ダーウィン生誕200年記念シンポジウム

研究 保全

一夜明けたのだが、日本はまだ11日だった。
「今日」は、AAASが主催する「ダーウィン生誕200年記念シンポジウム」に招かれている。「ダーウィン生誕200年記念シンポジウム」だから進化を主題にしたシンポジウムかといえば、そうではない。シンポジウムのタイトルは、「21世紀の生態系：全体を覆うリスクと公共財」（Twenty-first Century Ecosystems: Systemic Risk and the Public Good）。Systemicとは病理学で使われる表現であり、全身に症状をあらわす病気をSystemic diseaseという。
もしダーウィンが現代に生きていれば、生態系の危機に無関心ではいられないだろう、という考えにもとづいて企画されたものと思う。年末に新聞のインタビューで、「もしダーウィンが現代に生きていれば、生態系の危機をどう考えたでしょうか」という質問を受け、「彼はナチュラリストですから、当然、無関心ではいられないでしょう」と答えたことを思い出した。
プログラムは以下のサイトにある。
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-diversitas/Darwin_Symposium_Agenda.html
今日の分を抜粋しておく。明日は帰国の途につくので、残念ながら2日目のシンポジウムには出席できない。
8.30-8:35 Welcome and Introduction
Sir Peter Crane John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago; Chair, US National Committee for DIVERSITAS, NAS

  • Introductory Comments

8:35-8:45 Biodiversity, Ecosystems and the Global Decision Making.
Harold Mooney (Paul S. Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University; Chair, DIVERSITAS Science Committee).
8:45 -9:00 Reflections on biodiversity and its future.
Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden).
9:00-9:20 Biodiversity and global environmental change.
Achim Steiner (Director, UNEP) [via prerecorded video].

  • SESSION 1 – Biodiversity and the Public Good

9:20-9:40 Charles Darwin meets the biodiversity crisis: Advice for the new Administration.
Michael Donoghue (Vice President and G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University).
9:40-10:00 Don't touch those dials! Microbes made this planet habitable for you.
Paul Falkowski (Board of Governors' Professor of Marine and Geological Sciences, Rutgers).
10:00-10:20 Biodiversity implications of rapid evolution.
Andrew Hendry (Associate Professor of Biology, McGill University).
10:20-10:35 Questions/Discussion
10:35-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:10 Bioinformatics: inputs for the sustainable management of natural capital. Jose Sarukhan (Institute of Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).
11:10-11:30 Darwin's Fishes: Why we should care about Marine Biodiversity? Mary Glackin (Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere).
11:30-11:50 Valuing Nature: Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. Steve Polasky (Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota).
11:50-12:05 Questions/Discussion
12:05-12:35 Concluding remarks on the morning session. Cristian Samper (Director, National Museum for Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).
12:35-2:00 Lunch

  • SESSION 2 Trade, pests and pathogens in the 21st Century

Chair for Session 2; Justin Ward (Vice President for Business Practices, Conservation International Center for Environmental Leadership in Business).
2:00-2:20 Trade and Invasive Species: A Global Perspective. Charles Perrings (Professor of Environmental Economics, Arizona State University).
2:20-2:40 Trade and the Spread of Animal and Human Pathogens. Ann Marie Kimball (Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington and Director, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Emerging Infections Network).
2:40-3:00 Risks of Invasive Species from International Trade. Chris Costello (Associate Professor, Resource Economics, UC Santa Barbara).
3:00-3:15 Questions/Discussion
3:15-3:35 Coffee break
3:35-3:55 Control of invasives in forests. Ann Bartuska (Deputy Chief, US Forest Service Research and Development).
3:55-4:15 Risk assessment and risk management of aquatic invasive species. David Lodge (Professor of Biology, University of Notre Dame).
4:15-4:35 Trading blows: can we control invasive species through trade agreements? Mark Lonsdale (Chief of CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia).
4:35-4:55 Questions/Discussion
4:55-5:25 The Color of Green: the Next Inconvenient Truth. Jerome Ringo (President, the Apollo Alliance).