midwest: An Overview."
- Ken Kunkel, Illinois State Water Suvey - "Extreme Drought and Heat
in the Midwest: Past, Present and Future."
- Wayland Eheart, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UIUC - "The Implications of Midwestern Climate Change for
Water Resources and Water Regulations."
- Susan Larson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UIUC - "Is a Changed Atmosphere a Dirtier One? Effects of
Climate Change on Air Quality."
- Kieran Donaghy, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC -
"Decision Support Systems: Tools for Understanding and
Responding to Climate Change at the Regional Level."
- Ed Herricks, Departmetn of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
- "Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Informing Science and
Technology from a Community View."
10:00a.m. - 3:00p.m., Room B, Room C & South Lounge - Posters, Arts and
Exhibitis opened
12:50 - 3:30p.m., Room B, Room C & South Lounge - Reception in the poster
area
Artists Performance Schedule - FOR A LIST OF ALL ARTISTS AND
DESCRIPTIONS CLICK HERE
12:50 -- "In the Beginning", Minsoo Cho - Experimental Music CD
1:00 -- Selected Folk Music, Susan C. Shaw, Illinois State Water
Survey - Musical Composition for Guitar and Vocals
1:20 -- "River of Story, River of Life," Jason Lindsey, Office of
Publications - Slide Show and Narrative
1:40 -- "AzUres," Jessica Ziegelbauer, Music Department - Musical
Composition for Oboe, Voice, Bass, and Guitar
2:00 -- "Rhythm : It's About Time," Robert Herendeen, Natural
History Survey, Urban Planning, Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences and Animal
Biology; Audrey Wells, University High School - Musical Performance
for Drums and Vocals
2:20 -- "Coral Reef Ecosystems," Michael Fortwengler, Geology -
Slide Show and Narrative
2:40 -- "Birds in Winter," performed by Julia Jamieson, Harp
Program - Musical Composition by Michael Mauldin for Harp
3:00 -- "Birds at Many Speeds," Warren Burt - Computer Generated
Sound Performance
3:30 - 5:00p.m., Room A - Keynote Speaker -
Paul Portney, President, Resources for the Future -
"Environmental Quality and Environmental Regulations over the next 50
Years."
Tuesday March 27, 2001
8:15 - 10:15a.m., Room B - Natural Resource Damage Assessment - program in
Environmental Resource Economics (pERE)
Steve Davis will provide an overview of NRDA. He will discuss the scope
and legal framework of NRDA, the process for conducting a NRDA, and
the Department's Natural Resource Trustee Program. He will also share some
of the challenges the Department faces in implementing NRDA.
John Hoehn will give an in-depth exploration of some thorny issues
involved in assessing the damages borne by the public at large when harm
is
inflicted on natural resources. He will use his experiences in the Coeur
d'Alene mining-waste case to discuss how analysts can go about scoping
the possible extent of damages when individual responses to surveys are
sensitive to the nature of the information provided about the harm. Amy
Ando will discuss the tradeoffs trustees face when they choose among the
portfolio of NRDA methods available. She will present an analysis of the
best way to balance increasing accuracy with increasing assessment costs,
and explore the ways in which current statutes might bias decisions
regarding investment in NRDA accuracy.
- Organizer: Amy Ando, College of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences, UIUC
- Moderator: Madhu Khanna, College of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences, UIUC
- Presenters:
- Steve Davis, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
- John Hoehn, Michigan State University
- Amy Ando, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental
Sciences, UIUC - " Natural Resources Damage Assessment."
8:30 - 10:30a.m., Room C - Restoring the Illinois River - Illinois State
Water Survey
The Illinois River basin drains 44% of the land area of the state and
houses 90% of the state's population. It is vital source for
transportation, water
supplies, recreation, and provides habitat for a diverse flora and fauna
population. Over the past 100 years, the Illinois River Basin has been
impacted by erosion and sedimentation, point and non-source point
pollution sources, and habitat degradation. The State Scientific Surveys
and
researchers at the University of Illinois have a long history of research
within the basin and results of this research have culminated in a
recommended action plan to restore the Illinois River Basin. Recent state
and federal support for the Illinois Rivers 2020 program provides a
unique opportunity for renewed efforts to address some of the key issues
related to basin restoration and management. Speaker during the
session will focus on a variety of projects that are aimed at Basin
restoration.
8:30 - Welcome and Introductions
8:40 - Modeling Peoria Lake
- Nani Bhowmik and Paminder Parmar, Illinois State Water
Survey
9:00 - Assessment of Sediment Quality in the Peoria pool of the
Illinois River
- Richard A. Cahill, Illinois State Geological Survey
9:20 - Dredging to Restore Illinois River Backwaters
- John Marlin, Illinois Waste Management and Research
Center
9:40 - From Sediment to Soil
- Robert G. Darmody, Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Sciences, UIUC
10:00 - The Illinois River Defcision Support System
- Mike Demissie and Mindy Tidrick, Illinois State Water
Survey
10:30a.m. - 12:30p.m., Room A - Earth Resources: Past, Present and Future
- Illinois State Geological Survey
Fossil fuels, oil, natural gas and coal, and mineral resources such as
sand, gravel and stone, are the foundations on which modern societies are
built. Without low-cost energy and earth resources, the standard of living
in the United States, and in virtually all other countries, would be far
lower.
In the United States, for example, fully 85 percent of the mass of a house
or apartment building consists of products manufactured from raw
materials that were extracted from the earth's crust. Petroleum, including
natural gas, fuels virtually all of our transportation system, heats our
homes, supplies the bulk of the nitrogen fertilizer that we apply to farm
fields, is the raw material for plastics, and supplies the building blocks
for
essential chemicals that range from pharmaceuticals to pesticides. The
economies of Illinois, the United States and the world will have to adapt
in
significant ways if we are to reduce the output of greenhouse gases and
other pollutants from combustion of fossil fuels. Research at the Illinois
State Geological Survey helps industries locate additional energy and
earth resources in Illinois and alleviate some of the problems that go
along
with continued use of those resources. In this symposium, geologists and
engineers from the ISGS will offer their perspectives on the use of energy
and earth resources, their impacts on the environment and ways to mitigate
those impacts.
- Robert Finley ³A Home, A Car, and a Job: The Outlook for Fossil
Fuels in Today¹s Society²
- Chen-Lin Chou ³The Problem of Sulfur in Coal and the Development
of Clean Coal Technologies
- Massoud Rostam-Abadi ³Mercury Control Technologies for Coal-fired
Power Plants"
- Don Mikulic - " Tropical seas and the building of Chicago - the last
170 years of northeastern Illinois' stone industry"
10:30a.m. - 12:30p.m., Room B - Biotechnology and Risk: what we might
learn from a skeptical public Human Dimensions of Environmental
Systems
Baruch Fischhoff, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and one of
the foremost experts on risk perception and communication, will
discuss the public's suspicions of biotechnology, the predictable--and
most often distructive--patterns in expert responses to such suspicions,
and
a framework for engaging in a more effective dialogue between experts and
the public. Two panelists, Bruce Chassy, the Associate Executive
Director of the UI Center for Biotechnology and Rachel Schurman (invited),
Assistant Professor of Sociology, will respond to issues and concerns
raised by Professor Fischhoff. Their responses will be followed by
considerable time for participation from all those present.
Speaker:
- Baruch Fischhoff, Department of Social and Decision Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University
Panelists:
- Bruce Chassey, Associate Executive Director of the UI center for
Biotechnology
- Rachel Schurman, Department of Sociology, UIUC - INVITED
12:00 - 2:00p.m., Room C - GMOs, It's What's for Dinner: A Discussion of
Genetic Engineering in our Food Supply Earth Doctors
In this discussion, a panel of three University of Illinois faculty will
discuss genetically modified organisms in our food supply. Dr. Stephen
Moose,
Assistant Professor, Maize Functional Genomics/Genetics, will begin by
explaining the scientific process by which genetically engineered food
products are created including the commercial sales aspects. Dr. Bruce
Chassy, the Associate Executive Director of the UI Center of
Biotechnology, will be addressing the issues of the safety and labeling
of genetically modified products. Dr. Jerry Nelson, associate professor,
International Trade Policy, will be discussing world hunger and the role
genetically modified organisms play in this issue. The discussion will
close
with ample time for the audience to address the panel with any questions
they might have pertaining to the discussion.
- Stephen Moose, Department of Crop Sciences, UIUC ³An Introduction
to GMOs²
- Gerald C. Nelson, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics,
UIUC ³What can GMOs contribute to the world¹s food and hunger problems²
- Bruce M. Chassey, College of Agricuiltural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences, UIUC & Associate Executive Director of the UI
center for Biotechnology ³Evaluation of the safety of foods
derived from transgenic crops: Should they be labeled?"
2:00 - 4:00p.m., Room A - Biodiversity in Illinois and Beyond Illinois
Natural History Survey
Illinois Natural History Survey Scientists have been studying biodiversity
at the state, national, and international level for over 140 years. Dr.
Edward DeWalt, Aquatic Entomologist and Colin Favret, Insect Collections
Manager, will demonstrate how data extracted from extensive INHS
insect collections is used today. Dr. John Taft, Plant Ecologist, will
explain the index of floristic integrity and show how it is used in
habitat
assessment. Dr. Weidong Chen, Mycologist, will detail a unique study of
the fungi associated with a central Illinois natural area. Dr. Chris
Dietrich,
Insect Systematist, has spent considerable time in central Asia studying
its leafhopper fauna as part of a worldwide phylogenetic study. Dr. Steven
R. Hill, Botanist, will demonstrate the plant diversity present on a small
West Indian oceanic island and its relationship to topography. Dr. Ron
McGinley, Insect Systematist, will close with a discussion of perhaps the
most ambitious project ever undertaken to catalogue the total biodiversity
of the Earth.
- Moderator: Dr. Michael Jeffords
- Presenters:
- Colin Favret & R. Edward DeWalt, Critical Trends Assessment
Program "New data from old collections: INHS Insect Collections."
- John Taft - "Measuring Floristic Integrity."
- Weidong Chen "Fungal Diversity in East Central Illinois."
- Chris Dietrich "Biodiversity of Central Asian Grasslands."
- Steve Hill "Biodiversity in Dominica."
- Ron McGinley "Finding Them All: The All-Species Inventory."
2:00 - 3:00p.m., Room B - "Hey, Ma, What¹s for Dinner? The Impact of Food
Production on the Environment² Campus Vegetarian Society
Laura Huth, a community and statewide environmental activist for over 10
years, will talk about people's food choices and their impact on the
natural world. From the rise of factory and industrial farming to
fisheries decline to rainforest beef, she will discuss the larger impacts
your trip to the
grocery store has on the environment. Instead of merely choosing between
paper and plastic, participants will begin to understand the
environmental impact of the foods they put in those shopping bags. Also
discussed will be the impacts of food production on water quality, land,
and our air, as well as the political systems perpetuating these
distorted, environmentally-destructive practices. She has been a
vegetarian for over
a decade and will be sharing with participants tasty treats that tread
lightly on our land.
- Laura Huth, Executive Director, Illinois Student Environmental
Network
7:30 - 9:00p.m., Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center - MillerComm Speaker -
Gerald Adelmann, Executive Director, Openlands Project & President, Canal
Corridor Association
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