What's Happening on Monday, 10 January

Please see the Programs and Events page for a complete listing.

MEET THE AUTHORS

Throughout the week you’ll have a chance to meet the authors of hot, new books in the atmospheric and related sciences.

Book signings will take place on Monday, January 10 and Wednesday, 12 January, 2:45 to 4 p.m. Exhibit Hall B.

Among the authors will be:

• Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini, coauthors of Northeast Snowstorms: Volume I and II.
• David Laskin, author of The Children’s Blizzard
• Charles Wohlforth, author of The Whale and the Supercomputer
• Andy Revkin, author of The Burning Season
• Jack Williams, author of the USA Today Weather Book

The Suki Manabe Symposium Monday, 10 January; Room 7B The Suki Manabe Symposium, honoring Suki Manabe, formerly of the NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, will be held on Monday, 10 January.

The symposium will consist of invited oral presentations and contributed poster presentations broadly related to Suki Manabe’s career interests, including climate dynamics, climate modeling, anthropogenic climate change, and mechanisms of past climate change. The symposium will end with a banquet on Monday evening. All are invited to attend. A Manabe banquet ticket is not included in the conference registration package; the cost for tickets is $45. It was strongly recommended that you purchase your banquet ticket with your pre-registration. A very limited number of tickets will be available for purchase on site.

For additional information please contact the program chairpersons, Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University (tel: 732-932-9817; fax: 732-932-8644; e-mail: broccoli@envsci.rutgers.edu), and Ron Stouffer, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (tel: 609- 452-6576; fax: 609-987-5063; e-mail: Ronald.Stouffer@noaa.gov).

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Town Hall Meeting: Earth Science and Applications from Space—A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future Monday, 10 January, 12:00–1:30 P.M.; Room 7A The organizers of the recently initiated “decadal study,” Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, will be holding a town hall meeting to discuss the organization, schedule, objectives, and products of the study. Information and details are available online at http://qp.nas.edu/ decadalsurvey.

The principal sponsors of the study are NASA and NOAA. The study, which will be carried out over a twoyear period, is intended to articulate priorities for earth system science and the space-based observational approaches to address those priorities. The study will seek to establish individual plans and priorities within the subdisciplines of the earth sciences as well as an integrated vision and plan for the earth sciences as a whole. It will also consider earth observation requirements for research and for a range of applications with direct links to societal objectives.

The study is being carried out by an executive committee cochaired by Berrien Moore, UNH, and Rick Anthes, UCAR, and the following seven panels: 1) earth science applications and societal objectives; 2) land use change, ecosystem dynamics, and biodiversity; 3) weather; 4) climate variability and change; 5) water resources and the global hydrologic cycle; 6) human health and security; and 7) solid-earth dynamics, natural hazards, and resources. For further information, please contact Arthur Charo, Senior Program Officer, Space Studies Board, Keck 1002A, National Research Council, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (tel: 202-334- 3477; fax: 202-334-3701; e-mail: acharo@nas.edu).

Town Hall Meeting: GSA Monday, 10 January and Tuesday, 11 January, 12:45-1:15 P.M.; Room 6E GSA Federal Supply Service (FSS) provides federal customers with the products, services, and programs to meet their supply, service, procurement, vehicle purchasing and leasing, travel and transportation, and personal property management requirements.

FSS is a government-to-government business with customers, a government-to-business operation with contractors, and a leading e-business enterprise and digital marketplace, with the award-winning GSA Advantage!® ordering Internet site.

GSA's Scientific Geophysical, Environmental Analysis Equipment and Services Schedules include: water current meters; seawater sampling and salinity measuring equipment; seismic/sub-surface profiling systems; underwater releases, transponders, buoys and platforms; oceanographic analysis and display systems; soil/plant moisture analyzers, surveying equipment; global positioning systems, air temperature; solar radiation and barometric pressure measuring instruments; humidity, precipitation and wind measuring instruments; and atmospheric and video computer computer display systems; and pressure, temperature, and humidity measuring and controlling instruments.

For further information, please contact: Harry Henson, General Products Acquisition Center, Business Development Specialist, 819 Taylor St., Room 6A24, Fort Worth, TX 76102 (tel: 817-978-8684; fax: fax: 817-978-2776; e-mail: harry.henson@gsa.gov)

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Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Third AMS Users Conference MONDAY–WEDNESDAY. 10–12 JANUARY, ROOM 9
The American Meteorological Society will hold its third Users Conference on 10–12 January 2005 in conjunction with the Society’s Annual Meeting. The conference, entitled “Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean,” will take place in San Diego, California.

This conference will interest managers and other end users of commercial weather and climate services in three different communities: water resources, energy, ocean transportation (including military and cruise line operations). Practitioners, decision makers, and other end users and potential end users of commercial and public weather and climate products and services are encouraged to attend.

The AMS wants to facilitate dialogue between successful users of environmental products and services and their peers about problems faced and solutions found using these products and services. One goal is to encourage potential users of such products and services to become users, thereby increasing the value of weather and climate information to society in general and to weather- and climatesensitive economic sectors in particular.

This conference will differ from many conferences that the AMS sponsors in that the focus will be on end users of weather and climate products and services, user experiences, and user needs, rather than on the products and services themselves or on the science and technology behind the products and services.

The Society also welcomes product and service providers from industry and government to attend and to listen to end users in application areas talk about their challenges, successes, and needs.

For more information or questions contact the Program Chair, George Frederick, by phone at 303-402-4728 or e-mail to george.frederick@vaisala.com; or contact the AMS Private Sector Coordinator by phone at 617-227-2426 ext. 338; by at fax: 617-742-8718; or by e-mail at grasmussen@ametsoc.org.

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Town Hall Meeting: Sun–Earth System Research in a Transformed NASA Monday, 10 January 7:00–9:00 P.M.; Room 7A
NASA management personnel from the Sun–Earth System Division will be present to discuss the nature of the agency transformation; the agency, division, and community-based planning processes that will provide direction for the Sun–Earth System Division; the processes that will be used to implement the research program in this new division; and the way the new division will interact both scientifically and programmatically with the other U.S. government agencies that support meteorologically-related research, including those coordinated through activities such as the Climate Change Science Program, the U.S. Weather Research Program, and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

For additional information, please contact Jack A. Kaye, Sun–Earth System Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, DC 20546 (tel: 202-358-2559; fax: 202-358-2770; e-mail: Jack.A.Kaye@nasa.gov)

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