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Kitty Bailey
Kitty Bailey is a supervisory chemist
with the Food and Drug Administration in College Park, Maryland. She’s
a life-long amateur naturalist and birdwatcher who lives in Arlington,
Virginia with her family. |
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Rich Bailey
Rich Bailey is the Naturalist with the
Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. He has a B.A. in
Environmental Anthropology from James Madison University, and an M.E.S.
in Environmental Studies from Evergreen State College. Along with
Martin Ogle, he helps manage Potomac Overlook Regional Park and
presents programs on a wide range of natural history topics. He has
served as well on farmland protection/land trust boards and curriculum
advisory committees. Rich is particularly interested in the Gaia
Theory as it applies to predicting the future behavior of life on
Earth as it adapts to changing solar and other environmental
conditions. |
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Bonnie Burgess
Bonnie Burgess has been an instructor in
Environmental Sciences at Marymount University since June 2002, in
Biodiversity Issues and Ethics and the Environment at Johns Hopkins
University since 1998. She is also a camp counselor and workshop
instructor at the National Zoo. She has been a volunteer at the
National Zoo since 1995 working in such programs as the Cheetah
Conservation Station, the Great Apes, the Golden Lion Tamarins, and
the Invertebrate House. Ms. Burgess earned her MS in Environmental
Science in 1998 from Johns Hopkins University and published her book,
Fate of the Wild: the Future of the Endangered Species Act and
Biodiversity in hardback in 2001 and in paperback in 2003. |
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Dr. Thomas I. Ellis
Associate Professor of English at Tidewater Community
College, and founder of GAIA International (Global Awareness
Interdisciplinary Alliance), a student organization whose mission is to
sponsor projects, events, and publications that promote interdisciplinary
ecological understanding, and responsibility. Dr. Ellis is a scholar of
English Renaissance Literature, and has traveled widely, teaching in
Greece, China, and England and presenting papers on Gaia Theory at domestic
and international scholarly conferences. |
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Dave Kerner
David Kerner is a mechanical and
aerospace engineer and a specialist in science and technology policy.
He advises state and federal government
agencies on the social implications of technology policies and
translates social policies into technological initiatives. Mr. Kerner
is a strong proponent of applying appropriate technologies - i.e.,
appropriate in size, simplicity, and sustainability - as part of
holistic solutions to social issues. |
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Joe Keyser
Joe Keyser is the GreenMan, host of
The GreenMan Show, an
award-winning cable television program on the environment, newspaper
columnist, and currently public education coordinator director for the
Department of Environmental Protection in Montgomery County.
Previously, Joe was the Program Director for the American
Horticultural Society, and continues to serve on the board of several
regional non-profit organizations. His career in communications
has resulted in more than 45 national and international awards. |
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Martin Ogle
Martin Ogle has been Chief Naturalist for the Northern Virginia
Regional Park Authority since 1985. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and Virginia Tech,
respectively. Mr. Ogle has presented more than 100 lectures and
courses on the Gaia Theory for universities, public groups, and other
audiences since 1990. He has met and talked with many of the top
scientists in Gaia Theory research. His meetings and correspondence
with Drs. James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis helped inspire the
development of the Gaia Theory conference. |
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Charles Smith
Charles Smith is a Natural
Resource Specialist for the Fairfax County Park Authority. A Northern
Virginia Native, Charles has been active in stream monitoring and is
currently president of the Prince William Wildflower Society - a
chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society. |
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Dan Zimble
A member of the Environmental Systems
Research Institute’s Washington D.C. Technology Center in Vienna,
Virginia. Mr. Zimble has worked with Geographic Information System and
remote sensing technologies for over 10 years applying these
technologies in both academic research and practical applications for
use by governments, international organizations, and NGOs. Personal
and professional interests include the design and delivery of
demonstrations that highlight the usefulness of GIS and RS
technologies for communicating complex environmental issues at all
scales for use in decision-making. Example contributions include
participation in the
Defying Ocean’s End program. |
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Michael Zito
Michael Zito holds a Bachelors in
Biology with a Chemistry Minor and Masters in Environmental Science.
He has been teaching science in Arlington Public Schools for 18
years. Michael first became aware of the Gaia Hypothesis through the
computer game SimEarth at the same time he was taking a course in
environmental analysis and modeling at George Mason University.
Michael began introducing computer modeling into his curriculum
including the classic Daisyworld model which he implemented in Vensim
(a systems modeling program). He has used the Gaia Theory to teach
scientific controversy, the connections between the living and
non-living in a tightly coupled system and holistic vs reductionist
views of scientific inquiry. |
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