Setting the Climate Change Stage – Libby Roderick, Associate Director, Center for Faculty Excellence, UAA
Overview of the Science of Climate Change in Alaska – Dr. Jeremy Littell, Lead Research Scientist, USGS Alaska Climate Science Center
Impacts of Climate Change in Alaska
- Cultural Impacts – Larry Merculieff, Deputy Director, Alaska Native Science Commission
- Social And Human Rights – Robin Bronen, Executive Director, Alaska Institute for Justice
- Infrastructure, including economic impacts – Mike Black, Director of Rural Utility Management, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
- Alaska’s military, its installations and military action planning – Dr. Jon Montague, Native Affairs and Natural Resources Advisor, Alaskan Command, JBER
Keynote Address – Bill Ross, Former Alaska DEC Commissioner, Principal of Ross Strategic
Alaska State Policy Makers’ Panel
- Larry Hartig, Commissioner of the Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation
- Craig Fleener, Special Assistant on Arctic Policy, Governor’s Office
- Kate Troll, Member of Gov. Palin’s Mitigation Advisory Group
Alaska Community Leaders’ Panel
- Ethan Berkowitz, Mayor of Anchorage
- Beth Wythe, Mayor of Homer
- Reggie Joule, Former Mayor of NW Borough
Alaska Citizens’ Panel
- Shaina Kilcoyne, Renewable Energy Alaska Project
- George Donart, Citizens Climate Change Lobby
- Faith Gemmill, REDOIL, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands
Young Alaskans’ Panel
- Maka Monture, Indigenous Fellow at Alaska Center for the Environment
- Xavier Mason, President, NAACP Youth Panel
- Vika Morozova, President of Anchorage AYEA chapter, Alaska Youth for Environmental Action
UAA Public Administration Graduate Students present
- Robert Onders: Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease
- Adam Schoffstall: Principles of Sustainable Land Use and the Formation of an Alaska Commission on Sustainable Development
- Lane Smith: Glenn Highway and Emissions Reduction
- Carla Burkhead: Climate Change Driven Wildfire and Updating the Community Wildfire Protection Plan
- Russell Streif: Strengthening Elementary School Climate Change Curriculum