WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Dean Douglas E. Ray

8:30 AM

Keynote Speaker: Peter Annin
Associate Director, Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
Author, The Great Lakes Water Wars

Panel 1
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region and Beyond

MODERATOR:
Professor Robert H. Abrams
Florida A & M University, College of Law
Orlando, Florida

SPEAKERS:
Professor Thomas Bridgeman
Environmental Sciences Department
The University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio

Professor John Dernbach
Widener University School of Law
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

John Bennett
Executive Director
Climate Action Network Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

Panel 2:
Muddying the Waters?
How Rapanos v. U.S. Changed Wetlands Regulation

MODERATOR:
Professor Dennis Hirsch
Capital University Law School
Columbus, Ohio

SPEAKERS:
Patrick Wright, Esq.
Senior Legal Analyst
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Midland, Michigan

Stephen Samuels, Esq.
Assistant Chief, Environmental Defense Section
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.

Sue Elston
Wetlands Program Director
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region V
Chicago, Illinois

Keynote Speaker: Vicki Thomas
Great Lakes National Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Chicago, Illinois

Panel 3
Are We There Yet?
Implementing Agreements Made Under Annex 2001

MODERATOR:
Professor Kenneth Kilbert
The University of Toledo College of Law
Toledo, Ohio

SPEAKERS:
Sam Speck
Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Columbus, Ohio

Linda Woggon, Esq.
Vice President of Government Affairs
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Columbus, Ohio

Molly Flanagan
Great Lakes Water Resources Advocate
National Wildlife Federation
Ann Arbor, Michigan