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Jennifer Devine, Ph.D., is a critical human geographer and political ecologist who studies community forestry, grassroots politics and activism, critical race and gender theories, and tourism and heritage management.

How do you talk to kids about what鈥檚 going on with our planet and how they can make a difference? Peg Keiner, Director of Innovation at GEMS World Academy and the United Nations Ambassador for Chicago 鈥� Life on Land, is an expert when it comes to educating kids about the environments surrounding them, taking them right to the source to do so. Through field studies, exploration of nature preserves, and attending the climate march, Peg and her students are putting into action what they鈥檝e been learning in the classroom.  Peg is a National Geographic Education Fellow, a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow, Apple Distinguished Educator, and a Google Earth Education Expert with over 15 years of teaching experience. She can offer informative and engaging ways to discuss with children what鈥檚 going on with our environment, and some easy ways for kids to make a real difference right in their neighborhood. 

Shawn Ryan is the Director of the Homeland Security & Materials Management Division in ORD鈥檚 Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response. In addition, Shawn is the National Program Director for EPA鈥檚 Homeland Security Research Program. Shawn has over 19 years of experience at EPA, including 16 years leading research to support EPA鈥檚 Homeland Security mission. He has initiated and led several large-scale interagency projects that have made significant advances in Homeland Security and served as models of partnership. His research focuses on biological and chemical agent-related decontamination.

I am a Reader in Marine Ecology and Evolution based in the Institute of Marine Sciences, part of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.

My research is focused on the interconnected restoration ecology of coastal habitats, particularly oyster reefs, seagrass and saltmarsh. This requires understanding species鈥� ecology: how marine organisms function and interact with the environmental pressures such as climate change, microplastics, disease, invasive species and excessive nutrients (eutrophication).

Our coastal habitats have suffered significant and devastating losses over the last 50-200 years, and part of my research is study how biodiversity is created in the marine environment so that we鈥檙e better equipped to protect, maintain and enhance it. My research aims to quantify both biodiversity function and other ecological services provided by coastal habitats, such as water quality regulation, fish nursery function and carbon and nutrient storage.

Recently I have applied my knowledge and expertise in molluscan ecology and evolution to restoration of the native oyster Ostrea edulis. In 2017 I founded the UK and Ireland Native Oyster Restoration Network in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London. The aim of the network is to catalyse a national approach to oyster habitat restoration via action, communication and providing evidence for policy change. I'm an advisory board member for the European Native Oyster Restoration Alliance and a member the Aquaculture Research Collaborative Hub UK, an academia-led network developing a UK aquaculture community.

I also provide scientific leadership for the Solent Oyster Restoration Project, run in collaboration with Blue Marine Foundation. Over 60,000 oysters have been restored to the Solent so far. I enjoy communicating this research in engaging ways 鈥� most recently on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. I'm a keen advocate of effective science communication to support changes in policy and the sustainable management of marine resources.

I'm a reviewer for several scientific journals and an editor for Restoration Ecology, the journal of the Society for Ecological Restoration. We are currently co-writing the European Monitoring Guidebook for Native Oyster Restoration Projects, due to be published in November 2020. I am the lead editor for the Restoration Handbook for European Native Oyster Habitat, commissioned by the Environment Agency, to be published in September 2020.

You can find my profile here: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/joanne-preston

Dr Hendy is involved in a number of marine conservation projects on the South Coast of England  that can help reduce the impact of climate change including a re-wilding project that aims to create a safe habitat for one of the UK鈥檚 native seahorse species and a Sir David Attenborough-backed campaign to restore a vast underwater kelp forest off the West Sussex coast.

I am a Research Fellow working in the field of tropical marine biology and ecosystem services. I am also an HSE (Health and Safety Executive)-approved scuba diver and underwater photographer.

My expertise centres on marine coastal environments, where I study the ecological condition of habitats to develop and support management strategies for their protection and conservation. 

I have worked internationally as a researcher on projects and expeditions. I enjoy taking a multidisciplinary approach, which gives me the overview required to manage projects effectively.

In 2018, I jointly coordinated an economic valuation of ecosystem services in the National Park of Banc d'Arguin on the coast of Mauritania in Western Africa, and I recently reviewed the 2020 IUCN World Heritage Outlook assessment for Banc d鈥橝rguin World Heritage Site.

I have been engaged from the outset with the Horizon 2020-funded research project MaCoBioS (Marine Coastal Ecosystems Biodiversity and Services in a Changing World). This project involves 16 international partners and investigates the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystems services, with case studies in the Lesser Antilles, the North-Western Mediterranean Sea, and Northern Europe to cover the most important marine habitats. It began on the ground in June 2020.

I enjoy the technical challenge of such projects as well as working with stakeholders and decision-makers to achieve positive outcomes from the research.

You can find my profile here: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/ewan-tregarot

I am a glaciologist with research and teaching interests in GIS and remote sensing, climate and environmental change, and glaciers and glacial environments.

I studied for an undergraduate degree at the University of Plymouth from 2005-2008 before completing an MSc (by research) at Durham University in 2010, during which I investigated former glacier dynamics in southernmost Patagonia. During my PhD research from 2010-2014 I was based at Queen Mary University of London and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS, Norway). This work focused on the landscapes produced by active surging glaciers on the High-Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

I joined the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing in February 2014. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in December 2015.

You can find my profile here: https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/harold-lovell

I am a geomorphologist and remote sensing scientist, specialising in low-cost applications for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).  I  developed and manage the MSc in Crisis and Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth, working with practitioners to develop our SimEx disaster response simulation exercise, which is now one of the largest annual exercises in the world. After gaining a BSc in Geology & Geography at Nottingham University, my career started at Stirling University with PhD research examining the geomorphology of the Sierra Leone diamondfields. I have extensive experience of using geomorphology and remote sensing to map geohazards and natural resources, consulting for BP Minerals International, Rio Tinto, Pioneer Goldfields, Golden Star Resources, NorWest Resources and Adam Smith International, as well as the Environment Agency in the UK and  the overseas development agencies of Britain (DfID), Canada (CIDA), Germany (GTZ) and Japan (JICA). Recently I have been working on projects involving the UK Satellite Applications Catapult: applying remote sensing to deection of illicit gold mining in Collombia and climate change adaptation applications for small island states, in conjunction with the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR).

You can find my profile here: https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/richard-teeuw

Dr Tommaso Jucker is a NERC Independent Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, where he leads the Selva Lab. His research explores the processes that shape the structure, diversity and function of the world鈥檚 forests, with a view of predicting how these will respond to rapid environmental change and how this in turn will impact society. To tackle these questions, Dr Jucker and his team at Selva Lab use a range of approaches, including manipulative experiments, long-term field observations, and cutting-edge remote sensing and modelling. Dr Jucker's core projects include exploring how logging and forest degradation associated with oil palm expansion impact the resilience of Borneo鈥檚 tropical forests to drought, investigating how forest dynamics shape the 3D structure of the world鈥檚 forest canopies, and mapping the distribution of old-growth woodlands in Australia鈥檚 iconic Great Western Woodlands to guide their conservation and restoration. Dr Jucker has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including ones in Science, Nature, PNAS, Ecology Letters and Global Change Biology. His research is currently funded by NERC, The Royal Society and The Leverhulme Trust.

Education
2009 - BSc Biological Sciences, University of Roma Tor Vergata, 
2010 - MSc Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Imperial College, London, 
2015 - PhD Forest Ecology, University of Cambridge

Affiliations
2017 - present - Associate Editor for Journal of Ecology and Associate Editor for Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 
2018 - present - Review Editor for Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Accomplishments
2015 - Harper Prize, highly commended for best paper by young author in Journal of Ecology, 
2016 - President鈥檚 Prize for best presentation at the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society鈥檚 annual conference, 
2017 - Australian Academy of Science Travel Award, 
2019 - NERC Independent Research Fellowship, 2020 - British Ecological Society Founders Prize (This award commemorates the enthusiasm and vision of the Society's founders and is awarded each year to an outstanding early-career ecologist who is starting to make a significant contribution to their field).

Michael Fakhri is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2020-2026), which means he is the leading independent UN expert on matters of hunger, malnutrition and famine from a human rights perspective. He reports regularly to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly. He has also advised the Security Council, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, Committee on World Food Security, and International Fund for Agricultural Development. He is the author of the book Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law (Cambridge University Press).

Anna V. Smith writes and edits from Boulder, Colorado. She is currently a Ted Scripps Fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder, on sabbatical from her position at High Country News as the assistant editor for HCN鈥檚 Indigenous affairs desk. Her work has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, Audubon, Undark, Slate and Mother Jones.

Anna has spoken at multiple journalism conferences and university classes and is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Native American Journalists Association, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She is an alum of the University of Oregon, with concurrent degrees in journalism and environmental studies.

Anna is available as a sensitivity reader, freelance writer and editor, panelist and guest lecturer.

Adell L. Amos is served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Amos oversaw legal and policy issues involving the nation鈥檚 water resources and public lands. She worked directly on water resilience and planning, wilderness policy, the National Landscape Conservation System, renewable energy and its associated water footprint, low-impact hydropower, dam removal efforts including the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, the America鈥檚 Great Outdoors Initiative, and many others.

Her research emphasizes the jurisdictional governance structures that are deployed for water resources management in the United States and internationally. She focuses on the relationship between federal and state governments on water resource management, the role of administrative agencies in setting national, state, and local water policy, the role of law in developing water policy and responding to change, and the impact of stakeholder participation in water resource decision-making. She is currently working on a multi-year project which focuses on the integration of law and policy into hydrologic and socioeconomic modeling for the Willamette River Basin through a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort funded by the NOAA and the National Science Foundation.

Amos holds the Clayton R. Hess Professorship and serves as the Executive Director for the Environment Initiative at the UO. She teaches regularly in the nationally ranked Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, including courses in Water Law, Federal Administrative Law, Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Oregon Water Law and Policy. Her teaching and scholarship have been recognized by the UO Fund for Faculty Excellence and the Hollis Teaching Awards.

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). She was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow in 2022. Her most recent book  “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” has been on the New York Times best seller list since 2020. The book is a collection of essays weaving traditional ecological knowledge with scientific knowledge to examine the relationship people have and can have, with the living environment.
Dr. Kimmerer brings to her scientific research and writing her lived experience as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the principles of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration and the ecology of mosses.
In collaboration with tribal partners, Dr. Kimmerer and her students have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people. She is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science education for Native students and to create new models for the integration of indigenous philosophy and scientific tools on behalf of land and culture. She is engaged in programs that introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge.
Dr. Kimmerer holds a Master's and Ph.D. in botany from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor's in botany from ESF. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge, and restoration ecology.

Xiao Su is a researcher at the  and an assistant professor of  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusettes Institute of Technology in 2017, and his B.A. from the University of Waterloo in 2011.
Professor Su is a chemical engineer whose interdisciplinary research program encompasses energy and environmental processes, water treatment and purification, chemical and biological manufacturing, and advanced materials synthesis. He has developed greener methods to manufacture, use and recycle chemicals, and his recent work on electrodialysis-based water purification addresses the energy and water crises simultaneously.
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Honors and awards:


2023: AIChE Separations FRI/John G. Kunesh Award


2023: ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloids & Surfactant Science


2023: School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award


2022: Center for Advanced Study, Fellow


2021: International Society of Electrochemistry Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry


2020: ACS Victor K. LaMer Award


2020: RCSA Scialog Fellow

Professor Rowell’s research interests revolve around risk regulation, the environment, and human behavior. She has taught courses on environmental law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics, risk and the environment, law and sustainable economic development, and valuation. Her research focuses on integrating scientific and social science insights into risk regulation and on the interactions between law, science, social science, and policy.
Her key interest areas are regulation and risk analysis, environmental law and policy, climate change, cost-benefit analysis, law, and psychology.
Recently, her research has focused on bringing interdisciplinary insights into environmental law. This year she published three books: The Psychology of Environmental Law (with Kenworthey Bilz), which explores the relationship between environmental law and psychology, and two companion volumes – A Guide to U.S. Environmental Law and A Guide to EU Environmental Law (with Josephine van Zeben) – which are designed to make environmental law accessible to non-legal readers and to foreign lawyers. Her past scholarly work has been published in law reviews and interdisciplinary journals including Science, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review. 
Professor Rowell has been a visiting professor at Duke Law School (2018) and Harvard Law School (2015-16) and was a visiting researcher at Oxford University (2015, 2016). In 2015, she also completed a federal detail at the Environmental Protection Agency, and was named a University Scholar through a program at the University of Illinois meant to recognize the university’s “very best teachers and scholars.”
Before joining the Illinois faculty in 2010, Professor Rowell was a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, from which she also received her J.D. After law school, Professor Rowell practiced at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. Professor Rowell has a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology/archaeology, which she earned from the University of Washington at the age of 18. Before law school, she worked as an encyclopedia entry writer and as a video game tester.

Paul Hai is the Associate Director of the Adirondack Ecological Center and leads the Northern Forest Institute for Conservation Education and Leadership Training (NFI), based at the Newcomb Campus of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
He is an expert in creating inter- and multidisciplinary programs using natural history and the process of science as the connective thread between disciplines. Exploring the interconnections between science, art, math, literature, history, and technology, all while using the Adirondacks as an unparalleled outdoor classroom inspires him to teach and to create new programs engaging students of all ages.
Areas of expertise include:  

The historic and contemporary tension between managing natural and human communities in the Adirondacks
The influence of the Adirondacks in United States environmental, public policy, and cultural history
The intersections of science, art, and the humanities
Creating leadership development and trek-based training programs building leadership capacity and skills for emerging and established professionals
Working to improve human diversity in natural science academic programs and careers, and in the Adirondacks more broadly

Hai is co-founder of Children in Nature, New York, and serves on the Grassroots Leadership Team of the national Children and Nature Network. 
In partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, he co-founded the Hudson River Environmental Opportunities Network and is one of four co-founders of the .
Hai earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Houston and his master’s in environmental education at ESF.  

Mark Lichtenstein is the executive operating officer, chief sustainability officer, and an Environmental Studies adjunct professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). He’s a faculty associate in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration at Syracuse University’s (SU) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Lichtenstein has been engaged with sustainability and regenerative community engagements throughout the United States including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. He focuses his efforts on post-disaster efforts in the Caribbean, testifying to the U.S. Congress in 2017 about the region’s post-hurricane response, and co-founding and advising ESF’s “Acorns2Action,” a student-led disaster response group. He was an active member of the Vieques Sustainability Task Force established by President Barack Obama, and an initiative of the White House Task Force on Puerto Rico. He is a member of the SUNY Puerto Rico Task Force and New York State Stands with Puerto Rico initiative. He is vice president and board member for Island Green Living Association, treasurer and board member for ViequesLove, and an Island Innovation Ambassador. He co-founded the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Recycling Partnerships.
Lichtenstein served eight terms as president, is an honorary board member, and lifetime achievement award winner of the National Recycling Coalition; co-led the formation of national and regional recycling organizations in the U.S.; and, conceived of, and is principal investigator for the New York State Center for Sustainable Materials Management, the first of its kind in the U.S. He is an advisory council member of Beyond Plastics based at Bennington College. He co-founded and led the first national sustainable materials management summit held at the University of Maryland, and developed and directed a regional sustainable materials management program in upstate New York, and marketed the first-ever recyclables traded through the Chicago Board of Trade.
Lichtenstein is a select member of the National Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution Professionals administered by the U.S. government through the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution. He is an advisory council member for Planet Forward hosted by George Washington University, led sustainability centers at SU, and served as an expert witness to the U.S. Environmental Finance Advisory Board. He is the founder of Embrace Impatience Associates, and the principal of Lichtenstein Consulting, providing training and consultation on board development, circular economy, communications, conflict management, environmental finance, facilitation, leadership, negotiation, recycling, resiliency, and sustainability.
He has a Master of Arts in Public Administration, and a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution, both from SU’s Maxwell School, and graduate training in environmental science and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from ESF. He has certified mediator training, an interest-based negotiator and process facilitator, and a certified public participation specialist.