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