FOR THOSE ON THE LIST WHO APPARENTLY HAVE DIFFICULTY SEARCHING WEBSITES.
FROM THE WEBSITE BELOW:
UCS Board Members
*James J. McCarthy* (Chair) is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological
Oceanography at Harvard University and past president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. McCarthy serves on many
panels and commissions relating to oceanography, polar science, and the
study of climate and global change. He chaired the committee that
oversees the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, and served as
co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working
Group II.
*Peter A. Bradford* (Vice-Chair) advises and teaches on utility
regulation and energy policy in the United States and overseas. A former
member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New
York and Maine utility commissions, he has advised many states on
utility restructuring issues. He has taught energy law and policy at the
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Vermont Law
School. He served on a panel advising the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development on how best to replace the remaining
Chernobyl nuclear plants. He was also part of an expert panel advising
the Austrian Institute for Risk Reduction on issues associated with the
opening of the Mochovche nuclear power plant in Slovakia. He is the
author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National
Security and the Coast of Maine.
*James A. Fay* (Board Member Emeritus) is professor emeritus of
mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A
UCS board member since 1978, Dr. Fay is former chair of the
Massachusetts Port Authority, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. His published works on the environmental impact
of energy technologies include (with Dan Golomb) Energy and the Environment.
*Richard L. Garwin* is a National Medal of Science laureate and Fellow
Emeritus at IBM. He has done a wide range of research in fundamental and
applied physics. He was involved with the development of the first
thermonuclear weapons and the first photo-intelligence satellites and is
a leading expert on many arms control matters. He has served on the
President's Scientific Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board,
and the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat
to the United States. He also was Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for
Science and Technology at the Council of Foreign Relations. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of
Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. His most recent book (with
Georges Charpak) is Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power
and Nuclear Weapons.
*Kurt Gottfried* (Chair Emeritus) is emeritus professor of physics at
Cornell University. A co-founder of UCS and Chair of the Board of
Directors during 1999-2009, he has served on the senior staff of the
European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, is a former chair of the
Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, and
is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council
on Foreign Relations. He has published widely on theoretical physics and
national security issues, authoring /Quantum Mechanics/, /Concepts of
Particle Physics/, /The Fallacy of Star Wars/, and /Crisis Stability and
Nuclear War/.
*Andrew Gunther* is executive director of the Center for Ecosystem
Management and Restoration, the executive coordinator of the Bay Area
Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium, and a founding partner of Applied
Marine Sciences, Inc. He has published research in the field of
ecotoxicology and has extensive experience in applying science to the
development of air, water, and endangered species policy. Dr. Gunther
also served as the assistant chief scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill Restoration Program from 1991 to 2002.
*Geoffrey Heal* is a Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and
Corporate Responsibility at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia
University, where he was previously Senior Vice Dean. He is a Fellow of
the Econometric Society, past President of the Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists, and a member of the Environmental
Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board. His 16 books include
Nature and the Marketplace and Valuing the Future. He is also a Director
of Petromin Holdings PNG Ltd. and chairs the Advisory Board of the
Coalition for Rainforest Nations.
*James S. Hoyte* (Treasurer) is the assistant to the president/associate
vice president for Equal Opportunity Programs, lecturer in environmental
sciences and public policy at Harvard College, and adjunct lecturer in
public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a member of the University Committee on Environment at
Harvard. Mr. Hoyte is a lawyer who has served as secretary of
Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts and as chair of the
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
*Anne R. Kapuscinski* is the inaugural Sherman Fairchild Distinguished
Professor of Sustainability Science at Dartmouth College and
environmental scientist known for her research on fisheries
conservation, ecological risk assessment of genetically modified
organisms, and sustainable aquaculture. She has advised the U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture under three administrations and written several
influential scientific reports for the U.S. government, the National
Academy of Science, the World Health Organization, the Food and
Agriculture Organization, and the state of Minnesota. Kapuscinski has
received a Pew fellowship in marine conservation, a USDA honor award for
environmental protection and the distinguished service award from the
Society for Conservation Biology for extraordinary contributions to
conservation policy and interdisciplinary analysis of sustainability
issues.
*Jessica T. Mathews* is president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, an international research organization with offices
in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Beijing, Beirut and Brussels. Her career
includes posts in the executive and legislative branches of government,
in management and research in the nonprofit arena and in journalism;
including director of the Office of Global Issues on the staff of the
National Security Council in the White House; deputy to the
undersecretary of State for Global Affairs; founding vice president and
director of research ('82-'93) of the World Resources Institute;
professional staff member - House Interior Committee; Subcommittee on
Energy and Environment; and, member of the Editorial Board of /The
Washington Post/; and /Washington Post/ columnist ('91-'95).
*Edward L. Miles* is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of
Marine Studies and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He
holds joint appointments in the School of Maine Affairs of the College
of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences and the Evans School of Public Affairs.
He is also a senior fellow in JISAO where he serves as the co-director
of the Center for Science in the Earth System and leader of the Climate
Impacts Group. Dr. Miles has been a participant in the work of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1994. In 2003 he
was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and
in 2005 he was elected to the rank of Fellow of AAAS. Dr. Miles' fields
of specialization are international science and technology policy,
marine policy and ocean management, and the impacts of climate
variability and change at global and regional scales.
*Mario J. Molina* is professor at the University of California--San
Diego and president of the Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies in
Energy and the Environment. He has served on the U.S. President's
Committee of Advisors in Science and Technology, and is a member of the
U.S. Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Molina and
two colleagues shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their
research on the depletion of stratospheric ozone.
*Stuart L. Pimm* is Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke
University. His work focuses on conservation biology and the protection
of biodiversity. He is a Pew scholar and the author of The World
According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of
Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and
Communities. Dr. Pimm was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for
Environmental Sciences in 2006.
*Louis Salkind* serves on the Executive Committee of D.E. Shaw & Co., a
global investment and technology firm. Dr. Salkind received his A.B.
from Princeton University in 1978, where he studied mathematics and
physics, and his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute in 1990, where he
studied computer science and robotics. He is a recipient of the USENIX
Lifetime Achievement Award and the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr.
Salkind is also President of Bright Horizon Foundation, a nonprofit that
focuses on sustainability, global security, and education.
*Adele Simmons* is vice chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020, a regional
planning group, and co-chair of the task force preparing Chicago's
Climate Action Plan. She serves on the boards of Marsh & McLennan
Companies, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Field Museum.
Mrs. Simmons was president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation and president of Hampshire College. She has also served on
the president's Commission on Environmental Quality and the Commission
on Global Governance.
*Nancy Stephens* is an actress and political activist. A California
gubernatorial appointee to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
Advisory Board, Ms. Stephens also serves on the executive board of the
Earth Communications Office and the advisory board of the Liberty Hill
Foundation. She is a longtime member of the Environmental Leadership
Forum of the California League of Conservation Voters and also serves as
president of the Rosenthal Family Foundation.
*Thomas H. Stone* (Secretary) is chair and CEO of Stone Capital Group,
Inc, a family investment company. He devotes significant time to
nonprofit organizations that work on global environmental problems, with
young people in underserved communities, with the disabled, and with
music organizations. Mr. Stone is an arbitrator for FINRA Dispute
Resolution and the National Futures Association. He teaches disabled
skiers and also serves on the boards of the Ravinia Festival Association
and the Merit School of Music.
*Ellyn R. Weiss* is an artist, a retired partner in the law firm of
Foley, Hoag & Eliot, and former general counsel to UCS. Ms. Weiss has
also served as assistant attorney general for environmental protection
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, special counsel and director of
the Secretary of Energy's Human Radiation Experiments Initiative, and
deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Environment, Safety, and
Health within the U.S. Department of Energy.
On 8/8/2011 6:14 AM, Keith Hudson wrote:
Barry,
At 13:09 08/08/2011, you wrote:
You may want to look at some of the information at
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/impacts-of-genetic.html
I'm afraid that I'd take no notice of the Union of Concerned
Scientists. Worthy though it seems, attractive though its website is,
there isn't a single scientist mentioned as a patron or a researcher
or a member. Is that not a teeny weeny bit odd?
As I wrote before on this thread to Mike, there are thousands of
scientists who work outside the GM industries and whose career depends
not one little bit on whatever they might say about GM food who would
have something to say (and would be prepared to give their name to) if
there was any specific danger that is presently conceivable.
Keith
Barry
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/08/
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