joint meeting of the asa and csca · author of global dust bowl (1990), food for tomorrow? (1984),...

Joint MeetingJoint Meetingof the ASA andof the ASA and

CSCACSCAAugust 1 August 1 –– 4, 2008 4, 2008

George Fox UniversityGeorge Fox UniversityNewberg, OregonNewberg, Oregon(near Portland, Oregon)(near Portland, Oregon)

December 07

The SiteThe SiteGeorge Fox University is located in thevalley of the Willamette River, the onlyarea that Lewis & Clark had seen that theythought could sustain a sizable stablepopulation.

A few years later, theWillamette Valleybecame the “Garden ofEden” for travelers onthe Oregon Trail, thegoal that drove many tobrave months ofstrenuous travel.

Plenary Speakers Plenary Speakers (confirmed)(confirmed)

DR. DOUGLAS DIEKEMA

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University ofWashington School of Medicine

Clinical Director, Treuman Katz Center for PediatricBioethics

Chair: Bioethics Committee, American Academy ofPediatrics

Member: Ethics Committee, American Board ofPediatrics

Plenary Speakers Plenary Speakers (confirmed)(confirmed)

DR. C. DEAN FREUDENBERGER

Professor Emeritus, Luther Seminary

Former Professor of International Development Studies,Missions, and Rural Church at Claremont School ofTheology

Author of Global Dust Bowl (1990), Food for Tomorrow?(1984), and Christian Responsibility in a Hungry World(with Paul Minus, 1976)

Served with the United Methodist Church for 17 years inagricultural and rural community development across sixcontinents

Plenary Speakers Plenary Speakers (confirmed)(confirmed)

DR. W. KENT FUCHS

Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, Cornell University

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Executive Board and Director ASEE Engineering

Member: Joint Committee on Technology Transfer

Plenary Speakers Plenary Speakers (confirmed)(confirmed)

DR. TOM HEADLAND

Wycliffe Bible Translators

International Anthropology Consultant, Summer Institutefor Linguistics

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas atArlington

Specialties: primitive societies, tropical forest humanecology

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MR. LARRY SCHWEIGER

President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation

Former publisher of four award-winning wildlifemagazines

Former Head, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Plenary Speakers Plenary Speakers (confirmed)(confirmed)

DR. JENNIFER WISEMAN – (confirmed, pendingavailability)

Chief, NASA Laboratory for Exoplanet and StellarAstrophysics

Hubble program scientist, NASA

Discoverer of periodic comet 114P/Wiseman-Skif

Former American Physical Society CongressionalScience Fellow

Possible Field TripsPossible Field TripsOrganized or PersonalOrganized or Personal

Visits to the following are within a fewhours drive:

• Mount St. Helens, the most active volcanoin the continental United States, currentlyactive and growing a new dome. Recoveryof the landscape after the 1980 eruption isalso interesting.

• Oregon Coast, with cliffs, promontories,tide pools, and even a ship-wreck or two.

• Crator Lake National Park with thedeepest and clearest fresh water lake.

Possible Field TripsPossible Field TripsOrganized or Personal (continued)Organized or Personal (continued)

• Mt. Hood and Mt. Hood National Forest

• The Columbia Gorge, with more than 50percent of all of the highest year-roundwaterfalls in the continental United States.

• Geological evidence of the Bretz(Missoula) Floods, massive periodic glacialfloods that altered much of the PacificNorthwest landscape.

Program Co-ChairsProgram Co-Chairs

•• John Van ZytveldJohn Van Zytveld, Murdock, MurdockCharitable Trust, Vancouver,Charitable Trust, Vancouver,Washington - representing theWashington - representing theASAASA

•• Arnold SikkemaArnold Sikkema, Department of, Department ofPhysics, Trinity WesternPhysics, Trinity WesternUniversity, Langley, BritishUniversity, Langley, BritishColumbia Columbia –– representing the representing theCSCACSCA

Local Arrangements ChairLocal Arrangements Chair•• Michael EverestMichael Everest, Department, Departmentof Chemistry, George Foxof Chemistry, George FoxUniversityUniversity