AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
2009 SUMMER POLICY COLLOQUIUM
(Preliminary/Working Schedule)
(last updated 05/31/09)
Washington Court Hotel
525 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
NOTE: ALL SESSIONS ARE IN THE MONTPELIER ROOM
ALL BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES ARE IN THE
MADISON ROOM. CHECK SCHEDULE FOR LOCATION OF
EVENING EVENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 31
5:30 pm-7:00 pm Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium)
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Welcome/Introductions/Colloquium Overview
All Colloquium Participants
William Hooke, Ph.D., Director, AMS Policy Program
MONDAY, JUNE 1
7:30 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-10:00 am Policy Fundamentals
- Policy Overview
Toby Smith, Senior Federal Relations Officer
Association of American Universities
10:00 am-10:30 am Break
10:30 am-12:00 pm Policy Fundamentals (Continued)
2. Congressional Overview
Judy Schneider, Government Division, Congressional
Research Service
12:00 pm-12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 pm leave for Senate Office Building (Russell 253)
1:00 pm-5:00 pm Capitol Hill Visit (Senate) (times for the Monday afternoon session
below are provisional, subject to change)
1:15 pm-2:00 pm Chris Miller, staff to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
2:00 pm-2:45 pm Amy Carroll, staff to Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
2:45 pm-3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm-4:00 pm John Righter, Senate Budget Committee staff
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Congressional Science Fellows
Kevin Rennert, Ph.D. AMS-UCAR staff, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
David Szymanski, Ph.D., Office of Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)
Rob Saunders, Ph.D., Office of Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ)
5:15 pm return to Washington Court Hotel
TUESDAY, JUNE 2
7:30 am-8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am-10:00 am Policy Fundamentals
3. The White House
Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director for Federal R&D,
Office of Science and Technology Policy
10:00 am-10:30 am break
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Michael Holland, Ph.D., OMB
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm leave for House of Representatives, Rayburn 2325
(stop for group photo along the way)
2:00 pm-3:00 pm Capitol Hill visit (House Science Committee)
Chuck Atkins, Chief of Majority Staff, House Committee
on Science and Technology
Janet Poppleton, Chief of Staff (minority),
House Committee on Science and Technology
3:00 pm-4:00 pm The Honorable Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chair, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (i) (and other staff members tbd)
4:00-5:30 pm Peter Folger, Energy and Natural Resources Policy,
Congressional Research Service
5:30 pm return to Washington Court Hotel
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3
7:30 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-9:30am Climate change, energy, and national security
James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton
Former director, CIA
9:30 am-10:00 am Break
10:00 am-12:00 pm Climate change, energy and national security continued
Sharon Burke, Vice President for National Security
Center for a New American Security
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Climate change, energy and national security continued
Rich Engel, Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret) Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2:00 pm-3:15 pm Participant Group Exercise: Climate legislation
Introduction
Paul Higgins, Ph.D., Senior Policy Fellow, AMS
3:15 pm-3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm-6:00 pm Participant Group Exercise (Continued) Initial Discussions
Preparation
6:30 pm-8:30 pm Dinner – The Honorable John H. Marburger, III, Ph.D., former science advisor to President George W. Bush(Atrium)
THURSDAY, JUNE 4
7:30 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-9:30 am policy fundamentals – international
Nina V. Fedoroff, Ph.D., Science Advisor to the Secretary of State
9:30 am-10:00 am Break
10:00 am-12:00 pm Policy Fundamentals – International
Lauren Faber, Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Change and Energy, British Embassy
Tegan Blaine, Ph.D., Climate Change Advisor, Africa Bureau, USAID
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm-2:45 pm Participant Group Exercise: Geo-engineering
Introduction
Paul Higgins, Ph.D., Senior Policy Fellow, AMS
Michael MacCracken, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for Climate
Change Programs, Climate Change Institute
2:45 pm-3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm-4:45 pm Geo-engineering Participant Group Exercise (Continued)
Initial Discussions and Preparation
4:45 pm-6:00 pm Further work on either Participant Group Exercise – Climate
legislation or Geo-engineering
FRIDAY, JUNE 5
7:30 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-12:00 pm Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership
8:00 am-9:00 am Suzette Kimball, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior
9:00 am-10:00 am Michael Freilich, Ph.D., Earth Science Division Director, NASA
10:00 am-10:15 am Break
10:15 am-11:15 am Rear Admiral David W. Titley (Ph.D), Oceanographer of the Navy
11:15 am-12:15 pm Ralph Cicerone, Ph.D., President, National Academy of Sciences (i)
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm-3:00 pm Participant Group Exercise (third session). Climate legislation
Participant presentations/the experts respond
3:30 pm- 4:00 pm Break
3:20 pm-5:20 pm (optional) time for further work on the geo-engineering
Participant Exercise
5:20 pm-- Happy Hour (for those interested)
Evening (for those interested) Nationals-Mets baseball game
SATURDAY, JUNE 6
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 7
5:30 pm-7:00 pm Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium)
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Dinner - Travis Sullivan, Ph.D. Director, Policy and Strategic Planning, U.S. Department of Commerce (i)
MONDAY, JUNE 8
7:30 am-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-10:00 am Perspectives on proposed Endangerment Finding by EPA
Jeff Holmstead, J.D., Partner, Bracewell and Guiliani (i)
9:45 am-10:15 am Break
10:15 am-12:00 pm Perspectives on proposed Endangerment Finding by EPA
continued
David Bookbinder, Chief Climate Counsel, Sierra Club
William Wehrum, Partner, Holton and Williams (i)
12:15 pm-1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm-2:30 pm Geo-engineering Exercise
2:30 pm-3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm-5:00 pm Geo-engineering continued
3:30 pm-4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm-5:30 pm speaker tbd
TUESDAY, JUNE 9
7:00 am-8:00 am Breakfast
8:00 am-12:30 pm The Media
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
Richard Harris, NPR
10:00 am-10:30 am Break
10:30 am- 12:30 pm Heidi Cullen, TWC, Climate Central
Cheryl Dybas, Communications Officer for Geosciences and Environmental Research, NSF
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm-4:00 pm Participant Feedback Session
Final Logistics & Concluding Remarks
Adjourn
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