16th NOAA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD MEETING Arlington, VA AGENDA Tuesday July 15, 2003 Location: Key Bridge Marriott Room: Potomac Ballroom, Salon D 1401 Lee Highway Arlington, VA 22209 703-524-6400 10:15 AM Sign in by all Participants and Audience [Note: Attendance is open to any interested individual, but registration is REQUIRED. Verbal public input will only be conducted during the period identified for public statements on Wednesday, July 16, 2003, unless the Chair requests otherwise. The limit for verbal statements by any individual or group is 5 minutes, with follow-up questions and discussion by the SAB, if requested by the Chair.] 10:30 AM  Official Call to Order and Review of Meeting Format (Michael Uhart - Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 10:35 AM  Opening Statement of the Chair and Self-Introductions of the SAB Members Present (Leonard Pietrafesa - Interim Chair, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 10:40 AM  Welcoming Remarks and Statement (James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere) 10:50 AM  The Climate Change Science Plan - Update (James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere) 11:30 AM  Earth Observing Summit - Update (Carla Sullivan, Policy Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary) 12:00 AM  LUNCH       1:30 PM  FY 2006 Budget Priorities (Mary Glackin, Assistant Administrator, Program Planning and Integration) 2:30 PM  SAB/NOAA Research Council – Joint Meeting and Prior Interactions (Don Scavia, Chief Scientist, NOS and Vice-Chair, NOAA Research Council) 3:00 PM  BREAK 3:15 PM  National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) - Proposed SAB Review of the Ocean/Atmospheric Modeling Plan (Louis Uccellini, Director, NCEP) 4:00 PM  Sea Grant Review Panel (Peter Bell, Chair) 4:30 PM Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) (RADM Richard West, President, CORE) 5:00 PM  Adjourn Wednesday July 16, 2003 Location:  Key Bridge Marriott Room: Potomac Ballroom, Salon D 1401 Lee Highway Arlington, VA 22209 703-524-6400 8:00 AM  Sign in by all Participants and Audience and Registration for Public Statements to NOAA SAB Note:  Attendance is open to any interested individual, but registration is REQUIRED.  Verbal public input will only be conducted during the period identified for public statements unless the Chair requests otherwise.  The limit for verbal statements by any individual or group is 5 minutes, with follow-up questions and discussion by the SAB, if requested by the Chair.] 8:30 AM  Official Call to Order and Review of Meeting Format (Michael Uhart - Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 8:35 AM  Opening Statement of the Chair and Self-Introductions of the SAB Members Present (Leonard Pietrafesa - Interim Chair, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 8:45 AM Public Statements  9:15 AM  NOAA Education Council (Marlene Kaplan, Office of Education and Sustainable Development, and Ben Mieremet, Executive Director, NOAA Education Council) 9:45 AM  NWS Hydrologic Verification Statistics – Update (Gary Carter, Director, Office of Hydrologic Development, NWS) 10:00 AM  Break 10:30 AM  Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMAS) - Review Panel Report (Pat Gober, Review Panel Chair) 11:15 AM  Council on Long-Term Climate Monitoring (Thomas Karl, Working Group Chair) 11:30 AM  Climate and Global Change (Otis Brown, Working Group Chair, SAB member) 12:00 PM  LUNCH 1:15 PM  NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems) - Science Issues (Gregory Withee, Assistant Administrator, NESDIS) 2:00 PM  Panel Discussion with Congressional Staff (Amy Carroll, Chairman’s Designee, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science; Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards) (Other House and Senate Staff – invited) 3:00 PM  Unfinished Business 3:30 PM  Adjourn