A Flood of Ideas: A Symposium

Clergy panel

Moderator: David Weisberg, CEO, Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County

• Imam Gazmend Aga, Albanian American Muslim Community
• Father Anthony Ciorra, Sacred Heart University
• Rabbi Marcelo Kormis, Congregation Beth El Fairfield

Science panel

Moderator: Rev. Stephanie M Johnson, Rector and Eco-Minister, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Riverside, CT.

• A. Karim Ahmed, Ph.D, founding member and Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of the National Council on Science and Environment; Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center; global environmentalist and climate change activist; author of technical books, scientific papers and literary works about climate change.
• William B.F. Ryan, Ph.D., co-author of  Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History; Earth Institute Affiliate: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University; Doherty Senior Scholar, LDEO-Marine Geology and Geophysics; Adjunct Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Special Research Scientist, LDEO-Biology Paleoenvironment.
•  Mary Evelyn Tucker, Ph.D., co-Founder and co-Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University; co-creator of the  Journey of the Universe Film, Book, & Conversations;  author/editor of 20 volumes and hundreds of articles.