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Participant List

Robyn Abree

Science Writing Scholar

University of Georgia

Joshua N. Adkins

Senior Staff Scientist

Biological Sciences Division

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Brian F. Allan

Assistant Professor

Entomology

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sandy J. Andelman

Vice President

Tropical Ecology, Assessment & Monitoring Network

Conservation International

Richard M. Anderson

Risk and Decision Scientist

Energy and Environment Directorate

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Camille M. Antinori

Academic Coordinator

Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Shota Atsumi

Assistant Professor

Chemistry

University of California, Davis

David L. Bael

Graduate Research Assistant

Deptartment of Applied Economics

Institute on the Environment

University of Minnesota  

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Julia K. Baum

Assistant Professor

Biology

University of Victoria

Kamaljit S. Bawa

Distinguished Professor

Biology

University of Massachusetts, Boston

John M. Beman

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences

University of California, Merced

Elena M. Bennett

Assistant Professor

McGill School of Environment and Department of Natural Resource Sciences

McGill University

Genevieve Bennett

Ecosystem Marketplace

Will Bourne

Vice President, Editorial

Semi-Linear LLC

Kate A. Brauman

Global Landscapes Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute on the Environment

University of Minnesota

Cassandra M. Brooks

Marine Scientist and Freelance Science Writer

Independent/Freelance

Sylvie M. Brouder

Professor

Agronomy

Purdue University

Mark T. Brown

Professor & Director

Environmental Engineering Sciences

University of Florida

Sally Brown

Research Associate Professor

School of Forest Resources

University of Washington

David K. Campbell

Professor

Physics and Electrical Engineering

Boston University

Kimberly M. Carlson

School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Yale University

Stephen R. Carpenter

S.A. Forbes Professor of Zoology

Director, Center for Limonology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Clyde F. Casey

Ecosystem Services Theme Lead, Science and Decisions Center

United States Geographical Survey

Kee Chan

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Boston University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Wai Kin (Victor) Chan

Associate Professor

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Robin L. Chazdon

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Connecticut

Joel E. Cohen

Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor

Laboratory of Populations

The Rockefeller University & Columbia University

David C. Cook

Senior Economist

South West Agricultural Region

Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia

Robert Costanza

University Professor of Sustainability

Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions

Portland State University

Katherine D. Cowart

Science Writing Scholar

Texas Veterinary Medical Center

Texas A&M University

Christopher B. Craft

Duey Murphy Professor of Rural Land Policy

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Indiana University

Barbara J. Culliton

President

The Culliton Group/Editorial Strategies

Janet A. Cushing

Biologist/Environmental Planner

Institute for Water Resources

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Gautam Dantas

Assistant Professor

Pathology & Immunology

Washington University School of Medicine

Francis L. de los Reyes

Associate Professor

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

North Carolina State University

Fabrice A.J. DeClerck

Professor of Landscape and Community Ecology

Division of Research and Development/Tropical Agriculture Programs

CATIE

Jessica A. Dempsey

PhD Candidate

Department of Geography

University of British Columbia

Amanda A. DeSantis

Leader - Sustainability Initiatives

Sustainable Growth Excellence Center

DuPont

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Heida L. Diefenderfer

Senior Research Scientist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Francie Diep

Science Writing Scholar

Science, Health and Environmental Reporting

New York University

Joel J. Ducoste

Professor

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

North Carolina State University

Anantha K. Duraiappah

Executive Director

International Human Dimensions Programme

United Nations University

Rose Eveleth

Science Writing Scholar

Science, Health and Environmental Reporting

New York University

Kathleen A. Farley

Assistant Professor

Geography

San Diego State University

Catherine M. Febria

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory - UMCES

University of Maryland

David H. Festa

Vice President, West Coast and Land, Water, Wildlife

Program, Policy, Operations

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Harvey V. Fineberg

President

Institute of Medicine

Susan Fitzpatrick

Vice President

James S. McDonnell Foundation

Jonathan A. Foley

Professor / Director

Institute on the Environment

University of Minnesota

Roxanne Ford

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Jimena Forero

PhD Student

Biology

University of Puerto Rico

Alan J. Franzluebbers

Research Ecologist

Agricultural Research Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Valerie J. Fuchs

Water Resources Engineer

MWH Global

Kenneth R. Fulton

Executive Director

National Academy of Sciences

Gillian L. Galford

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The Woods Hole Research Center

James L. Garrison

Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics/Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Purdue University

Andrea Ghermandi

Senior Associate Researcher

Department of Economics

Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Tony Goldberg

Professor of Epidemiology

School of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Pathobiological Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rebecca L. Goldman-Benner

Natural Resources Senior Associate

Environment and Rural Development

Inter-American Development Bank

Gayathri Gopalakrishnan

Environmental Scientist/Engineer

Energy Systems

Argonne National Laboratory

Patrick Goymer

Senior Editor

Nature

Kimberly A. Gray

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Northwestern University

Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint

Assistant Professor

Kinesiology and Community Health

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Judy J. Gunderson

Associate EH&S Environmental Director

The Environmental Technology Center

The Dow Chemical Company

Benjamin S. Halpern

Director, Research Biologist

Center for Marine Assessment and Planning

University of California, Santa Barbara

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Steven N. Handel

Professor of Ecology and Evolution

Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources

Rutgers University

Anne Heberger Marino

Senior Evaluation Associate

National Academies Keck Futures

Initiative

Miroslav Honzak

Senior Advisor

Science and Knowledge

Conservation International

George Hornberger

Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment

Distinguished University Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment

Vanderbilt University

Hillary B. Huffer

Student and NOAA GSP Fellow

Economics

ECU and NOAA

Jane Carter Ingram

Lead, Ecosystem Services

Global Conservation

Wildlife Conservation Society

Louise E. Jackson

Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist

Department of Land, Air and Water Resources

University of California, Davis

Gary W. Johnson

Graduate Researcher

Ecoinformatics Collaboratory

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

Peter M. Kareiva

Chief Scientist

The Nature Conservancy

Bonnie L. Keeler

Doctoral Student

Natural Resources Science and Management

University of Minnesota

Sarah Jane Keller

Science Writing Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cristen A. Kelly

Associate Program Officer

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Peter S. Kettlewell

Professor of Crop Physiology and Research Coordinator

Crop and Environment Research Centre

Harper Adams University College

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Vilay H. Khandelwal

Science Writing Scholar

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

University of Southern California

Justin Kitzes

PhD Candidate

Environmental Science, Policy and Management

University of California, Berkeley

Gerhard Klimeck

Director, Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

Purdue University

Carolyn Kousky

Fellow

Resources for the Future

Claire Kremen

Associate Professor

Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management

University of California, Berkeley

Kevin J. Krizek

Professor

Director of the PhD Program

Academic Sustainability Coordinator

Planning and Design; Civil Engineering

University of Colorado

Douglas A. Landis

Professor

Entomology

Michigan State University

Meredith Lane

Board Director

Board on Environmental Change and Society

National Research Council

Richard G. Lathrop

Professor

Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources

Rutgers University

Ashley M. Latta

Science Writing Scholar

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

University of Maryland

Rachel Lesinski

Program Associate

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Heather M. Leslie

Sharpe Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology

Center for Environmental Studies

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Brown University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Sarah E. Lester

Research Scientist and Program Manager

Sustainable Fisheries Group

Marine Science Institute and Bren School

University of California, Santa Barbara

Wei Liao

Assistant Professor

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Michigan State University

Yiqi Luo

Professor

Botany and Microbiology

University of Oklahoma

Davis L. Masten

Distinguished Visiting Scholar

MediaX

Stanford University

Gregory M. Masters

Science Writing Scholar

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

University of Maryland

Kirk McAlpin

Science Writing Scholar

Georgia Sea Grant

University of Georgia

Abby McBride

Science Writing Scholar

Graduate Program in Science Writing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William H. McDowell

Professor

Natural Resources and the Environment

University of New Hampshire

Fernando A. Milano

Veterinarian, Master Science

Área de Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad, Dpto. Ciencias Biológicas

Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias

Universidad Nacional del Centro (National University)

Shalini Misra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Planning, Policy, and Design

School of Social Ecology

University of California, Irvine

Beth Marie Mole

Science Writing Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz

Hal Mooney

Professor of Biology

Department of Biological Sciences

Stanford University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Emilio F. Moran

Distinguished Professor

Anthropology

Indiana University

Helene Morlon

Doctor

Center for Applied Mathematics

CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, France

David A. Mortensen

Professor - Applied Ecologist

Ecology Inter College Program and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences

The Pennsylvania State University

Katrina Mullan

Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow

Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Suzanne P. Murphy

Researcher (Professor)

Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Seth C. Murray

Assistant Professor (Quantitative Genetics and Maize Breeding)

Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

Texas A&M University / Texas AgriLife Research

Shahid Naeem

Professor of Ecology and Chair

Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology

Columbia University in the City of New York

Hamid Najib

Information Technology and Program Support Specialist

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Roseanna M. Neupauer

Associate Professor

Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

University of Colorado

Eduard T. Niesten

Senior Director

Conservation Stewards Program

Conservation International

Lydia P. Olander

Director of Ecosystem Services Program

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Duke University

Gabriel P. Olchin

Biological Scientist

Office of the Science Advisor

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Jennifer K. O’Leary

Lead Scientist

OneReef

Diane E. Pataki

Associate Professor

Department of Earth System Science

University of California, Irvine

Maria Pellegrini

Executive Director, Programs

W.M. Keck Foundation

Stephen Polasky

Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics

Department of Applied Economics

University of Minnesota

Alison G. Power

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cornell University

Thomas L. Rabaey

Research Agronomist

Agriculture Research and Technology

General Mills Inc.

Volker C. Radeloff

Forest and Wildlife Ecology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

James W. Raich

Professor

Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

Iowa State University

Richard Ready

Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics

Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Pennsylvania State University

Taylor H. Ricketts

Director

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

University of Vermont

Penny K. Riggs

Assistant Professor

Animal Science

Texas A&M University

James A. Riggsbee

President

RiverBank Ecosystems

Adena R. Rissman

Assistant Professor

Forest and Wildlife Ecology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jean B. Ristaino

Professor and Director of Global Plant Health Internship Program

Plant Pathology

North Carolina State University

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Bruce E. Rittmann

Regents’ Professor of Environmental Engineering

Director, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute

Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University

Robert J. Roehr

Journalist

Freelance: BMJ, Medscape, Scientific American Online. AAAS

Diego Rose

Professor

Department of Global Community Health

Tulane University

Todd V. Royer

Associate Professor

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Indiana University

Keith Rozendal

Science Writing Scholar

Graduate School of Journalism

University of British Columbia - Vancouver

John D. Rummel

Director, Institute for Coastal Science and Policy

Institute for Coastal Science and Policy

East Carolina University

Osvaldo E. Sala

Julie A. Wrigley Chair and Foundation Professor

School of Life Sciences

Arizona State University

James Salzman

Mordecai Professor of Law

Nicholas Professor of Environmental Policy

Law School/Nicholas School of the Environment

Duke University

Jessica A. Sanderson

Manager, Sustainability and Product Stewardship

Energy & Sustainability

USG Corporation

Kathryn A. Saterson

Assistant Laboratory Director

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Darius J. Semmens

Research Physical Scientist

U.S. Geological Survey

Sabina L. Shaikh

Lecturer & Senior Research Economist

Program on Global Environment

University of Chicago

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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Laura Smith

Science Writing Scholar

University of Georgia

Jennie C. Stephens

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

International Development, Community and Environment

Clark University

Daniel Stokols

Chancellor’s Professor

Department of Planning, Policy, and Design and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

Program in Public Health and Department of Epidemiology

University of California, Irvine

David Stopak

Recruiting Editor

Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences

Mary E. Stromberger

Associate Professor

Soil and Crop Sciences

Colorado State University

Kimberly A. Suda-Blake

Senior Program Director

National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

Christina B. Sumners

Science Writing Scholar

Veterinary Integrative Biosciences

Texas A&M University

Ariana E. Sutton-Grier

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Office of Habitat Conservation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Scott M. Swinton

Professor

Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

Michigan State University

Gary M. Tabor

Director

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Center for Large Landscape Conservation

Mercedes Talley

Program Director

W.M. Keck Foundation

Berrin Tansel

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Florida International University

Austin R. Troy

Associate Professor

Rubenstein School of Environmental and Natural Resources and Gund Institute

University of Vermont

Suggested Citation:"Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13331.
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B.L. Turner, II

Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability

Arizona State University

Kristina M. Twigg

Science Writing Scholar

Texas A&M University

Lisa A. Wainger

Research Associate Professor

Chesapeake Biological Lab

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Nathalie F. Walker

Manager, Tropical Agriculture, Forests and Climate Project

International Climate and Energy Program

National Wildlife Federation

Kelly Wendland

Conservation Social Sciences

University of Idaho

Paul K. Westerhoff

Professor (Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Program)

School of Sustainable Engineering and The Built Environment

Arizona State University

Cranos M. Williams

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Carolina State University

Beth A. Winkelstein

Professor

Bioengineering

University of Pennsylvania

Heather E. Wright

Environment Program Officer

Environment Program

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Fengqi You

Assistant Professor

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Northwestern University

Stephen L. Young

Weed Ecologist

Agronomy & Horticulture

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Mark A. Zondlo

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Princeton University

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Natural environments provide enormously valuable, but largely unappreciated, services that aid humans and other earthlings. It is becoming clear that these life-support systems are faltering and failing worldwide due to human actions that disrupt nature's ability to do its beneficial work.

Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability documents the National Academies' Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Ecosystem Services. At this conference, participants were divided into 14 interdisciplinary research teams to explore diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. The teams needed to address the challenge of communicating and working together from a diversity of expertise and perspectives as they attempted to solve a complicated, interdisciplinary problem in a relatively short time. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability describes how ecosystem services scientists work to document the direct and indirect links between humanity's well-being and the many benefits provided by the natural systems we occupy.

This report explains the specific topics the interdisciplinary research teams addressed at the conference, including the following:

-how ecosystem services affect infectious and chronic diseases

-how to identify what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale

-how to develop social and technical capabilities to respond to abrupt changes in ecosystem services

-how to design agricultural and aquacultural systems that provide food security while maintaining the full set of ecosystem services needed from landscapes and seascapes

-how to design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition

-how to develop appropriate methods to accurately value natural capital and ecosystem services

-how to design a federal policy to maintain or improve natural capital and ecosystem services within the United States, including measuring and documenting the effectiveness of the policy

-how to design a system for international trade that accounts for impacts on ecosystem services

-how to develop a program that increases the American public's appreciation of the basic principles of ecosystem services

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