Richard Steiner: From 1980 - 2010, a marine conservation professor with the University of Alaska, stationed in the Arctic (Kotzebue 1980-1982), Prince William Sound (Cordova 1983-1997), and Anchorage (1997-2010). He was responsible for the University of Alaska's conservation and sustainability extension effort, and was producer / host of the Alaska Resource Issues Forum, a public television program on controversial natural resource issues.
As the University of Alaska's marine advisor for the Prince William Sound region of Alaska from 1983 - 1997, he was directly involved in oil / environment issues, and advised the emergency response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1989. He helped found the Regional Citizens Advisory Councils, the Prince William Sound Science Center, helped formulate federal and state oil spill legislation, and first proposed settling the legal case between Exxon and the government and applying much of the $1 billion settlement toward acquisition and protection of ecologically critical habitat along the coastline of the oil spill region. Subsequently, he has worked globally on oil / environment issues - including oil spill prevention, response, damage assessment, and restoration - advising the United Nations, governments, NGOs, and industry. He served as the Chief Technical Advisor for the government of Pakistan organizing the environmental damage assessment from the Tasman Spirit oil spill in the Arabian Sea in 2003 -2004; served on the Independent Scientific Review Panel commissioned by Shell through IUCN for the Sakahalin II offshore oil development in eastern Russia; served as technical expert on the public environmental review for the Russia-China oil pipeline in Siberia; advised the government of Lebanon during the eastern Mediterranean oil spill during the war with Israel in 2006; helped estabish a Citizens Advisory Council in western Kazakhstan to oversee oil development in the north Caspian; participated in the first comprehensive environmental damage assessment of oil spills in the Niger Delta, Nigeria; and drafted the U.N. manual on environmental damage assessment for marine oil spills.
He has published on a broad array of conservation topics - forests, fisheries, economic policy, endangered species, maritime issues, oil and environment, citizen involvement / environmental democracy, ocean protection, global warming, and the global environment. He is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP), and the Working Group on Social and Environmental Accountability of the Private Sector (SEAPRISE).
He works internationally on conservation and sustainability issues, in Russia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This work is focused on establishment of Citizens Advisory Councils for oversight of resource development, extractive industry responsibility, and increasing public and private sector conservation finance.
Paul Horsman is a marine biologist with degrees from Newcastle University and Portsmouth Polytechnic in the UK, and an international campaigner with over 25 years experience at the forefront of campaigning on environmental and peace issues in many countries across the globe - 20 of these years with Greenpeace. Paul's first oil spill encounter was in 1979 as a marine biologist working in the UK, since then he has responded to oil spills in different parts of the world. He visited Prince William sound, Alaska, five years and then 10 years following the Exxon Valdez spill bearing witness to oil still present in the beaches. He has co-ordinated Greenpeace's response to other spills. He led the Greenpeace expedition to the Persian Gulf to survey the land and atmospheric impacts of the spills and the oil fires resulting from the 1991 Gulf war. He then led the response to the 1994 oil spills in the Russian Arctic - one of the world's largest pipeline leaks. As a result he was invited by the World Bank to advise on the best way to deal with the spill. Most recently he co-ordinated the Greenpeace response to the oil spill on the coast of Lebanon which resulted from the Israeli bombing of oil storage tanks in the brief Lebanon/Israel war in 2006.
Today Paul is an international campaigner focussing on climate and energy issues and is an author with three books published and many articles, reports and chapters.
Daniel Beltrá is a Spanish photographer based in Seattle.
Daniel brings the sensibility and craft of a news photographer to the fields of nature and the environment, making images which he hopes will spur greater respect and conservation of those subjects.
He has documented several expeditions by Greenpeace to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian Ice Fields, among many others.
In 2006, Daniel received awards from the World Press Photo (WPP) and China International Press Photo contests for his work on drought in the Amazon. In 2007, he won again in the WPP for photos of the Amazon.
In 2008, Daniel was awarded the inaugural "Global Vision Award" from the Pictures of the Year International contest for work in the Ross Sea and the Amazon. He also won in the NPPA BOP contest and the LUCIE awards.
This year, Daniel was awarded the Prince's Rainforest Project given via the Sony World Photography Awards. The award, granted by Prince Charles, sent Daniel for three months to the Congo, Amazon and Indonesian rainforests to create photos for a book, website and traveling exhibition about the perilous fate that the world's rainforests face.
Daniel is a fellow of the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers.
In November 2009, Daniel was recognized by ABC News as its "Person of the Week" for his conservation photography.
http://www.danielbeltra.com/