BARRY NELSON is a senior policy analyst in NRDC's San Francisco office. Barry has been active on California water issues for two decades. Prior to coming to NRDC, he was the executive director of Save the Bay in Oakland, California, and chaired the successful campaign for passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. He is involved with a wide range of issues including ecosystem restoration and water management through the CALFED Bay-Delta program. Barry holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Press contact: cnoble@nrdc.org, 415-875-6100 ANN NOTTHOFF is NRDC's California advocacy director. She coordinates statewide campaigns and represents NRDC in the state capitol on a wide range of issues including global warming, water policy and coast and ocean protection. She is a public board member of the California Coastal Conservancy and northern vice president of the California League of Conservation Voters. Ann received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and her master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked at NRDC since 1981. Press contact: cnoble@nrdc.org, 415-875-6100 ROBERT S. NORRIS is a senior research associate with the nuclear program and director of the Nuclear Weapons Databook project. He is co-editor of the Nuclear Weapons Databook series, the five-volume definitive encyclopedia of the nuclear weapons of the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, Britain, France and China. He is also the author of Racing for the Bomb (2002), a biography of General Leslie R. Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb during World War II. Press contact: jbovey@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 If you are not a member of the press, please write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org.