“Science by the Sea” - National Annual Meeting 2011
Florida’s Amelia Island on the Atlantic Coast was the site of the 53rd ARCS® Foundation National Annual Meeting (NAM) in June. ARCS Foundation members and guests traveled from across the country to participate with long-time colleagues and friends.
At NAM, members received critical training in fund development and networking and heard from distinguished speakers.
American University Professor, speaker, author and environmental and wildlife film producer Chris Palmer led the very dynamic workshops, and he also gave the keynote address "Science and Communications: Friends or Enemies?"
In response to invitations from the newest ARCS Foundation Chapter, Tampa Bay, attendees heard from the following University of South Florida speakers. Karen Holbrook, PhD, senior vice president for Research, Innovation & Global Affairs, spoke at the ARCS Light Awards Luncheon. The Distinguished Science Panel speaking on marine science comprised College of Marine Science faculty members 2006 San Diego ARCS Scholar alum Mya Breitbart, PhD, and 1976 Hawaii ARCS Scholar alum Pamela Hallock Muller, PhD, along with graduate student Holly Rolls and PhD candidate Julia Galkiewicz.
Also speaking was Sylvia Earle (left), PhD, oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, Explorer in Residence of the National Geographic Society, and former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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“A Capital Celebration” - National Annual Meeting 2010 The Metropolitan Washington Chapter served as the host Chapter for NAM 2010, “A Capital Celebration.” NAM 2010 was based at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., with a special dinner at the U.S. Supreme Court. The June event included meetings with Senate and House officials, tours of Washington museums, the ARCS Lights Luncheon and speakers from the scientific community. The membership workshop featured speakers Melanie Gibson, director of Membership, and Illana Maze, senior vice president of Marketing & Development, at the National Association of Health Underwriters. Dr. James Diorio, ARCS scholar alum from the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Applied Physics Lab, spoke about his work, and the Distinguished Science Panel’s topic was “Exploring and Assessing the Dimensions of Climate Change.” The panel moderator was Dr. Berrien Moore, executive director of Climate Central. Panel members were Dr. Mollie Macauley, research director and senior fellow at Resources for the Future; Dr. Anthony Janetos, director of the Global Change Resource Institute; and Dr. Jonathan Cannon, director of the University of Virginia Law School, Environmental and Land Use Law Program. The keynote speaker was NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. |
“Some Like It Hot” - National Annual Meeting 2009
At the May National Annual Meeting in San Francisco, we received cutting-edge scientific information from some of our nation’s top scientists in the field. The science panel included Panel Moderator Dr. Bruce Alberts, who is editor-in-chief of Science Magazine and past president of the National Academy of Sciences. Also speaking on global energy issues were Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, a venture capital company that focuses on clean technology ventures; Professor Franklin Orr, director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University; Professor Chris Somerville, director of Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Barton Thompson, Jr., Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford University.
The keynote speaker was Dr. Ashok Gadgil, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley and senior scientist in the Environmental Energy Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is one of the main inventors of the Darfur Stove. He spoke about his involvement in developing a utilitarian stove with Engineers Without Borders and its use in Darfur. He saw a need to protect women and children traveling long distances to find firewood who had no assistance from the refugee camps. It was a fascinating discussion about how engineers can work to solve some of the basic problems of the world if they devote time and energy to do so.
Significant workshops on databases as well as fund development in the current financial environment were especially timely. For those not attending the work sessions, there were field trips to the Asian Art Museum and a special behind-the-scenes tour of the recently reopened California Academy of Sciences’ “world’s greenest museum.”