The United Nations University in New York

Invite you to a policy launch and panel discussion on:

“The Future of Coastal Development in the Gulf”

16 November 2011 – 1:00 to 3:00 PM

Conference Room 4, North Lawn Building

Panelists:

Ms. Hanneke Van Lavieren, Programme Officer, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada, is a marine biologist with experience in several South East Asian localities before she joined the UNEP Regional Seas program in Kenya in 2001 and first began to learn about the ROPME Sea Area.  She joined UNU-INWEH in 2006 and was instrumental in managing our research project with Nakheel PJSC in Dubai, 2006 to 2009.

Dr. Charles G. Trick, Beryl Ivey Chair in Ecosystem Health, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, is an authority on the physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton, on the role of trace nutrients in limiting their growth, and on conditions promoting the phenomenon of red tides.  He was a Principal Investigator on the UNU-INWEH project in Dubai.

Dr. Charles R.C. Sheppard, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., is a marine ecologist interested in the responses of marine ecosystems to various anthropogenic stressors including climate change, and in coastal management in tropical marine systems.  He was not a participant in the UNU-INWEH Dubai project, but has extensive field experience throughout the Middle East since the late 1970s, and has published extensively on the Gulf.

Dr. Peter F. Sale, Assistant Director, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada, is a tropical marine ecologist with particular expertise in the ecology of coral reef systems and in the management of coastal and coral reef ecosystems.  He led the UNU-INWEH research project in Dubai.

For more information, kindly contact Faisal Abulhassan at 212-963-6387 or at unuony@unu.edu