Plenary Speakers:
- Ambassador David Balton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State
- Rear Admiral Frederick Kenney, Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel, U.S. Coast Guard
- Phil Keslin, Chief Technology Officer, small lab within Google
- Alan Thornhill, Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Department of Interior
- Fran Ulmer, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Panelist Speakers:
- Daniel Aldrich, AAAS Fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Caitlyn Antrim, Executive Director, Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans
- Larry Atkinson, Eminent Professor and Samuel L. and Fay M. Slover Professor of Oceanography, Old Dominion University
- Holly Bamford, Deputy Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Franklin Boteler, Assistant Director, Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Margaret Caldwell, Executive Director for the Center for Ocean Solutions and Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy
- Dave Chenette, Chief Scientist, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center
- Charles Chesnutt, Coastal Engineer, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Ann Codrington, Director of Drinking Water Protection Division, Environmental Protection Agency
- Jerry Comcowich, Associate Director, International Center for Climate & Society, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Heather Conley, Senior Fellow and Director of the Europe Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Bruce Corliss, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke; Chair of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System Council
- Susan Cutter, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography; Director, Hazards Research Lab, University of South Carolina
- Bill Dewey, Public Policy and Communications Director, Taylor Shellfish Company
- Scott Doney, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Richard Feely, Senior Scientist, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Steve Fetter, Principal Assistant Director for Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Christopher Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington and Professor, Stanford University
- Genene Fisher, Senior Advisor for Space Weather, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service
- Mike Freilich, Earth Science Division Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- David Gallo, Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Bernard Goldstein, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
- Gerry Galloway, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, University of Maryland
- Govenor Jim Geringer, Director, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
- Louis Gritzo, Vice President and Manager of Research, FM Global
- Howard K. Gruenspecht, Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Karl Gschneidner, Jr., Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
- John Haines, Program Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey
- Bryan Hannegan, Vice President, Environment and Renewables, Electric Power Research Institute
- Ron Hatch, Director of Navigation Systems, NavCom Technology
- Jerry Hatfield, Laboratory Director and Supervisory Plant Physiologist, United States Department of Agriculture – Agriculture Research Service
- Sue Ellen Haupt, Scientific Program Manager, Weather Systems Assessment Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Carl G. Hedde, Senior Vice President and Head of Risk Accumulation, Munich Re America
- Jack Hedin, Farmer/Owner, Featherstone Farms
- Benjamin Hobbs, Research Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
- Rob Huebert, Associate Professor, University of Calgary
- Robert Jackson, Professor and Nicholas Chair of Global Environmental Change, Duke University
- Kristin Jacobs, Vice Mayor, Broward County Commission, District 2, Florida
- Robert Jaffe, Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
- Thomas Karl, Director, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center; Chair,U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Paul Kirshen, Research Professor, University of New Hampshire
- Jim Klimchuk, Research Astrophysicist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Robert Leland, Director, Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics Center, Sandia National Laboratories
- Lorenz Magaard, Director, International Center for Climate & Society, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Timothy Manning, Deputy Administrator, Protection and National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Administration
- Genevieve Maricle, Environment and Climate Change Policy Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Robert S. Marshall, President & CEO, Earth Networks
- Marcia McNutt, Director, U.S. Geological Survey
- Colin McCormick, Senior Advisor for R&D, U.S. Department of Energy
- Lawrence D. Meinert, Program Coordinator, Mineral Resources Program, U.S. Geological Survey
- Ryan Nicholls, Director, Springfield – Greene County, MO, Office of Emergency Management
- Astrid Ogilvie, Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder
- John Oliver, Senior Ocean Policy Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard
- Brenda Pierce, U.S. Geological Survey
- Kevin Ranker, Senator, Majority Assistant Whip, and Chair of the Committee on Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters, Washington State Senate
- Michael Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
- Rod Schoonover, Analyst, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
- Eric Schwaab, Acting Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management and Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- David Spears, State Geologist, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
- Melissa Stults, Science Research Fellow- Adaptation, University of Michigan
- Rear Admiral David Titley, Director, Maritime Domain Awareness and Space, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy
- Stanley Tom, Tribal Administrator
- Brad Udall, Director, University of Colorado-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Western Water Assessment
- Marianne Walck, Director, Geoscience, Climate and Consequence Effects Center, Sandia National Laboratories
- Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, Executive Director, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana
Moderators:
- Vera Alexander, President, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
- Casey Brown, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Rick Coffin, Chief Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory
- Peter Colohan, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Bob Corell, Principal, Global Environment & Technology Foundation
- Chad English, Director of Science Policy Outreach, COMPASS
- Bruce Forbes, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
- Robert Gagosian, President, Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- Richard Harris, Science Correspondent, NPR News
- Louis Lanzerotti, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Pat Leahy, Executive Director, American Geosciences Institute
- Christine McEntee, Executive Director/CEO, American Geophysical Union
- Michael McPhaden, President, American Geophysical Union
- Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America
- Gary Pierzynski, President, Soil Science Society of America, and Professor of Soil and Environmental Chemistry, Kansas State University
- Susan Phillips, Energy Reporter, WHYY
- Peter Schultz, Principal, ICF International
- Edward Thomas, President, Natural Hazards Mitigation Association
- John Tichotsky, Alaska Cambridge Group
- Michael Tubman, Senior Fellow, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
- David Verardo, Atmosphere Section Head, Geosciences Directorate, National Science Foundation
