Conference Schedule

Friday, June 12, 2009

8.15 -- 8.45 A.M.

Coffee, Fruit, and Croissants

8.45 -- 9.00 A.M.

Introduction

Provost Robert Smith
Louis V. Mills, TTU Department of Landscape Architecture
Clint Boal, TTU Department of Natural Resources Management
Vickie Sutton, TTU School of Law
Thomas Longoria, Texas State University

9.00 -- 9.40 A.M.

Presentation: Jazz and Wind

Michael Borshuk, TTU Department of English

9.40 -- 11.15 A.M.

Panel: Environmental Impacts -- Birds and Bats

Panel Chair: Clint Boal, TTU Department of Natural Resources Management
Matt Butler, TTU Department of Natural Resources Management
Lucia Barbato, TTU Geospatial Institute
Andy Swift, TTU Wind Engineering

11.15 A.M. -- 12.30 P.M.

Panel: Landscape Aesthetics and Wind Turbines

Panel Chair: Louis V. Mills, TTU Department of Landscape Architecture
Mike Slattery, TCU Department of Environmental Studies
Chad Davis, ASLA, Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper

12.30 -- 1.30 P.M.

Lunch and Keynote Address

Case Van Dam, Director of the California Wind Collaborative, University of California at Davis

Lunch from COWamongus! Creamery and Meat Company.

1.30 -- 3.00 P.M.

Panel: Political and Governmental Impacts

Panel Chair: Thomas Longoria, Texas State University
Skelly Hormbeck, NextEraEnergy
Michael Reeves, Director: Port to Plains
Dwain Rogers, GLO
Summer Sutton, B. Arch., Cornell University

3.15 -- 4.45 P.M.

Panel: Legal Ramifications

Panel Chair: Vickie Sutton, TTU School of Law
H. Alan Carmichael, Esq.
Kathy Boydston, Texas Parks and Wildlife
James Payne, Esq.

4.45 -- 5.15 P.M.

Wrap-Up and Thanks

Louis V. Mills, TTU Department of Landscape Architecture
Clint Boal, TTU Department of Natural Resources Management
Vickie Sutton, TTU School of Law
Thomas Longoria, Texas State University

5.30 -- 9.00 P.M.

Wine Reception at McPherson's Cellars

Depot District, 1615 Texas Avenue (Texas Avenue and 16th Street), Lubbock, Texas

Dexter Sykes, DJ

Saturday, June 13, 2009

8.30 -- 9.00 A.M.

Meet at Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock Depot District

9.00 -- 10.30

Tours: Windmill Museum and Cotton Seed Plant

10.30 A.M. -- 12.00 P.M.

Tours: Silent Wings Museum and Pheasant Ridge Winery