A March 12-13 conference at the University of Oregon
looks at how scientists can participate in environmental politics
and policy-making. “The 1994 Public Interest Science Conference”
includes panels on science in the courtroom, scientists and the
Endangered Species Act, and the use or misuse of science by
politicians. More than two dozen panelists will speak at the
conference, including Jeff DeBonis, founder of the Washington,
D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and
Vic Sher, a Seattle, Wash., attorney for the Sierra Club Legal
Defense Fund who led the fight to save old-growth timber and
protect the spotted owl. John Vandermeer, a biologist at the
University of Michigan, and Wilma Subra, the president of a
woman-owned analytical laboratory in Louisiana, are keynote
speakers. For more information, contact Mary Baxtor, Public
Interest Science Conference, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1272
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
(503/346-1324).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Green scientists get-together.
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