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Invitation to Review the Draft Strategic Plan
from
James R. Mahoney,
Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere
&
Director, U.S. Climate Change Science Program
The Climate Change
Science Program will hold the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Planning Workshop for
Scientists and Stakeholders at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington, D.C., from 3-5 December 2002. The purpose of the Workshop is
to provide a comprehensive review of the discussion draft of the Strategic
Plan for U.S. climate change and global change research. This Workshop
will offer extensive opportunities for the scientific and stakeholder
communities to provide their individual comments and input to the Climate Change Science
Program Strategic Plan. When finalized, the Strategic Plan
will provide the principal guidance for U.S. climate change and global
change research during the next several years, subject to revisions as
appropriate to respond to newly developed information and decision support
tools.
We request your
comments on the discussion draft of the Climate Change Science Program
Strategic Plan. Comments on all elements of the plan from representatives
of all communities
are essential in order to improve the plan and identify gaps. In your
review, we ask you to provide a perspective on the content, implications,
and challenges outlined in the plan as well as suggestions for any
alternate approaches you wish to have considered, and the types of climate
and global change information required by policy makers and resource
managers. We also ask that you comment on any inconsistencies within or
across chapters, and omissions of important topics. For any shortcomings
that you note in the draft, please propose specific remedies. To
participate in the review it is not necessary that you review the entire
plan.
We ask that comments
be submitted by E-mail to
comments@climatescience.gov. All comments submitted by 18 January 2003
will be posted on this web site for public review. While we are unable to
promised detailed responses to individual comments, we confirm that all
submitted comments will be given consideration during the development of
the final version of the Strategic Plan.
Before commenting,
please read the instructions and format guidelines
for submitting review comments. Following the instructions will ensure
that your comments are properly processed and given appropriate
consideration. If you wish to distribute copies of the plan to colleagues
to participate in the review, please refer them to this invitation and to
the instructions and format guidelines.
If you have any
questions, please contact: Sandy MacCracken at 1-202-419-3483 (voice),
1-202-223-3065 (fax), or via the address in the footer below.
We appreciate your
contribution of time and expertise to this review, and look forward to
your response.
Sincerely,
James R. Mahoney,
Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere
& Director, U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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