Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Space Studies Board

NOTE: At end of Agenda, see driving directions from Homewood Suites Hotel to meeting sites.

Committee on Earth Studies

Final Agenda

September 22-23, 2008

Sept. 22: DamonRoom at the Mesa Lab, 1850 Table Mesa Drive

OPEN SESSIONS
* 10:00 Briefing on the COSMIC Mission -- Chris Rocken, UCAR

* 10:40 Break

*11:00 Telecon: Development of a National Climate Service -- Chet Koblinsky,

Director, NOAA Climate Program Office

* 11:30 Committee Discussions

* 12:00 Lunch/Telecon with Mary Kicza, NOAA NESDIS

* 1:00 Telecon with Mike Freilich, NASA Office of Earth Science

* 2:00 Update on IceSAT-II -- Waleed Abdalati, Univ. of Colorado

* 2:45 Break

*3:00 Advice to the New Administration and Congress: Actions to Make our Nation

Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change -- Jack Fellows, UCAR

*3:45 Update on NPOESS and Recovery of Climate Report -- Antonio Busalacchi,

Univ. of Maryland

* 4:15 Committee Discussions

* 5:30 Adjourn/Continue Discussions at Working Dinner, 6:30 PM

*6:30 Continue Discussions at Working Dinner, The BoulderCork

Sept. 23: Walter Orr Roberts Board Room in the Fleishman

Building, 1850 TableMesa Drive
OPEN SESSIONS

*8:30Committee discussions/plan for the day

* 9:00Telecon with Chris Elfring, Director of NRC BASC, regarding NRC Climate

Summit and Study

* 9:30 CLARREO update with Peter Pilewskie, Tom Woods, and Greg Kopp (time is

tentative)

* 10:15Break

* 10:30Committee discussions on new studies/begin work on outline for draft statement

of tasks

* 12:00Lunch/Telecon with D. James Baker, Director, Global Carbon Measurement

Program, The William J. Clinton Foundation

* 1:00Discussions with Dan Baker, Director of LASP

* 1:30Resume committee discussions anddraft SOT writing

* 3:00Adjourn

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Driving Directions from Homewood Suites, 4950 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO 80303 to the NationalCenter for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 1850 Table Mesa Drive.

1. Head southeast on CO-157/Foothills Pkwy.

2. Take the exit ramp to Table Mesa Drive and turn right onto Table Mesa Drive. Get over one lane to stay on Table Mesa (if you stay in the exit lane, it turns into the entrance ramp onto 36 highway west).

3. Continue on Table Mesa Drive through five traffic lights. At the sixth light, the cross street of which is Broadway, you will want to be in the right lane to go across Broadway (do not exit right onto Broadway).

4. Follow Table Mesa Drive to the top of the Mesa. You will go by a shopping center on your left, through a neighborhood, past a school, through more neighborhood, and then climb into open space as you get onto the UCAR/NCAR property.

5. Go to the top of the hill and stay on the main road to the parking lot. Do not turn right and drive up to the big NCAR Mesa Lab building. Only the shuttles are allowed up to the building.

6. Park in the parking lot and walk up to the Mesa Lab. You will need to sign in at the front desk and the receptionist will give you directions to the DamonRoom, for Monday’s meeting. (For Tuesday’s meeting, you will be in the FleischmannBuilding. If you notice, just as you get to the parking lot, if you look left (north) you will see the FleischmannBuilding sign and the building set back in the trees.)