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Katharine Armstrong is also a member of the Board of the odd "non-profit" "research institute" below -- teeming with Halliburton execs and Exxon oilmen, appointees of Texas Gov. Bush, NAFTA bankers, etc. Methinks we have here the sub-rosa Republican equivalent of "eco-terrorists" -- disguised as earth-friendly "conservationists," they may actually be positioning themselves to elbow out any environmentalists (compare Bush's hidden-agenda'd "gov't experts" on global warming) in order to plunder the Gulf for oil ... as the pirate ship [with Knights Templar flag] on their logo page suggests, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
(And why do they keep referring to CUBA, still ostracized by the US?)
Harte** Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
"Behind the Logo
"The logo incorporates the idea of looking toward the horizon. Silhouettes of three sails stand for the cooperation among the United States, Mexico and Cuba. Influenced by the sails on sailing vessels originally used to explore the oceans of the world, the use of these particular sails implies that the Institute will be a pioneer in exploration. The sails filling with the wind symbolize moving forward into the future. The wave at the bottom represents the Gulf, while the circle symbolizes the rising sun, emphasizing the dawn of a new era for the University.
The design was inspired by the travels of Spanish explorer Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, whose trail of discovery followed the Gulf Coast.
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State of the Gulf Symposium
HRI will sponsor a biennial symposium on the State of the Gulf of Mexico. This conference will engage scientists, natural resource managers, policy makers, businesses and industry, military, and all other stakeholders, as well as the general public, interested in the long-term sustainable use and conservation of the Gulf of Mexico.
State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit
The Gulf of Mexico is the most economically productive body of water within the territories of the United States and Mexico. Tourism, oil and gas, fisheries, and marine shipping annually generate billions of dollars of economic activity. From the founding of our countries, dynamic population centers have grown and flourished in the coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the trend is for accelerated growth in these ecologically rich areas on the Gulf coast. It is incumbent upon today’s environmental stewards to ensure that the Gulf of Mexico remains a dynamic, healthy, and productive ecosystem. We can do this only through awareness, education, and proactive management. Yesterday, today and tomorrow, the Gulf of Mexico is a vital resource for sustaining quality of life in the United States and Mexico.
PURPOSE:
Insert the state of the Gulf of Mexico into the international spotlight.
Expand awareness of the socioeconomic and ecological value of the Gulf of Mexico and its importance to a sustainable desired quality of life.
Build partnerships for proactive management.
Establish a strategy for ensuring the ecological and socioeconomic health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico.
STRATEGY:
The STATE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO SUMMIT will bring together the top leaders of government, industry, education, science, and conservation to focus attention on the state of the Gulf of Mexico. As a VIP event, the governors of the Gulf States of the United States and Mexico will anchor the participant list. CEO’s of international industries, academic institutions, government agencies, and conservation organizations will join them to present a vision of the current and future status of the Gulf of Mexico.
To advance public awareness, media will be heavily involved to report on the proceedings and perhaps broadcast some of the program live across the United States and Mexico. A published report on the State of the Gulf of Mexico will be crafted for broad distribution. An action agenda for future efforts will be issued.
WHEN: [Spring 2006 -- postponed in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina]
WHERE: Corpus Christi, Texas
HOST: Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
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Notable members of Harte Research Institute's ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Katharine Armstrong
William Baker Mr. Baker is the Environmental Manager of Reliant Energy. He's responsible for Implementation of Reliant Energy’s National Environmental Partnership Program which includes: Providing guidance to Reliant Energy land managers across the U.S. to encourage habitat enhancement and preservation of ecological resources, and evaluating ecological resources issues for new development projects across the U.S.
William Bradford William E. Bradford, 67, is retired from Halliburton Company, a provider of energy and energy services, where he served as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2000. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Bradford served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Dresser Industries, Inc., now merged with Halliburton Company. Mr. Bradford serves on the Boards of Directors of Kerr-McGee Corporation and Valero Energy Corporation.
Luke Corbett Mr. Luke R. Corbett, chairman and chief executive officer of Kerr-McGee Corporation, was born Feb. 11, 1947, in Douglas, Georgia. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Georgia in 1969. He joined Kerr-McGee’s Exploration and Production Division in 1985 as vice president of geophysics, became vice president of exploration in 1986, and was named senior vice president of exploration for the Exploration and Production Division in 1987. Corbett was named a senior vice president of Kerr-McGee in 1991, group vice president in 1992, and president and chief operating officer in 1995. He was elected chairman and chief executive officer in February 1997. Following the company’s merger with Oryx Energy Company in February 1999, Corbett became chief executive officer. He was named to his current position in May 1999.
Eugenio Clariond Sr. Clariond has both is Bachelors and Masters in Business from the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey ITESM. He is Chairman and CEO of Grupo IMSA, S.A., and serves as director for Grupo Industrial Saltillo S.A., Proeza, S.A, Grupo CYDSA S.A., Texas Industries Inc., Navistar (International) Corp., Grupo Financiero Banorte S.A., Alpek, S.A. (Petrochemical division of Grupo ALFA), Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones (BLADEX).
Catherine Cooke Catherine Nixon Cooke spent the past three years as President and CEO of The Mountain Institute, an international non-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, DC, and 8 field offices in the Andes, the Himalayas, and Appalachia. She oversaw a worldwide staff that includes anthropologists, archaeologists, forestry experts, geographers, hydrologists, and enterprise specialists. Conservation, cultural preservation, and economic development projects currently operate in Peru, Ecuador, India, Nepal, Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the United States. In January, 2005, she retired as the organization’s CEO but remains on its Board of Trustees and maintains close contact with its staff and worldwide operations.
Prior to joining The Mountain Institute in 2002, Ms. Cooke was CEO of The Mind Science Foundation, a scientific research organization (1983-1998); and previously was Editor-in-Chief of Coronet Magazine, a national general interest publication with a circulation of 600,000, based in Los Angeles.
Her book, Tom Slick Mystery Hunter, was published by Paraview Press in November, 2005, documenting the extraordinary life of the oilman/philanthropist who established five scientific research institutes, developed new species of cattle and grasses, invented the Liftslab method of construction, wrote two books about world peace, and searched for the yeti in the Himalayas before his death in 1962.
Ms. Cooke serves on the Board of Directors of The Explorers Club, an international organization that promotes exploration of our planet and beyond, and dissemination of information; and she has led three Explorers Club Flag Expeditions---to Belize (Mayan Archaeology, 1991), Bhutan (Black-Necked Crane Study, 1995), and Nepal (Yeti Expedition, 2001).
Joseph Fitzsimons Joseph Fitzsimons is a natural resources attorney and third-generation south Texas rancher. Mr. Fitzsimons is a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Lewis & Clark College, and the University of Texas Law School. Mr. Fitzsimons has represented numerous royalty owners and landowners in complex oil and gas litigation and oil and gas lease negotiations and audits. Upon being appointed Texas Parks & Wildlife Commissioner, Mr. Fitzsimons has been in private practice primarily representing land and mineral owners in the areas of natural resources, oil and gas law, water law and other natural resource-related areas. He has served as Vice-President of the Texas Wildlife Association and is a Director of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He is a former Chairman of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Private Landowner Advisory Board and in 1999 was named by then Governor George W. Bush to serve on the Governor’s Task Force on Conservation.
In May of 2001, Governor Rick Perry appointed Mr. Fitzsimons to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission for a six-year term. In January of 2002, he was named to represent the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission on the Texas Water Advisory Council, which has the statutory responsibility to advise the Office of the Governor, Speaker of the House and the Lieutenant Governor on issues affecting Texas water policy. In October of 2003, Governor Perry appointed him as Chairman of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission.
G. T. Theriot G. T. (Tom) Theriot is Manager, Safety, Health and Environment (SHE), in ExxonMobil Production Company located in Houston, Texas. During his almost 32 year career, Mr. Theriot has held various engineering and management assignments in Exxon's production operations in Texas, Louisiana, Alaska, and California. In his current position, Mr. Theriot is responsible for management oversight of various safety, operations integrity, emergency response, and environmental programs in ExxonMobil's Upstream business worldwide. Mr. Theriot has worked in the safety and environmental area since April 1996, and currently serves as the Upstream representative to the Exxon Mobil Corporation SHE Network. Mr. Theriot currently serves as chairman of the Safety, Health and Personnel Competence Committee of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers. He is also a member of the University of Texas Chemical Engineering Visiting Committee and is on the Board of Directors of The Park People, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of green space in Houston, Texas.
Saul Rodriguez Raul Rodriguez was born in Tampico, Mexico, in 1955. He holds a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Monterrey Tech. (ITESM) and a Master’s Degree from Harvard University, where he graduated with the Littauer Fellow Academic Award. He has pursued other studies in Mexico, the U.S., Canada and Austria.
He has been Executive Director of the Mexican Foreign Trade Bank; Mexico’s Trade Commissioner in Canada; Secretary of Economic Development for the Mexican border State of Tamaulipas; and Professor and Research Fellow at Monterrey Tech. He has been a business consultant and the Chairman of a market research and information systems firm. He is currently the Managing Director and CEO of the North American Development Bank (NADBank), based in San Antonio, Texas.
Guillermo Garcia Montero Guillermo Garcia Montero was born in Havana in 1948 and graduated in Physics at the University of Havana in 1970. From 1970 to 1980 he worked at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. During this period he attended several postgraduate and training studies in Nuclear Analytical Techniques and its application to geochemical and environmental studies. At the Institute of Nuclear Research, he was Head (1974-1978) of the Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory, and Deputy Director for International Affairs (1978-1980).
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**named after Edward H. Harte. Son William Harte is on the Advisory Board as well.
Janet F. Harte of Corpus Christi, a philanthropist whose many gifts to the community included $1.84 million in 1998 to the Corpus Christi Public Library, died February 23 at the age of 75. In total, Janet and her husband Edward H. Harte donated around $20 million to various charities.
The Hartes have a long standing interest in the area of this community. In the 1960s, Edward H. Harte, working with President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Ralph Yarborough, helped establish the Padre Island National Seashore.
The Hartes' gift to the library program was the culmination of many years of interest in and service to the library. The Hartes had participated in many fundraising campaigns including the $1.5 million fundraising drive to augment bond funds for a new central library. They also supported campaigns to raise over $650,000 for LINCC (Library Information Network of Corpus Christi), a public library/high school network formally dedicated by First Lady Laura Bush in 1997.
Mr. Harte was a former publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the flagship newspaper of Harte-Hanks, a conglomerate established in the 1920s, and which at one time owned over 65 newspapers in the state and nation.
In addition to Janet Harte's contributions to the library program, she also aided many other civic groups in Corpus Christi and was known as an impassioned champion of environmental and human rights issues. "I always admired Janet for her principles and fearless support for the good causes she believed in," said Anne Armstrong, long time friend of the Hartes and former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
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