Indications: Environmental Communication

The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA-provisional name) has launched as a new organization.  Go to our web site at http://environmentalcomm.org for updates about what is going on with this exciting new effort.

Elections for 8 Board of Director positions will be held from mid-April to mid-May–you can now register to vote by going to http://environmentalcomm.org and clicking on “elections.”

Here is the final list of candidates for Board of Director positions (for complete biographical information, go to http://environmentalcomm.org and click on “elections”):

Board of Directors for the International  Environmental Communication Association 2011 Candidate List (FINAL)   23 candidates

Dr. Lee Ahern, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Communications; Senior Research Fellow, Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, Penn State University (USA) http://comm.psu.edu/people/laa182

Dr. Jose Reuben Q. Alagaran II, PhD, President, Philippines Communication Society; Consultant, Adaptation to Climate Change and Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCBio) Project; Head, Research and Publications Management Office & Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Miriam College (Philippines)

Dr. I. Arul Aram, Director, Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC), Anna University (India)http://www.annauniv.edu/MediaScience/arularam.html

Dr John Blewitt PhD, FRSA, Director of Lifelong Learning, Aston University, Birmingham (UK) http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ids/llc/about/director-of-life-long-learning-centre/

Dr. Anabela Carvalho, Ph.D.; Department of Communication Sciences, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal); Co-founder and Vice-Chair, Science and Environment Communication Section, ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association  http://www.scienv-com.eu)http://intranet.uminho.pt/carvalho.page

Richard Doherty, Doctoral Student, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA) http://tigger.uic.edu/~rdoherty/Site/CV.html

Dr Julie Doyle, Ph.D., Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Media, University of Brighton (UK); Co-founder and Vice-Chair of the Science and Environment Communication Section, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) : http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/doyle

Dr. Neil Gavin, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool (UK); Convener-Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network, Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association(MECCSA) http://www.liv.ac.uk/politics/staff-pages/n_gavin.htm

Anders Hansen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester (UK); Founding Chair, Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group, IAMCR http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/staff/ash.html

Kathleen P. Hunt, Doctoral Student, University of Utah(USA)  http://faculty.utah.edu/u0647544-Katie_Hunt/biography/index.hml

Sangita Iyer, Founding Executive Director, Bermuda Environmental Alliance (Bermuda) www.bermuda-bea.org

Libby Lester, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Journalism, Media and Communications, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania (Australia)  http://www.utas.edu.au/journalism/staff_profiles/lester/lester.htm

Soenke Lorenzen, Media Analyst, Greenpeace International (Netherlands) http://www.cestagi.com/view.php?Soenke_Lorenzen

Amanda Katili Niode, Ph.D., Coordinator, Division of Communication, Information, Education, Indonesian National Council on Climate Change; Manager, The Climate Project Indonesia (Indonesia) http://www.tcpindonesia.org/

Dr. Manoj K. Patairiya, M. Sc. (Environmental Biology), Visiting Professor, Global Communication, Chungnam National University, South Korea, Director, National Council for Science & Technology Communication (South Korea) www.dst.gov.in http://dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/s-t_ncstc-bio-off.htm

Mark Pedelty, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Resident Fellow at the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota (USA)http://environment.umn.edu/about/ione_bios/mark_pedelty.html

Emily Plec, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Western Oregon University (USA)  http://wou.academia.edu/EmilyPlec

Raul Reis, Ph.D.,Professor & Chair, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, California State University, Long Beach (USA)  http://www.csulb.edu/~rreis

Stacey K. Sowards, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Research Fellow, Department of Communication, Sam Donaldson Center for Communication, University of Texas at El Paso (USA)  http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=67102

Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, PhD, Professor of Environmental Communication, Dept of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala (Sweden)http://www.sol.slu.se/environ/

Miguel Vicente-Mariño, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Vice-Dean of the School of Legal, Social and Communication Sciences, University of Valladolid – Segovia Campus (Spain) http://uva-es.academia.edu/MiguelVicenteMarino

Barb Willard, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Joint Appointment – College of Communication & Department of Environmental Science & Studies, DePaul University (USA)  http://communication.depaul.edu/Faculty%20and%20Staff/Full%20Time%20Faculty/willard.asp

Ruben Zondervan, Executive Director, Earth System Governance Project, International Project Office, Lund University, Lund (Sweden) www.earthsystemgovernance.org