Plenary Session Videos
Plenary Sessions were streamed live via the internet during the conference. The videos are made available here courtesy of the U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office. Videos will be available through 2008.
Day 1 (Monday, Oct 29, 2007)
- Opening Drum Ceremony: Cedar Creek drum group
- Tribal Prayer: John Witherspoon, Bois Forte (Nett Lake) Band of Ojibwe
- Conference Opening: Liz LaPlante, U.S. EPA, and John Marsden, Environment Canada
- Duluth Mayor Herb Bergson’s Welcome
- U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator Mary Gade’s Welcome
- Keynote: Resilience: Managing the Greatest Lake in the Face of Change and Uncertainty, G. Tracy Mehan III, former U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator for Water and former Director of Michigan’s Office of the Great Lakes
- Panel: Perspectives on Past and Future States of Lake Superior
Day 2 (Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007)
- Climate Change in Lake Superior: Plenary Session (Moderators: Dr. Lucinda Johnson and Al Douglas)
- David Phillips, Senior Meteorologist, Environment Canada
- Linda Mortsch, Senior Researcher, Adaptations and Impacts Division of Environment Canada
- Dr. Joel Scheraga, National Program Director for the Global Change Research Program in the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development
- Questions and Answers
Day 3 (Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007)
- Sustainable Communities: Local Governments Help Protect and Restore the Lake
- Moderator’s Opening Remarks: Dave Ullrich, Executive Director, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
- Ferdinand Martineau, Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
- Herb Bergson, Mayor of Duluth, MN
- Larry MacDonald, Mayor of Bayfield, WI
- Mary Morgan, City of Superior, WI
- Darrell Matson, City of Thunder Bay, ON
- Keynote: Economic Future of the Great Lakes, John Austin, Nonresident Senior Fellow and Director of the Great Lakes Economic Initiative with the Brookings Institute
