User:Dann

Dann is a University professor of Environmental Science and Policy, and a Potomac River, International waters and Sustainability expert. He formerly served as a United Nations project manager for the Global Environment Facility's International Waters portfolio. =Wikipedia Contributions=

His Wikipedia Contributions include:

As Creator or a Primary Contributor

 * The Global Environment Facility
 * International Waters
 * Potomac River
 * Student Pugwash USA
 * World Water Day

As Contributing Editor

 * Artibonite River and Artibonite Valley
 * Atlantic sturgeon
 * Ecosystem services
 * List of lakes
 * Law of the Sea

As Potential Editor/Contributor

 * Ecological Articles:
 * Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs)
 * List of LMEs


 * Historical Articles:
 * the Double Naughts (2000s)

=Notes for Potential Articles/Edits=

Karlodinium
A dinoflagellate that can form dense reddish-brown harmful algal blooms with toxins lethal to fish, according to the Bay Journal.

The Double Naughts
Concise history by year of the period (2000-2009), in the spirit of historian Martin Gilbert's A History of the Twentieth Century : The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History (ISBN 006050594X). Double naughts is a neologism joining double knots with 2-naught-naught (the first three digits of each of this decade's years), thus implying this decade exhibited more global angst (knots) than in the recent past (in notable contrast to 1990s' euphoria).

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Things to redact into narrative:

2001

 * September 11: September_11_Terrorist_Attacks

2002

 * Johannesburg Earth Summit / MDGs
 * Floods in Europe (or was this 2001?)

Issues

 * War and Peace
 * Middle East:
 * Iraq War (rift between US and Europe; UK/Japanese governments and public, etc.)
 * Roadmap vs. Israeli wall
 * Terrorism:
 * Afghanistan
 * bombings in Turkey, elsewhere
 * Nuclear standoffs:
 * North Korea
 * Iran


 * Human Rights/Civil Society
 * Detainees at Guantanamo
 * Washington, DC vs. Bagdad civil rights


 * Environment and Distasters
 * Hurricane Isabel and blackouts in N. Am


 * Exploration and Innovation

Dates/Events

 * January_2003
 * Lula takes Brazil into new era. (2003)
 * US Dept. of Homeland Security launched. (2003)


 * February_2003
 * 2nd space shuttle disaster (Feb 1). (2003)
 * 6 Million protest war in Iraq (Feb 15) (2003)


 * March_2003
 * Year of Freshwater: World Water Forum in Japan (note stats on those without access to freshwater)
 * North Korea asserts nuclear initiative


 * WHO SARS alert (2003)
 * March 29 - WHO doctor Carlo Urbani, who first identified SARS, dies of the disease.


 * PM of Serbia assassinated (2003)
 * March 15 - Hu Jintao is elected president of the People's Republic of China, replacing Jiang Zemin. (2003)


 * Revising rationale for War on Iraq (+later lack of evidence)
 * March 19 - Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) gives a speech in the Senate, saying "I weep for my country" as he attests that America is discarding its image of a strong, benevolent peacekeeper.
 * March 20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq, preceded by a surgical air strike on the suspected bunker of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
 * March 22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their shock and awe campaign


 * April_2003
 * April 9 - US forces seize control of Baghdad, apparently ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.


 * May_2003
 * Bush declares end of major phase of Iraqi hostilies (?), US casualties: (hundreds) ; Iraqi: ???


 * June_2003
 * July_2003
 * July 1 - 500,000 Hongkongers march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which redefined treason controversially.
 * July 5 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
 * EU July 18 - Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European constitution.


 * August_2003
 * August 2 - The United Nations authorizes an international peacekeeping force for Liberia.
 * August 2 - Scientists announce that the ozone layer may be showing signs of recovery due to an international ban on chlorofluorocarbons.
 * August 11 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
 * August 14 - Widespread power outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
 * August 27 - Perigee of Mars
 * EXTREMISM September 10 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the next day


 * September_2003
 * EU September 14 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
 * EU September 14 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
 * SPACE September 27 - ESA's Smart 1 lunar satellite is launched.
 * Weather: Hurricane Isabel


 * October_2003
 * October 15 - China launches Shenzhou 5, their first crewed space mission.
 * China joins manned space exploration (October 14-16, 2003)
 * October 24 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of supersonic travel to a close, at least for the time being.


 * November_2003
 * Revolution of [the] Roses: November 23 - Beleaguered Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
 * Northern Ireland parliament tilts to extremes
 * India and Pakistan move towards restoring normal relations
 * Robert Mugabe vs. British Commonwealth
 * Bush's surprise visit to Iraq
 * Japanese lose (spy) satellites shortly after launch
 * SPACE November 26 - Last ever flight by Concorde.
 * HEALTH December 1 - the use of hand- held mobile phones, while driving, is made illegal, in the UK.
 * SPACE December 17 - Wright brothers first flight Centennial
 * DISC/ECOL: Japanese newly discover species of whale;
 * ECOL: Huge jellyfish (Stomolophus nomurai) flurish nr. Sea of Japan for second year in a row (first discovered in East China Sea, eaten by Chinese.  More than a metre (3.3ft) wide and weighing about 100kgs (220lbs), can grow up to 15'! Rising sea temperatures blamed for occasional appearance in 1920s.


 * December_2003
 * Taiwan pushes envelop towards independence w/proposed referendum re: Chinese missiles aimed at the island. US "kowtows" to Beijing, in words of Washington Post editorial (2003-12-10).
 * Japanese Mars explorer, in space for several years, is off course and aborted.
 * Iraqi Council to dissolve in July 2004
 * Africa Water meeting (see IISD.org)

2004
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