SUNDAY, JUNE 6

5:30 pm-7:00 pm   Cocktail Buffet Reception

7:00 pm-9:00 pm    Welcome/Introductions/Colloquium Overview

        Susan Avery, President, AMS

Ron McPherson, Executive Director, AMS

      Bill Hooke, Director, Atmospheric Policy Program, AMS

MONDAY, JUNE 7

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-9:30 am    Policy Fundamentals

1. Policy Overview

John W. Kingdon, Professor Emeritus, University of

Michigan

9:30 am-10:00 am   Break 

10:00 am-12:00 pm    Policy Fundamentals (Continued)

2. The Federal Budget Process

Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program,

AAAS

David Radzanowski or David Trinkle – OMB

12:00 pm-12:45 pm   Lunch 

12:45 pm     leave for Russell Senate Office Building Room 253  

1:15 pm-4:30 pm   Capitol Hill Visit (Senate)

1:15 pm-2:15 pm Margaret Stewart, Senior Natural Resources/Energy

Analyst/Agriculture, Majority Staff, Senate Committee

On the Budget 

2:15-3:15 Congressional Science Fellows

Wendy Parker, AMS Congressional Fellow, minority staff,

Environment and Public Works Committee

Kevin Vranes, AGU Congressional Fellow, staff to

Senator Ron Wyden, (D-OR) 

3:15 pm-3:30 pm   Break  

3:30-4:30 pm Floyd desChamps, Senior Professional Staff member

(majority), Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,

and Transportation

Margaret Spring , Senior Counsel (minority), CS&T

Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

TUESDAY, JUNE 8

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-10:15 am    Policy Fundamentals

3. Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership

Margaret S. Leinen, Assistant Director for Geosciences,

NSF

Charles G. Groat, Director, U.S. Geological Survey

10:15 am-10:45 am   Break

10:45 am-12:00 pm   3. Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership (Continued)

Paul Gilman, Assistant Administrator for the Office

of Research and Development, EPA

12:00 pm-1:15 pm   Lunch

1:30 pm     leave for House of Representatives, Rayburn 2318

2:00 pm-3:00 pm    Capitol Hill visit (House Science Committee)

David Goldston, Chief of Majority Staff, House Science

Committee

Robert Palmer, Minority Staff Director, House Science

Committee

3:00 pm-4:00 pm House of Representatives visit continued

Congressman Rush Holt, (D-NJ), Committee on Education

and the Workforce and the House Permanent Select

Committee on Intelligence

4:30 pm return to Washington Court (stop for group photo on the return)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-10:00 am    Policy Fundamentals.

4. Media/Public Relations: How Things Work in Practice

10:00 am-10:30 am   Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm    Policy Fundamentals (Continued)

4. Media/Public Relations: How Things Work in Practice

Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in

Journalism

12:00-12:30 pm Anthony D. Socci, American Meteorological Society

Communication of Science Via Conventional Media Outlets:

A Crisis in Desperate Need of Our Undivided Attention and

Energy.

12:30 pm-1:30 pm   Lunch

1:30 pm-3:00 pm    Participant Exercise: International Environmental Agreements

(first session)

Scott Barrett, author of Environment and Statecraft (one of the books to be provided as part of the preassigned reading), will lead participants through a series of games (and the related game theory) to show why transnational environmental agreements are difficult to negotiate and implement, and the factors that contribute to their success or failure.

3:00 pm-3:30 pm   Break

3:30 pm-5:00 pm    Participant Exercise (Continued)

6:30 pm-8:30 pm   Dinner - followed by special presentation.

Robert Crease, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook

The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful

Experiments in Science.

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-9:30 am    Case Study I. The Montreal Protocol

Ambassador Richard Benedick, currently senior advisor to

The Joint Global Change Institute

9:30 am -9:45   Break

9:45 am-12:00 pm Case Study I. The Montreal Protocol panel

(Richard Benedick, moderator)

Panel: Vic Buxton, Associate and Senior Consultant, SENES

Corporation, Ltd.; formerly with Environment Canada

David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council

Mack McFarland, Dupont Fluoroproducts

12:00 pm-12:45 pm   Lunch

12:45 pm- 1:15 pm bus to White House Conference Center , Truman Room

1:15 pm-3:15 pm Policy fundamentals

5. Science Advice to the President

1:15 pm-2:15 pm John H. Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President and

Director, OSTP

2:15 pm-3:15 pm Bryan J. Hannegan, Associate Director for Energy and

Transportation, CEQ

3:15 pm-3:30 pm   Break

3:30 pm-4:30 pm    6. Science Advice to the Secretary of State

Norm Neureiter, AAAS, former Science and Technology Advisor

to the Secretary of State

5:00 pm . Bus to Washington Court Hotel

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast

8:00 am-9:30 am    Participant Exercise: International Environmental Agreements

(second session).

Scott Barrett: Comparison of Kyoto and Montreal , and a

theoretical interpretation of why the former has been

successful and the latter hasn't.

9:30 am-10:00 am   Break

10:00 am-12:00 pm    Participant Exercise (Continued)

12:00 pm-1:15 pm   Lunch

1:30 pm-2:45 pm    Role of NGO's.

Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate

Change

2:45 pm-3:15 pm   Break

3:15 pm-5:30 pm    Role of NGO's continued.

Robert Watson, World Bank  

SATURDAY, JUNE 12

8:30 am     Shuttle Pick-up at Washington Court

9:00 am-10:45 am    Brunch at the Hookes' Home

11:00 am-2:00 pm    Tour of Mount Vernon

      (Driving directions for those not going on the bus will be made

available)

3:00 pm     Shuttle Returns to Washington Court

SATURDAY LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON

FREE TIME FOR WASHINGTON-AREA ACTIVITIES

SUNDAY, JUNE 13

5:30 pm-7:00 pm   Cocktail Buffet Reception

7:00 pm-8:30 pm    Speaker

Frank Press, former Science Advisor to President Carter; President of NAS from 1981-1993

MONDAY, JUNE 14

7:30 am-8:00 am   Continental Breakfast8:00 am-9:30 am    Case Study II. The Earth Observation Summits . Molly Macauley, Resources for the Future9:30 am-10:00 am   Break

10:00 am-12:30 pm    Case Study II (Continued) Panel (Molly Macauley, moderator)Graham Gibbs, Counsellor, Space Affairs, Canadian Space AgencyCliff Gabriel, Deputy Associate Director, Science Division, OSTP

(schedule permitting) Helen Wood, NOAA/NESDIS

William Gail, Ball Aerospace Corporation Amy Carroll, House Science Subcommittee staff

12:30 pm-1:30 pm   Lunch

1:30 pm-3:00 pm   William Clark, Kennedy School of Government , Harvard

University, What Have We Learned from 30 Years of Assessments?

3:00 pm-3:30 pm Break

3:30 pm-4:30 pm    Assessments continuedRobert W. Corell, Kennedy School of Government , Harvard

University, AMS Senior Fellow

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

7:30 am-8:30 am   Breakfast

8:30 am-10:00 am   advocacy

Joel M. Widder, Lewis-Burke Associates

10:00 am-10:30 am   Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm   Panel on government relations/corporate business development

Stephen G. Moran, Director, Civil Space Programs, Raytheon

Company

Jonathan T. Malay, Director, Civil Space Programs,

Lockheed Martin Washington Operations

12:00 pm-1:00 pm   Lunch

1:00 pm-4:00 pm    Participant Feedback Session

Final Logistics; Concluding Remarks

Adjourn

Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS

William Clark, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Ambassador Richard Benedick, currently senior advisor to The Joint Global Change Institute