International Conference
on Biodiversity & Society

Columbia University and
the UNESCO Division of Ecological Sciences

May 22-25, 2001

How Humans Shape the Environment
is Focus of International Biodiversity Conference
at Columbia, May 22-25

Steering Committee

Chairs

Michael Crow
Executive Vice Provost
Columbia University
305 Low Library
535 West 116th Street, MC 4312
New York NY 10027
(212) 854-2761 phone
(212) 932-0418 fax
Email: mc71@columbia.edu

Peter Bridgewater
Director, Division of Ecological Sciences,
UNESCO
1, rue Miollis
Paris 75015 Cedex 15, FRANCE
011 33 1 45 68 41 51 phone
011 33 1 45 68 58 04 fax
Email: p.bridgewater@unesco.org

Roberta Balstad Miller
Director & Senior Research Scientist
CIESIN
61 Route 9W (PO Box 1000)
Palisades NY 10964
(914) 365-8950 phone
(914) 365-8922 fax
Email: roberta@ciesin.columbia.edu

Members

Brad Allenby
Vice President
Environment, Health & Safety
AT&T
Room 2N03
150 Mt. Airy road
Basking Ridge NJ 07920
(908) 630-2300 phone
(908) 630-2636 fax
Email: ballenby@att.com

Rick Brusca
Senior Research Scientist and
Interim Director, Undergraduate Programs
Biosphere 2 Center
32540 S. Biosphere Road
P.O. Box 689
Oracle AZ 85623
(520) 896-6435 phone
(520) 896-6432
Email: rbrusca@u.arizona.edu

Joel Cohen
Professor of Populations
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue, Box 20
New York NY 10021-6399
(212) 327-8883 phone
(212) 327-7974 fax
Email: cohen@rockvax.rockefeller.edu

Paul Epstein
Instructor, Medicine
Harvard Medical School
260 Longwood Avenue, #262A
Boston MA 02115
(617) 432-4820 phone
(617) 432-2595 fax
Email: paul_epstein@hms.harvard.edu

Lewis Gilbert
Executive Director
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Columbia University
401 Low Library
535 West 116th Street, MC 4332
New York NY 10027
(212) 854-4830 phone
(212) 854-3199 fax
Email: leg4@columbia.edu

Don Melnick
Director, Columbia University, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
1200 Amsterdam Avenue
New York NY 10027-5557
(212) 854-8186 phone
(212) 854-8188 fax
Email: djm7@columbia.edu

Christine Padoch
Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany
The New York Botanical Garden
200th Street and Southern Blvd.
Bronx NY 10458
(718) 817-8975 phone
(718) 220-1029 fax
Email: cpadoch@nybg.org

Stuart Pimm
Visiting Professor, Earth & Environmental Science, Columbia University, CERC
1012 Schermerhorn Extension
1200 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 5556
New York NY 10027
(212) 854-8185 phone
Email: StuartPimm@aol.com

Peter Raven
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis Missouri 63166-0299
(314) 577-5111 (phone)
(314) 577-9595 (fax)
Email: praven@nas.edu
www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/raven

Kent H Redford
Director, Biodiversity Analysis & Coordination
Wildlife Conservation Society
185th Street and Southern Boulevard
Bronx, New York 10460-1099
(718) 220-5889 phone
(718) 364-4275 fax
Email: khredford @aol.com

Arthur A. Small, III
Assistant Professor,
School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Earth Institute
Columbia Univ. 1305B IAB
420 W.118th Street, MC 3323
New York NY 10027
(212) 854-9016 phone
(212) 854-57-65 fax
Email: aas69@columbia.edu

Seymour Topping
Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes
San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, Columbia University
702 Journalism
2950 Broadway, MC 3865
New York NY 10027
(212) 854-7327 phone
(212) 854-3342 fax
Email: st122@columbia.edu

Secretariat

Christine Alfsen-Norodom
Secretary and Coordinator
Email: CAlfsennorodom@aol.com or ca320@columbia.edu

Benjamin Lane
Case Studies Coordinator
Email: benjamindlane@hotmail.com or BenjaminDLane@aol.com

Vilma Gallagher
Event Organizer
Email: vrg1@ldeo.columbia.edu

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