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(Please note, not all plenary speakers have submitted biographical information.)
Dr. Thomas M. Burton has been Professor of Zoology and Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University since 1975. Dr. Burton has conducted research on Great Lakes coastal wetlands since 1980 and has published more than 25 scientific papers on them. He chairs the Great Lakes Wetland Consortium of the Great Lakes Commission and has served on numerous other committees on Great Lakes wetlands. He has organized several workshops, symposia, and special sessions at international meetings on wetlands of the Great Lakes. He received his Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology from Cornell University in 1973. Post doctoral associate from Florida State University in 1973- 1975.Gerry Galloway is Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a Visiting scholar at the U.S. Engineer Army Institute for Water Resources. He is also a senior consultant to the Michael Baker Corporation for the FEMA Flood Map Modernization Program. A civil engineer, public administrator and geographer, he has served as a water resources consultant to a variety of national and international government and business organizations. He was a Presidential appointee to the Mississippi River Commission and the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee and served as Secretary of the US-Canada International Joint Commission. In 1993-1994, he led a White House study of the causes of the 1993 Mississippi River Flood. During a 38-year career in the military he served in various command and staff assignments in the US and overseas, retiring in 1995 as a brigadier general and Dean of Academics at the US Military Academy. He is president-elect of the American Water Resources Association, an Honorary Diplomat of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has served on eight committees of the National Research Council and is currently a member of the Water Science and Technology Board of the Council. He is a graduate of the Military Academy and holds Masters Degrees from Princeton and Pennsylvania State Universities and the US Army Command and General Staff College and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Benjamin H. Grumbles was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 2004, as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Prior to being appointed Acting Assistant Administrator in December, 2003, Mr. Grumbles served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water and Acting Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. Before coming to EPA in 2002, Mr. Grumbles was Deputy Chief of Staff and Environmental Counsel for the Science Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. For over fifteen years, he served in various capacities on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff, including Senior Counsel for the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, and focused on programs and activities of the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. From 1993 to 2004, he was an adjunct professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, teaching a course on the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Ocean Dumping Act, and Oil Pollution Act. His degrees include a B.A. from Wake Forest University; J.D. from Emory University; and LL.M. in Environmental Law from the George Washington University Law School. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Karen, and two children. Dr. Keddy holds the Schlieder Endowed Chair for Environmental Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. His books include Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2000), winning a Society of Wetland Scientists' Merit Award, and The World's Largest Wetlands (co-edited, CUP, 2005). He has published over 100 scholarly papers on plant ecology and wetlands, and served organizations including NSF, NSERC, World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy. He studies the environmental factors controlling wetlands and their manipulation to maintain and restore biodiversity. Stephen Samuels is Assistant Chief of the Environmental Defense Section of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has more than twenty years experience enforcing and defending the Section 404 regulatory program. He received his law degree in 1977 from Stanford Law School. Dr. Gregory Smith currently serves as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. Dr. Smith has more than 25 years of ecological research and management experience, and a background in population dynamics and environmental toxicology. Prior to his current position, he served as the Director of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Smith received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Wisconsin-Maidison. Dr. Donald G. Uzarski is an Assistant Professor of Water Resources at Grand Valley State University. Conducted research on Great Lakes Coastal wetlands for nearly ten years and has published more than ten scientific papers on them during that time. He serves on the Project Management Team of the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium. He received his Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology from Michigan State University 1999. Post Doctoral associate from 1999 to 2001 at Michigan State University.
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