[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: Biodiversity Conference- Thomas Friedman to Speak!

[Maura Hagan]

FYI...

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> From: "NCSE Conference" <conference at ncseonline.org>
> Date: November 7, 2008 9:48:00 AM MST
> To: "hagan at ucar.edu" <hagan at ucar.edu>
> Subject: Biodiversity Conference- Thomas Friedman to Speak!
> Reply-To: conference at ncseonline.org
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> National Council for Science and the Environment's
> 9th National Conference of Science, Policy and the Environment:
> Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World
> December 8-10, 2008
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> Award Winning Author-
> Thomas Friedman- to Keynote
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> Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winning  
> author, will provide the keynote address on December 9th at NCSE's  
> national conference Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World .   
> Following his #1 best seller, The World is Flat, Friedman's new book  
> Hot, Flat, and Crowded, brings a fresh outlook to the crises of  
> destabilizing climate change, rising competition for energy, and its  
> impact on biodiversity and humanity.  The conference will be held  
> December 8-10, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International  
> Trade Center in Washington, DC.
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> Please join us to hear Tom Friedman at at 9am on Tuesday, December  
> 9th.  He will be signing copies of his new book following his  
> presentation.  After the keynote address, you have the opportunity  
> to attend one of 12 concurrent symposia exploring critical topics as  
> ocean biodiversity and human dominated landscapes.  In the afternoon  
> plenary, panels of leading policymakers, scientists and  
> conservationists will discuss the new agenda for biodiversity  
> science and conservation developed the previous afternoon and  
> consider opportunities in the Obama administration and new Congress  
> for advancing this agenda.
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> Friedman joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter  
> specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the  
> chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics  
> correspondents. Friedman has reported on the Middle East conflict,  
> the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy,  
> international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist  
> threat. Friedman currently writes a syndicated column for the New  
> York Times on related issues. Friedman has written several books  
> including From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), The Lexus and the  
> Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), The World Is Flat (FSG, 2005), and Hot,  
> Flat, and Crowded (FSG, 2008).
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> Cristian Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural History,  
> Smithsonian Institution
> Eric Chivian, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment
> Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
> Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
> George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society
> Harold Mooney, Stanford University
> William Sutherland,, University of Cambridge
> Rita Colwell, former Director of the National Science Foundation
> Sir Peter Crane, Professor, University of Chicago
> Thomas Lovejoy, President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science,  
> Economics, and the Environment
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