SUNY-ESF JOACHIM CENTER – 12TH ANNUAL FORUM
Opportunities for Forest Resources, Forest Products and Allied Industries
in a Potentially Carbon and Non-Renewable Energy Constrained World
JUNE 4-5, 2007 FORUM -- MILLENNIUM UN PLAZA HOTEL, NYC
The Forum is designed to support the forest products and related industries in addressing the
challenges posed by potentially emerging carbon and non renewable energy constraints. Specifically
we will focus on industry efforts to foresee possibilities and align practices, policies, and products that
will enable success within these constraints. Participants in this forum are from industry,
government, non-governmental organizations, financial and market sectors, academia and the
general public.
Forum Plenary Speakers Include:
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Katherine Buckman Gibson, Chairman of the Board, Bulab Holdings, Inc.
Miles P. Drake, Senior VP, R&D, CTO, Weyerhaeuser
Cornelius B. Murphy Jr., President, SUNY ESF
K.G. Rajan, VP, Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation, Inc.
William H. Schlesinger, Incoming President, IES (as of June 1, 2007)
William P. Tully, Director, Division of Engineering; Director, Joachim Center, SUNY ESF
Mark T. Watkins, Senior VP – Technology & Forestry, MeadWestvaco Corporation
Ross S. Whaley, Chairman, The Adirondack Park Agency
Scott Wheeler, President, Strategy Arts
Concurrent Session Presenters Include:
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Klaus Doëlle, Professor, University of Brandenburg, Germany
Timothy J. Fahey, Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Robert Fledderman, Manager, Environmental Regulatory Assurance, MeadWestvaco
Corporation, Forestry Division
Linda S. Heath, Project leader, US Forest Service, NE Region
Michael Hensler, Research Director, Nalco Company
George Ionides, President, Tenamex Consulting
Jose Iribarne, Engineering & Technical Services Manager, Solvay Paperboard
George Milner, Senior VP, Energy, Environmental and Governmental Affairs, Mohawk Fine
Papers Inc.
James P. Nakas, Professor, Environmental & Forest Biology, SUNY ESF
Matthew Smith CF, ACF, EMS-A, Director of Land Management, Forecon Inc.
William B. Smith, Professor, Construction Management and Wood Products Engineering
Faculty, SUNY ESF
Peter Stein, Manager: Conservation Advisory, The Lyme Timber Company
Gregory L. Wedel, President, Kadant Johnson Inc.
Concurrent Session Moderators Include:
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Thomas E. Amidon, Director, ESPRI, Professor, Faculty of Paper and Bioprocess
Engineering, SUNY ESF
Susan Anagnost, Chair, Construction Management & Wood Products Engineering, SUNY
ESF
William Bentley, Principal, Salmon Brook Associates
G. Ronald Brown, Mead Westvaco Corporation
Bruce Evans, President, ESPRA; Technology Manager, Specialty Minerals, Inc.
John Glomb, President Emeritus, ESPRA
Valerie A. Luzadis, Professor, Forest & Natural Resources Management Faculty, SUNY
ESF
Myron J. Mitchell, Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology Faculty,
SUNY ESF
B.V. Ramarao, Associate Director, ESPRI, Professor, Faculty of Paper and Bioprocess
Engineering, SUNY ESF
Forum Steering Committee and Resource Advisors Include:
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Thomas E. Amidon, Director, ESPRI, Professor, Faculty of Paper and Bioprocess
Engineering, SUNY ESF
Bruce Evans, Technical Manager, Specialty Minerals, Inc.
John (Jay) Janson, President, Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation
Thomas Jorling, Joachim Management Excellence Fellow
Frank L. McKone, Joachim Management Excellence Fellow
Myron J. Mitchell, Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology Faculty,
SUNY ESF
Albert Moore, Assistant to the President, Buckman Laboratories, Inc.
K.G. Rajan, VP, Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation, Inc.
B.V. Ramarao, Associate Director, ESPRI, Professor, Faculty of Paper and Bioprocess
Engineering, SUNY ESF
Cliff Schneider, Vice President Sustainability, MeadWestvaco Corporation
William H. Trice, Director Emeritus, Past President, Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation
William P. Tully, Joachim Program Director
Ross S. Whaley, Chairman, The Adirondack Park Agency
Session Content at a Glance