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Report from AAAS conference in St Louis - 50 min audio

List of interviewees with their own links

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Reports from the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
Saturday 25 February 2006
Summary
Robyn Williams reports the latest happenings in science from the AAAS annual meeting, which this year was held in St. Louis, Missouri.

Guests on this program:
Gerald Galloway
Research Professor
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
University of Maryland
and US Army Corps of Engineers (retired)
- Managing rivers, floodplains, and flood hazard for the New Millennium
http://www.civil.umd.edu/people/page74.htm

Timothy Kusky
Professor of Natural Science
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Saint Louis University
- New Orleans after Katrina.
http://www.eas.slu.edu.People/TMKusky/

Dr Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy
Cornell University
- New research priorities to fight poverty and pursue sustainability
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/bio.cfm?netid=pp94
John Mutter
Prof of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
New York NY USA
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ldeo/earthsci/webpage/webpage/jd003/

Mary Higby Schweitzer
Assistant Professor
Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Science
North Carolina State University
- Analyses of dinosaur soft tissues
http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/schweitzer/schweitzer.htm

Eric Grignol
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
- Changes in Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Mark Chandler
Center for Climate Systems Research
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Columbia University
New York NY USA
- Past climates
http://www.columbia.edu/~mac59/

Evan Snyder
Associate Professor
Computational Biology & Informatics
Burnham Institute
La Jolla, California
- Stem cells
http://obesitygene.pbrc.edu/~eesnyder/

John Gearhart
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhu.edu/~voyage/2002/Gearhart.htm

Laurie Zoloth
Director, Centre for Bioethics, Science & Society
Northwestern University
Evanston Illinois
- Ethical issues of stem cell technology
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/mhb/faculty/zoloth.html

Donald Kennedy
Editor, Science magazine
- Reporting scientific research
http://www.aaas.org/ScienceTalk/kennedy.shtml

Leonard Zon
Professor of Pediatric Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Children's Hospital
Boston
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/zon_bio.html

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