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2008 Annual Meeting

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Agenda Sunday,
January 20th

1:00pm    Meet in front of the Hilton Riverside Hotel on Two Poydras Street.  Upon arrival check in with Jan Wilkerson

1:30pm    Bus Tour departs, returning in approximately 2 1/2 hours to the Hilton Riverside Hotel

6:00pm    Dinner - Room has changed: - Grand Ballroom B - Hilton Riverside Hotel (Impressions of the day)

8:00pm    Special Session on GEOSS, Featured speakers:  VADM Conrad Lautenbacher and a distinguished panel,                 Hilton Riverside Hotel, Grand Ballroom A

Volunteer for
Habitat for Humanity

Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity
Volunteer with New Orleans Habitat for Humanity alongside your colleagues! Be sure to arrange your Annual Meeting travel plans to include volunteer days Fri. Jan. 18, Fri. Jan. 25 and Sat. Jan. 26. Additional Information and Registration
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Special Networking Opportunity

The WAS*IS Alumni and International delegates from the WMO will be joining our tour and dinner reception.

Connect with other SPC Alumni through Facebook

A NEW Facebook group has been created for our Alumni, email or call Jan to be invited to the group.

email Jan Wilkerson
202 737-9006 ext. 436

88th AMS Annual Meeting
SPC & WAS*IS Alumni
Tour & Dinner
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Bus Tour 1:30pm
Dinner 6:00pm

Please contact Jan Wilkerson
to check for available seating

All Summer Policy Colloquium (SPC) Alumni & WAS*IS Alumni are invited to attend two unique functions this year at the AMS 88th Annual Meeting. We have also invited the International delegates attending the WMO meeting to provide opportunities for you to interact and network.

  1. On Sunday, Jan. 20 1:30pm board a motor coach with a local tour guide and travel through some of the hardest hit areas as the guide provides a timeline of events of that terrible August week. We’ll drive past an actual Levee that breached and see the resulting devastation that displaced hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents. The direct connection between America’s disappearing coastal wetlands, oil & gas pipelines, levee protection and hurricane destruction will be explained. This will provide some background for policy discussion within the group.

If due to your travel schedule you are unable to make the tour
please sign up for the dinner.

  1. On Sunday, Jan 20, 6pm, you are invited to a special dinner followed by an address from Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, NOAA Administrator, at 8pm on the status of GEOSS and a panel conversation about GEOSS moderated by Rick Anthes, AMS President.

NEW ~ Joint Reception for SPC & WAS*IS Alumni
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8-10pm
Windsor Room - Hilton Riverside Hotel

We hope everyone will take advantage of this opportunity to reconvene, reflect, and debrief about what they experienced on the tour and sessions they've attended.  This event will be open to anyone who wants to attend or learn more about the WAS*IS program or the AMS SPC program.  No need to RSVP for the reception.

 

 

 

 
 

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