These conferences began in December 2000 (and also held in 2003, 2006, 2008) - http://sofia.usgs.gov/geer/ and were preceded by a South Florida Restoration Science Forum which kicked off in May 1999 and continues online - http://sflwww.er.usgs.gov/sfrsf/plw/sfrsf.html
More interviews from GEER 2010:
"Everglades restoration is a top priority...some of the best minds and most passionate people are involved" http://vimeo.com/14115653 3:12 minutes
"Water quality is so important to Everglades restoration" (So why has it not been addreesed?) http://vimeo.com/14092738 1:49 minutes
"Brought about half of 80 national park scientists...we believe it's important" (Besides, why pass up being at a beach resort for a week that's being fully paided for by the taxpayers) http://vimeo.com/14115771 44 seconds
Additional GEER 2010 interviews: http://vimeo.com/user4481966/videos/sort:date
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GEER 2010, July 12-16, location (also where GEER 2000 was held):
Hotel Naples Grande Beach Resort, The Waldorf Astoria Collection
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/GEER2010/hotel.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j8j8zkWDkg 2:05 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyav_qWRogs 1:21 mintues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtQW2TfpyU 2:31 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7zLjGIuN54 3 minutes
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Terrence C. "Rock" Salt
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works),
March 12, 2009 to present
http://asacw.hqda.pentagon.mil/currentleadership.aspx#
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Colonel Terrence "Rock" Salt has served as the first Executive Director (1994-2003) of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force - http://www.sfrestore.org/ , which includes representatives of seven federal agencies, former Florida Governor Buddy McKay, and chairmen of the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes. He has coordinated Everglades restoration policy, synchronized federal restoration efforts with state, tribal, and local government programs, advised on emerging ecosystem management policy, and developed interagency budget documents. [From 2003 to 2009, Rock continued as Everglades Policy Advisor, Program Coordinator for Interior Secretaries Norton and Kempthorne.] Ernie Barnett of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, called the Restudy plan "a historic opportunity for integrating federal water resource planning efforts and funding with state, regional, and local efforts to assure the future sustainability of the natural and built environments of South Florida." Richard Pettigrew, Chairman of the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida, attributed the success of this "truly remarkable consensus process" in large part to "the singular skills of Colonel Rock Salt."
Source: Spotlight on Some First-Rate Friends - 1000 Friends of Florida, 1999
http://1000fof.org/Awards/Past_Award_Winners.asp
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Rock Salt was born on June 28, 1944, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Terry C.Salt, a career military officer and later county commissioner in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Jane A. Salt, a school librarian. He is the oldest of six children. In 1966, he married Heather Miller of Colorado Springs. They have four sons and two grandchildren.
He graduated from high school in Colorado Springs and received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In 1966, he graduated from West Point and was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the Infantry, U.S. Army. In 1972, then a Capt., he received a master's degree in physics and was assigned to the West Point Academy. There, he taught physics until 1975. His overseas assignments include a combat tour in Vietnam in the late 1960's and three separate tours in Germany. In 1981, he was transferred to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) where he served for the remainder of his 30-year military career [until 1996].
Continued: http://tinyurl.com/Terrence-C-Salt
More:
"River of Interests: Water Management in South Florida and the Everglades, 1948-2000," is a history of the construction of the C&SF Project and the project's unintended impacts on the environment, and the evolution of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).
http://www.evergladesplan.org/about/river_interest_history.aspx
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