The first part of this agenda segment will provide broad background and perspective on the current practice arena of U.S. natural resource assessment and restoration and allied liability regimes outside the United States. The second part of this segment will consist of three Concurrent Focus Sessions as noted below, all aimed at highlighting actual case experience and related issues.

Setting the Context

ROBERT HADDAD, PH.D., Division Chief, Assessment and Restoration Division, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration

IGNACIA S. MORENO, CEO & Principal, The iMoreno Group; Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources

ANNE WAGNER, PH.D., Team Manager, ESHIA & Natural Resources Conservation,   Chevron Energy Technology Company

Analysis and Discussion Incorporating Actual Case Experience

Session A: Oil Spills and Other Accidents

Co-chairs: PAUL D. BOEHM, PH.D., Group Vice President & Principal Scientist, Exponent; TONY PENN, Deputy Division Chief, NOAA Assessment and Restoration Division

Presentations: GREG BAKER, Environmental Scientist, NOAA Assessment and Restoration Division; ANDREW N. DAVIS, Partner, Shipman & Goodwin LLP; RICK DUNFORD, PH.D., Founder and Owner, Environmental Economics Services, LLC; GARY MAUSETH, President/Principal, Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc.

Session B: Hazardous Waste Sites

Co-chairs: LISA SABAN, Partner, Windward Environmental; STEVE GLOMB, Director, Office of Restoration and Damage Assessment, U.S. Department of the Interior (invited)

Presentations: MARK BARASH, Senior Attorney, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior; JASON HUGHES, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (invited); WILLIAM J. JACKSON, Partner, Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC; STEVEN MILLER, Deputy Assistant General Counsel For Environment, U.S. Department of Energy

Session C: Environmental Remediation Outside the U.S.

Co-chairs: DAVID T. SMITH, Environmental Liability Unit Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland; NICHOLAS W. GARD, PH.D., Managing Scientist, Exponent

Presentations: NICKY CARIGLIA,Technical Adviser, International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation; DIANA LANE, PH.D., Principal, Abt Associates; others pending

Speaker confirmation pending.

This panel will explore the media, economic, science, and policy aspects of how the field will develop in the post-Deepwater Horizon era, considering in part the aftermath of the event itself, but mainly focusing on the broader picture of how prevention, management, liability, assessment, and restoration will be conducted in the future.

Among our confirmed speakers are:

DANIEL L. MCFADDEN, PH.D., E. Morris Cox Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Presidential Professor of Health Economics, University of Southern California; Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2000)

MARCIA MCNUTT, PH.D., Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine; President, National Academy of Sciences (nominated); Former Director, United States Geological Survey

DINA CAPPIELLO, Vice President, Energy, Edelman; Former National Environment/Energy Reporter, Associated Press

We will summarize some of what we have heard and learned here and discuss how the insights and ideas developed can be taken forward so as to create a productive, fair and effective playing field for all the various representatives of the different entities who have attended the Symposium.