New User Friendly Ozone Hole Website

The Ozone Hole Inc. is a startup non-profit corporation, that has applied for 501(c)(3) status, dedicated to preventing the destruction of the Ozone Layer. Our website provides data and information to a global audience. Our organization will be working with students,individuals and groups world wide to provide information, suggestions, ideas and solutions.

We have just launched a new website -

http://www.theozonehole.com

http://www.theozonehole.com/ozonehole2002.htm

We have made our website user friendly and easy to navigate. the website has the following topic pages- What is Ozone?-Good Ozone-Bad Ozone-Dobson Units-CFCs-ODCs-Ozone Creation-Ozone Destruction-Ozone Hole History-The Coriolis Effect-Consequences-Ultraviolet Rays-Ozone Hole 2000-Ozone Hole 2001-Ozone Hole 2002-Montreal Protocol-Volcanic Ozone Hole-Arctic Ozone-South America Ozone-European Ozone-Antarctica-

Ask The Scientist-Air Traffic-BAS Bulletins-WMO Bulletins-Ozone News- Ozone Links as well as many others. The theozonehole.com has already established itself as the preeminent destination for information on
ozone layer preservation

At the Ozonehole.com we have brought together some of the leading experts from around the world to answer questions from people and students from around the world. They will answer questions concerning atmospheric science and the ozone hole.

http://www.theozonehole.com/askthescientist.htm

The Scientists
Emily Schuckberg- As an undergraduate Emily studied mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. She then moved to Trinity College, Cambridge where she studied Part III mathematics and completed a PhD in atmospheric science. Emily then held a post-doctoral position within the European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit in Cambridge,working in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Department of Chemistry.Emily now has a European Community fellowship with the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

She is a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge.Emily has spent some time working for the BBC's science and technology programme, Tomorrow's World.Emily also is a Founder and Director of Weather Informatics Ltd, a company that provides long-range weather forecasts for businesses.In May 2002 Emily was voted "Smartest Woman in Britain" by BBC magazine "eve".

Mr. K. Madhava Sarma- Mr. K. Madhava Sarma recently retired after working for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for more than nine years as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol, the ozone protection treaties. He has been associated with all the major developments of the treaties and assisted the governments in their efforts to protect the ozone layer. Previously, he held senior positions in the Government of India and helped articulate the developing country positions on global environmental issues. He has vast experience in working on environmental issues in India.    

Dr Jonathan Banks- of CSIRO , Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is cochair of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol. He received the Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) in recognition of his leadership in protecting the Earth's ozone layer.

Stephen O. Andersen-     Director of Strategic Projects in the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Protection Partnerships Division and a Co-Chair of the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economic Assessment Panel. He was formerly Deputy Director of the EPA Stratospheric Protection Division where he specialized in industry partnerships, international cooperation and market incentives.

Prior to that he was a professor of environmental economics at the College of the Atlantic and the University of Hawaii and a visiting scholar at Kyoto University. He also worked for consumer, environmental and legal non-governmental organizations. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Rajendra Shende- is a Chemical Engineer graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. He has become a 'policy and technology' expert having spent half of his professional career in both the public and private sectors at a senior corporate level, and helped the Indian industry in the deployment of alternative technologies. He joined the OzonAction Programme in Paris in 1992 and helped build it up from its early phase to its present wide-reaching state. Today, as Head of DTIE's Energy and OzonAction Branch, he leads a strong team of staff members in Paris and in the Regional Offices Mexico City, Bahrain, Bangkok and Nairobi. Under his guidance, OzonAction has been strategically reoriented in 2002 into a uniquely regionalised Programme within UNEP. His hobbies include trekking in the Himalayas, with previous expeditions in Tibet and Ladakh

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