Speakers
James Barry
Jim Barry, with a background in biological oceanography and marine ecology, is a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) whose research program focuses on the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems. After training at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Barry joined the science staff at the MBARI in the early 1990s. In addition to climate change, his research interests are broad, spanning topics such as; 1) the biology and ecology of chemosynthetic biological communities in the deep-sea, 2) coupling between upper ocean and seafloor ecosystems in polar and temperate environments, 3) the biology of deep-sea communities, and 4) the biology of submarine canyon communities. For the past several years, Barry’s program has centered on studies of the effects of ocean warming and ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, including direct carbon sequestration in the deep-sea, and the passive influx of fossil carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the sea surface. Barry has helped inform Congress on ocean acidification, ocean carbon sequestration and climate change by speaking at congressional briefings and meetings with congressional members.
James Bellingham
James G. Bellingham is the chief technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. His personal research activity revolves around the development and use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). In the process of developing these vehicles, he spent considerable time at sea, leading over 20 AUV expeditions. Bellingham leads the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN) program at MBARI, which uses fleets of autonomous vehicles to adapt to and observe rapidly changing oceanographic processes. Bellingham received his Ph.D. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. He is a co-founder of Bluefin Robotics Corporation in 1997, a leading manu8 Climate Clock San José facturer of AUVs for the military, commercial and scientific markets. Bluefin was purchased by Battelle Memorial Corporation in 2005, where he remains a member of the Strategic Advisory Group.
Steve Bishop
Steve Bishop is a global lead of the Sustainability Domain at IDEO. In this role, he focuses on applying design thinking to the issues of sustainability for IDEO clients as well as IDEO itself. Having led several projects, Bishop’s experience ranges across several industries including automotive, energy, consumer products and medical devices. He’s helped design high-end award-winning office furniture, instrument panels for hybrid electric vehicles, and medical devices, for which he holds patents. Since earning a masters in product design from Stanford University, Bishop has returned to teach design engineering. In 2007, he launched a new course at Stanford on design for sustainability. He has written articles for Harvard Business Review Online, Men’s Health, Rotman Magazine and others, and speaks regularly on the topic of sustainability at conferences and universities.
Peter Brewer
Dr. Peter Brewer is an ocean chemist, and senior scientist, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Prior to joining MBARI in 1991 he spent 24 years as a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, rising to the rank of senior scientist. He served as Program Manager for Ocean Chemistry at the National Science Foundation 1981-1983, receiving the NSF Sustained Superior Performance Award. He has taken part in more than 30 deep-sea cruises, and has served as chief scientist on major expeditions and on more than 70 ROV dives with MBARI ships and vehicles. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Internationally he has served as a member of SCOR, and as Vice-Chair of JGOFS. He has served as a member of vicepresident Gore’s Environmental Task Force, and as a member of MEDEA. He served as president of the Ocean Sciences Section of AGU from 1994-1996. At MBARI Brewer served as president and chief executive officer from 1991-1996, completing major laboratory and SWATH ship construction programs and doubling the size of the Institution before returning to full-time research. His research interests are broad, and include the ocean geochemistry of the greenhouse gases. He has devised novel techniques both for measurement and for extracting the oceanic signatures of global change. At MBARI his current interests include the geochemistry of gas hydrates, and the evolution of the oceanic fossil fuel CO2 signal. He has developed novel techniques for deep ocean laser Raman spectroscopy, and for testing the principles and impacts of deep ocean CO2 injection. He is author or co-author of more than 130 scientific papers and editor of several books.
Tim Dye
Tim Dye joined Sonoma Technology, Inc. (STI) in 1990 and is responsible for strategic planning and management of STI’s forecasting/public outreach, meteorological analysis, and radar wind profiler (RWP) business areas. Dye has managed all of STI’s ozone mapping and forecasting programs including the Sacramento, California, ozone forecasting program (1996-2006); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) West Coast Mapping Center (1999-2001); and the EPA’s AIRNow program (2002-2006). He led the development of forecasting programs for both ozone and particulate matter (PM) throughout the United States and internationally. Dye was lead author for the EPA’s guidance document for setting up ozone and PM2.5 forecasting programs; he also developed a wide range of objective forecasting tools to predict air quality.
Seth Fearey
Seth Fearey spent 20 years in a variety of management positions at Hewlett-Packard. His experience in measurement, semiconductor, computer and software business units, plus ten years at HP Laboratories, exposed him to a broad array of technologies and innovative thinkers. In the early 1990’s he was a champion of the Internet, serving as a member of the board of Smart Valley Inc., a non-profit organization he helped found. Today he is the COO and a VP at Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network in San José. He has assembled a team of staff members from 44 cities, counties and special districts in Silicon Valley to form the Climate Protection Task Force to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from municipal operations. In his nearly non-existent spare time, he hangs out at his apartment in the Chianti Classico district in Tuscany.
Marc Fischer
Dr. Marc Fischer is a staff scientist with the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University East Bay. Fischer’s research focuses on measurements and modeling of human-ecosystem- atmosphere processes involving trace gases with an emphasis on responses and feedbacks to global change. Fischer’s recent work has included development of a laser-based eddy covariance instrument to measure fluxes of NH3 at field scales, planning and implementation of methods to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from California, improving the spatiotemporal resolution of fossil fuel CO2 combustion maps for the continental U.S., and measurements of carbon cycle response to prairie burning in the Southern Great Plains. Dr. Fischer earned his doctorate degree in physics from the University of California Berkeley.
Robert Gifford
Dr. Robert Gifford is professor of psychology and environmental studies at the University of Victoria, editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology, president of the Environmental Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology, past president of APA Division 34 (Population and Environment), fellow of the American Psychological Association, fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. He has taught environmental psychology for over 30 years. Gifford’s research interests are at the interface of environmental psychology, social psychology, and personality psychology. He conducts studies on societal problems that meet high scientific standards.Gifford’s main current activities are editing the Journal of Environmental Psychology, conducting studies on resource management (commons dilemmas and social dilemmas), personality and nonverbal behavior, ecological issues such as environmental activism and pro-environmental behavior, and the meaning and liveability of neighbourhoods. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental psychology and consumer psychology. He is the author of Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice (4th ed., 2007) published by Optimal Books.
Barbara Goldstein
Barbara Goldstein is the public art director for the City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs and the editor of Public Art by the Book, a primer recently published by Americans for the Arts and the University of Washington Press. Prior to her work in San José, Goldstein was public art director for the City of Seattle. Goldstein has worked as a cultural planner, architectural and art critic, editor and publisher. From 1989 to 1993, she was director of Design Review and Cultural Planning for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. From 1980-85 she edited and published Arts + Architecture magazine. She has written for art and architectural magazines both nationally and internationally, and has lectured on public art throughout the United States, and in Canada, Japan, China and Taipei.
Saul Griffith
Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his Ph.D. in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including: Optiopia, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. Griffith has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor’s award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize. Recently Griffith has been named a MacArthur Fellow. A large focus of his research efforts are in minimum and constrained energy surfaces for novel manufacturing techniques and other applications. He holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics, nanotechnology and energy production. Griffith co-authors children’s comic books called HowToons about building your own science and engineering gadgets with Nick Dragotta and Joost Bonsen. He is a technical advisor to Make magazine and Popular Mechanics, and is a columnist and regular contributor to Make and Craft magazines.
Don Kassing
As president of San José State University, Don W. Kassing heads the oldest and one of the largest universities in the 23-campus California State University system. Appointed in 2004, Kassing has moved the university forward in several key areas. Under his leadership, the campus is engaged in university-wide strategic planning, with the goal of making San José State University a university of choice by 2010. During the 2006-2007 academic year, San José State received $50 million in private gifts, leading the CSU system in private giving for the first time. The banner giving year capped a three-year giving total of $100 million. As president and in his former role as vice president for administration and finance, Kassing led the development, construction and successful opening of two major campus facilities: the awardwinning Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, based on a first-of-its-kind and highly successful partnership with the city of San José; and Campus Village, a state-of-theart residence complex for students, faculty and staff, the largest such project in the California State University system, and the focus of a renewed sense of community on the campus.
Kassing holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Economics from St. Louis University. He is married with three children and eight grandchildren.
Steve Landau
Steve Landau is a Bay Area native and has spent more than twenty years working with established and start-up companies in the software, database, dotcom and solid-state lighting industries. Landau joined Lumileds in 2001 and has participated in the growth of the power LED market. He is a frequent author and contributor with articles that address the changes, challenges and opportunities for solid-state lighting in a wide variety of applications. Landau attended UC Davis and now lives in San José, CA.
Bette Otto-Bliesner
Bette Otto-Bliesner received her M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado. Her research is focused on using computer-based models of Earth’s climate to investigate past climate change and climate variability across a wide range of time scales. Otto-Bliesner is particularly interested in climate change forced naturally over the glacial-interglacial cycles of the last million years.
She serves on the Scientific Steering Committees for the International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Past Global Changes (PAGES) and the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project PMIP2. She was a lead author for “Chapter 6, Paleoclimate,” of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 and a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences report on “Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 1000-2000 Years: Synthesis of Current Understanding and Challenges for the Future.”
Otto-Bliesner is active in education and outreach activities. She is a member of the NCAR Exhibits Science Advisory Committee. She has been involved in American Geophysical Union activities, including serving as the first chair of the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group, and on the committee that drafted the revised AGU Position Statement on the “Human Impacts on Climate.” For more information on her work and links to her publications, please see: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/ottobli/
Eric Paulos
Eric Paulos is a senior research scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he is the founder and director of the Urban Atmospheres research group—challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, sustainability, green design, environmental awareness, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies and intimate media. Paulos is a leading figure in the field of urban computing and is a regular contributor, editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. Paulos received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley where he helped launch a new robotic industry by developing some of the first internet tele-operated robots including Space Browsing helium filled blimps and Personal Roving Presence devices (PRoPs).
Chuck Reed
Chuck Reed is the 64th mayor of San José, elected on November 7, 2006. Reed was born and raised in the small farming town of Garden City, Kansas. His family lived in a public housing project, teaching him from an early age the importance of government aide for working families. A strong work ethic was evident during childhood as Chuck took jobs sweeping floors while still in elementary school, digging ditches, shoveling gravel and working in the fields before becoming a teenager and working part time operating a bulldozer and driving an 18-wheeler semi truck while in high school. Chuck left Kansas to attend the United States Air Force Academy and served in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He received a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University and graduated from Stanford Law School. As mayor of San José, Chuck is committed to improving the quality of life in the city, boosting the public’s trust in local government, and fixing the City’s structural budget deficit. Chuck and his wife, Paula, have been married for over 35 years. Paula manages a medical clinic specializing in the care of cancer patients. They have two children, Kim and Alex, who both attended public schools in San José. Kim is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force with more than 100 combat missions. Alex works in Washington D.C. to help prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Robert Sain
Robert Sain is Executive Director of Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.
Joel Slayton
Joel Slayton is an artist, writer, researcher and professor at San José State University where he is director of the Cadre Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. CADRE, established in 1984, is dedicated to the development of experimental applications involving information technology and art. Slayton was chairperson for ISEA2006/ZER01 San José: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and will be the new executive director of ZER01 starting in June of 2008. He is the executive editor of SWITCH, http://switch.sjsu.edu CADRE’s on-line journal of new media discourse and practice. Initiated in 1995, SWITCH has presented 19 volumes that have addressed themes such as Network Culture, Artificial Life, Art and the Military, Sound Culture, Cyber-feminism, Art as Network, Art as Database, New Media Art Centers, Social/Networks Collaborative Models , and Social Computing. Slayton serves on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology). He was editor in chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2005. Slayton’s research explores social software, cooperation models and network ontology. Papers include Social Software; Entailment Mesh, The Re=Purpose of Information, and The Ontology of Organization as System.
Slayton is the director and founder of FUSE:cadre/montalvo artist research residency, a platform for collaboration, experimentation, creativity and innovation focused on emerging new media and technology. FUSE connects fine arts students from the CADRE Laboratory in unorthodox partnerships with artists that inspire new forms of technology-based production and experience. Through cross-discipline collaborations, the residency-model provides an arena for addressing some of the most pertinent issues of our time including, but not limited to, concerns of globalization, sustainability, censorship, human rights, social responsibility, human centered design and a focus on the next generation.
Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology Slayton creates artworks that engage with a wide range of media technology including information mapping, networks and interactive visualization. Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970s, has received a National Endowment for the Arts award and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program.