Date: 26 October 2011
To: Dr Nina Federoff, AAAS President, and the AAAS Board of
Directors (Alice Huang, California
Institute of Technology: William
Press, University of Texas, Austin; David Evans Shaw, Blackpoint
Group; Alan Leshner, AAAS Chief Executive Officer; Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution;
Stephen Mayo, California Institute of Technology; Raymond Orbach, University of Texas, Austin;
Julia M. Phillips, Sandia National Labs, New; Sue V. Rosser, San Francisco State University;
David D. Sabatini, NYU School of Medicine; Inder Verma, Salk Institute for Biological Studies;
Thomas Woolsey, Washington University Medical School)
From: Dr. David Schindler, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta
Dr. Madeline Weld, Population Institute of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
WE PROTEST
The undersigned protest the rejection of Californians for Population Stabilization’s application for an exhibitor booth at the AAAS meeting planned for February 2012 in Vancouver, Canada, by the entirely American AAAS board of directors
The following 100 persons are mostly senior scientists and scholars or leaders of NGOs focused on population and environmental issues. For retired individuals, their last professional affiliation is given. All listed affiliations are for purposes of identification only. They do not imply any endorsement of this protest by any organization or institution. [Note: As indicated at the end of each sublist, three additional scientists signed onto the letter after it was transmitted to AAAS.]
Canadian Signers
Kenneth Ashley
BC Ministry of Environment, Vancouver BC
Spencer Barrett
University of Toronto, Toronto ON
Suzanne Bayley
University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
Sean Boyd
Pacific Wildlife Research Centre, Environment Canada, Delta BC
James Bruce
Director, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington ON
Peter Dillon
Trent University, Peterborough ON
Gordon Goldsborough
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB
Roger Green
University of Western Ontario, Waterloo ON
Andrew Hamilton
Former Head, Science Division, Commission for
Environmental Cooperation,
Ottawa ON
Fangliang He
University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
Peter Hodson
Queen’s University, Kingston ON
Joseph Kerekes
Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth NS
Charles Krebs
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
Joe Leach
Ministry of Natural Resources Lake Erie Fisheries Station, Wheatley ON
Donald Ludwig
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
Lynda McCarthy
Ryerson University, Toronto ON
Kristi Miller
Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo BC
Larry Onisto
Environment Ontario Power Generation, Toronto ON
John Post
University of Calgary, Calgary AB
Ellie Prepas
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay ON
Henry Regier
University of Toronto, Toronto ON
Rick Riewe
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB
Gordon Robinson
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MN
David Schindler
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Gayle Shaw
Grant MacEwan Community College,
Edmonton AB
George Shaw
Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
Edmonton AB
John Shearer
Freshwater Insitute, Winnipeg MB
John Stockner
Eco-Logic Ltd; UBC Fisheries Centre, Vancouver BC
William Tonn
University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
Julie Turgeon
Laval University, Quebec City QC
Warwick Vincent
Laval University, Quebec City QC
Bruce Ward
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
Madeline Weld
President, Population Institute of Canada, Ottawa ON
American Signers
John Alcock
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Daniel Anderson
University of California, Davis CA
Gerald Bakus
University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
Albert Bartlett
University of Colorado, Boulder CO
Colden Baxter
Idaho State University, Pocatello ID
Brent Blackwelder
President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth,
Washington DC
James Brown
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Gregg Brunskill
Australian Institute for Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Gordon Burghardt
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN
JoAnn Burkholder
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC
John Cairns, Jr.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA
Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, Portland OR
David Culver
Ohio State University, Columbus OH
Brian Czech
President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, Arlington VA
Deborah Dexter
San Diego State University, San Diego CA
John Downing
Iowa State University, Ames IA
Dell Erickson
Director of Research, Minnesotans for Sustainability, Minneapolis MN
Carlos Fetterolf
Past Executive Secretary, Canada/U.S. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor MI
Stuart Fisher
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Erica Fleishman
University of California, Davis CA
David Ford
University of Washington, Seattle WA
Dave Foreman
Executive Director, Rewilding Institute,
Albuquerque NM
Helen Ghiradella
State University of New York, Albany NY
Charles Goldman
University of California, Davis CA
Otis Graham, Jr.
University of California, Santa Barbara CA
Lindsey Grant
Writer; Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environmental & Population Affairs, Washington DC
Theodore Griswold
Environmental Attorney, Procopio Cory Hargreaves and Savitch LLP, San Diego CA
Daniel Guthrie
Claremont McKenna College, Pomona CA
Charles Hall
State University of New York, Syracuse NY
Peter Jumars
University of Maine, Orono ME
Astrid Kodric-Brown
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Donald Kroodsma
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA
Denise Lach
Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
Richard Lamm
Former Governor of Colorado (1975-1987), Denver CO
Gene Likens
President Emeritus, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook NY
Gary Meffe
University of Florida, Gainesville FL
Hal Michael
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,
Olympia WA
Ross McCluney
Florida Solar Energy Center UCF, Cocoa FL
Roger Moon
University of Minnesota, St. Paul MN
Peter Moyle
University of California, Davis CA
Paul Murtaugh
Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
Reed Noss
University of Central Florida, Orlando FL
Gordon Orians
University of Washington, Seattle WA
Robert Paine
University of Washington, Seattle WA
Harold Pashler
University of California, San Diego CA
David Paxson
President, World Population Balance, Minneapolis MN
Peter Petraitis
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
David Pimentel
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Ronald Pulliam
University of Georgia, Athens GA
Stephen Roeder
San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Michael Russell
Villanova University, Villanova PA
William Ryerson
CEO, The Population Institute, Washington DC
William Schmid
University of Minnesota, St. Paul MN
Andrew Sheldon
University of Montana, Missoula MT
Jack Stanford
Director, Flathead Biological Station UMT,
Polson MT
Donald Strong
University of California, Davis CA
George Sugihara
Scripps Institute of Oceanography UCSD,
La Jolla CA
Joyce Tarnow
President, Floridians for a Sustainable Population
Webb Van Winkle
DOE Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge TN
David Wake
University of California, Berkeley CA
William Walton
University of California, Riverside CA
Peter Wood
President, National Association of Scholars,
Washington DC
Joy Zedler
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
Paul Zedler
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
Benjamin Zuckerman
University of California, Los Angeles CA
SIGNED ON after transmittal to AAAS
Gretchen Daily
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
Jere Lipps
University of California, Berkeley CA
Wayne Wurtsbaugh
Utah State University, Logan UT