FOR INFORMATION:
Sheila David 
Tel: (202) 737-6307     Fax: (202) 737-6410
sdavid@heinzctr.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  April 29, 2004 

New Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways Advisory Committee

The new advisory committee for the Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways program area met for the first time on April 9, 2004, in Washington, D.C. The committee will assist the staff in developing new studies where the Heinz Center’s four-sector approach provides the best way to study particular issues. Stephen Leatherman, Director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, will chair the committee. The other members are Mike Bahleda, Electric Power Research Institute; Cabell Brand, Cabell Brand Center for International Resource Studies and a Heinz Center trustee; Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey; Mike Campana, University of New Mexico; Rita Colwell, former NSF director and now Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc.; Mike Connor, San Francisco Estuary Institute; M. Rupert Cutler, Roanoke, Virginia; Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina; Margaret Davidson, NOAA Coastal Services Center; Tim Dillingham, American Littoral Society; Peter Douglas, California Coastal Commission; Leo M. Eisel, Brown and Caldwell; David Hart, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; John Huff, Oceaneering International, Inc.; Ann L. Riley, Waterways Restoration Institute; David Rockefeller, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Henry Vaux, University of California; and Phyllis Wyeth, Wilmington, Delaware, a Heinz Center trustee.

For more information contact:  Sheila David, project director, sdavid@heinzctr.org