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An independent curator and lecturer specializing in American marine art, author James A. Craig first became enamored with New England's maritime saga while studying Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts. Having by his own admission “fallen” into the world of fine art, Craig was first employed at the House of the Seven Gables Museum in nearby Salem, MA, where he served as a curatorial assistant and museum educator. He went on to serve as Associate Curator for Collections at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he published an award winning biography on the great American marine painter Fitz Henry Lane.

Gary Rucinski is a physicist currently developing high performance teams at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is the co-founder and chair of Citizens for a Green Economy and Northeast Regional Coordinator for Citizens Climate Lobby, which he founded in 2010 to “create the political will for a stable climate.” One of the group’s current focal points is putting a price on carbon.

Anne Kelly is Director of Public Policy at CERES, a non-profit coalition of investors and businesses which seeks to promote leadership and best practices in sustainability. An environmental lawyer with more than twenty years of experience practicing in the public and private sectors, she also directs BICEP, a coalition of 23 companies, including Nike, Starbucks, and eBay, seeking to advocate for meaningful climate and energy policies at the federal level.

**Matthew Wilding** is a Boston area native with a BA in history from Suffolk University. Additionally, Mr. Wilding has led tens of thousands of visitors on tours of Boston, operates an online site called [**The Guide's Guide to Boston**](http://theguidetoboston.com/ "The Guide") and has trained dozens of tour guides. He contributed a chapter on the Stamp Act crisis to \_Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia\_ and has written book reviews for \_The Historian\_. [Follow Matt on Twitter](https://twitter.com/matthewwilding "MWildingTwitter")

Amy Korté is a design and project leader. Amy has a diverse background in environmental design, retail design, and development. Ms. Korté leads the design of much of Arrowstreet's residential work and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a BFA in Environmental Design from Parsons. In addition, Amy is a NCIDQ certified interior designer, co-author of a book about hand drawing for designers, and has taught design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural Center, and Suffolk University. She is co-author of the ULI report: \_[The Urban Implications of Living with Water](http://boston.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2012/04/ULI\_LivingWithWater-Final1.pdf "Living With Water")\_

Non-profit senior program director with twenty years of experience in natural resource policy, federal advocacy and negotiations. Senior strategist in multiple regional and national land conservation and fisheries policy campaigns.

Nancy S. Seasholes is an historian and historical archaeologist. She has an A.B. in history from Radcliffe College, an M.A.T. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology from Boston University. In addition to her research fellowship at Boston University, she is an instructor at the Harvard University Extension School. She is the author of \_Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston\_ and \_Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land,\_ a the companion to her earlier book.

Helmuth's research explores the effects of climate and climate change on the physiology and ecology of marine organisms. Specifically, he uses thermal engineering techniques, including a combination of field work, remote sensing and mathematical modeling, to explore the ways in which the environment determines the body temperatures of coastal marine animals such as mussels and seastars. Combined with energetics models, this approach provides a quantitative method of mapping patterns of growth, reproduction, and survival in economically and ecologically important coastal species.

Born the son of immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey, Aneesh Chopra has spent his life focusing on education and innovation. Aneesh’s father immigrated to the United States in 1966, and enrolled in the engineering program at Villanova University. He would go on to earn three patents for his work in the refrigeration industry. His mother began a career as an entry-level clerk and worked her way up to become a financial project manager. Aneesh’s family worked hard to lift themselves into the middle class and give their children access to great public schools and all of the opportunities afforded by a strong education. Aneesh attended Johns Hopkins University and then the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After graduate school, Aneesh worked in the private sector, including a job at the Advisory Board Company – a healthcare think tank dedicated to helping hospitals better serve patients. While at the Advisory Board Company, Governor Mark Warner appointed Aneesh to several councils and commissions. Through this work, Aneesh decided he wanted to pursue his lifelong dream of entering public service. He began full-time service to the Commonwealth when Governor Tim Kaine tapped him to serve as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology. In this position he traveled throughout Virginia helping families and small businesses harness the power of technology and innovation to find pragmatic solutions, create jobs and improve their quality of life. In 2009, based on his record of success in Virginia, President Obama appointed Aneesh as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Aneesh was charged with promoting innovation to address the nation’s most urgent priorities -- from creating jobs to reducing health care costs and keeping our nation secure. As with his work in Virginia, Aneesh brought new energy to tackle some of our nation’s biggest problems. Upon Aneesh’s departure to run for office, President Obama said, “his legacy of leadership and innovation will benefit Americans for years to come, and I thank him for his outstanding service.”

Richard Murray received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He joined the Earth and Environment faculty at Boston University in 1992. He has been instrumental in the progress of marine biogeochemical research ever since, participating in international research projects that include a wide range of experts. Dr. Murray's research focus is the analysis of marine sediments for indications of climate change over long periods of time. Ocean sediments represent one of the most important sources of information available to scientists. As the technical analysis has become steadily more sophisticated, Dr. Murray and his many colleagues have been able to establish highly reliable data about the history of climate on our planet. Richard Murray is also a committed citizen, serving as a Selectman in his seaside community of Scituate, Massachusetts. In his elected role as Selectman, and also as an appointed member of Massachusetts Governor Patrick's environmental advisory panel , Dr. Murray has been a major spokesman for communities like his that are forced to make serious preparations for climate change.

Max Tegmark was raised in Sweden. He received his two bachelor degrees at different universities there, one in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the other in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He then moved to University of CA Berkeley for his graduate work and received his PhD there in 1994. He was a research associate with the Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik in Munich, then a Hubble Fellow and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, but then was lured away by the MIT physics department, where he has been since 2004. Dr. Tegmark has made major contributions to physics/cosmology, some of which he discusses in this presentation. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received numerous awards.

Ben Ross was president of the Action Committee for Transit for 15 years. His new book about the politics of urbanism and transit, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism, is published by Oxford University Press.