• Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Ellen Williams, Chief Scientist, BP

• Marilu Hastings, Program Director, The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (teleconference)

12:20 pm

General Discussion and Q&A on Sponsor Perspectives

12:40 pm

LUNCH

1:30 pm

State and Local Government Perspective on Sustainability Linkages

David Paylor, Director, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Howard Neukrug, Commissioner, City of Philadelphia

2:10 pm

Industry Perspective on Sustainability Linkages

Hank Habicht, Managing Partner, SAIL Capital Partners

Edwin Pinero, Executive Vice President, Veolia Water

North America (teleconference)

2:50 pm

BREAK

3:05 pm

Nongovernmental Perspective on Sustainability Linkages

Rebecca Shaw, Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund

Marty Spitzer, World Wildlife Fund

3:45 pm

National Perspective on Sustainability Linkages

Sally Ericsson, Director, Natural Resource Programs, Office of Management and Budget

Bruce Rodan, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy

4:25 pm

Department of Defense Perspective on Sustainability Linkages

Richard G. Kidd IV, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, U.S. Department of Defense

4:40 pm

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

5:15 pm

Open Session Adjourns

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

9:00 am

Welcome and Introductions

Marina Moses, Science and Technology for
Sustainability Program, National Academies
Julie Stein, Executive Director, Burke Museum of Natural
History and Culture

9:10 am

Introduction to Linkages of Sustainability
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

9:30 am

Overview of Sustainability Linkages in Coastal Systems
Josh Baldi, Special Assistant to the Director, Washington
State Department of Ecology

Opportunities and Challenges to Puget Sound as a Coastal System

Moderator: Robert Stephens, President, Multi-State Working Group on
Environmental Performance

10:00 am

Alan Durning, Executive Director and Founder, Sightline Institute

10:15 am

Mike Grady, Transportation Branch Chief and Federal
Green Challenge, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration-NWR representative

10:30 am

BREAK

10:45 am

Billy Frank, Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission

11:00 am

Michael Rylko, Senior Technical Coordinator, Puget Sound
National Estuary Program, EPA Region 10

11:15 am

Panel Discussion

12:00 pm

LUNCH BREAK

Energy in the Pacific Northwest

Moderator: Lisa Graumlich, Dean, College of the Environment, University
of Washington

1:15 pm

Chuck Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, Cascade Water Alliance

1:30 pm

Angus Duncan, Founder and President, Bonneville Environmental Foundation

1:45 pm

K.C. Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions

2:00 pm

Phil Rockefeller, (Senator, D-Bainbridge Island), Northwest
Power and Conservation Council

2:15 pm

Panel Discussion

3:00 pm

BREAK

The Built Environment, Land Use, and Public Health around Puget Sound

Moderator: Howard Frumkin, Dean, School of Public Health and Professor, University of Washington

3:15 pm

Gene Duvernoy, President, Cascade Land Conservancy

3:30 pm

Gerry O'Keefe, Executive Director, Puget Sound Partnership

3:45 pm

David Fleming, Director and Health Officer, Seattle and
King County

4:00 pm

Panel Discussion

4:45 pm

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

5:00 pm

Meeting Wrap-up

Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

5:15 pm

Meeting Adjourns

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction to Linkages of Sustainability
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

Opportunities and Challenges to the Great Lakes as a Coastal System

Moderator: Rich Moy, Commissioner, US Section of the International
Joint Commission (IJC)

9:15 am

Deborah L. Swackhamer, Professor, School of Public Health and
Co-Director, Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota

9:30 am

James P. Bruce, Co-Chair, Public Interest Advisory Group

9:45 am

Hugh MacIsaac, Professor, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Invasive Species Research Chair, Director, Canadian Aquatic
Invasive Species Network (CAISN)

10:00 am

Roy Stein, Emeritus Professor, Aquatic Ecology Laboratory and
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The
Ohio State University

10:15 am

Panel Discussion

11:00 am

BREAK and Closed Session for Committee Discussion

Land Use, Built Environment, and the Great Lakes Regional Economy

Moderator: Victoria Pebbles, Program Director, Great Lakes Commission

1:00 pm

Jennifer Read, Acting Director, Michigan Seat Grant and
Executive Director, Great Lakes Observing System (via
teleconference)

1:15 pm

Jim LaGro, Department of Regional and Urban Planning,
University of Wisconsin

1:45 pm

Nancy Frank, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and
Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

2:00 pm

Panel Discussion

2:45 pm

BREAK

Management and Governance in the Great Lakes Region

Moderator: Dave Naftzger, Executive Director, Council of Great Lakes Governors

3:00 pm

Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Great
Lakes, Environmental Protection Agency (via teleconference)

3:15 pm

Dave Naftzger, Executive Director, Council of Great
Lakes Governors

3:30 pm

Victoria Pebbles, Program Director, Great Lakes Commission

3:45 pm

Panel Discussion

4:00 pm

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

4:45 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

5:00 pm

Open Session Adjourns

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

8:45 am

Welcome and Introductions
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University
Marina Moses, Science and Technology for Sustainability
Program, National Academies

9:00 am

Overview of Sustainability Linkages in Nonurban Systems

Lynn Scarlett, Resources for the Future

Introduction to Sustainability Linkages in the Mojave Region

9:30 am

Introduction to the Mojave Region
Buford Crites, Former Mayor, Palm Desert, CA and
Professor, College of the Desert

9:45 am

Introduction to Sustainability Linkages in the Mojave Desert
Laura Crane, Director, Renewable Energy Initiative, The
Nature Conservancy

10:00 am

Q&A

10:20 am

BREAK

Interagency Coordination – Desert Managers Group

Moderator: Robert Anex, Professor of Biological Systems, University of
Wisconsin-Madison

10:30 am

Introduction to the Desert Managers Group
Henri Bisson, Senior Advisor for Renewable Energy
Development, Marstel Day, LLC and former Deputy Director
for Operations, U.S. Department of the Interior

10:55 am

Management across agency boundaries—obstacles and opportunities: USMC Perspective
Pat Christman, Director, Western Region Environmental Office, U.S. Marine Corps

11:20 am

Management across agency boundaries – obstacles and opportunities: DOI Perspective
Russell Scofield, Coordinator, Desert Managers Group,
U.S. Department of the Interior

11:55 am

Panel response to questions from the committee
Dennis Schramm, former Superintendent, Mojave National
Preserve, National Park Service (via teleconference)

12:25 pm

LUNCH

Interagency Coordination – Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)

Moderator: Robert Anex, Professor of Biological Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:25 pm

Overview of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)
Karen Scarborough, Landscape Architect, Former
Undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency

1:50 pm

Management across agency boundaries – obstacles and opportunities
Wayne Spencer, Lead Scientist and Science Facilitator to
DRECP, Conservation Biology Institute

2:15 pm

Panel response to question from the committee

2:45 pm

BREAK

3:00 pm

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

3:15 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

3:30 pm

Open Session Adjourns

Thursday, April 12, 2012

8:45 am

Welcome and Introductions
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University
Marina Moses, Science and Technology for Sustainability
Program, National Academies

Introduction to Sustainability Linkages in the Platte River Basin

9:00 am

Introduction to the Platte River Basin—Brief History
David Freeman, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University

9:35 am

Sustainability Linkages, Complexities, and Uncertainties in the Platte River Basin
Chad Smith, Headwaters Corporation, Director of Natural Resources

10:10 am

BREAK

Resource Linkages and Competing Uses: Integrating Science and Action

Moderator: Lynn Scarlett, Resources for the Future

10:30 am

Adaptive Management as an Integrating Process
Chad Smith, Director of Natural Resources, Headwaters Corporation

10:55 am

Integrating Science and Action: Fish & Wildlife Service Perspective
Mike Thabault, Assistant Regional Director, Ecological
Services, Mountain-Prairie Region

11:20 am

Panel response to questions from the committee

11:50 am

LUNCH

Interagency Coordination—Platte River Recovery Implementation Program and Governance Committee

Moderator: Lynn Scarlett, Senior Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future

12:45 pm

Introduction: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program and Governance Committee
Jerry Kenny, President and CEO, Headwaters Corporation;
Executive Director, Platte River Recovery Implementation
Program

1:10 pm

Management across agency boundaries—obstacles and opportunities: Bureau of Reclamation Perspective
Gary Campbell, Deputy Regional Director, Great Plains Regional Office, Bureau of Reclamation

1:35 pm

Management across boundaries – obstacles and opportunities: Water User Perspective
Don Kraus, Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District

2:00 pm

Lessons Learned—A Decade of Evolving Governance
David Freeman, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University

2:25 pm

Panel responses to questions from the committee

2:55 pm

BREAK

3:05 pm

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

3:15 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

3:30 pm

Open Session Adjourns

June 11, 2012

8:30 am

Welcome and Introductions; Discussion of Matrix and Framing Questions*
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

“Plenary” Session: Urban Sustainability and Linkages

9:00 am

Urban Sustainability: Overview of Key Issues Including Energy
Paulo Ferrao, Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico,
Technical University of Lisbon

9:30 am

Forging Interagency Linkages on Sustainability
Xavier Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and
Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Urban Sustainability and Linkages: Phoenix

10:00 am

Overview of Sustainability Challenges in Phoenix
Dan Childers, Professor, ASU School of Sustainability and Director, Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER

10:30 am

Conservation of Threatened Species and Habitats
Kimberly McCue, Program Director, Conservation of Threatened Species and Habitats, Desert Botanical Garden

11:00 am

Urban Heat Islands and Public Health
Diana Petitti, Professor, ASU’s Department of Biomedical Informatics

11:30 am

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Anna Palmisano, U.S. Department of Energy (retired)

12:00 pm

LUNCH

1:00 pm

Water Resources and Sustainability in Phoenix
Ray Quay, ASU Decision Center for a Desert City and Former Assistant Director, Water Services, City of Phoenix

1:30 pm

Design of the Urban Landscape
Billie Turner, Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences

2:00 pm

Overview of Current Sustainability Efforts in Phoenix
Colin Tetreault, Senior Policy Advisor of Sustainability to Mayor Stanton

2:30 pm

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Paulo Ferrao, Professor, Technical University of Lisbon

3:00 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

3:15 pm

Open Session Adjourns

June 12, 2012

7:00 am

Meet in lobby of hotel for field trip to tour Phoenix (led by
Dan Childers and Stevan Earl, ASU)

ASU Wrigley Hall

10:15 am

Welcome and Introductions; Discussion of Matrix and Framing Questions*
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

Urban Sustainability and Linkages: Philadelphia

10:30 am

Overview of Sustainability Challenges in Philadelphia
Mark Alan Hughes, Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

11:00 am

Public Health Issues and Sustainability in Philadelphia
Charles Branas, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

11:30 am

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Glen Daigger, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, CH2M HILL

12:00 pm

LUNCH

1:00 pm

Transportation Issues and Sustainability in Philadelphia

Erik Johanson, Strategy and Sustainability Planner,
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

1:30 pm

Water Resources and Sustainability in Philadelphia
Christopher Crockett, Director of Planning & Research, Philadelphia Water Department (via teleconference)

2:00 pm

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Deborah Swackhamer, Professor, University of Minnesota

2:30 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

3:00 pm

Open Session Adjourns

9:45 am

Forging Interagency Linkages on Sustainability: Department of Energy’s Perspective
Mark Gilbertson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Site Restoration, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy

10:15 am

BREAK

10:30 am

Public Administration Perspectives on Forging Interagency Linkages on Sustainability
DeWitt John, Thomas F. Shannon Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College

11:00 am

Collaborative Governance and Sustainability
Kirk Emerson, Professor of Practice in Collaborative
Governance, University of Arizona

11:30 am

Open Microphone Session: Brief Comments from Interested Parties

Comments will be limited to 5 minutes, if you would like to address the committee please send an email to sustainability@nas.edu

12:20 pm

Meeting Wrap-up
Thomas Graedel, Committee Chair, Yale University

12:30 pm

Open Session Adjourns