National and Regional Experts
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EPA Contacts
Roxanne Smith
Press Officer at EPA
(202) 564-4455
smith.roxanne@epa.gov
Joel Scheraga
EPA National Program Director for the Global Change Research Program in the Office of Research and Development
(202) 564-3385
Scheraga.Joel@epamail.epa.gov
Dr. Kristie Ebi
Lead author on the report and independent consultant
703-304-6126
krisebi@essllc.org
CDC Contacts
Howard (Howie) Frumkin
CDC Director of the National Center for Environmental Health
hfrumkin@cdc.gov
770-488-0700
Mike McGeehin
CDC Chief, Division of Environmental Hazards and Heath Effects (NCEH)
mmcgeehin@cdc.gov
770-488-0700
Water Quality Experts
East
Paul Kirshen
Tufts University-Civil and Environmental Engineering,
617-627-5589 or paul.kirshen@tufts.edu or www.cee.tufts.edu/pkirshen
Kirshen can talk about many aspects of water and climate change. He can discuss water supply and wastewater issues, coastal flooding and the infrastructure costs of climate change-both damage and for adaptation.
West
Rick Wilson
Surfer and Coastal Management Coordinator, Surfrider Foundation.
rwilson@surfrider.org
949.732.6415 - office
949.581.0292 - cell
Rick can speak from the perspective of a water quality expert and a surfer. He wrote Surfrider’s “State of the Beach” study-which looked at beaches all over the U.S. He’s surfed CA beaches for 46 years and watched the water quality problems that have developed with the growing population. Extreme weather events like heavy rains will stress already overtaxed wastewater systems, leading to more raw sewage spilling into the ocean. He can also talk about the coastal erosion problems associated with sea level rise.
Midwest
Dr. Joan Rose, Water Quality Expert,
Michigan State University
Dr. Rose can talk about the wastewater and other water quality issues that are the result of extreme precipitation.
517-432-4412
rosejo@msu.edu
Office: Fisheries & Wildlife
Sport Fishing Sources
West
Liz Hamilton is with the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association (http://www.nsiafishing.org/)
nsializ@aol.com
ph (503) 631-8859
Jim Martin is the former top fisheries manager in Oregon. He’s written about the impact of global warming on fisheries.
jtmartin@purefishing.com
503.704.9651
Craig Mathews
Owner of Blue Ribbon Flies - Professional Fishing Guide, West Yellowstone, MT
406-646-7642 or 406-646-9365 http://www.blueribbonflies.com/
Besides being an expert on fishing and flies, Craig knows the business and how changes in the environment can make a huge impact. Last year, most of Montana’s rivers were closed down for fishing during most of the day because of low flows due to sparse winter snow pack and high spring temps-precisely the conditions The CCSP-EPA report predicts to increase due to climate change.
Public Health Professionals/Experts
National
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Executive Assistant: Alice Aughtry at 202-777-2430 or alice.aughtry@apha.org.
The APHA made the Health Impacts of Climate Change its theme for 2008. Benjamin testified Before Congress on the health impacts of climate change-including the specific regional impacts.
Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School
paul_epstein@hms.harvard.edu
Office: (617)384-8586
Midwest
Dr. Mark Wilson
Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Global Health Program
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
wilsonml@umich.edu
Office: (734) 936-0152
Dr. Jonathan Patz , M.D., MPH
University of Wisconsin
608-262-4775 or 608-250-2526.
patz@wisc.edu
Dr. Patz is available to answer questions, but is currently in Germany and will only be reachable by cell, 608-698-7380. The time difference is 9 HOURS LATER than the Pacific time zone and SIX HOURS later than the Eastern time zone.
Patz has served as Co-chair for the Health Expert Panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and Lead author on several United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and World Health Organization (WHO) monographs on climate change.
More bio info: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/patz/patz.html
South
Dr. Cliff Mitchell
Director, Environmental Health Coordination
& Preventive Medicine Residency Programs
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
cmitchell@dhmh.state.md.us
(410) 767-6490 (Department’s PR office)
West
Dave Mills
Joel Smith
Stratus Consulting
Boulder, Colorado
dmills@stratusconsulting.com
jsmith@stratusconsulting.com
(303) 381-8000
(Both were contributing authors on the report, and can be called for comment)
SPANISH-SPEAKING SOURCES (Habla Español)
Eva Harris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Infectious Disease
Associate Dean for Research, UC Berkeley
(510) 642-4845
eharris@berkeley.edu
http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/harris.html
Nidia Bautista
Community Engagement Director
Coalition for Clean Air
(916) 498-1560 x111
Nidia@coalitionforcleanair.org
http://www.coalitionforcleanair.org/about-us-staff.html