Molly Macauley, Resources for the Future

Pamela L. Whitney, Study Director

Carmela J. Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant

The 1999-2000 session of the “Distinguished Leaders in Science” lecture series, a cooperative activity between the SSB and the National Academies’ Office on Public Understanding of Science, will feature presentations by five space scientists and four life scientists. The five space science lectures scheduled are highlighted below:

• Turner, University of Chicago

• October 27, 1999, Biodiversity: What Does It Mean for Use? Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden

• November 10, 1999, From Mad Cows to “psi-chotic” Yeast: A New Paradigm in Genetics, Susan L. Lindquist, University of Chicago

• December 10, 1999, Rediscovering the Red Planet: Latest Results from the Exploration of Mars, Maria Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• January 10, 2000, Life at the Ends of Your Chromosomes: How to Stay Young Forever, Thomas R. Cech, University of Colorado

• February 7, 2000, Life in the Underground: Symbiosis, Phytochemicals, and Agriculture, Sharon R. Long, Stanford University

• March 23, 2000, Probing the Violent Universe with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Claude R. Canizares, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• April 18, 2000, Europa and the Rebirth of Exobiology, Christopher Chyba, SETI Institute

• May 11, 2000, The Sun-Earth Connection in the Space Age, Richard Canfield, Montana State University

An extensive mail and e-mail publicity campaign for the series was initiated in early September. Outreach activities included disseminating lecture information to local newspapers and radio stations, with an emphasis on local university populations, high schools, and small alternative and neighborhood publications. A mutually beneficial marketing collaboration with the Carnegie Institution of Washington was initiated. Archival and broadcast quality videotapes of each lecture were made. The Montgomery County (Md.) public access channel rebroadcast each lecture up to nine times over the course of a month. Post-production editing was done to create a more polished product for rebroadcasting. Discussions were held with commercial and noncommercial broadcast venues for wider distribution to a science-interested public.

Front Matter (R1-R4)

Contents (R5-R6)

1. Charter and Organization of the Board (1-7)

2. Activities and Membership (8-35)

3. Summaries of Major Reports (36-58)

4. Short Reports (59-74)

5. Congressional Testimony (75-77)

6. Cumulative Bibliography (78-86)