- Panel
- Dr. Elbert (Joe) Friday, University of Oklahoma; AMS Past President – moderator
- Dr. Susan Avery, CIRES, University of Colorado; AMS President
- Dr. Edward Johnson, Strategic Planning and Policy Office, NWS
- Mr. Steven Root, President & CEO, WeatherBank; Chair, Commercial Weather Services Association
- Mr. Matthew Parker, Westinghouse Savannah River Company; President National Council of Industrial Meteorologists
- Mr. John Toohey-Morales, NBC Telemundo; AMS Commissioner on
Professional Affairs
- How to see and hear the discussion
- Links to archive of the Webcast
- To view the archive of the Webcast, your computer will need to have either Microsoft Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.
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- Background materials
- The following links provide background materials that may be useful to help understand
the issues associated with the proposed NWS.
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- National Weather Service and related materials
- The web site for the proposed NOAA/NWS policy is: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/fairweather/
- The current (1991) Policy Statement on the Weather Service/Private Sector Roles is: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/fedreg.htm
- The existing NWS partnership policy is at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/a06toc.htm
- The National Weather Service Organic Act is: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/313.html
- The web site for OMB Circular A-130 (Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies) is: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a130/a130trans4.html
- Other references
- The current (1999) AMS Policy Statement on public-private partnership, which is based in part on the current NWS policy, is: http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/pubprivpartner.html
- The web site for the NRC (2002) report Fair Weather is: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10610.html
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