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Dr. Ann Sorensen

Address:
American Farmland Trust
Center for Agriculture in the Environment
P.O. Box 987
DeKalb, IL 60115

Phone: (815) 753-9347
Fax: (815) 753-9348
E-Mail: asorensen@niu.edu

Dr. Ann Sorensen has been director of American Farmland Trust's Center for Agriculture in the Environment since November 1992. The Center, operated jointly with Northern Illinois University's Social Science Research Institute in DeKalb, Ill., serves as the focal point for AFT's public policy research efforts.

Previously, Sorensen had been assistant director of the Natural and Environmental Resources Division for the American Farm Bureau Federation in Park Ridge, Ill. At the Farm Bureau, she was responsible for agricultural production and environmental issues, including agricultural biotechnology, integrated pest management, pesticides, groundwater pollution, alternative crops, sustainable agriculture and agriculture pests.

Before joining the Farm Bureau, Sorensen was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate with Texas A&M University. She then worked for the University of Georgia's Department of Entomology as a postdoctoral associate and the Texas Department of Agriculture as an integrated pest management specialist. She started her career as a research assistant with the niversity of California-Berkeley's Department of Entomology and Parasitology where she has her Ph.D. in Entomology. Her areas of research include applied insect pathology, integrated pest management, social insect behavior and recombinant DNA work with insect viruses.

Sorensen has published a large number of scholarly papers, served on numerous committees and spoken frequently on agricultural and environmental issues.

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Mr. H. Glenn Williams

Address:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Pesticide Programs
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
MC 7511 W

Phone: (703) 308-8287
Fax: (703) 308-7026
E-Mail: Williams.Glenn@epamail.epa.gov

BS: Biology, Rhodes College
MA: English/History of Ideas (Darwinism), Univ. of Tenn-Knoxville
PhD studies: English/History of Ideas, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

After teaching several years at the University of North Carolina, entered Federal Civil Service as writer and assistant to the Chief of Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He accepted the position as writer with the Office of Technology and Evaluation, Office of Toxic Substances, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and subsequently served as environmental protection specialist, policy analyst, program analyst, and writer in the Office of Toxic Substances, Office of Research and Development, and Office of Pesticide Programs. He served as Acting Director of the Office of Program Management and Evaluation in the Office of Toxic Substances and as Staff Director of the Health Effects Division in Office of Pesticide Programs. He participated in the pilot program starting the Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention and currently serves on the Pollution Prevention staff as team leader for measuring and monitoring of the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program and as Liaisons for the Armed Forces Pest Management Board, Department of Defense; Imported Fire Ant and Household Insect Research Unit, Center for Medical, Veterinary and Agricultural Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and private pest control companies.
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Dr. Sarah Lynch

Address:
World Wildlife Fund
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1175

Phone: (202) 778-9781
Fax: (202) 530-0743
E-Mail: Sarah.Lynch@wwfus.org

Sarah Lynch is Director of World Wildlife Fund's Agriculture Pollution Prevention Program and is responsible for overseeing WWF's work on pesticide risk reduction and IPM measurement systems. Before joining WWF in June 1997 she worked in the USDA's Natural Resources and the Environment Division of the Economic Research Service on issues related to pesticide policy and measuring IPM adoption. Dr. Lynch is an agricultural economist by training having advanced degrees from Michigan State University and Cornell University.
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Mr. Joseph K. Bagdon

Address:
USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
National Water and Climate Center
451 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: (413) 253-4376
Fax: (413) 253-4374
E-Mail: jbagdon@ma.nrcs.usda.gov

Mr. Bagdon is the National Pest Management Specialist and NAPRA Team Leader at the National Water and Climate Center - Water Science and Technology Team at the USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service in Massachusetts. He received his BS in 1980 from the University of Massachusetts in Plant and Soil Sciences. He was a Vegetable, Tobacco and Dairy Farmer, a Soil Conservation Technician with the USDA Soil Conservation Service, a County Executive Director with USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Soil Conservationist with USDA Soil Conservation Service, Founder and Project Leader for NAPRA: National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis, Resource Conservationist - Natural Resources Conservation Service and Pest Management Specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service

In his current position, he is responsible for pest management related technology and technical policy within the agency. His main interest is pesticide environmental risk. He serves on several national interagency technical committees, including the FIFRA Exposure Modeling Work Group and USDA's 75% IPM by the Year 2000 Subcommittee. He recently represented USDA at the International Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Workshop on Pesticide Risk Indicators, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His primary focus over the next several years will be to partner with the Conservation Technology Information Center, to nationally promote pest management as one of the "Core 4" practices that all farmers need to implement to help conserve our Nation's natural resources.

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Dr. Lawrence A. Burns, Ph.D.

Address:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development,
NERL/ERD/EAB
Athens, Georgia 30605-2700

Phone: (706) 355-8119
Fax: (706) 355-8104 or 8440
E-Mail: burns.lawrence@epa.gov

B.A. 1968, New York University, Biology
Ph.D. 1978, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ecology (Zoology) (Sponsor: H.T. Odum)
Dissertation: Productivity, Biomass, and Water Relations in a Florida Cypress Forest

Dr. Burns is a Research Ecologist, at the Ecosystems Assessment Branch, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ecosystems Research Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, in Athens, Georgia. The Branch research program is designed to develop the basic understanding of ecosystem structural and functional properties needed to predict the fate, exposure, and human and ecological risks of pollutants in the environment. The branch mission is then "to produce integrated analysis frameworks and systems models to assess the exposure and response to stressors of ecological systems at global, regional, and watershed scales." During his tenure, Dr. Burns has served in a variety of roles in addition to his research activities which included service as Acting Chief of the Branch, Agency leadership roles in planning EPA wetlands and global change research programs, as Matrix Program Manager for EPA's Ecological Risk Assessment Research Program involving five EPA Environmental Research Laboratories as well as regulatory divisions of the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, and as the Office of Research and Development lead on the multi-agency South Florida Ecosystem Restoration project. Dr. Burns is the principal author of the "Exposure Analysis Modeling System" (EXAMS), a widely-used interactive computer simulation package for evaluating the transport and fate of synthetic organic chemicals in aquatic ecosystems, and of the PIRANHA (Pesticide and Industrial Chemical Risk Analysis and Hazard Assessment) computer technology for linked biogeographical endangerment, exposure and effects analysis, and ecological risk assessment.
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Dr. Charles Benbrook

5085 Upper Pack River Road
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Phone: (208) 263-5236 (Business and Home)
Fax: (208) 263-7342
E-mail: benbrook@hillnet.com

Dr. Benbrook received his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University in 1971, his M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1980) in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Since 1990, he is the sole proprietor of Benbrook Consultant Services, an Idaho based consulting business. Services for domestic and international clients include policy and economic analysis; synthesis of scientific information from several fields in exploring policy issues and possible solutions; strategic assessment of government science and technology development programs, with special focus on competitive grant programs; organization goals and strengths, and institutional dynamics and interactions; monitoring of legislative and Executive branch policy and budgetary processes; development of political and analytical strategies to achieve specific objectives; and, assistance in establishing and broadening networks. Clients include consumer and environmental groups, international organizations, companies, federal and state government agencies, trade associations, and academic research organizations.

For additional information regarding Dr. Benbrook's IPM work and reports on the Food Quality Protection Act and IPM, please visit

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Dr. Harold D. Coble

Address:
USDA/SCREES
MS 2220
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250-2220

Phone: (202) 401-4230
Fax: (202) 401-6156
Email: hcoble@reeusda.gov

Dr. Coble is Professor of Weed Science at North Carolina State University and presently serves as IPM coordinator for USDA. Dr. Coble received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Crop Science from North Carolina State University in 1965 and 1967, respectively, and his Ph.D. in agronomy from the University of Illinois in 1970. He has served on the faculty at North Carolina State University since that time. Dr. Coble has been involved in both research and extension roles at North Carolina State University, and continues to be active in research and teaching. He has served as the major advisor for over 50 graduate students over his 27-year career as a weed scientist. His major research efforts have been in weed biology and ecology and in developing economic weed control systems for cotton, peanuts, corn, and soybeans. He has been active in the development of economic thresholds for weeds in agronomic crops, and in developing implementation systems for those thresholds. He and his co-workers developed HERB, the first computerized economic threshold decision support system used for weed management decisions. He has served as President of the Weed Science Society of America, and the Weed Science Society of North Carolina.
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Prof. Dr. Erich Dickler

Address:
Biologische Bundesanstalt
Institut für Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau
Schwabenheimer Straße 101
69221 Dossenheim
Germany

Phone: +49 6221-866238
Fax: +49 6221-861222
E-mail: bba.dossenheim@t-online.de
web page: http://www.bba.de

Prof. Dr. Erich Dickler is the Director of the Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops in Dossenheim, Germany. He is also the President of the Entomological Society of Germany (DGaaE) and a professor at Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biology. He received his PhD in agriciculture from Giessen University, Germany in 1967 and completed a post doctorate at Michigan State University in the Faculty of Entomology from 1967-1968.

In the past he worked as a fruit entomologist, in biological and integrated control of fruit pests and was the convenor of IOBC/WPRS Working Group Integrated Plant Protection in Orchards. He worked as the editor of guidelines for integrated production of pome fruits in Europe, Bull. IOBC/WPRS and was the foreign expert for the development of integrated fruit production in Poland. Since 1997 foreign expert for the development of integrated fruit production in Chile. He also presents lectures on this subject in several countries, such as China, Canada and the United States.

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Dr. Jeff Dlott

Address:
212 Mar Monte Ave.
La Salva, CA 95076-1638

Phone: (415) 744-1062
Fax: (408) 684-9218
E-Mail: DlottJW@aol.com

Jeff Dlott received his Ph.D. in entomology from UC Berkeley in 1993. His training and research also includes sociology of agriculture with an emphasis in participatory research and project evaluation. His work focuses on collaborating with farmers, farm managers, agricultural consultants, and others in the design, execution, and evaluation of agricultural extension and research projects principally in pest management. Dr. Dlott has worked in the academic, private, non-profit, and government sectors. He conducted natural and social science pest management research and taught insect ecology and agricultural ecology at UC Berkeley from 1994-1995. In 1996, Dr. Dlott founded Collaborative Research and Designs for Agriculture (CRDA), a non-profit corporation. CRDA has received support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Program for Strategic Pest Management, American Farmland Trust, the C. S. Mott Foundation, and US EPA in the areas of project design, management and evaluation. Recently, Dr. Dlott accepted a senior scientist position in the Agricultural Initiative at US EPA Region 9 to work with the agricultural community on alternatives to pesticides undergoing regulatory scrutiny as part of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. Dr. Dlott has worked in a wide-range of cropping systems including stone fruits, pome fruits, leafy vegetables, wine and raisin grapes, and cotton and other row crops.
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Mr. Larry Elworth

Address:
Program for Strategic Pest Management
223 Baltimore Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325

Phone: (717) 338-9522
Fax: (717) 338-9554
E-Mail: elworth@mail.cvn.net

Mr. Elworth is the Executive Director of the Program for Strategic Pest Management which was established to provide opportunities for growers to improve the economic and environmental performance of their production systems. He served at the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC for 3 1/2 years as the Special Assistant for Pesticide Policy where his primary responsibilities were pesticide legislation, agricultural labor issues, and pest management policy. During that time he also served as Liaison to the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. Prior to working for USDA, Director of the Pennsylvania Apple Marketing Program, earned an MBA, and was an orchard manager and fruit grower for 15 years.
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Dr. Mike Gray

Address:
University of Illinois
172 Natural Resources Building
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 333-6652
Fax: (217) 333-9817
E-Mail: m-gray4@uiuc.edu

Dr. Michael Gray is a full-time extension specialist with expertise in field crop entomology. Dr. Gray also serves as the Cooperative Extension Service IPM Coordinator. He provides overall leadership and serves as the spokesperson for this multidisciplinary program. Dr. Gray also serves as the IPM Development Team Chair for seven regional field staff IPM educators. Other responsibilities include advising farmers throughout Illinois of potential economic insect infestations to field and forage crops and offering effective management recommendations. Dr. Gray also delivers current pest management research findings for field and forage crop insect pests to the agricultural clientele and extension field staff through the development of educational programs and materials. He serves annually as the coordinator for the Illinois Crop Protection Workshop, a regionally recognized conference in the arena of crop protection and pest management. The Workshop has a yearly enrollment of approximately 300 participants. Dr. Gray is a regular contributor to the Cooperative Extension Service sponsored Pest Management and Crop Development Bulletin. In addition, he is a long-term contributor to the Bug Beat column in Prairie Farmer, the most popularly subscribed magazine of Illinois farmers. Dr. Gray has been very active in the area of participatory on-farm research as it relates to insect management in field crops. In the early 1990s, his research led to significant reductions in soil insecticide use for the management of corn rootworms. Dr. Gray's current on-farm research efforts are aimed at improving our understanding of western corn rootworm injury in rotated corn. Beginning in 1996, Dr. Gray and cooperating scientists will be actively investigating this perplexing problem on the farms of 23 east-central Illinois growers.
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Prof. Dr. Volkmar Gutsche

Address:
Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft
Institut für Folgenabschätzung im Pflanzenschutz
Stahnsdorfer Damm 81
14532 Kleinmachnow
Germany

Phone: +49 33203 48205
Fax: +49 33203 48425
E-Mail: V.Gutsche@bba.de
Internet: http://www.bba.de

Prof. Dr. Gutsche has received his appointment as Director and Professor by the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry in Germany in 1983. He earned his first doctorate in 1971 at the Technical University Chemnitz with a specialization in Operations Research. He completed his studies by gaining the first academic degree in mathematics. In 1976, he earned the Doctorate A at the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The title of dissertation was "Theoretical basis for modelling and forecasting of population dynamics." In 1986 he received his Doctorate B (doctor scientae naturalium) at the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the title of his dissertation was "Development and usage of epidemic and pest insect models in research and practice of plant protection."

As Director of the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, his responsibilities include:

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Dr. Karen Hamernik:

Address:
7509C
USEPA Headquarters
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20460

Phone: 703-305-5467
E-Mail: hamernick.karen@epamail.epa.gov

Karen has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology. Her thesis work was conducted in the area of chemical carcinogenesis. Karen joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 1984. She worked first as a general toxicologist and then as a Toxicology Section Chief for a number of years. She then moved on to work primarily on special toxicological problems. Recently, she has served on a number of intra- and extramural workgroups both nationally and internationally on issues associated with cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides. She is currently working as a technical advisor to the Agency's endocrine disruptor screening and testing program implementation task force.
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Mr. Eric Hesketh

Address:
USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
National Water and Climate Center
451 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: (413) 253-4375
Fax: (413) 253-4374
E-Mail: ehesketh@ma.nrcs.usda.gov

Mr. Hesketh is a Soil Scientist with the National Water and Climate Center - Water Science and Technology Team for the USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service

He received his BS in 1982 and his MS in 1986 from the University of Rhode Island in Plant Science. His Master's Thesis was "Nitrate leaching from turf-grass." He did graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts in Plant Science, investigating the fate of nitrogen in turfgrass. He was also a turf-grass Private Consultant and Computer Modeler investigating nitrogen leaching with GLEAMS (Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems). He is a GLEAMS Expert and one of the original developers of the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis (NAPRA) Process and Software. He was a Soil Conservationist with the USDA Soil Conservation Service and is presently the Soil Scientist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. He is currently working on the development of WIN-PST Software, a WindowsTM-based Pesticide Screening Tool.

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Ms. Jean Haley

Address:
P.O. Box 1151
Aptos, CA 95001-1151

Phone: (408) 688-6604

Jean Haley received her MS in natural resources conflict resolution from the University of Idaho in 1996. Her work centers around natural resource conflict resolution and program evaluation. Ms. Haley's recent work focuses on designing and implementing collaborative projects that work toward environmentally and economically stable solutions in agriculture and forestry. Ms. Haley has expertise in meeting facilitation; workshop design; proposal and report writing; survey development, implementation and data analysis; and educational curriculum development. Ms. Haley is currently an Evaluation Specialist and Facilitator at Collaborative Research and Designs for Agriculture (CRDA), a non-profit corporation. CRDA has received support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Program for Strategic Pest Management, American Farmland Trust, the C. S. Mott Foundation, and US EPA in the areas of project design, management and evaluation.
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Dr. James M. Lazorchak

Address:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ecosystems Research Branch
National Exposure Research Laboratory
26 W. Martin Luther King
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268

Phone: (513) 569 7076
Fax: (513) 569 7609
E-Mail: Lazorchak.Jim@EPA.Gov

Dr. Lazorchak is a Research Aquatic Ecologist and Toxicologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory in Ohio. He received his BS in Zoology from Southeast Missouri State University in 1969, his MS in Aquatic Ecology from Wright State University, Ohio in 1972, a second MS in Environmental Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1978 and his doctorate in Ecotoxicology from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1986.

His Current Activities are as the Research Aquatic Ecologist with the Ecosystems Research Branch in the Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA. He is responsible for the design and coordination of logistics for the U.S. EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) a field monitoring program for lakes and streams. He is the indicator lead for research and assessment for fish contamination, water and sediment toxicity and the co-lead for zooplankton and macroinvertebrates. He is also the senior ecotoxicologist and manager of an Aquatic Research facility for ecotoxicity methods development and research. His latest research is in the area of real-time biological monitoring using clams and fish to detect episodic and long term exposures to contaminants.

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Dr. Lois Levitan

Address:
Dr. Lois Levitan
Dept . Natural Resources/CfE
213 Rice Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA 14853

Phone: (607) 255-4765
Fax: (607) 255-0238
E-Mail: LCL3@Cornell.edu

Lois Levitan has been working on pest control (and IPM) impacts assessment since 1994. Her publications on this topic include: Currently Dr. Levitan is working on several related projects, including: Dr. Levitan began her twenty-plus year career in field biology and environmental policy working as a research entomologist and beekeeper, but in recent years has focused on issues at the interface between natural and social systems. Prior to her recent concentration on risk and impact assessment issues, she was particularly active in the arena of natural areas preservation and open space protection for agriculture and other natural-resource-based activities. She was a founding member and long-time officer of the Finger Lakes Land Trust, and is now pursuing these (and related) interests via a farm partnership in the newly opened Sheldrake Point vineyard and winery on the shores of beautiful Cayuga Lake, twenty miles north of her home in Ithaca, NY.

Following undergraduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago, she received her undergraduate degree in Forest Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, and graduate degrees from Cornell University in Natural Resource Policy and Planning. Currently she works with the Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology at Cornell and as an independent consultant on an array of environmental policy and land use planning issues.

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Mr. John Redden

Address:
7505C
USEPA Headquarters
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20460

Phone: 703-305-1969

John has an MS in biology. In the seventies and early eighties, he worked as a technician and technical group leader in the field of inhalation toxicology. John came to USEPA in 1990 as a toxicology study reviewer. He soon moved on to the Risk Characterization and Analysis Branch as a Chemical Manager and Risk Assessor. For the past year, John has been a member of the Health Effects Division's HAZID Committee. The HAZID Committee selects endpoints from toxicology studies for risk assessment. John is currently in the Technical Review Branch of the Registration Division, where he is a Senior Scientist for acute toxicology.
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Dr. Joost Reus

Address:
Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CLM)
Amsterdamsestraatweg 877
P.O. Box 10015
3505AA Utrecht
The Netherlands

Phone: +31 3024 41301
Fax: +31 3024 41381
E-Mail: jreus@clm.nl
Web Page: http://www.clm.nl

Joost Reus graduated from Wageningen University in entomology and nematology. In 1990, he joined the Centre for Agriculture and Environment in the Netherlands where he worked on environmental effects of pesticides and pesticide policy. He developed the Environmental Yardstick for pesticides and is now coordinator of a concerted action within the European Union on pesticide indicators. His current position at the Centre for Agriculture and Environment is research coordinator in agricultural biodiversity and water management.
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Ms. Mary B. Swanson

Address:
The University of Tennessee
Center for Clean Products and
Clean Technologies
Energy, Environment and Resource Center
600 Henley Street
Suite 311
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134

Phone: (423) 974-0642
Fax: (423) 974-1838
E-Mail: MSWANSO1@UTK.EDU

Mary Swanson is a project scientist with the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center and the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies. Her work involves evaluating the fate and effects of chemicals released to the environment, with special interest in the development and application of chemical ranking and scoring, risk assessment, and life-cycle impact assessment methodologies as tools for evaluating and developing cleaner products and cleaner technologies.

Ms. Swanson has twelve years experience in environmental research and consulting, beginning with research at the University of Minnesota involving trace organic contaminants in rain and snow in the Great Lakes region. She also worked in environmental consulting as an environmental chemist/environmental engineer on hazardous waste site remedial investigations and feasibility studies, specializing in the areas of contaminant fate and transport modeling and human health risk assessment.

Ms. Swanson received a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1988 and a Bachelor of Science degree in natural resources/water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1984.

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Dr. Scott M. Swinton

Address:
306 Agriculture Hall
Department of Agricultural Economics
Michigan State University
E. Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 353-7218
Fax: (517) 432-1800
E-mail: swintons@pilot.msu.edu

Dr. Swinton is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. He teaches undergraduate farm business management and graduate agricultural production economics. His research in agricultural production and environmental management includes integrated pest management (IPM), farmer management of health and financial risk, technology evaluation, and policy analysis. Current research focuses on profitability and environmental impacts from precision agriculture in field crops, impacts of changing pesticide policy in fruit, assessment of IPM adoption, adoption of soil conservation measures, and the design of agricultural production contracts to improve water quality.
Mr. Graham Thwaite

Address:
NSW Agriculture
Orange Agricultural Institute
Forest Road
Orange, NSW 2800
Australia

Phone: +61 (2) 6391 3800
Fax: +61 (2) 6391 3899
E-Mail: graham_thwaite_at_orange__ai@smtpgwy.agric.nsw.gov.au

Mr. Graham Thwaite is an entomologist with the state department of agriculture in New South Wales, Australia. He is based at the department's Agricultural Institute located at Orange, 300 km west of Sydney in the state's largest apple growing area. During his 30 year career with NSW Agriculture, he has worked on the management of the pests of several field and deciduous fruit crops. In recent years his research has concentrated on apple pests, usually involving collaborative work with colleagues in southern Australia. He was one of two NSW Agriculture delegates at the Australian National Food Policy Conference in the national capital, Canberra, in November 1991 when the Australian "Pesticides Charter" was launched. The Charter committed the Australian apple industry to try to reduce its use of pesticides. Graham has represented his department on apple pest management issues at various national and international forums and has published a number of scientific papers including a recent review on apple integrated pest management in Australia.
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Mr. Douglas J. Urban

Address:
7507C
USEPA Headquarters
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20460

Phone: 703-305-5746
E-Mail: urban.douglas@epamail.epa.gov

Doug Urban has a Masters Degree in Wildlife Ecology and Management, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1976). Since 1977, he has worked in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs as both a Wildlife Biologist and Supervisory Biologist. Mr. Urban has extensive experience preparing and reviewing ecological effects data, writing risk assessments for pesticides, as well as developing and applying regulations, guidelines, data requirements, standard evaluation procedures, and risk assessment procedures. In addition, he has 11 years experience directly supervising and training scientific staff in these procedures. He has participated in numerous national and international workgroups and committees, and has coordinated and planned eco-toxicological research with EPA's Office of Research & Development. Doug has a number of publications, including The Standard Evaluation Procedure, Ecological Risk Assessment. Currently, Doug is a senior scientist in the Environmental Fate and Effects Division in EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs working on developing methods for comparing the ecological risk of organophosphorus pesticides.
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Dr. Hayo van der Werf

Address:
INRA,
Unité d'Agronomie de Rennes-Quimper,
ENSAR - 65, rue de Saint Brieuc
35042 Rennes,
France

Phone: +33 (2) 9928 2709
E-mail: Hayo.vanderWerf@roazhon.inra.fr

Dr. Hayo van der Werf studied at Deventer Agricultural College and the University of Wageningen (both in the Netherlands) and at the University of Guelph (Canada). He works at the Rennes-Quimper Soil and Agronomy Research Unit, which is located in Brittany, a beautiful maritime region, heavily affected by pollution caused by agriculture. The research unit is part of the department of Environment and Agronomy of the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA). Dr. van der Werf's current subject of research is: the assessment of the sustainability of farming systems, with a particular focus on the evaluation of pesticide environmental impact. Previously he conducted research into the crop physiology and agronomy of hemp and maize.
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Mr. John Vickery

Address:
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
2105 First Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Phone: (621) 870-3430
FAX: (621) 870-4846
E-Mail: jvickery@iatp.org

General responsibility: pesticide use and risk reduction projects.
Current project: Decision Tool for integrated pesticide decision making in corn and soybean production.
Pesticides: crop-specific assessment methods for environmental protection and production proficiency.
Related interests: wildlife habitat enhancement on unprotected lands, biodiversity preservation, community-based watershed protection, incentive programs for on-farm conservation and environmental protection, land protection.
MS in Conservation Ecology & Sustainable Development, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia.
MA in Science Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
BS in Biochemistry, Texas A&M University.
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Ms. Meriel Watts

Address:
Soil and Health Association of NZ Inc.
P.O. Box 46-076
Herne Bay
Auckland
New Zealand

Phone: +64 9 378 8244
Fax: +64 9 378 8244
E-Mail: meriel@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz

Ms. Watts has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and a Masters in economics, environmental law and applied entomology and is currently completing her PhD in pesticide policy.

She is currently work with the Soil and Health Association of NZ (an organic growers organisation). She is an advocate for community and environmental groups on issues relating to pesticides on a number of government and industry committees including NZ's Pesticide Board (national registering authority), National Spray Drift Advisory Group, NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board's Integrated Fruit Production Committee, Tussock Moth Science Advisory Group, etc. She also represents NZ and the South Pacific environmental and community groups on the Steering Council of Pesticide Action Network Asia and Pacific. She attended the OECD Pesticides Forum Risk Indicators Workshop in Copenhagen in 1997, as observer for New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture.

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Dr. R. Don Wauchope

Address:
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Nematodes, Weeds and Crop Research
P.O. Box 748
Tifton, GA 31793

Phone: (912) 386-3892
Fax: (912) 386-7225
E-Mail: don@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu

Dr. Wauchope holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1965. He received his MS in Inorganic Chemistry from North Carolina State University at Raleigh, 1969. He thesis was titled: A Light-Scattering Study of Polymeric Complex Formation in Strongly Acidic Solutions of Titanium. He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, also from North Carolina State University at Raleigh. His Dissertation was about The Temperature Dependence of Solubilities of Solid Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water.

Dr. Wauchope is a Research Chemist for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Nematodes, Weeds and Crops Research Unit at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, GA. Since 1988, he is the Lead Scientist in pesticide environmental chemistry conducting groundwater and surface water nonpoint pollution studies. He is also involved in pesticide residue analysis, pesticide environmental risk assessment and nonpoint pollution modeling. He has conducted field studies of surface and groundwater pollution by pesticides. Dr. Wauchope was the director of pesticide residue and food safety laboratory from 1988 to 1993 in which he conducted laboratory research on pesticide analysis, pesticide mobility in soils, and pesticide physical chemistry.

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Ms. Mollie Williams

Address:
6A Chittenden Hall
Department of Agricultural Economics
Michigan State University
E. Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 353-9611
Fax: (517) 432-1800
E-mail: willi751@pilot.msu.edu

Ms. Williams is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. She is concentrating her research in the area of integrated pest management (IPM) impact assessment. Mollie B. Williams received her B.S. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Agribusiness Economics with an agricultural specialization in 1997. In addition to growing up on a farm, she has had experience with environmental pollution issues from agriculture in Russia and Lithuania, and has spent a summer working for a major agribusiness on an intensive research program using geographic information systems (GIS). Currently, her research is focused in the area of IPM impact assessment, with special emphasis on the impacts of IPM on profitability and profitability risk.
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Ms. Esther Day

Address:
American Farmland Trust
Center for Agriculture in the Environment
P.O. Box 987
DeKalb, IL 60115

Phone: (815) 753-9347
Fax: (815) 753-9348
E-Mail: eday2@niu.edu or eday@techinter.com

Before joining American Farmland Trust's Center for Agriculture in the Environment in June 1997, as an independent agricultural and resource economist, Day graduated from Michigan State University in May 1996, with a masters degree in Agricultural Economics. Her emphasis was environmental policy analysis as well as trade and agricultural policy.

After graduation, Day spent a year in the United Kingdom to start her career in agricultural policy analysis, working for an international consulting firm based in London. As a consultant, she was primarily involved in agri-business development assistance in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

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Dr. Patrick Stewart

Address:
Arkansas State University
Department of Political Science
2203 East Aggie
State University, AR 72467

Phone: (501) 972-3048
Fax: (501) 972-2720
E-Mail: pstewart@toltec.astate.edu

Dr. Patrick A. Stewart received his B.S. and M.S. from University of Central Florida in comparative politics and international relations. Mr. Stewart will start a position as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University in August 1998. His research interests include land use policy, agricultural biotechnology policy and decision making. For the past six years he was working as a research assistant at the Center for Agriculture in the Environment and taking his Ph.D in the innovative Politics and Life Sciences program at Northern Illinois University.