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Dr. Bernardo Aguilar
Ecological Economist and Environmental Attorney, Program Director of the Center for Sustainable
Development Studies of Costa Rica, Professor for the Costa Rican National Distance University, and
Researcher for the Legal Research Institute of the University of Costa Rica.
Dr. Aguilar has performed research in the fields of ecological economic valuation and sustainability indicators. Much of this work has been focused on the biophysical analysis of tropical crops and the development of holistic indicators of ecosystem health. Dr. Val Beasley
Professor of Veterinary and Ecological Toxicology and Chairperson, Division of Pharmacology and
Toxicology, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Director of Envirovet—Intensive Educational Programs in
Wildlife and Ecosystem Health. Former President of the American Academy of Veterinary and
Comparative Toxicology and Chairperson of the Examining Committee of the American Board of
Veterinary Toxicology. Founding Officer of the Veterinary Specialty Section of the Society of
Toxicology. Member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Veterinarians for the Environment
and Member of the Committee on Environmental Affairs of the American Veterinary Medical
Association.
Dr. Beasley's current research interests include blue-green algal toxins, mass die-offs in Rift Valley flamingos, and world wide declines in amphibian populations. He has written and presented papers in a number of forums on ecosystem health as a framework for integration of future ecological, educational, economic, sociologic, and political goals. He is currently working toward the first Envirovet Terrestrial program as well as the East African Symposium on Ecotoxicology and Ecosystem Health. Dr. György Miklós Böhm
Faculty of Medicine, University of Säo Paulo, Brazil.
Born in Budapest, Dr. Böhm has lived in Brazil since 1948 and has worked at the University of Säo Paulo since 1962 He specializes in experimental pathology and in 1975 founded the Laboratory of Experimental Air Pollution in the Faculty of Medicine. His main line of investigation is health and environmental effects of urban air pollution. Dr. Donald E. Buckingham
Associate Professor at College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and Associate
Director (Law) of that University's Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law, and the Environment.
Dr. Buckingham's research and teaching areas focus on the international trade of agricultural products, agricultural law, environmental law, and the effects of international trade obligations on ecosystem health. Dr. J. Baird Callicott
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, USA.
Dr. Callicott is the author of Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays on Environmental Philosophy; Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics; and In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays
in Environmental Philosophy.
He is editor or coeditor of Earth Summit Ethics; The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold; Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought; and Companion to A Sand County Almanac. He is also a frequent contributor to journals of applied science, such as Conservation Biology and Ecosystem Health. Dr. Norm Christensen
Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, USA. Dr. Robert Costanza
Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, professor in the Center for
Environmental Science at Solomons, and professor in the Zoology Department at College Park; co-founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE); vice president of
the International Society for Ecosystem Health.
Dr. Costanza's academic research has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales. This includes landscape level spatial simulation modeling, analysis of energy flows through economic and ecological systems, valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital, and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. Ms. Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme; former Assistant Deputy
Minister, Environment Canada; and former Deputy Minister, Saskatchewan Culture and Youth,
Canada.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell's public service career has spanned provincial, federal (Canada), and international borders. Recently, as Executive Director of the United Nations' Environment Programme, she sought to improve public awareness on environmental issues. Earlier in her career, she served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Environment Canada—the federal department responsible for the national weather and atmospheric agency. In that capacity, she played a leading role in global efforts to negotiate the treaty on climate change adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Dr. William H. Farland
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency.
The National Center for which Dr. Farland provides leadership has major responsibility for the conduct of chemical specific risk assessments in support of EPA regulatory programs, the development of Agency-wide guidance on risk assessment, and the conduct of research to improve risk assessment. Dr. Farland holds a Ph.D. (1976) from UCLA in Cell Biology and Biochemistry. He began his EPA career in 1979; a career which has been characterized by a commitment to the development of national and international approaches to the testing and assessment of the fate and effects of environmental agents. Dr. William S. Fyfe
Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Past President of the International Union of Geological Sciences. Dr. Tee L. Guidotti
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health
and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington DC USA.
Dr. Guidotti is a physician primarily interested in air quality, occupational and environmental lung disease, and inhalation toxicology. He was formerly Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences, the University of Alberta, Canada. Since 1989, he has participated in or chaired expert review panels on climate change, ecosystem disturbance and health for the Canadian Global Change Program, the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission, the International Society of Doctors for the Environment and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He introduced the study of ecosystem change and human health at the University of Alberta. Dr. Ann-Mari Jansson
Professor at the Department of Systems Ecology and Director of the Centre for Research on Natural
Resources and the Environment, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Dr. Jansson's major research activities concern environmental problems and sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin. Her list of publications includes work on Man-Nature Relationships in Island Ecosystems, Energy Flow Analyses, and Ecological Economics Issues. Dr. Hans de Kruijf
Biologist, Professor of Ecotoxicology and Society, Utrecht University; and Senior Advisor, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, The Netherlands.
Dr. de Kruijf worked as an ecologist in tropical rainforests and later extensively in coral reefs as well. As head of one of the RIVM laboratories, he was involved in policy-oriented research in ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry, drinking water quality, and ecosystem health. At present, he is involved with projects on indicators for sustainable development together with several developing countries (Bhutan, Benin, Costa Rica, Indonesia). His list of publications covers a wide range of topics from behavior of corals (under human stress) to indicators for sustainable development and biodiversity. He is also involved in the development of a Master of Science program in environmental management at the Utrecht University as well as in Indonesia. Dr. William L. Lasley
Congress Co-Convenor and Chair, Program Development Committee, International Congress on Ecosystem Health; Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction (School of Veterinary Medicine) and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology (School of Medicine); and Associate Director, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of California, Davis, California, USA. Dr. Lasley obtained his PhD at UC Davis in 1972 (Physiology) and did his postdoctoral work in Reproductive Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. As a staff scientist at the San Diego Zoo, Dr. Lasley was awarded the 1978 Rolex Award for Enterprise for his work in the global preservation of biodiversity. He continues to work on the development and application of biomarkers to detect the adverse effects of environmental hazards on reproductive health. Dr. Orie Loucks
Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Applied Ecosystem Studies at Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, USA.
Dr. Loucks taught Botany and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin from 1962 to 1978. Since 1970, he has headed four ecosystem response studies, three using watershed approaches, and recently, an area-wide study of pollutant effects on Ohio Valley oak-hickory forests. At Miami University he has led curriculum development for sustainability studies linking the business school with the science departments—now the Center for Sustainable Systems Studies. His academic research is focused on long-term effects of air pollutants on forests and their expression in terms of ecosystem health and integrity. Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs, The Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA; Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for the Environment for Latin
America and the Caribbean, The World Bank; Past President, American Institute of Biological
Sciences; Co-Chair, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) under the Executive
Office of the (US) President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
Dr. Lovejoy, a tropical biologist and conservation biologist, has worked in the Amazon of Brazil since 1965. He is credited with coining the term biological diversity (1980) and made the first projection of global extinction rates in the Global 2000 Report to the (US) President that same year. He conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project, also known as the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, and for this and other conservation initiatives was decorated by the Brazilian government in 1988. Some of his books include Global Warming and Biological Diversity (with R.L. Peters) and Key Environments: Amazonia (with G.T. Prance). He is the founder of the public television series Nature. Dr. Anthony J. McMichael
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
Previously Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Dr. McMichael chaired the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) during 1990-92. Subsequently, he chaired the assessment of the health impacts of climate change for the IPCC's Second Assessment Report (1996), and is now doing so for the Third Assessment Report (2001). He has diverse environmental epidemiological research interests, including air pollution studies and the health effects of environmental lead exposure. He has authored Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species (Cambridge, 1993; Canto edition 1995) and co-edited Climate Change and Human Health (WHO/WMO/UNEP, 1996). Dr. Norman Myers
Honorary Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Dr. Meyers is a member of the Global Council, World Resources Institute and is member of the board of directors or advisors of 16 other organizations ranging from the Russian Center for Environmental Policy to the Pacific Center for International Studies. A consultant in environment and development, he was also the originator of the biodiversity "hot spots" strategy for conservation planning and has published more than 250 papers in professional journals, 300 popular articles in newspapers and magazines, and thirteen books. Dr. N. Ole Nielsen
Former Dean, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan and Ontario
Veterinary College, Guelph University, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Nielsen's academic career as a veterinary pathologist gave rise to his continuing interests in comparative medicine, ecosystem health, and international development. He has served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Disease (ILRAD) and Chair of the Saskatchewan Environmental Advisory Committee. Particularly interested in ecosystem health, he has helped to organize the two previous symposia of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. Dr. Ganapati P. Patil
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics,
Department of Statistics and Graduate Ecology Program, The Pennsylvania State University, USA;
Editor-in-Chief of Environmental and Ecological Statistics (a cross-disciplinary journal with an
innovative forum for statistics, ecology, and the environment).
Over the past twenty-five year period, Dr. Patil has been in the forefront of research and outreach in statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and risk analysis. He is author and co-author of more than 300 research publications and co-author and co-editor of 30 monographs and cross-disciplinary volumes. He has directed several satellite programs, institutes, and workshops. He has served on advisory committees of several federal and state government agencies and environmental research institutes and industries including DOE, EPA, NIH, NOAA, NSF, USDI, PADER, EPRI, GRI, NAFTA, USFS, etc., and has had a longterm continuing research, training, and outreach program in statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and risk assessment with support from EPA, NOAA, NSF, and USFS. He has recently served on peer review panels of EPA STAR Program. He is currently a PI for NSF/EPA Water and Watersheds Program with a research project on Statistical Approaches to Multiscale Assessment of Landscapes and Watersheds for Critical Area Analysis. He is a member of the EPA consortium on database quality and suitability assessment, and has been invited to be a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board on the Committee for Secondary Data Use. Dr. Jonathan Patz
Director, Health Research Program on Global Environmental Change, Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health, USA.
Dr. Patz is board-certified in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and in Family Medicine and
holds joint faculty appointments in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the
Department of Medicine. He has researched the health impacts of global climate change since 1992 and
is the Principal Investigator for a multi-institutional study on climate change health risks in the United
States. He served as a Principle Lead Author on assessments of this subject for the World Health
Organization and for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As a
leader in the area of public health and climate change, he has co-chaired conferences on the subject for
the Society of Occupational and Environmental Health and for the American Society of Microbiology,
and has been called upon to brief both Congress and the US Administration on these matters.
Academic emphases are ecology and regional resource planning. Current work includes investigation of various means of improving the integration of scientific research and public policy decision making. He has been a consultant in environmental assessment and planning for public and private sector employers and has worked as a facilitator/mediator in community-based ecosystem management projects in California. Dr. David J. Rapport
Chair, IOC and Congress Co-convenor, International Congress on Ecosystem Health; Professor,
Departments of Rural Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph; Professor,
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Western
Ontario. Founding President of ISEH; Editor-in-chief, Ecosystem Health.
Dr. Rapport's research has focused on the interface of economics and ecology and the interface of ecology and human health. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Ecological Economics (Elsevier). His research focuses on patterns of response of ecosystems under stress in both terrestrial (forests, grasslands) and aquatic (freshwater, marine) systems. Dr. Christian Thorpe
Surgeon, Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, California, USA. Dr. Mostafa Kamal Tolba
President, International Center for Environment and Development, Egypt.
Dr. Tolba is a recognized authority on many environmental issues and in the application of science and
technology for development. He has acted as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP) for 17 years, credited for bringing the environment to the forefront of global
concerns and concerted international action.
His publications include more than 100 scientific papers; more than 600 articles, statements, and lectures on the environment; and 7 books by international publishers (e.g., Development Without Destruction; Earth Matters; Sustainable Development—Constraints and Opportunities; Changing Environmental Perceptions; Saving Our Planet; Environment 1972-1992; and A Commitment to the Future. Ambassador Ola Ullsten
Co-Chair, World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, Canada. Dr. David Waltner-Toews
Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph,
Canada.
Dr. Waltner-Toews is a collaborator on agroecosystem research in Canada, Kenya, Peru and Honduras—integrating participatory, normal science and various systems approaches across environmental, health and socioeconomic dimensions. Dr. Robert T. Watson
Senior Scientific Advisor and Director, Environment Department, World Bank, USA.
In May 1996, Dr. Watson joined the World Bank as Senior Scientific Advisor at the Environment Department. Before joining the Bank, he was Associate Director for Environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President in the White House. Prior to joining the Clinton White House, Dr. Watson was Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Dr. Laura Westra
Professor of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Westra's professional interests are broadly described as the ethics of ecological integrity. She is the founder of the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and has held the position of secretary since 1990. She has published numerous papers, book chapters, and books on this subject and is currently completing a book entitled Global Integrity Project, co-edited with David Pimentel. Dr. Walter G. Whitford
Senior Research Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and
Development (1993-present); Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University (1993-present).
Dr. Whitford has worked on a variety of research problems dealing with desert ecosystems in North America, South America, Australia, Israel, and southern Africa. He has served as a consultant to the electrical power industry, oil and mining industries, and state and local government agencies. He is editor of the Journal of Arid Environments and serves on the editorial boards of Biology and Fertility of Soils and Ecosystem Health. His recent research has focused on assessing and monitoring ecosystem health of arid and semi-arid rangelands and on early warning indicators of decline in health of ecosystems especially focusing on soil processes in terrestrial ecosystems. |
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