Senior Researcher, USD Energy Policy Initiative Center
Dr. Nilmini Silva-Send is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) at the USD's School of Law. In this role, she is contributing research and analysis to EPIC’s ongoing greenhouse gas inventory project. Dr. Silva-Send is conducting analysis on the waste emissions and the off-road sectors of transportation. She is also lead researcher on a project to assess clean technology policies around the U.S.
Water Resources Inst, Cal State Univ San Bernardino
Ms. Pierce has more than 18 years of diversified experience in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the environmental management field, with current emphasis in GIS Training and Marketing. Her present position as a Research Associate with the Water Resources Institute at CSU San Bernardino Pfau Library allows her to combine her GIS talents with water resource management efforts.
Director of Sustainability, Sullivan International
Scott A. Murray, an organic farmer for 32 years, was a delegate to the 2004 and 2006 Terra Madre conferences in Turin Italy . As agriculture program director and teacher at San Pasqual Academy for Foster Teens, he created the school's Organic and Sustainable farm project with funding from Slow Food San Diego's 2005 and 2006 annual Orfila fundraising events and other sources. Scott consults on the conversion of chemically managed farms to Organic and Sustainable agricultural practices.
Dan Noble is President/CEO of Noble Resources Group, a sustainable resource market development firm, based in Southern California. He has more than 20 years of environmental market research, publishing and strategic market consulting experience focused on expanding public and private sector investment in water, recycled water and recycled organics at the local, state, national and international policy and investment levels.
Jon Warren Lentz is an internationally published author (five of six books still in print, in a dozen languages), environmental entrepreneur, & consultant.
A cross-discipline creative, his background spans the gamut from ancient & modern languages & literature; sculpture & fine art; digital imaging & design; & business development & finance. A serial entrepreneur, he’s built two successful businesses – one in art & the other in technology – & has taught at the college level & on the national seminar circuit.
Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO, of the Dandin Group, Inc., based in Fremont, California, USA. Dandin Group offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including research and product development for wireless communications via the Internet. The Dandin Group will begin to deploy the first exclusively wireless Internet based communications system, including voice, data and video, in the Kingdom of Tonga later this year. He is also an active member of the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council (FCC/TAC).
Sharon Hoffman and her husband, Russ, became computer programmers in the 1980s. They have both given hundreds of presentations about computer technology individually, and a few together, over the years. Russ's first published essays were in computer magazines in the 1980s, such as InfoWorld and ComputerWorld. They are both longstanding supporters of GENI
Chief Scientist, SDSU Viz Lab Putting the Earth online is one of John Graham's most important ambitions as Chief Scientist of the San Diego State University's Visualization Center. The SDSU Visualization Center is a sister facility to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visualization Center at UCSD. The centers have and will be used for research of Earth Science fields such as environmental change, seismicity, climatological change, and natural disasters.
