Plenary Sessions
Monday, August 1, 2011
1:00pm – 3:00pm
“Opening Plenary Session & Welcome Keynotes”
MODERATORS: Suzette Kimball, Deputy Director, US
Geological Survey - and - Don Boesch, President,
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
(UMCES)
Welcome Keynote Speakers:
Martin O'Malley, Governor, State of
Maryland
Kenneth Salazar, Secretary, Department of the
Interior (invited)
Benjamin Cardin, Senator, State of
Maryland
The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary
of the Army
(Civil Works)
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
8:30am – 10:00am “Plenary Session -
Restoration Priorities”
MODERATOR: Don Boesch, President, University of
Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)
Plenary Speakers:
The Honorable Robert Graham, Former Senator,
State of Florida
Barry Gold, Program Director, Marine Conservation
Initiative, Gordon
& Betty Moore Foundation
Larry Schweiger, President and Chief Executive
Officer,
National Wildlife Federation
Thursday, August 4, 2011
8:30am – 10:00am
“Plenary Session - Linking Land and Ocean “
MODERATOR: Suzette Kimball, Deputy Director,
US Geological Survey
Plenary Speakers:
Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary for Commerce
for Oceans
and Atmosphere, NOAA
Kameran Onley, Director of US Marine Policy, The
Nature Conservancy
Dave White, Chief, USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS)
Friday, August 5, 2011
10:30am – 12noon “Closing
Plenary Session - Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill”
MODERATOR: Suzette Kimball, Deputy Director, US
Geological Survey
Plenary Speakers:
Lisa Jackson, Administrator, US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
Garret Graves, Chair, Coastal Protection and
Restoration
Authority of Louisiana (CPRA)
Don Boesch, President, University of Maryland
Center for
Environmental Science (UMCES)
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