Florida Citizens for Science

The following people are available for contact by media representatives.

Pierce Butler
Phone: 352-377-4601
Email: pbutler@igc.org
Affiliated with several local progressive (anti-war, pro-choice, alt-media, etc) groups
High school & much independent reading
Many years of experience with activism and media, as writer & interviewee

Wesley R. Elsberry, Ph.D.
Phone: 619-890-0632 (cell)
Email: welsberr@austringer.net
Affiliation: Information Project Director, National Center for Science Education (http://www.ncseweb.org)
Affiliation: President and Director, TalkOrigins Archive Foundation (http://www.talkorigins.org)
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University (2003)
Specialties: Biosonar in dolphins, psychophysics, artificial intelligence and artificial neural systems, history of the antievolution movement in the USA, critiques of “intelligent design” argumentation (especially Dembski’s “specified complexity”)

Joseph G. Meert, Ph.D
Phone: 352-846-2414 or 352-870-7009
E-mail: jmeert@bellsouth.net
Affiliation: Sustaining Member National Center for Science Education, Member American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America
Affiliation: University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences
Highest Degree Earned: Ph.D. University of Michigan 1993
Specialties: plate tectonics (especially as related to the Cambrian explosion and ancient paleoclimates), geochronology, evolution of the early earth, critiques of the young earth creation hypothesis and intelligent
design

Henry E. Neufeld
Phone: (850) 968-1001
Email: pubs@energion.com
Affiliations: Owner, Energion Publications (http://www.energionpubs.com and http://www.energionpubs.com/ ), president of Pacesetters Bible School, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing religious education to local churches, writer, lecturer, author of “What’s in a Version?” on Bible translations, and “Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Confessions of a Liberal Charismatic” on his broader view of the meaning of Christianity.
Education: BA, Biblical Languages, Walla Walla College, 1979; MA in Religion, concentrating in Biblical and Cognate Languages, Andrews
University, 1980.

Joe Wolf
Phone: 863-325-9133 or cell 863-521-5235
E-Mail: joe.wolf@earthlink.net
Affiliations: Retired, 30 years in field of Operations Research/Management Science, Member of Marlington Local School Board in Alliance Ohio from 1984 to 1997. Served as President of the Board for several of those years. Served on the curriculum committee from1984 to 1997.
Highest degree: M.A in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend Ind.
Specialties: After retiring moved to Florida and became a gardener. Currently a Polk County Master Gardener and a volunteer at Historic Bok Sanctuary in the greenhouse, Pinewood estate gardens, the Endangered Plant Program, and as a garden guide.