8:00 am

Registration
Continental Breakfast
Showcase of Biodiversity Partners Exhibition,  and Scientific Poster Presentations   open
Images of biodiversity by Gary Braasch Photography and International League of Conservation Photographers

 9:00 am

Keynote Address: Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World (Video)  

Cristian Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

 10:00 am

Plenary Roundtable- BIODIVERSITY Value, Losses and Consequences- What does the science tell us? What are the needs?

• Moderator: Larry Nielsen, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, North Carolina State University
• Millenium Ecosystem Assesment- Harold Mooney, Stanford University (PowerPoint)
• Biodiversity and Health- Eric Chivian, M.D.,  Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (PowerPoint)
• Integrating Biological and Cultural Diversity- Claudia Sobrevila, Senior Biodiversity Specialist, The World Bank (PowerPoint)
• Marine Biodiversity-Carl Safina,    President, Blue Ocean Institute, Stony Brook University (PowerPoint)
  

 11:00 am

Plenary Roundtable- 21st Century Conservation- What Now? (Video)

• Moderator: Ron Pulliam, Professor of Ecology, University of Georgia
• Susan Haseltine, Associate Director for Biology, United States Geological Survey
• Jane Elder , Principal, Jane Elder Strategies
• William J. Sutherland , Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• Lara Hansen , Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt

 12:15 pm

 1:30-5:00 pm

Breakout Sessions (concurrent)- Developing a New 21st Century Biodiversity Strategy for the US and the World

These sessions will each develop recommendations that will collectively develop a strategy for biodiversity science and conservation.

• Developing the New Biodiversity Science Agenda  
• Moving From Science to Action (examining current approaches, developing new approaches and tackling key issues)  
• Expanding Understanding: Information, Education, and Communication

 5:30 pm

Special Posthumous Congressional Recognition- Hon. James H. Scheuer , New York

NCSE Lifetime Achievement Awards (Video)

• George Rabb, President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society
• Peter H. Raven,  Director, Missouri Botanical Garden  
• Edward O. Wilson ,  Pellegrino Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University 
• Moderator: Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, Former Direcctor of National Science Foundation

 6:30 pm

9th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment  

A Genomic View of Life (Video)
J. Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman, and President of J. Craig Venter Institute

 7:30 pm

 9:00 am

Keynote Lecture: Moving from Science to Action  (Video)

Thomas L. Friedman,  New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author (PowerPoint)

• Special Remarks: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biodiversity

 10:30 am

Symposia

• Ocean Biodiversity : Nathalie Valette-Silver, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Communicating About Biodiversity with Cutting Edge Approaches : Jane Elder, Jane Elder Strategies and Forum on Nature and Democracy
• Human Health and Biodiversity  : Mary Gant, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) (Video)
• Forests for Tomorrow: NCSSF Science and Policy : Chris Bernabo, Program Director, National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF), National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
• Funding for Biodiversity Conservation :  Michael Fischer, the Consultative Group on Biodiversity and Peter Saundry, National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
• Can Climate Policies Help Save the Biodiversity of Tropical Forests? Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Political, Economic, and Ethical Contexts of Biodiversity Conservation: Paul Heltne, Center for Humans and Nature
• Human Dominated Landscapes:   Adina Merenlender, University of California, and Jodi Hilty, Wildlife Conservation Society
• Freshwater Ecosystems: Mike Smith, Conservation International
• Agriculture: from Genes to Landscapes: Robert Goodman, Rutgers University
• Bio-prospecting, Bio-mimicry, and Bio-products : Andy Jorgensen, National Council for Science and the Environment
• Exploring Earth's Species, Writing the Encyclopedia of Life: Quentin Wheeler, Arizona State University; Jim Edwards, Encyclopedia of LIfe, Smithsonian Institution

 12:30 pm

 2:00 pm

Synthesis- bringing together the various elements discussed at this conference into a coherent strategy (Video)

Roundtable discussion involving some of the session leaders and leaders of the field 

Moderator: Thomas Lovejoy,   President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment (PowerPoint)

• Sir Peter Crane , John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago
• Ann Bartuska, Deputy Chief for Research and Development, USDA Forest Service, Research and Development
• Peter Seligmann, Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
• John Wiens , Chief Conservation Science Officer, PRBO Conservation Science
• Lynn Scarlett,  Deputy Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior
  

 3:30 pm

Putting Biodiversity into the Next Administration and Congress  (Video)

Moderator: Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of Interior

• Mary Glackin, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Rodger Schlickeisen, President and CEO, Defenders of Wildlife
• Representative Jay Inslee,  (D-WA)
• Representative James P. Moran, (D-VA 8th)
• Dan Martin, Former Senior Managing Director, Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund
  Environmental Policy Advisor to the Obama campaign 
• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Representative Rush Holt, (D- NJ)

-Representatives from transition teams and Congress to discuss and to exchange ideas with conference participants- moderated discussion 

 5:00pm

 7:00pm

Meetings with Congressional Representatives;

Participants are encouraged to contact their Congressional Representatives to discuss biodiversity

*Those interested in receiving training and participating in organized group meetings should sign up for workshop #3.