[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: [Proflist] Register Now for the Climate Information: Responding to User Needs Workshop - Oct. 22-23, 2007]

Paula Fisher paulad at ucar.edu
Tue Aug 21 08:32:32 MDT 2007



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Subject: 	[Proflist] Register Now for the Climate Information:
Responding to User Needs Workshop - Oct. 22-23, 2007
Date: 	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:38:41 -0700
From: 	cirunworkshop at bcs-hq.com
To: 	proflist at ucar.edu



<http://www.climateneeds.umd.edu>


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     Climate Information: Responding to User Needs
     Bringing Observations, Data Management, Modeling, and Prediction
     into the Decision Process

*A national workshop sponsored by the University of Maryland
in partnership with NOAA, NASA, and the American Meteorological Society *

Workshop Co-Chairmen:
*James R. Mahoney*, Environmental Consultant and former Director,
U.S. Climate Change Science Program (2002 – 2006)
*Antonio J. Busalacchi*, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center,
University of Maryland
**

The Earth System will experience real climate change over the next 50
years, substantially exceeding the scope of natural variability. A
paramount question facing society is how to adapt to these changes.
Success will require unprecedented collaborations and powerful
partnerships between climate scientists and the consumers of climate
information - businesses, government agencies from federal to local,
policy organizations and planning offices that need specific kinds of
information to ensure the best decisions in adapting to climate change.

*The University of Maryland, College Park invites you to attend a
two-day workshop at their Inn and Conference Center, October 22-23,
2007*. This event will foster dialogue between the providers of climate
information and its diverse user community to define specific measures
needed to enhance the use of climate observations, data management,
modeling, and predictions in support of business and policy decisions.
The workshop will consist of plenary and breakout panel sessions, and a
peer-reviewed poster session. The keynote speaker will be Norman
Augustine, retired Chairman/CEO, Lockheed Martin Corp., who will discuss
"What Business Needs to Know about Climate Change." In addition, R.
James Woolsey, Vice President for Booz Allen Hamilton and former
Director of Central Intelligence, will discuss “Energy, Security and the
Long War of the 21st Century."


         *Conference Objectives:*

     * To identify how users, stakeholders, and decision makers are
       influenced by climate on time scales from seasons to decades
     * To identify the needs and requirements of users, stakeholders, and
       decision makers for climate information, observations,
       predictions, and services from global to local scales
     * To identify what adaptation measures are being considered in the
       private and public sectors, and how this might result in new
       classes of information for decision support
     * To recommend principal elements of the path forward toward more
       effective use of climate services in decision making


         * Agenda: *

*Day 1 Morning:*

     * Keynote Lecture: What Business Needs to Know about Climate Change.
       Norman Augustine, retired Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp.

     * Plenary Talk 1: State of the Science, Implications for Society. A.
       Busalacchi
     * Plenary Talk 2: Advancing Climate Knowledge Through Earth System
       Science. Jack Kaye, Assoc. Director of Research, Earth Science
       Division, NASA
     * Plenary Talk 3: A Vision for National Climate Information
       Services. Chet Koblinsky, Director, Climate Program Office, NOAA
     * Plenary Talk 4: User Needs for Specific Climate Information - the
       Focus of the Workshop. J. Mahoney

*Day 1 Afternoon:*

     * Breakout Sessions: Topics included are Agriculture, Water
       Resources, Public Health, National Security, Energy, Coastal and
       Terrestrial Eco Systems

     * Afternoon Keynote: Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st
       Century. R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton,
       former Director of Central Intelligence

     * Plenary Talk 5,6
     * Reception and Poster Session

*Day 2 Morning: *

     * Monsanto Corp., The Needs of Agro-Business

     * Plenary Talk 7,8
     * Morning Breakout Sessions

*Day 2 Afternoon:*

     * Synthesis of Breakouts and Discussion
     * Panel on Workshop Recommendations
     * Summary/Closing

*Register online <http://www.climateneeds.umd.edu>** *
<http://www.climateneeds.umd.edu>

*
For more information*, e-mail: csuplee at umd.edu
<mailto:e-mail:%20csuplee at umd.edu>

For a PDF version of the workshop invitation, click here
<http://climateneeds.umd.govtools.us/correspondence/um_mailer.pdf>



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