Dr. C. Mark Eakin is Coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch, an effort focused on the monitoring of coral reef ecosystems through satellite, in situ, and paleoenvironmental observations. A coral reef specialist, with a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Miami, Dr. Eakin has published on various topics in coral reef ecology, especially the impact of climate change and other disturbance on coral reefs.  This includes El Niño impacts on eastern Pacific coral reefs in coral reef ecology and carbonate budgets, thermal stress and coral bleaching, ocean acidification, oil spills, coral paleoclimatology, and the behavior of marine organisms. He co-chairs the US Coral Reef Task Force’s Climate Change Working Group and has briefed and testified before the US Congress on climate change impacts. He is a Councillor for the International Society for Reef Studies and member and advisor to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.

Field of Interests:

Conservation Biology in a Changing Climate

I was an elected official in Santa Cruz County, California for twenty years. Now, I am an environmental attorney, "Of Counsel" to the law firm of Wittwer & Parkin. To get my perspective on land use and planning issues, please listen to the Land Use Report that I give each weekday morning on KUSP Radio, covering land use policy issues on the California Central Coast.

I am Currently working as a Policy Analyst in the Capacity of a Team Leader of Corporate Standards within PNG Ports Corporation Limited. PNG Ports Corporation is a State Owned Enterprise in the business of sea port and harbour management in Papua New Guinea and is the only Authority mandated by the Papua New Guinea Governement to do business in all declared ports within Papua New Guinea.

PNG Ports is currently putting in place a Green Port Initiative and an Interim Oversight Commitee for which I am the Chairman. I also lead a working group which has been set up by the Interim Committee with much support from the CEO of PNG Ports Corporation Limited Mr. Brian Riches to carry this forward and strategise on how best our initiative should work.

Any ideas that would be of help to our company would be much appreaciated and can be email to myself or Mr. Riches via our website: www.pngports.com.pg

Mariza Costa-Cabral is a hydrologist focusing on the impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources

Among her current interests are the physical causes of extreme hydrologic events (as well as their statistical description), and the impacts of projected climate change on the snowpack of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and on the timing of its melt hydrograph. With a team of fellow researchers (see project) she has studied possible impacts on water resources for the city of Los Angeles, for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She has also joined a research team examining impacts on the water quality of Lake Tahoe (see project). The results of both studies will soon be published in a special issue of Climatic Change.

   

I'm an Earth system scientist specializing in ecohydrology and climate change. I have worked in the public sector managing water resources and wildlife.  I am currently conducting phenology research relative to climate change in Texas.  I have been engaged in climate adaptation planning at the regional to national level.

I'm a Communicator with Virginia Sea Grant, specializing in media relations and online communication (social networks, online video, online photography, etc).