**DRAFT** AGENDA

Location: Best Western Beach Resort Monterey
2600 Sand Dunes Drive
Monterey, California 93940
1-800-242-8627
www.montereybeachresort.com
Meeting Room: La Grande

Hotel parking is free for hotel guests. Parking can be validated for other meeting guests.

Tuesday, July 25

1:00 PM    Sign in by all Participants and Audience; Registration for Public Comment

1:15 PM    Opening Statement of the Chair and Self-Introductions by SAB Members; Approval of March meeting minutes
Dr. Len Pietrafesa – Chair, NOAA Science Advisory Board

1:20 PM    Welcoming Remarks and Statement
Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) – Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator

1:35 PM    Discussion of the Final Report of the External Review of NOAA’s Ecosystem Research and Science Enterprise
Dr. David Fluharty – Chair, Ecosystem Research and Science Enterprise Review & Professor of Marine Affairs, University of Washington and SAB Member
Dr. Jake Rice – Coordinator, Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, Department of Fisheries and Oceans and SAB Member Emeritus

2:35 PM    Break

2:50 PM    Physical and Social Sciences Research Task Team (PSTT): Final Report
Dr. Alexander MacDonald - Acting Director, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory & Chair of the PSTT

3:50 PM    Discussion of the Near Final Report of the Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group
Dr. John Snow –Chair, Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group & Dean, College of  Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, and SAB member

4:50 PM    Extension, Outreach, and Education Working Group – Proposal for Discussion
Dr. Frank Kudrna – President and CEO, Kudrna & Associates, Ltd. and SAB member
Dr. Gerald Wheeler – Executive Director, National Science Teachers Association and SAB member

5:20 PM    Adjourn

Wednesday, July 26

9:00 AM Sign in by all Participants and Audience
Coffee available

9:15 AM Official Call to Order and Review of Meeting Format
Dr. Cynthia Decker – Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board
Dr. Len Pietrafesa- Chair, SAB Welcoming Remarks

9:20 AM Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Update: Status and NOAA Contributions
Mr. Dave Zilkoski – Director, NOAA National Geodetic Survey & NOAA IOOS Project Manager

10:20 AM Break

10:35 AM Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS): A Regional Ecosystem Science Board<
Dr. William Fox - Director, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California

11:35 AM Building the Scientific Foundation for an Effective Regional System of Marine Protected Areas: NOAA’s West Coast Pilot Project
Dr. Charles Wahle – Director, NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center’s Science Institute, Santa Cruz, California

12:35 PM    Lunch (on own)

1:45 PM    The Ocean Exploration Advisory Working Group
Dr. Larry Mayer - Co-Chair, Ocean Exploration Advisory Working Group & Professor and Director of the Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire

2:15 PM    External Review of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
Ms. Barbara Moore, NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Representative to the NOAA Coral Program Council & Director, NOAA’s National Undersea Research Program

2:45 PM    Break

3:00 PM    Climate Working Group
Dr. Otis Brown, Chair, Climate Working Group & Dean, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami and SAB Member

3:30 PM    SAB Review of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS) at Princeton University
Dr. Wade McGillis (by phone) – Chair, SAB Review Panel for CICS & Columbia University

4:00 PM    Public Statements

4:30 PM    Recap of Meeting Decisions and Actions
Dr. Cynthia Decker – Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board

5:00 PM    Meeting Adjourns