Special Feature - Climate Change and Transportation Panel - 5/14/2008

Climate Change and Transportation Panel featuring; Virginia Sickle-Burkett, Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at the USGS; Edward J. Dobson, Author and Professor; David Swann, MLA Mountain-View, AB; Dr. Barry Wellar, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa; and Hans-Peter Plag, Research Professor, University of Nevada.

Panelists USGS Virginia R. Van Sickle-Burkett - Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at the US Geological Survey Virginia Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at the U.S. Geological Survey. She was formerly Chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the National Wetlands Research Center and Associate Regional Chief Biologist for the USGS Central Region. Dr. Burkett has served as Director of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management Program, Director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and Assistant Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey. She has published extensively on the topics of global change and low-lying coastal zones. She was a Lead Author on the United Nation's IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (2001 and 2007) and an IPCC Technical Paper on Water (2007). School of Cooperative Individualism Edward J. Dobson, Author and Professor Mr. Dobson has been a member of the faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science since 1981, where he teaches various seminars on specific topics relating to history, economics, political philosophy, urban redevelopment and housing. Dobson founded the School of Cooperative Individualism in 1997 as an internet-based educational project. He has published articles in a variety of publications including GeoPhilos, Focus Magazine and the Philadelphia Economist, and is the author of a book entitled The Discovery of First Principles. MLA Mountain-View, AB David Swann, MLA Mountain-View, AB Dr. David Swann is a medical doctor and Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Mountain View. He currently holds the environment, sustainable resource development and aboriginal relations portfolios within the Alberta Liberal Caucus. Dr. Swann is active within his community and was responsible for initiating the Healthy City Project in Calgary in 1987. Swann is the co-founder of the Calgary-based group CANESI (Canadian Network to End Sanctions on Iraq) which later became CANDIL (Canada Democracy and International Law). University of Ottawa Dr. Barry Wellar, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa Dr. Barry Wellar is Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Ottawa, Distinguished Research Fellow, Transport 2000 Canada, and Principal, Wellar Consulting Inc. He is a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario, and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Dr. Wellar is currently a member of the Strategic Safety and Security Panel, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. His current research projects include climate change and sustainable transport, measuring transportation system performance, pedestrians’ safety, applications of geographic information systems and sciences, and trends in strategic safety and security issues involving infrastructure interdependencies, such as transportation systems and water systems. University of Nevada Hans-Peter Plag, Research Professor, University of Nevada Since 2004, Hans-Peter Plag is a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and affiliated with the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory. His main fields of expertise are in solid Earth geophysics, global geodynamics, the rheology of the Earth's mantle and continuum mechanics, deformation of the solid Earth, Earth system dynamics and global change, global to local sea level changes, space geodesy and geodetic reference frames. He has provided scientific advise to private companies and governmental committees, particularly with respect to future sea level rise. Current main professional activities are related to the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), which is implementing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Since 1994, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geodynamics and since 1996 Editor-in-Chief for geodesy for Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. .

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