California Academy of Sciences

Mr. Smick received his Masters degree in Ecology and Systematic Botany from San Francisco State University. He completed a monograph of a genus of neotropical Acanthaceae for his thesis, part of which included a key to the genus and the description of a newly discovered species from Peru. Mr. Smick surveyed and monitored many rare and endangered coastal and wetland plants and butterflies at Point Reyes National Seashore for the National Park Service. Mr. Smick also created a herbarium of the vascular flora of John Muir National Historic Monument in Martinez, CA, and held Curatorial Assistant positions with both the Botany and Entomology departments at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Joe is a space and atmospheric scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute in Mountain View. He holds a B.A. Physics, Oberlin College and an M.S. Computer/Information Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz. Joe currently serves as a Public Works Commissioner for the City of Santa Cruz and formally as a science/math consultant on the Life Lab Science Program curriculum. He also serves as an astronomy/natural sciences teacher and hike leader for the California Academy of Sciences, the Santa Cruz City Museum, local schools, UCSC, and the Lyceum of Santa Clara Valley. Joe is an occasional contributor to the local radio series "Field Notes." Joe's passion is positioning Ecology Action for regional leadership in tapping the vast wealth inherent in our own clean, renewable energy resources (such as solar and wind) -- which he calls "sky power".

Laws is deeply committed to stewardship of nature and collaborates with organizations throughout the state to this end. He is currently coordinating efforts to create a standards based sixth through eighth grade curriculum to help teachers convey a love of nature and an understanding of biodiversity to their students through field studies and nature sketching. As a part of this project, he is working secure funding to donate sets of field guides to every middle and high school in the Sierra Nevada. Laws has worked as an environmental educator for over 25 years in California, Wyoming, and Alaska. He teaches classes on natural history, conservation biology, scientific illustration, and field sketching. He is trained as a wildlife biologist and is an associate of the California Academy of Sciences. His illustrations capture the feeling of the living plant or animal, while also including details critical for identification. In the summer of 2004, Laws published Sierra Birds: a Hiker's Guide. He is also a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his "Naturalists Notebook" column. See full resume.

John W. Buoymaster is a Managing Director at Offit Hall Capital Management LLC and the Director of Investment Advisory Services. He is also a member of the firm's Investment Review Committee. Mr. Buoymaster joined the firm in February 1998. Previously, he was a Vice President in the San Francisco office of J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated. At J.P. Morgan, Mr. Buoymaster advised individuals and families on investment strategy, portfolio structuring and generational planning. He was responsible for delivering to clients the firm's full range of investment, trust and banking services. From October 1977 through October 1991, Mr. Buoymaster was associated with the San Francisco and Palo Alto law firm of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, and was a partner in that firm from January 1984 until October 1991. His practice concentrated in estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration, primarily for venture capitalists and founders of emerging companies. He also represented non-profit organizations, including family foundations and non-profit research organizations. Mr. Buoymaster is a member of the Investment Committee of The Children?s Health Council (Palo Alto), and a member of the Advisory Board for Kohlberg Investors IV and V, L.P., which are private investment partnerships. He is also on the Planned Giving Advisory Committees for KQED, and The California Academy of Sciences. He is the Chair of the Planned Giving Executive Committee at Williams College. He previously served as a director or trustee of various non-profit organizations, including Marin Country Day School, The Little School (San Francisco), Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, and the Children's Health Council (Palo Alto). Mr. Buoymaster graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 1974, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1977.

Karen Block is an attorney with over 10 years experience supporting non-profit organizations as a volunteer, board member and director of development. She joined the Board in January 2002 and serves as the Vice Chair. She is currently working with the San Francisco MOMA, as a member of the Modern Art Council. Karen is on the event committees of the New Langton Art Gallery and the Halloween Party at the California Academy of Sciences. She also does fundraising work for The Hamlin School in San Francisco.

Renzo Piano demonstrates a mastery of light throughout his work. At the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, he exhibits the same care lighting a museum of the natural world as he has in lighting some of the world's finest art collections. Published 2008.1112

Terrence M. Gosliner is a zoologist, a specialist in the biology of marine invertebrates, and a staff scientist at the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco.

Mr. Patterson is a managing director of SPO Partners & Co., a private investment partnership that he joined in 1989. SPO may initially hold more than 10 percent of the Company's common stock and may be considered an affiliate of the Company. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Patterson was a financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was involved in structuring and arranging financing for leveraged buyouts and in privately placing debt and equity securities. He also served as a director of Plum Creek Timber Company, the largest private timberland owner in the United States, from December 1992 to May 2003. Mr. Patterson earned his M.B.A. in 1989 from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1984. He is Board Chair of the California Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Investment Committee of the Marin Community Foundation, Vice Chair of the Stanford Business School Trust and a former trustee and board president of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Mr. Patterson is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board, he is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

David Hoyt is a senior executive vice president for Wells Fargo & Company and head of Wholesale Banking Group. He oversees Asset Management; Commercial Real Estate; Corporate Trust Services; Eastdil Secured, LLC; Insurance Services; International Financial Services; National Commercial Banking; Shareowner Services; Special Situations Group; Specialized Financial Services; Treasury Management; U.S. Corporate Banking; Wells Fargo Business Credit; Wells Fargo Trade Capital; Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, Inc.; Wells Fargo Foothill; Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC; and Wholesale Services. Based in San Francisco, the 27-year company veteran formerly managed the Capital Markets Group, the workout related groups for the Wholesale Bank, and was involved in various functions relating to the overall credit quality of the bank’s portfolio. Dave also was senior credit officer for the Real Estate Group, manager of the bank’s credit training function, and manager of the East Bay office of the Real Estate Group. Dave is a board member of the Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd., the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Symphony, and the Bay Area Council. Dave graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration.

David gained an academic interest in mechanisms of aging and began exploring the possibility of pharmacological intervention into the aging process in 1998. Animal models indicated R-lipoic acid (RLA) may normalize several age-related markers to those of youthful animals. RLA was commercially unavailable at that time, so he began to work out industrially feasible routes to produce RLA and stable-bioavailable dosage forms on a large scale, which evolved into GeroNova Research, Inc. David has played a key role in the introduction and development of R-Lipoic Acid, K-RALA, Na-RALA, Rala-Gel and R-DHLA for the nutraceutical industry. David's latest research is the development of entirely "green" and asymmetric processes for the industrial scale synthesis of RLA and R-DHLA, and the contribution of stereochemistry and the metabolites to the overall mechanisms of action of RLA/R-DHLA. He is continuously testing and developing novel dosage forms, evaluating the plasma pharmacokinetics of RLA and various nutritional supplements and identifying new biomarkers for quantitation and intervention into the aging process. GeroNova has compiled an extensive data base of English and foreign language lipoic acid articles and is actively translating foreign articles into English in order to facilitate future researchers. David is actively involved in numerous international collaborations involving the elucidation of the mechanisms of action of RLA, new product development and clinical trials. David was an invited speaker at the Oxygen Club of California (OCC) & the Lipoic Acid workshop in Santa Barbara, CA (March 12-15, 2008) where he discussed the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of RLA in humans, the role of stereochemistry in the mechanisms of action of lipoic acid and unsolved problems in lipoic acid research. David has spoken at the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and Smart Life Forum on the use of R-Lipoic Acid & R-Dihydrolipoic acid in nutrition and clinical practice. David is a member of The American Chemical Society, The California Academy of Sciences, The New York Academy of Sciences, and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Hamid Moghadam is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AMB Property Corporation®. Mr. Moghadam cofounded AMB in 1983 and led the company through its initial public offering in 1997 (NYSE: AMB). Mr. Moghadam has held a number of strategic roles within the real estate industry. He has served as the Chairman of National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the Real Estate Investment Trust Political Action Committee (REITPAC), a director of Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE: PCL), and a founding member of the Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Moghadam is a Trustee of Stanford University and currently chairs the Stanford Management Company. As an active participant in the San Francisco Bay area community, he has served on various philanthropic and community boards including the California Academy of Sciences, Town School for Boys, and as Chairman of Young Presidents Organization’s (YPO) Northern California Chapter. He is a past winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and has been named CEO of the Year on eight different occasions by four separate industry publications. He received the Wisconsin Alumni Center’s Vision Setter Award and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Lifetime of Building Award in 2007 and NAREIT’s Industry Leadership Award in 2005. Mr. Moghadam received SB and SM degrees in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Michael Murray is a member of the Calera Capital Advisory Board. Mr. Murray, age 64, retired in July 2000 as President of Global Corporate and Investment Banking of Bank of America Corporate and as a member of the corporation's Policy Committee. From March 1997 to the BankAmerica-Nations Bank merger in September 1998, Mr. Murray headed BankAmerica Corporation's Global Wholesale Bank and was responsible for its business with large corporate, international, and government clients around the world. Mr. Murray was named a BankAmerica Vice Chairman and Head of the U.S. and International Groups in September 1995. He had been responsible for BankAmerica's U.S. Corporate Group since BankAmerica's merger with Continental Bank Corporation in September 1994. Prior to the BankAmerica-Continental merger, Mr. Murray was Vice Chairman and Head of Corporate Banking for Continental Bank, which he joined in 1969. Mr. Murray is a member of the Board of Directors of the eLoyalty Corporation in Lake Forest, Illinois. He is past Chairman of the United Way of the Bay Area. Mr. Murray is also on the Board of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and is a member of the Advisory Council for the College of Business of the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Murray received his BBA from the University of Notre Dame in 1966 and his MBA from the University of Wisconsin in 1968. He serves on the Compensation and Nominating Committees of the Board.

Mr. Tucker is the Founder (1991) and President of GeoHazards International (GHI). Prior to his work with GHI, he was Acting State Geologist, Principal State Geologist, and Supervising Geologist of the California Geological Survey (1982-1991). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America and the World Seismic Safety Initiative (WSSI) He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering. In 2001 he was awarded the Gorakha Dakshin Bahu Award for service to Nepal by the King of Nepal and was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2002.

Dr. Mangel is Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz. Director, Center for Stock Assessment Research (a partnership between UCSC and the NMFS Santa Cruz Laboratory to train students and post-docs in the quantitative methods needed for stock assessment) and Regional Director of MRAG Americas, running the California office (opened 2004). At UCSC, he conducts research on quantitative methods for fishery management, the population biology of disease, and the evolutionary biology of longevity. Prior to coming to UCSC in 1996, he worked (1977-1980) for the Center for Naval Analysis (the Federal Contract Research Center conducting operations and systems analysis for the US Navy) and at the University of California Davis (1980-1996). Dr. Mangel has held Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has held visiting positions at the Hebrew University (Scheinbrun Professor), University of Oxford (Member, Wolfson College), the Weizmann Institute (Varon Professor), Florida State University (William R. and Lenore Mote Eminent Scholar Chair in Fisheries Ecology and Enhancement) and Ben Gurion University (Dozor Professor). Dr. Mangel has worked on fishery problems since graduate school, when he and Colin Clark developed models for the tuna purse seine fishery. In addition, he wrote one of the first papers applying Bayesian methods to stock assessment (Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42:150-163, 1985) and applied such methods to the recovery of California sardine, was the first invited outside expert to the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1986-1989) and was subsequently a member of the US delegation to the scientific committee (1991) and to the working groups of the scientific committee (1996, 1997), convened and chaired the steering committee concerning principles of wild living resource conservation (published as Ecological Applications 6:338-362, 1996 and a focal document for the Marine Life Management Act), served on the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the US Marine Mammal Commission for six years, and was a member of the Ecosystem Advisory Panel, the Scientific Advisory Panel for West Coast Marine Reserve Planning, and the team that conducted a review of the harvest policy used by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. He currently serves on the NMFS Recovery Review Science Panel (RSRP), on the NERC Special Committee on Seals, and on the NMFS Committee on Scientific Integration of Marine Reserves and Traditional Fishery Management.

Dr. Peter Elias has served as Chief Scientific Officer since May 2005. Dr. Elias has served as Ceragenix Corporation s Chief Scientific Officer since May 2004. From 1975 through 2003, Dr. Elias was a Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco where he most recently served as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Dermatology. Between his tenure at the University of California and joining Ceragenix Corporation, Dr. Elias worked as an independent consultant and advisor. Dr. Elias has published over 500 papers and has received numerous honors, awards and professional appointments as a result of his expertise in the field of dermatology. Dr. Elias received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.D. and M.S. from the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Wayne M. Getz was born in South Africa in 1950, but has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley since 1979. He has a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand (Applied Mathematics, 1976) and a D.Sc. from the University of Cape Town (1995). He is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, an Alexander von Humboldt US Senior Scientist Awardee, a past Research Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, and currently is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria Mammal Research Institute. Dr. Getz is a Past-President of the Resource Modelling Association and has organized US-NSF funded workshops in southern Africa on the topics of "Resource Utilization" and "Community-Based Wildlife Management." His publications include a coauthored Princeton University Press monograph "Population Harvesting: Demographic Models of Fish, Forest, and Animal Resources." His current research focuses on the application of mathematical modeling and analysis to problems in conservation biology, wildlife management, and epidemiology. Dr. Getz is the PI of an on-going US-NSF funded study of the spread of bovine tuberculosis in the African buffalo population in the Kruger National Park.