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MARCH 31, 2009 — DRAFT AGENDA
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. – 8:10 a.m. Introduction
Sally Gutierrez - Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), Office of Research and Development (ORD), EPA
8:10 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Keynote, Characterizing Uncertainty for Sound Decisions
George Gray – Former Assistant Administrator EPA/ORD and EPA Science Advisor, 2005 – 2009
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Characterizing Social Preferences for Health and Environmental Risks
James Hammitt – Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. The Value of Technical Information in Environmental Decision Making Processes
Mitchell Small – H. John Heinz III Professor of Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Systemic Risk Management Through Analytic Deliberation: A European Perspective
Piet Sellke – University of Stuttgart
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Understanding and Engineering the Complexity of Urban Systems
John Crittenden – Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Integrating Economic and Ecological Models for Environmental Decision Making:  A Participatory, Community-based Approach
Alexey Voinov – Chesapeake Research Consortium
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty:  A Systems Analysis Perspective
Urmila Diwekar – President, Vishwamitra Research Institute
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Environmental Assessments for Better Environmental Decisions
Glenn Suter – EPA/ORD National Center for Environmental Assessment
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Development, Assessment, and Uncertainty for Sustainable Consumer Products
Annie Weisbrod – Procter and Gamble, Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs - Sustainability
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Informing Decisions in View of Diverse Objectives, Risks, and Values
Todd Bridges – Senior Research Scientist, U.S. Engineer Research and Development Center
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Linking Science to Decision Making at the U.S. EPA Region III
Cynthia Stahl - Office of Environmental Information and Analysis, Environmental Assessment and Innovation Division, EPA Region 3
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Decision Support Framework (DSF) for Planning Land and Resource Use To Sustainably Maintain Healthy Ecosystem Services and Communities
Ann Vega – Revitalization Research Program Manager, Land Remediation and Pollution Control Division, Remediation and Redevelopment Branch, EPA
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session Wrap-Up
George Gray, Mitchell Small, and James Hammitt
5:00 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. Closing Remarks
Herbert L. Fredrickson, Associate Director for Ecology, NRMRL, EPA
5:10 p.m. Adjournment