Second annual Water Law, Policy and Science Conference

Water Management and Policy in the Great Plains: Implications of Drought and Climate Change
April 7-8, 2005

Nebraska Union
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

Attendee Handbooks, Contact:

Jacki Loomis
School of Natural Resources
102A Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0991
Voice 402-472-7550
Fax 402-472-4608

Fees

• Pre-registration for conference (by March 25, 2005) - $200
• Pre-registration for conference and banquet (by March 25, 2005) - $230
• Late-Registration for conference (after March 25, 2005) - $275
• Late-Registration for conference and banquet (after March 25, 2005) - $275
• "Pay Per View" registration (watch via web - a login will be sent to you at a later date.) - $165
• Student registration (ID required at check-in) - no charge
• Student registration and banquet (ID required at check-in) - $30
• Banquet only, not attending conference - $30

General Information

• Agenda/Program
• Images
• Press Release

Mailings

• Conference Registration/Information Brochure (Inside three pages; Outside three pages)
• Initial Post Card (pdf)

Featured Speakers

	James Detjen joined the Michigan State University (MSU) Journalism School faculty in January 1995 as the Knight Chair in Journalism, the nation’s only endowed chair in environmental reporting. He is the Director of MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and MSU’s Environmental Journalism Program. Prior to joining MSU’s faculty, he spent 21 years as a professional newspaper reporter and editor.
	Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security. He is an internationally recognized expert on global freshwater resources, including the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. In 2003, he was named a MacArthur Fellow, for his work.
	Dr. Gerald A. Meehl, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Since 1979, as a scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division, he has studied the interactions between El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the Indian monsoon, analyzed the results from global coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models at NCAR, and examined the possible effects of increased carbon dioxide, sulfate aerosols, and other forcings on global climate.
	Dr. Philip Mote is a research scientist at the University of Washington, in the Climate Impacts Group , and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. A frequent public speaker, he has also written about 40 scientific articles and edited a book on climate modeling, published in 2000. In March 2003, he became the Washington State Climatologist.
	Dr. Thomas R. Stewart is Research Professor, Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York. His specific interests include methods of judgment analysis and the decomposition of judgmental skill; studies of judgment in medicine, forecasting, and global environmental change; and the role of scientific uncertainty and disagreement in policy formation.