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Keynote Speakers
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Thursday, October 18
Welcome
and Introductions - Richard Murzin,
Co-Chair, Leading Edge 2001
Conference
Purpose and Overview - Don Scott, Chair, NEC
Keynote
Address: Dr. Roger E. Soles - Dr. Soles, Regional Portfolio
Officer for Science and Technology Cooperation in the Western
Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of State, and
former Executive Director of the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program
for more than 18 years.
Friday, October 19, 2001
Keynote
Address: The Honourable Gilbert Parent
- Canada's Ambassador for the Environment
Conference
Wrap-Up - Paul Zorn, Regional Conservation
Biologist with the Ontario Region of Parks Canada
Friday - Panel Discussion:
Learning from Canada’s Biosphere Reserves
Overview
- Jim Birtch, Executive Secretary,
Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association
Panellists:
Tom
Esakin - Clayoquot Biosphere Trust
Hélène
Gignac - Lac Saint-Pierre Biosphere Reserve
Eric
Malka - Mont-Saint-Hilaire Biosphere Reserve
Brian
Craig - Long Point Biosphere Reserve
John
Whitaker - Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve
Richard
Murzin - Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve
Larry
Hawrysh - Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve
Larry
Frith - Waterton Biosphere Reserve
Dr.
Glen Jamieson - Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Foundation
Q
& A: Members of Canada's Biosphere
Reserves respond to questions from the audience
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