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Announcing: Sustaining Economies and Natural Resources in a Changing World Symposium being held at the University of Florida's Reitz Union April 2-3, 2013 PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED SYMPOSIUM FLYER AND CALL FOR POSTERS FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER, PLEASE VISIT http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/landgrant/ CONTACT: Carolyn Cox ([log in to unmask]) Speakers: --------------- Bob Bailey, President of CH2M HILL's Water Business Group, recently appointed to the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Water Security Sam Baldwin, Chief Science Officer at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy Thomas Eason, Deputy Director of Habitat and Conservation, FWC Blair Feltmate, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo Dr. Nancy Gassman, Natural Resources Administrator, Energy and Sustainability Program Dave Gustafson, Senior Fellow, Environmental & Ag Policy Modeling Lead at Monsanto | Director at ILSI-RF Center for Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Agriculture & Nutrition Security Karl Havens, Director of Florida Sea Grant Rick Hireskorn, Vice President of CH2MHILL Atlanta operation managing the London Games John Ingram, NERC Food Security Leader Tim Jackson, PE, Senior Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Transportation Engineering, Orlando Dr. Molly Jahn, Former Undersecretary of Agriculture, Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and Department of Agronomy, Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Provost for Sustainable Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and as President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York Kier Klepzig, Assistant Director, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Fred Merrill, Urban Planning Consultant, Principal at Sasaki Associates Architecture and Planning, Boston John Pait, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Product Development for ArborGen Jack Payne, Senior VP, IFAS, University of Florida Todd Powell, Director of Real Estate, Plum Creek, Envision Alachua Project Dr. Sara Pryor, Provosts Professor of Atmospheric Science Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Indiana University Steve Seibert, Owner, Seibert Law, Strategic Advisor to UF-IFAS Dr. Brent Shanks, the Mike and Jean Steffenson Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the NSF's Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) at Iowa State University Ron Sims, Former Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development & Former Executive of Martin Luther King, Jr. County, Washington State Dr. Josias Zietsman, Head of the Environment and Air Quality Division at Texas A & M Transportation Institute (TTI)