H. Emerson "Chip" Blake - Editor in Chief, Orion Magazine
 Chip Blake is originally from Philadelphia. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and finished his graduate work at Antioch University New England. While at Antioch he helped found Whole Terrain and edited the first volume on the theme of Environmental Identity and Professional Choices (1992).
Though he studied ecology, Blake has been ensconced in the world of small publishing, editing, and nature writing. He was hired in 1992 at Orion Magazine as associate editor and continued as managing editor until 2003. When Milkweed Editions co-founder Emilie Buchwald retired in 2003, Blake took over as editor-in-chief of the small publishing company. In June 2005, Blake returned to take his current post as editor-in-chief of Orion Magazine and executive director of the Orion Society.
Dr. Gabriela Chavarria - Science Advisor, USFWS
 Dr. Gabriela Chavarria has served as Science Advisor to the Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since July 2010. As Science Advisor, Dr. Chavarria serves as counsel to the Service Director and provides leadership on science policy and scientific applications in resource management. This includes leading agency efforts to respond to changes in the global climate system; shaping the Service's agenda for change toward a science-driven landscape conservation business model; expanding Service capacities to acquire, apply and communicate scientific information; promoting active involvement of the Service and its employees in the larger scientific community; strengthening and expanding partnerships between the Service and other scientific organizations, particularly states and the U.S. Geological Survey; and cultivating the next generation of Service scientists.
Ian Cheney - Filmmaker  Ian Cheney grew up in New England and received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University. He co-created and starred in the feature documentary KING CORN, and directed the feature documentary THE GREENING OF SOUTHIE.
Ian is currently directing and producing a feature documentary about light pollution entitled THE CITY DARK, and a short film on urban agriculture entitled TRUCK FARM. With longtime collaborator Curt Ellis, Ian runs Wicked Delicate, a documentary and advocacy project in Brooklyn, NY. Wicked Delicate maintains a 1/1000th acre farm in the back of a 1986 Dodge pickup truck, and is part of a planning process to develop FoodCorps, a national school garden and Farm to School program.
Gary Fergusen - Writer/Naturalist in Residence  Over the past twenty-five years Gary Ferguson has written for a wide variety of publications, from Vanity Fair to The Los Angeles Times. He's also author of 18 books on science and nature, including the award-winning Hawks Rest, published by National Geographic Adventure Press, as well as a keynote presenter at conservation and outdoor education gatherings around the country. He is currently on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop Masters of Fine Arts program, at Pacific Lutheran University.
Dr. Mitch Joachim - Architect and Futurist  We welcome Dr. Mitchell Joachim back to Sc3. "Dr. J" is a leading thinker and in the field of ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE. He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and the European Graduate School (EGS) Switzerland. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto and faculty at Columbia, Pratt, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the TED Senior Fellowship, Moshe Safdie Fellowship, and Martin Society for Sustainability Fellowship at MIT.
Juan Martinez - Nature Leader Network  Juan Martinez, Children & Nature Network's national Natural Leaders Network Coordinator and Lets G.O.! (Get Outside) Co-Chair, is the recipient of numerous national awards and honors. As a leader of C&NN's Natural Leaders Initiative, he inspires young people internationally to become leaders in the children and nature movement. Juan also serves as Youth Coordinator for Sierra Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors.
Bill McKibben - Writer (Via Skype)  An American environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben is the founder and Director of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. Bill grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. He quit the magazine when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
Dr. Matt Nolan - Speaking from a glacier in Arctic Refuge (Skype)  An outspoken, passionate glaciologist, Matt Nolan has devoted his professional career to studying the Arctic and attempting to understand the impacts of climate change. Since 2003, Nolan and his research team have taken two trips each year to the glacier to build on observations that began as part of the "International Geophysical Year" in 1957-58. With a 50-year research record, the McCall Glacier is one of the longest-studied Arctic glaciers, which gives scientists a data set against which to compare modern findings. The team is measuring everything that could change over time, including mass balance; ice volume, temperature, and velocities; bed properties, albedo (surface reflecting power), and local weather to develop a comprehensive data set that can give clues to what's happening atmospherically in the Arctic.
 Dr. Mamie Parker - Fisheries Scientist and retired FWS Leader
Dr. Mamie Parker, retired from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service in 2008 after nearly 30 years of service. While she last served as the Assistant Director, Fisheries and Habitat Conservation from 2003-2007, Dr. Parker has plied her trade at a number of Service facilities, starting as a fish health practitioner at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery in Wisconsin. From there she went to the New London National Fish Hatchery and then a stint at the Green Bay Ecological Services Field Office before returning to the National Fish Hatchery at Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Rob Watson - Chairman, CEO & Chief Scientist of The EcoTech International (ETI)  Rob Watson, Chairman, CEO & Chief Scientist of The EcoTech International (ETI) Group and the "Founding Father" of the LEED Green Building Rating System, is described in Thomas Friedman's 2008 book, Hot, Flat And Crowded, as "one of the best environmental minds in America." As the National Chairman of the US Green Building Council LEED Steering Committee from 1994 to 2006, LEED became the most widespread and fastest-growing standard by which green buildings are measured worldwide. One of the pioneers of the modern green building movement, as Director of International Energy and Green Buildings Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rob worked for over twenty years on five continents improving the environmental performance of buildings, utilities and transportation through energy and building policy and program development, integrated design solutions, and clean building technologies.
Voices of the South performs Wild Legacy  Commissioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wild Legacy is an original stage production by theatre company, Voices of the South, created for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The theatre piece pays homage to Olaus and Mardy Murie who played a central role in protection of the Arctic wilderness and ultimately the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The legacy of the Muries and so many others --their vision, their tireless efforts, their great heart-- will be celebrated and honored. It is the desire of our theatre company to give voice and presence to the work of those who have gone before us and to inspire members of our contemporary audience with a sense of immediacy and awakened imagination concerning this "Last Great Wilderness" that is our inheritance.
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