was nominated by President Bush on June 4, 2001, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 12. She becomes the 16th Director of the National Park Service and the first woman to head the 85-year-old agency.

NPS Chief Information Officer.

Jack Dangermond is Founder and President of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), headquartered in Redlands, California, USA. Founded in 1969, ESRI is the leading geographic information systems (GIS) company in the world, providing software like ArcInfo, ArcView GIS, and ArcExplorer to clients in 90 countries. Over the last thirty years, Jack has delivered keynote addresses at numerous international conferences, published hundreds of papers on GIS, and given thousands of presentations on GIS throughout the world. He is the recipient of a number of medals, awards, lectureships, and honorary degrees, including the 2000 LaGasse Medal of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Brock Gold Medal of the International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society, the EDUCAUSE Medal of EduCause, the Horwood Award of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, the Anderson Medal of the Association of American Geographers, and the John Wesley Powell Award of the U.S. Geological Survey. He is a member of many professional organizations and has served on advisory committees for such U.S. agencies as NASA, EPA, NIMA, the National Academy of Sciences, and NCGIA. Jack was educated at California Polytechnic College-Pomona, the University of Minnesota, Harvard University's Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Design. Mr. Dangermond holds two honorary doctorate degrees from Ferris State University and the University of Redlands, respectively.

is the Principal of Berry and Associates // Spatial Information Systems (BASIS), consultants and software developers in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. He is a contributing editor and author of the Beyond Mapping column for GIS World magazine and the column Inside the GIS Toolbox for ag/INNOVATOR newsletter. He has written over two hundred papers on the analytic capabilities of GIS technology, and is the author of the popular books Beyond Mapping, Spatial Reasoning and Map Analysis. Since 1976, he has presented workshops on GIS technology and map analysis concepts to thousands of professionals. Dr. Berry taught graduate level courses and performed basic research in GIS for twelve years as an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and is currently a Special Faculty member at Colorado State University and the W.M. Keck Scholar at the University of Denver. He is the author of the original Academic Map Analysis Package and current MapCalc Learner Educational Materials used in research and instruction by universities worldwide and by thousands of individuals for self-instruction in map analysis principles. Dr. Berry's research and consulting has been broad. Such studies have involved the spatial characterization of timber supply, outdoor recreation opportunity, comprehensive land use plans, wildlife habitat, marine ecosystem populations, haul road networks, surface and ground water hydrology, island resources planning, retail market analysis, in-store movement analysis, hazardous waste siting, air pollution modeling, precision farming and site-specific management. Of particular concern have been applications fully incorporating map analysis into the decision-making process through spatial consideration of social and economic factors, as well as physical descriptors.

Mark Schaefer is presently President and CEO of the Association for Biodiversity Information, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data and tools to inform conservation decision making. From 1996 to 2000 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science. In this position he provided policy guidance to the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation. He also oversaw the Federal Geographic Data Committee, the federal government's coordinating body for geospatial data. In addition he served as chair of the National Science and Technology Council's Ecological Systems Subcommittee which is responsible for coordinating ecosystem science activities across federal agencies. He was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Foundation from 1996 to 2000.

Dr. Schaefer was Acting Director of the USGS from October of 1997 to February of 1998. He previously served for three years as Assistant Director for Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he was responsible for a variety of environmental science, technology, and education issues.

From 1989 to 1993, he served as senior staff associate and director of the Washington Office of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, an activity of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. While with Carnegie he contributed to a number of studies related to U.S. environmental and science policy. He was a staff member at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) from 1987 to 1989, first as a congressional science fellow and then as director of OTA's study of the effects of toxic substances on the nervous system. For five years beginning in 1988, he taught an environmental policy seminar for Stanford University's Stanford in Washington program. A biologist by training, he received a B.A. (Zoology and Botany) from the University of Washington, and Ph.D. (Neurosciences) from Stanford University. After completing his undergraduate degree in 1977, he worked for five years in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development.