Speakers

Note: All talks/presentations will be on Friday, June 12, 2009. Speakers are listed in alphabetical order. Each speaker's presentation time (or, more accurately, the time during which the speaker's panel will be presenting) is provided in gray next to his or her name.

Lucia Barbato
Associate Director, TTU Center for Geospatial Technology

9.40 -- 11.15 Panel

Water, Wind Mills and the Ogallala Aquifer

Clint Boal
Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

9.40 -- 11.15 Panel

Influences of Wind Power Development on Wildlife in Texas: Look Before You Leap

Michael Borshuk
Department of English, Texas Tech University

9.00

Cool Jazz, Western Literature, and Wind Power: A Metaphor for Energy

Kathy Boydston

3.15 -- 4.45 Panel

Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife -- Criteria for Project Review

Matt Butler
Texas Tech University Department of Natural Resources Management

9.40 -- 11.15 Panel

Potential Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Wildlife of the Southern Great Plains

H. Alan Carmichel, Esq.
Wetsel & Carmichael, LLP, Sweetwater, Texas

3.15 -- 4.45 Panel

Legalities and Deeds for Wind Power

Chad Davis, ASLA
Parkhill, Smith, and Cooper

11.15 -- 12.30 Panel

Landscape Assessment and Wind Farms: A Private-Sector Perspective

Skelly A. Hornbeck
NextEra Energy (formerly Florida Power and Light)

1.30 -- 3.00 Panel

Perspective of Wind Power Production from NextEra Energy

Thomas Longoria
Texas State University

1.30 -- 3.00 Panel

Local Government Response to Wind Farms

Louis Mills
Texas Tech University Department of Landscape Architecture

11.15 -- 12.30 Panel

Wind Farms, Scenic Management on the Coast -- An Australian and Texan Viewpoint

James Payne, Esq.

3.15 -- 4.45 Panel

Wind Power Leases

Michael Reeves
Port to Plains, Lubbock

1.30 -- 3.00 Panel

Transmission and Infrastructure Improvements for Wind Power Development

Dwain Rogers
Renewable Energy Texas GLO

1.30 -- 3.00 Panel

The GLO Response to Wind Farm Siting

Mike Slattery
Texas Christian University

11.15 -- 12.30 Panel

Wind Research Project TCU/NEXTERA Energy (formerly Florida Power and Light);
TCU-Oxford NEXTERA Energy Wind Research Initiative

Summer Sutton
B. Arch., Cornell University

1.30 -- 3.00 Panel

Windtowers of the UAE: Wisdom of the Past, Identity for the Future

Vickie Sutton
TTU School of Law

3.15 -- 4.45 Panel

Legal Implications of Wind Farm Siting in West Texas

Andy Swift
Director, Texas Tech University Wind Sciences/
Engineering Research Center

9.40 -- 11.15 Panel

Wind Turbine Farm Trends 2009-2010

Case Van Dam

12.30 P.M.

Site Engineering for Wind Projects: A Californian Perspective