<p><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.style2 {
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 120%;
}
.style6 {
color: #CD6032;
font-size: 22px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
.style15 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #4991B9;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 120%;
}
.style22 {color: #4991B9; font-size: 18px;}
.header_top_bg {
background-image:
url(http://climateneeds.umd.govtools.us/Correspondence/images/emailer_01.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
</style>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" ><img
src="http://climateneeds.umd.govtools.us/Correspondence/images/emailer_01.jpg"
border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img
src="http://climateneeds.umd.govtools.us/Correspondence/images/emailer_03.jpg"
width="600" height="90" border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="20" border="0">
<tr>
<td> <h2 align="center" class="style6"><span
class="style22"> <img
src="http://climateneeds.umd.govtools.us/Correspondence/images/ClimateChange_logo_final.gif"
alt="CIRUN logo" width="177" height="91" border="0"><br><br>
</span>Climate Information: Responding to User Needs<br>
<span class="style22">Bringing Observations, Data Management,
Modeling, and Prediction into the Decision Process</span><br>
</h2>
<div class="style2">
<div align="justify">
<p align="center" class="style2"><strong>A national workshop
sponsored by the University of Maryland<br>
in partnership with NOAA, NASA, and the American Meteorological Society
</strong></p>
<div align="center"><span class="style15">Workshop
Co-Chairmen:</span><br>
<strong>James R. Mahoney</strong>, Environmental Consultant and
former Director,
<br>
U.S. Climate Change Science Program (2002 – 2006)
<br>
<strong>Antonio J. Busalacchi</strong>, Earth System
Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
<br>
</div>
<p align="justify">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.
<br>
<br>
<strong>The University of Maryland, College Park invites you to attend a
two-day workshop at their Inn and
Conference Center, October 22-23, 2007</strong>. 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.
</p>
<strong>Conference Objectives:</strong>
<ul><li>To identify how users, stakeholders, and decision makers are
influenced by climate on time scales from seasons to decades</li>
<li>To identify the needs and requirements of users, stakeholders, and
decision makers for climate information, observations, predictions, and
services from global to local scales </li>
<li>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</li>
<li>To recommend principal elements of the path forward toward more
effective use of climate services in decision making</li></ul>
<div align="center">
Watch your e-mail for further details on the event
or contact <a href="mailto:csuplee@umd.edu">csuplee@umd.edu</a> for more
information.
<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>
</div></div> </td>
</tr>
</table> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br /><br /><div class="emailfooter"></div><br /><br /><div
class="emailfooter"></div></body>
</html><font size="1"></font></p>