| 8:15-9:00 |
Registration & Networking |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:15-9:45 |
Opening Keynote Address: Current Federal Initiatives Addressing Climate Change
Congressman John Hall, U.S. Congress (invited) |
| 9:45-10:10 |
Monitoring Long-term Biotic Indicators of Change: The Mohonk Experience
Paul C. Huth and Shanan Smiley, Mohonk Preserve |
| 10:10-10:50 |
Climate Change: Global Causes, Local Consequences
Timothy Hall, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Break |
| 11:10-11:40 |
Rising Waters: Taking Climate Change Adaptation From Talk to Action
David Van Luven, The Nature Conservancy |
| 11:40-12:10 |
New York State Government and the Climate Challenge
Dr. Stephen Breyman, Office of Climate Change
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Hudson River Watershed Alliance - 2008 Watershed Stewardship Award |
| 12:30-2:00 |
Full buffet lunch in the Mohonk Mountain House |
| 2:00- 2:45 |
KEYNOTE: “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming from the
North Pole to the Hudson” by Andrew C. Revkin,
Environmental Reporter and Dot Earth Blogger for The New York Times |
| 2:45-4:15 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Effective Local Responses and Tools to Adapt to Climate Change
MODERATOR: Betsy Blair, NYS DEC Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
PANELISTS: Lois Barber, Earth Action; David Church, Orange County Planning
Department/Orange County Water Authority; Ajax Greene, Sustainable Business Xchange/The
Regional BALLE Network; Diggitt McLaughlin, Trustee for Village of Hastings-on-Hudson; and
Pasquale Strocchia, Integrated Building & Design, Inc./Mohonk Consultations. |
| 4:15-4:30 |
Closing Remarks & Adjourn |
| *Final agenda is subject to change. |
