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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dear friends and colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">I am very pleased to announce that registration is open for t</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333">he 2024 Science Policy </span><span class="m-5933489811899376954il"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333">Colloquium</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/spc" target="_blank" title="http://www.ametsoc.org/spc"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.ametsoc.org/spc</span></a>),
which will occur from <b>June 2-7, 2024 in Washington, DC.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Please share this announcement with colleagues </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FAFAFA">who may be interested in integrating policy into their careers.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Science Policy </span><span class="m-5933489811899376954il"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Colloquium</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is
an intensive immersion in policy for Earth and environmental system scientists and professionals. Participation is open to all but will be limited to no more than 45 individuals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="m-5933489811899376954il"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Colloquium</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"> participants meet with congressional staff,
members of congress, leading officials from the executive branch, and prominent policy experts. Legislative exercises and policy simulations provide additional windows into the interplay of policy, politics, and procedure in the United States Federal policy
process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">The </span><span class="m-5933489811899376954il"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Colloquium</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is
a career-shaping experience. Alumni have gone on to serve in crucial roles for the nation and the scientific community such as working in congress and at the highest levels of leadership in the National Weather Service, the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP), the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and the American Meteorological Society, to name only a few.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:#FAFAFA"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Note that a limited amount of funding is available through competitive awards to support participation of graduate students, postdocs, early-career faculty, and members of underrepresented
groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please email me (<a href="mailto:phiggins@ametsoc.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:phiggins@ametsoc.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">phiggins@ametsoc.org</span></a>) if you have
any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FAFAFA">Best wishes,<br>
Paul Higgins</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Dr. Katelynn Greer</span> (she/her)<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><a href="mailto:katelynn.greer@lasp.colorado.edu"><span style="color:blue">katelynn.greer@lasp.colorado.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
<span style="background:white">(970) 310-4628</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Research Associate</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."</span><br>
<span style="background:white">-Hugh Walpole</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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