(Photo: Peg Van Patten)

Conference Speakers

James G. Titus Global Programs Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
"Does Shoreline Armoring Violate the Clean Water Act? Rolling Easements, Shoreline Planning, and Other Responses to Sea Level Rise."

Michael Rubin
Rhode Island Attorney General's Environmental Advocate: "The Palazzolo Litigation: A Case Study of the Supreme Court, "Property Rights" and the Coast."

Michael E. Malamut Senior Attorney, New England Legal Foundation, Boston and Adjunct Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School: "Regulatory Takings Post-Palazzolo: Applying Supreme Court Jurisprudence from the Practical Perspective."

John Echeverria
Professor of Law, Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.: "Regulating vs. Buying the Coast."

Jane K. Stahl
Deputy Commissioner CT Department of Environmental Protection: "Public Trust: Does the Law Serve Public Policy?"

Stephen R. Kellert
Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies:"Human Values and the Coastal Environment."

Eric T. Schultz and Michael Ludwig
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) in the Coastal Zone: the Essentials on how Fish Habitat Needs are Evaluated and Protected."

James N. Kremer
Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut at Avery Point: "Too Many Neighbors: Planning for Nitrogen in Coastal Watersheds."

Johan C. Varekamp
George I. Seney Professor of Geology, Earth and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University, CT: "Once Spilled - Still Found: Metal Pollution In Sediments From Long Island Sound And Its Coastal Wetlands."

Brian Harrington
Biologist, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Mass., Staff Technical Advisor to the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network: "Strategic Coastal Bird Migration Staging Sites: An International Conservation Challenge."

Donald Henne
Project Leader Southern New England - New York Bight Coastal Ecosystems Program of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: "Ionian Enchantment By the Sea: A Stewardship System for the Long Island Sound Ecosystem."

Virginia Lee
Assistant Director, RI Sea Grant College Program and
Megan Higgins, Coastal Policy Analyst, R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council:
:"Public Access to the Public Trust."

Robert J. Johnston
Associate Director Connecticut Sea Grant College Program and Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut: "Changing Preferences for Environmental Amenities in the Coastal Zone: The Implications of Population Growth for Natural Resource Values and Policy."

James J. Opaluch
Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island: "Use of a Policy Simulation Laboratory for Consensus Building on Growth Management in the Coastal Zone."