List of Speakers (Alphabetically) as of September 12, 2007

Alfonso Alonzo, Smithsonian Institution

Role of ocean biology in climate modelling
Whit Anderson, Princeton University, USA

Heather Auld, Environment Canada

Priorities and pitfalls to long-term monitoring of tropical forest biodiversity
Deborah Clark, University of Missouri, USA

Global infectious diseases, climate, oceans, and human health: the cholera paradigm
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, USA

Climate model downscaling for biodiversity studies
Bob Corell, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Biodiversity conservation and industrial partnerships
Francisco Dallmeier, Smithsonian Institution

Steven de Bie, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Perspectives on climate change from the convention on biological diversity
Ahmed Djoghlaf, Convention on Biological Diversity

Climate change and adaptive resource management in the Southwestern Nova Scotia Biosphere Reserve
Cliff Drysdale, Kejimkujik National Park, Canada

Availability of climate data and climate modelling for the Americas
Adam Fenech, Environment Canada

Increase in the dominance of galls across the Americas as a result of climate change.
Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Neutral-plus models as a tool for exploring impacts of climate change on tropical forests
Lee Hannah, Conservation International

Network of SI/MAB plots in the Americas
Ann Henderson, Smithsonian Institution

Natarajan Ishwaran, United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization

Impacts of extreme weather events on forest biodiversity
Marianne Karsh, Environment Canada

Gabriel Labbate, United Nations' Environment Programme

Effects of climate change on forest dynamics
Susan Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Potential impacts of regional and global climate change in the Amazon
William Laurence, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Climate change and new ecosystems
Ariel Lugo, USDA Forest Service, Puerto Rico

Flavio Luizao, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

Adaptation strategies and solutions
Don MacIver, Environment Canada

Long terms phenological changes in the Amazon and climate change
Patricia Morrelato, Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil

The role that biodiversity plays on climate
Antonio Nobre, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

Climate change impacts on forest biodiversity
Buruhani Nyenzi, World Meteorological Organization

Dennis O'Jima, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

Climate change and invasive species
A. Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas, USA

Changes on ecosystem growth due to climate change in tropical dry forests in the Americas.
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Canada

Climate change and protected areas: global implications and future directions
David Sheppard, International Union of Conservation Naturalists

Robert C. Szaro, U.S. Geological Survey

Holm Thiessen, InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil

Virginia Van Sickle-Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey

Robert T. Watson, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

David Welch, Parks Canada

Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute