MONDAY, AUGUST 2 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 5;
PRESS OFFICE - Room 254
MEDIA BRIEFING ROOM - Room 280
Monday, August 2
Morning Media Briefings, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
Mass Extinction of the Earth's Plant Species: Can We Prevent It?
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.//Peter Raven, Ph.D., President, XVI International Botanical
Congress,
and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
The Human Footprint on Earth: New Research
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.//Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of
Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
Afternoon Media Briefings, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Lunch)
Threatened Islands: Storehouses of Biological Treasures
12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.//Gregory Anderson, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head
at the University of Connecticut
Alien Invasions: Combating Aggressive Takeovers
12:50 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.//Mike Wingfield, Ph.D., Mondi Professor of Forest
Pathology; Director, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and Tree
Pathology Co-operative Programme; Faculty of Biological and Agricultural
Sciences, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
The Role of Plants in Controlling Climate Change
1:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.//Pamela A. Matson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Geological and Environmental Sciences, and The Institute for International
Studies, Stanford University
Tuesday, August 3
Morning Media Briefings, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
Ethnobotany: A New Plant Discovery to Cure Disease
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.// Maurice Iwu, Ph.D., President, International Society of
Ethnobiolog
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Contact: Eileen Kugler
EKugler@aol.com
703-644-3039
XVI International Botanical Congress
27-Jul-1999