Providing Scientific Input to National and International Programs
- 2007: Contributed to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Working Group I Report "The Physical Science Basis" and Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability".
- Is a participant in the 2007-08 International Polar Year (IPY) scientific programme.
- Assisted the Western Governors' Association (WGA) in the development of a National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS).
- Member of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS): Working Group on Surface Pressure.
- Contributed to the NOAA 2003: Science Advisory Board Social Science Review Panel Report.
- Contributed to National Research Council 2001: Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. National Academy of Sciences Press.
- Contributed to the development of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) in, among other areas, providing climate diagnostics information and data in support of a health early warning system for the Americas.
- Contributed to the preparation and review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessments.
- Contributed to the development of the interagency Climate Change Science Program strategic plan.
- Ongoing updates and improvements to the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), in cooperation with the National Center for for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), providing observations of surface ocean conditions currently back to 1784, plus 2° x 2° and 1° x 1° monthly summary products.
- Responding to requests for scientific information from state and federal government leaders.
- Responding to requests for scientific reports and briefings.