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Guidelines for Investors, Insurers and Policy Makers
 Wetland Buffers and Non-Linear Impacts from Climate Change
Virginia Burkett Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey
Lecture Given on April 20, 2006
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Dr. Virginia Burkett was appointed Coordinator of Global Change Research at the U.S. Geological Survey in September 2005. She had formerly served as Chief of the Forest Ecology Branch at the National Wetlands Research Center and subsequently as Associate Regional Chief Biologist for the USGS Central Region. Dr. Burkett has served as Director of the Louisiana Coastal Zone Management Program, Deputy Director and Director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and Assistant Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey. She has published extensively on the topics of global change and low-lying coastal zones. Nominated by the U.S. government, she was a Lead Author on the United Nation's IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) of global climate change and its impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems and she is now serving as a Lead Author of the IPCC?s Fourth Assessment Report that will be published in 2007. During 2002-2004 she served as a member of the National Research Council?s Panel on River Basin and Coastal Systems Planning. She coordinated both the Coastal and Southeast synthesis chapters of the U.S. National Assessment of climate change and its impacts. Burkett received a B.S. in zoology and an M.S. in botany from Northwestern State University of Louisiana; her doctoral work in forestry was completed at Stephen F. Austin State University of Texas in 1996.
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Burkett VR, Wilcox DA, Stottlemeyer R, et al. Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications. Ecological Complexity. 2005;2:357-394.
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The U.S. EPA's page on Wetlands McLean RF, Tsyban A, Burkett V, et al. Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems. In: Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Third Assessment Report, Working Group II report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland; 2001:343-379.
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