Edward Bass is extensively involved in business, conservation and ranching. He has been a leader in what is recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization efforts in America, and along with other members of his family, has developed the Sundance Square area into a highly successful mixed use, urban core district in Fort Worth. As Chairman of Performing Arts Fort Worth, he led the development of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, which opened to international acclaim in downtown Fort Worth in 1998.

He serves on the boards of numerous national and international conservation and ecological concerns. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Wildlife Fund, serves on the executive committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is President of the parent company of Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona, which he co-founded in 1984.

Mr. Bass is an avid rancher with interests in Texas, the Flint Hills of Kansas, and Australia. He is Chairman of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation.

In addition to graduating from Yale College, Mr. Bass studied at Yale's School of Architecture from 1968-70. His service to Yale includes co-chair of the Leadership Council of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, member and former founding chair of the External Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, former member of the University Council and former chair of the Council Committee on the Peabody Museum. He was named Successor Trustee in 2001.

His work focuses on public policy, agenda-setting, and interest groups in American politics and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. His first book was on French politics and he maintains a keen interest in comparative public policy and policy processes. His most recent book, The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems (with Bryan D. Jones) will appear with the University of Chicago Press in 2005. It draws extensively from the Policy Agendas Project, which Baumgartner and Jones jointly direct. This project allows scholars to trace policy changes since World War II using a number of comprehensive databases collected with the support of the National Science Foundation.

Previous books include Policy Dynamics (co-edited, with Bryan D. Jones), presenting essays drawn from Policy Agendas Project (Chicago, 2002); Basic Interests (with Beth Leech), on the importance of interest groups in American politics and political science (Princeton University Press, 1998); Agendas and Instability in American Politics (with Bryan Jones) (Chicago, 1993), on agenda-setting in American politics; and Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking (Pittsburgh, 1989), on agenda-setting in French politics. His current research projects, beyond the Policy Agendas Project, include a large study of Washington lobbying processes (conducted with extensive support of the National Science Foundation, and with four collaborators, involving over 300 interviews with Washington-based policy advocates and decision-makers), and a study of the changing nature of public discussion surrounding the death penalty. Two major web sites document this work: The Policy Agendas Project at www.policyagendas.org and the Lobbying and Public Advocacy Project at lobby.la.psu.edu.

In 2001, NRDC made climate a top institutional priority and created a dedicated program, the NRDC Climate Center, to focus exclusively on advancing global warming solutions, complementing the organization's extensive expertise in the areas of energy and air policy. NRDC has played an instrumental role in advancing climate policies at both the state and federal level and in pioneering legal strategies for reducing emissions from electric power and vehicle sectors.

Ms. Beinecke serves on many boards, including the World Resources Institute, the American Conservation Association, New York League of Conservation Voters, and Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, and the Prospect Hill Foundation. She co-chairs the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She has also served as the Board chair of the Wilderness Society and the Adirondack Council and as a fellow of the Yale Corporation. She was presented with the Annual Conservation Award by the Adirondack Council, the Robert Marshall Award by the Wilderness Society, the Wave Hill Annual Award and the Distinguished Alumna Award of the Yale School of Forestry. In January 2006, Ms. Beinecke will become NRDC's President, succeeding John Adams, NRDC's Founding Director.

Ms. Beinecke received her M.F.S and B.A from Yale University.

Dr. Blockstein joined the organization in 1990 and was its first Executive Director. Presently, he organizes NCSE's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment. Dr. Blockstein also serves as Executive Secretary of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD). CEDD, formed in 2001, is the professional organization for the nation's deans of colleges of environment and natural resources and directors of institutes for environmental studies. As the 1987-88 Congressional Science Fellow of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and American Society of Zoology, Dr. Blockstein worked with the House of Representatives Environment Subcommittee of the Science Committee to prepare the National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environmental Research Act.

Dr. Blockstein has a B.S. in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Minnesota. He has conducted research on conservation of tropical pigeons and doves and on population and community ecology of forest birds. He is the author of the Birds of North America account of the extinct Passenger Pigeon. He is the founding chair of the Ornithological Council, an association of North America's professional societies that provide scientific information about birds to policymakers and represents the interests of ornithologists in Wasington, DC.

Dr. Blockstein has worked on a wide range of policy issues, including increasing the representation of minorities in science, mechanisms to improve the linkage between science and decision-making on environmental issues and electronic processes to communicate scientific information on the environment. He has delivered more than 50 public lectures and more than 20 scientific papers and is a frequent contributor to both technical and popular literature about science and environmental policy.

He serves on or has served on committees for scientific and conservation organizations including: American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Chemical Society; American Society of Zoologists; Society for Conservation Biology; American Ornithologists' Union; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences; American Bird Conservancy; World Conservation Union (IUCN); Commission on Education and Communication; Project Learning Tree/World Wildlife Fund; Aldo Leopold Foundation; National Foundation for Environmental Education; and the Environmental Education Coalition.

At Trent he teaches courses on science and environmental politics, environmental politics in developing countries, environmental history, and the university environment.�His research is focused on understanding the roles of science in environmental politics, examined both historically and through contemporary case studies.�For the last several years his efforts have been, in part, devoted to achieving a synthetic understanding of these roles across several realms of environmental politics, including natural resource management, climate change and other global issues, and environmental risks. In addition, case studies now underway include the history of environmental science in northern Canada, the environmental history of Toronto (with special reference to the evolving role of experts in urban planning and development), and the science and politics of suburban land use controversies.

Professor Bocking's publications include many scholarly articles, as well as two books: Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers University Press, 2004).�He also writes a regular column in Alternatives Journal, a Canadian environmental magazine.�He has also completed several editing projects, including, most recently: a theme issue of Urban History Review on the environmental history of Canadian cities (2005), a theme issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies on "Science and Politics in Canada" (2003), and an edited book, Biodiversity in Canada: Ecology, Ideas, and Action (2000).

For the last four years, Mr. Brill has also taught a seminar for aspiring journalists at Yale College, and this year he began working with the College to expand that class into a broader array of nonfiction writing activities aimed at channeling Yale students into the profession. He worked his way through Yale Law School by writing magazine articles for New York and Harper's magazines. When he graduated, he became a legal columnist for Esquire and wrote a best-selling book about the Teamsters Union. He then founded The American Lawyer magazine, which soon expanded into a national chain of legal publications. In 1991 he also created Court TV. He sold the legal publications and Court TV in 1997 and returned to journalism full time, with the founding of Brill's Content, a magazine about the media that ceased publication in 2001. �

Ms. Brill was previously Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Brill Media Holdings, LP, and Media Central. She was General Counsel to American Lawyer Media, LP, and Court TV from 1985 to June 1997. While at American Lawyer Media, Ms. Brill helped launch various publications, including a monthly newsletter covering corporate takeovers. She was responsible for all legal aspects of Court TV, as well as being involved in general corporate and business affairs of American Lawyer Media.

Ms. Brill practiced law as a commercial litigator for Wall Street firms from 1977 to 1982. Prior to that, she worked for the City of New York, Office of Neighborhood Government for two years.

Ms. Brill holds a Bachelor's degree from Yale College and a law degree from New York University. She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. She is on the Boards of Directors for Phoenix House, the Fund for Public Advocacy and the New York League of Conservation Voters. She also serves on the Yale Development Board, and the Chairman's Council of Conservation International. A former member of Community Board 8 in Manhattan, Ms. Brill volunteers with an after school program at St. Ann's Church of Morrisania, Bronx, NY and served on the Capital Campaigns for the Brearley School and Collegiate School.

�Mr. Burnside spent several years in politics. He wrote policy papers, gave speeches, advised candidates for Congress and Governor, and did media work with think tanks and NGO's. He is a frequent speaker and moderator on media ethics, the white supremacy movement, and the environment. He is the recipient of more than 20 awards.

Deb Callahan has devoted her career to empowering voters to exercise their strength on Election Day. She brought that dedication to LCV, determined to mature the organization from the environmental community's Political Action Committee into a more complete political campaign organization. She doubled LCV's size and forged the organization into a potent, bipartisan political force with a national presence.

Ms. Callahan got her start in the most basic form of politics—grassroots organizing. As a field coordinator for a presidential campaign, she learned the value of politics with a personal touch. She began her first tour of duty with LCV as director of its political activities in New England. She went back to the campaign trail as deputy campaign manager for a U.S. Senate race in 1986 and in 1988 became the national field director and deputy political director of another run for the White House. In 1990, she managed a successful congressional re-election effort.

Environmental policy has always been a passion for Callahan. She studied environmental biology and natural resources management at Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo and earned her bachelor's in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ms. Callahan wedded her interests in politics and the environment in 1988 when she became executive director of the non-profit group Americans for the Environment. In 1991 she advocated restricting the export of dangerous pesticides for the grassroots-oriented National Toxics Campaign. From 1992 to 1996 she directed the grassroots environmental program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation before moving to Seattle to become the first executive director of the Brainerd Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing financial support to organizations that protect biodiversity and the environment in the Pacific Northwest.

Returning to LCV in 1996 as the organization's president, she lost no time amplifying the organization's role as the political voice of the national environmental community. LCV had already gained prominence through its annual National Environmental Scorecard that evaluates every member of Congress based on his or her environmental votes. Ms. Callahan added electoral muscle in 1996 when the LCV Action Fund unveiled its "Dirty Dozen" campaigns that target for defeat the most vulnerable, anti-environment candidates for Congress. To support pro-environment candidates, LCV also added the "EarthList" program in 1996 and the "Environmental Champions" campaign in 2000.

Ms. Callahan is nationally recognized as an expert on politics and the environment, appearing regularly on television and in print, including such programs as PBS' The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, MSNBC's Hardball, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes, and on numerous CNN shows.

Ms. Catto founded Elk Mountain Builders, Inc. a Colorado company with a focus on energy saving construction. She served as Vice Chairman of H&C Communications, Inc. a broadcasting company of network affiliated television stations.

Ms. Catto is former vice-chairman of Environmental Defense and serves on the boards of The Conservation Fund, the National Parks Conservation Association, Conservation International and the World Resources Institute. Under the auspices of the American Land Trust Association and the Conservation Fund, she established the American Land Conservation award, given annually to a citizen conservationist, selected from nationally submitted nominations. She is a contributing editor of the American Journalism Review, a magazine for which she served as publisher from 1980 to 1987. She has written for that magazine, The Washington Post in this country and the Independent, the Sunday Times and the Guardian in London on press, political and environmental issues. She has published a novel under a pseudonym.

President Clinton appointed her to the Advisory Board of the National Parks System in 1993 and President Nixon appointed her to the Kennedy Center's Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts. Ms. Catto accompanied her husband, Henry E. Catto, in his diplomatic missions abroad while he was ambassador to El Salvador, the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and to Great Britain.

Ms. Chertow's B.A. is from Barnard College, Columbia University; her M.P.P.M. and Ph.D. are from Yale University.

Dr. Chertow's research and teaching concern environmental management and policy as they relate to the private sector. Primary research interests are the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology and the study of industrial symbiosis: geographically based exchanges of wastes, materials, energy, and water within networks of businesses. She is the editor of Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (with Daniel Esty), to which she also contributed work on the relevance of industrial ecology to public policy, and the author of Innovation and Environmental Technology. Prior to Yale, Dr. Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government. She also serves on the faculty of the National University of Singapore.

Benson Chiles directs the Coastal Ocean Coalition (COC) on behalf of Environmental Defense, NRDC, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Marine Conservation Biology Institute.�COC advocates for state level ocean policy reform in the coastal United States.�Previously, Mr. Chiles worked as a Regional Director with the Public Interest Research Group, and he has consulted to numerous environmental organizations.� He launched and managed N Space Labs, a data visualization company, and the Front Porch Club, a social and community service organization.�Mr. Chiles is a member of the Atlantic Highlands, NJ Planning Board.�He holds a BA from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas and an MA in Organizational Change Management from the New School University.

Reverend Cizik's primary responsibilities include editing publications such as NAE Washington Insight, directing NAE's Washington Insight Briefing and Christian Student Leadership Conferences, setting its policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals.

Reverend Cizik has been involved in international religious liberty causes for the Association since 1980, when he urged policy-makers to add "religion" to the annual human rights report.. He proposed to the Reagan Administration a major address on religious freedom and the nuclear arms race that eventuated in the "Evil Empire" address of President Reagan to the NAE annual convention in March 1983. One of the principal drafters of NAE's 1996 "Statement of Conscience on Worldwide Religious Persecution," Reverend Cizik is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and has appeared on CNN "HEADLINE NEWS," C-SPAN, PBS "Ethics & Religion News Weekly," WORLD NET, Voice of America, and many other media outlets. He is regularly called upon as an expert witness on human rights and religious freedom before professional groups, and in meetings with officials of the National Security Council in the White House, the State Department and Congress. In 1996, he served as professional staff to the "Religious Leader's Delegation to the People's Republic of China," at the invitation of President Clinton. In 2002, Reverend Cizik was a participant in Climate Forum 2002, at Oxford, England, which produced the "Oxford Declaration" on global warming.

His background includes a B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science from Whitworth College; an M.A. in Public Affairs from the George Washington University School of Public & International Affairs (now called the Elliot School of International Affairs); a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary, and overseas studies at the National Political Science University, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Taipei Language Institute, Taipei, Taiwan. Post-graduate research awards include a Scottish-Rite Graduate Fellowship to George Washington University and a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship to the Republic of China. He is the author of over one hundred published articles and editorials, author and editor of The High Cost of Indifference (Regal Books), a contributor to On Christian Freedom (University Press of America), the Dictionary of Christianity in America (Inter-Varsity Press), and recently started a regular column for national circulation on religion and public policy.

Reverend Cizik was ordained in 1992 to a specific ministry calling in public affairs with the National Association of Evangelicals by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (one of 51 member denominations of NAE).

Ms. Claussen is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Prior to joining the Department of State, Ms. Claussen served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council. She has also served as Chairman of the United Nations Multilateral Montreal Protocol Fund. Ms. Claussen was Director of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she was responsible for activities related to the depletion of the ozone layer; Title IV of the Clean Air Act; the Clean Air Accord with Canada; and the EPA's energy efficiency programs, including the Green Lights program and the Energy Star program.

Currently, Ms. Claussen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute; Council on Foreign Relations; China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development; the Board of Visitors of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the UK's Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board. She also served as a Commissioner on the Pew Oceans Commission.

Ms. Claussen is the recipient of the Department of State's Career Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Executive Award for Sustained Extraordinary Accomplishment. She also served as the Timothy Atkeson Scholar in Residence at Yale University.

Roger Cohn is executive editor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Editor of Yale Environment Online. He is the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon, having led both magazines to periods of unprecedented success.

During his tenure at Mother Jones, from 1999 to 2005, Cohn revitalized the magazine by focusing on in-depth, investigative reporting and top-quality writing, winning the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence and numerous other journalistic and publishing honors. From 1991 to 1998, Cohn was executive editor of Audubon, during an era when the magazine gained a national reputation for its cutting-edge environmental reporting. Prior to that, Cohn was a staff writer with The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covered environmental issues. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1985 for his reporting on the federal public housing system; and in 1980, he was part of a team of Inquirer reporters and editors who won the Pulitzer Prize for News Reporting for coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

Cohn has written widely for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Republic, and Outside. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught magazine writing.

At the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Mr. Coyle coordinates its citizen science and education programs, volunteer programs, education research and policy, campus ecology program and award-winning children's publications.

Prior to NWF, he served nine years as President of the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, a Congressionally-authorized NGO and recognized leader in education program design, legislation and policy development. Mr. Coyle is the principal founder of National Environmental Education Week and presided over the creation of NEETF's green business and climate programs, health practitioners' education and an innovative approach to environmental education through television weather-casting. He also co-authored NEETF's influential annual NEET/Roper Report Card on Environmental Knowledge (from 1997 to 2001) and is a leader in documenting the effectiveness of environmental education in America and abroad. His new book, entitled Environmental Literacy in America, a comprehensive research evaluation of the state of environmental knowledge and learning in America, will be published in October of 2005.

Before NEETF, Mr. Coyle was President and program director of American Rivers, the nation's principal river conservation organization where he oversaw campaigns that protected 20,000 miles of outstanding rivers, five million acres of riverside land and made significant national policy reforms in water resource and hydropower development. At American Rivers he authored the Guide to Wild and Scenic River Designation, which is still considered the authoritative work on the legal and political aspects of the national rivers system.

He was also a founding board member and vice president of River Network and co-founder and president of the American Land Resource Association, publisher of the award-winning journal American Land Forum. He worked for ten years with the U.S. Department of the Interior managing the Wild and Scenic Rivers planning Program and Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants for the Northeast Region.

He has been honored by Paddler Magazine (1998) on the list of "top ten river conservationists of all time," River Conservationist of the Year by the U.S. Canoe Association (1992) and the Interior Department's Meritorious Service Award (1980). He also shared in the White House's "Reinventing Government" award (2000) for developing National Public Lands Day. In March of 2005, he received an Award of Honor from the U.S. EPA for overall support of the field of environmental education in the U.S. Mr. Coyle has served on a number of NGO boards, including having served as Chair of the Natural Resource Council of American for five years from 1996 to 2000.

He has a Juris Doctor degree from Temple University and a BA in sociology and social work from LaSalle University in Philadelphia. In 2001 he completed a Certificate Program in Conservation Leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Crown is a Principal of Henry Crown and Company, a family-owned and operated company, which includes diversified manufacturing operations, cellular phone, home furnishings and real estate. She also serves as President of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, a private foundation established in 1947.

Born in Chicago, Ms. Crown received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her graduate degree from New York University.

She serves on the boards of Illinois Tool Works, and Northern Trust Corporation.

Ms. Crown is actively involved in a number of nonprofit organizations. She is a trustee of Yale University, a member of the Executive Committee of Rush University Medical Center, a trustee of The Juvenile Protective Association, The Covenant Foundation, The Aspen Valley Community Foundation, Chairman of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Executive Council.

Ms. Curran's B.A. is from Harvard University. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are from Princeton University.

Professor Curran is interested in the mechanisms that underlie community structure and dynamics of tropical forests and how ecological interactions are altered by human activities. Her work aims to enhance equitable and responsible management of tropical forests by integrating knowledge of ecological processes in natural systems with the socio-political and economic realities as viewed by a diversity of users. Field research primarily in Indonesia has focused on long-term studies of the reproductive ecology, demography, and harvest of mast-fruiting Dipterocarpaceae, the most economically important family of tropical timber.

Current research interests include: spatio-temporal scale of natural and anthropogenic processes and disturbance; plant-animal interactions, especially seed predation, herbivory, and seed dispersal; canopy tree demography, phenology, and regeneration; ecological role of ectomycorrhizae in ecosystems; and effects of government policies and logging practices on ecosystem management and biodiversity in Asia.

Mr. Curwood created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the spring of 1990 and the show has run continuously since April 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA.

Mr. Curwood's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston.

He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Fred C. Danforth, a native of Maine, is a graduate of Yale and began his career in banking with Citibank in New York City. In 1986, he was co-founder of Capital Resource Partners (CRP), a private equity investment firm located in Boston. He served as managing partner and oversaw the raising and investment of four institutional funds totaling nearly $1 billion in capital under management. Institutional limited partners in CRP's funds included leading public and private pension funds, major college endowments and foundations.

Mr. Danforth retired from CRP in 2002 and immediately shifted his time and energies to several business partnerships and related activities in Montana. While remaining a resident of Massachusetts, he has seen many of his passions evolve into active pursuits in the worlds of fly-fishing and conservation land management. In particular, he is the lead partner for Nevada Spring Creek Partners in Montana's renowned Blackfoot Valley, where he is overseeing comprehensive habitat, wetland, and stream restoration projects on the Nevada Spring Creek Ranch.

His experience in finance, and currently in the evolving arena of conservation finance, has led him to form Oxbow Land Management. Oxbow's mission is to work with private landowners on large, ecologically significant tracts of land to restore and protect critical natural resources and other disappearing open space while using market-based programs to generate economic returns.

Most recently, Mr. Danforth has joined with the Environmental Bank and Exchange (EBX), a national leader in ecosystem development on private lands, to develop a new private equity investment strategy. The investment activity will focus on critical land acquisition followed by the development of eco-asset values through habitat preservation and restoration. They are currently working to raise capital for the Sustainable Land Fund, a new sector private equity fund targeting the institutional alternative asset market.

Cornelia Dean is a science writer and commentator at The New York Times. From January 1997 until June 2003, she was science editor of The New York Times, where she was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She spent the 2003-2004 academic year at Harvard where she had a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government and taught in the program on Environmental Science and Public Policy. She is at work on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American public life.

Before becoming science editor at The Times she worked in the newspaper's Washington bureau as deputy Washington editor. Her portfolio was domestic policy. She began her newspaper career at the Providence Journal.

Her first book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches was published in 1999 by Columbia University Press and was a N.Y. Times Notable Book of the year. She has taught seminars and courses at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Vassar College and the University of Rhode Island, and has spoken to a wide variety of government, journalism and scientific organizations.

Ms. Dean is a member of the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Environmental and Marine Reporting, a fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a member of the Corporation of Brown University, her alma mater.

Jim DiPeso is the policy director of REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection. Before joining REP's staff in 2001, he served on REP America's board of directors for five years, beginning in 1996. DiPeso serves as REP America's chief resource on energy, climate, and public lands issues. His work for REP includes:

"Climate Change: Why Conservatives Should Lead," article published in the Spring 2005 edition of Conservative Environmental Policy (C.E.P.) Quarterly; "For Spacious Skies: A Conservative Citizen's Guide to Clean Air," publication scheduled for release in spring 2005; "Environmental Politics in 2004," speech delivered to Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, February 2004; and "Opportunities for States in a Carbon-Constrained World," speech delivered to West Virginia Conference on the Environment, October 2003.

Before joining REP America's staff, Mr. DiPeso worked four years for the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center, where he carried out research and publication projects on climate change, transportation, energy and water efficiency, sustainable building, and product stewardship.

Mr. DiPeso has a bachelor's degree in communications from California State Polytechnic University. He worked 14 years as a daily newspaper reporter, including four years as an environmental reporter, before joining the non-profit sector.

Strachan Donnelley founded the Center for Humans and Nature in 2003 and serves as its President. He previously worked at the Hastings Center, where he also served as President (1997-99). Among numerous published articles in philosophy and applied ethics, Donnelley has co-edited and written for three Special Supplements to the Hastings Center Report: "Animals, Science, and Ethics" (1990); "The Brave New World of Animal Biotechnology"(1994); and "Nature, Polis, Ethics: Chicago Regional Planning" (November-December 1999). He also edited a special edition on the philosopher and ethicist Hans Jonas, also in the Hastings Center Report (1995).

Recently, Mr. Donnelley has been writing several articles on philosophy, evolutionary biology, and ethical responsibility, including work on Whitehead, Jonas, Ernst Mayr, and Aldo Leopold. he also serves on several non-profit boards, including the Land Institute and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.