AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
2010 SUMMER POLICY COLLOQUIUM
(Preliminary/Working Schedule)
(last updated 06/04/10)

Further background on AMS Summer Policy Colloquia is available at
http://www.ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/colloquium_summer.html

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
                                                           
(i = invited. All other speakers have accepted)

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

5:30 pm-7:00 pm         Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium)
7:00 pm-9:00 pm         Welcome/Introductions/Colloquium Overview
                                                all Colloquium participants
                                                Jonathan Malay, Lockheed-Martin, President-elect, AMS
                                                William Hooke, Director, AMS Policy Program

MONDAY, JUNE 7

7:30 am-8:00 am         Breakfast

8:00 am-10:00 am       Policy Fundamentals

1. Policy Overview

                                               Toby Smith, Vice President for Policy

                                                         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-12:30 pm     Lunch

12:30 pm                     leave for Senate Office Building (Dirksen 562)
           
1:00 pm-5:00 pm         Capitol Hill Visit (Senate) (times for the Monday afternoon session
                                                 below are provisional, subject to change)

1:00 pm-1:45 pm                     Ann Zulkosky, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
                                                         and Transportation
                                                                                                   
                                               
2:00 pm-2:45 pm                      Jean Toal-Eisen, Professional Staff Member,
                                                        U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and                                                                                                       
                                                         Transportation

2:45 pm-3:00 pm                      Break

3:00 pm-3:45 pm                      John Righter, Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget
                                                          Committee staff  
                                               
4:00 pm-4:45 pm                      Kevin Rennert, Professional Staff Member,
                                                          Energy and Natural Resources Committee
                                                                                                                                   

5:15 pm                                    return to Washington Court Hotel

TUESDAY, JUNE 8

7:30 am-8:30 am         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    
                                      Irene Kariampuzha, Program Examiner,
                                            Science and Space Programs, OMB

12:00 pm-1:00 pm       Lunch

1:00 pm                       leave for House of Representatives, (Rayburn 2318? Room TBD)
                                    (stop for group photo along the way)

2:00 pm-3:00 pm         Capitol Hill visit (House Science Committee)
                                                John Piazza, General Counsel, Majority Staff,
                                                     House Committee
                                                     on Science and Technology (i)
                                                 Leslee Gilbert, Republican Staff Director,
                                                               House Committee on Science and Technology

3:00 pm-4:00 pm                    Gene Whitney,
                                                 Manager, Minerals and Energy Section,
                                                     Congressional Research Service
                                                 

4:00-5:30 pm                          Jonah Steinbuck, AMS-UCAR Congressional Science
                                                    Fellow, House Select Committee for Energy
                                                        Independence and Global Warming
                                                Mark Little, GSA/USGS Fellow, House Foreign Affairs
                                                       Committee
                                                Julie DeMeester, ASA/CSSA/SSSA Fellow,
                                                       Senator Durbin’s Office

5:30 pm                        return to Washington Court Hotel
                                                                                                    
                                                 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9

7:30 am-8:00 am         Breakfast

8:00 am-9:30am          Stranger in a Strange Land: a scientist comes to DC
                                      (concludes with an OSTP perspective on NPOESS)
                                              
                                    Johannes Loschnigg, OSTP

9:30 am-10:00 am     Break

10:00 am-12:00 pm     Earth Observations: the way forward

                                    Johannes Loschnigg, OSTP
                                    Mike Freilich, Director, Earth Science Division, NASA                                                 

12:00 pm-1:00 pm       Lunch

1:00 pm-2:00 pm        Introduction to the Participant Group Exercise: Climate
                                      legislation Paul Higgins, Senior Policy Fellow, AMS

2:00 pm-6:00 pm                
                                    Participant Group Exercise (Continued) Initial Discussions
                                    Preparation  (break available between 3:00-3:30 at the discretion
                                                           of each group)

6:30 pm-7:00 pm        reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm         Dinner – Dr. Travis Sullivan, Director, Policy and Strategic
                                                   Planning, U.S. Department of Commerce
(Executive Room)

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast

8:30 am-10:00 am       climate and security policy
                                     Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director, Science and Impacts
                                               Program, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

10:00 am-10:30 am       Break

10:30 am-12:00 pm    climate and security policy, continued
                                     Kent Butts, Professor, Center for Strategic Leadership,
                                               U.S. Army War College
                                              

12:00 pm-1:00 pm       Lunch

1:00 pm-1:45 pm       climate and security policy, continued
                                    Jay Gulledge and Kent Butts
                                                  

1:45 pm-2:00 pm         Break

2:00 pm-2:30 pm         leave for Woodrow Wilson International Center

3:00 pm-5:00 pm         climate and security policy, continued

                                     Participants EITHER work on their group exercise OR attend
                                      Public Panel Discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International
                                      Center for Scholars

                                       Geoff Dabelko, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center
                                                   for Scholars
                                       Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment, and
                                                  Development, Chatham House
                                       Stacy VenDeveer, Associate professor of Political Science,
                                                  University of New Hampshire
                                       Alexander Carius, co-founder and co-director, Adelphi Research
                                                   and Adelphi Consulting

5:00 pm-6:00 pm           group exercise continued
                      

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast

8:30 am-12:00 pm       Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership
                                   
8:30 am-9:45 am         Dr. Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research, Earth Science
                                           Division, NASA

9:45 am-10:00 am     Break

10:00 am-11:15 am     Dr. Robert Gagosian, President, Consortium for Ocean Leadership

11:15 am-12:30 pm    Ms. Allison Lerner, Inspector General,
                                    the National Science Foundation
                                      

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        

5:20 pm--                   Happy Hour (not part of the official program/self-organized/for
                                                         those interested)
                                                                              
                                          

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

6:30 pm-7:00 pm         Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium)
7:00 pm-8:30 pm         dinner and invited speaker: David Goldston,
                                                  Director of Government Affairs,
                                                  Natural Resources Defense Council

MONDAY, JUNE 14

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast

8:30 am-9:30 am         Perspectives on environmental journalism and communications

                                                Bud Ward, Co-founder, and Honorary Member,
                                                       Society of Environmental Journalists

9:30 am-10:00 am        break              

10:00 am-12:00 pm     Perspectives on environmental journalism and communications,
                                               continued                                       
                                                       
                                                Beth Parke, Executive Director, Society of Environmental
                                                        Journalists
                                                

12:15 pm-1:15 pm       Lunch

1:15 pm-2:30 pm         Perspectives on environmental journalism and communications,
                                              continued

                                               Joe Witte, meteorologist for ABC 7 WJLA- TV,
                                                       Washington, DC

2:30 pm-3:00 pm         break

3:00 pm-5:00 pm         Perspectives on environmental journalism and communications,
                                              continued

 My Le Ducharme, Vice President, Powell Tate
                                                        (a subsidiary of Weber Shandwick)

TUESDAY,  JUNE 15

7:00 am-8:15 am         Breakfast

8:15 am-12:30 pm       international dimensions  

8:15 am-9:30 am        Daniel Rochberg, Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change
                                              U.S. Department of State
 
9:30 am-10:15 am      Jonathan Pershing, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change,
                                              U.S. Department of State

10:15 am-10:45 am     break

10:45 am- 12:15 pm   international dimensions (continued; climate and development)

                                   Tegan Blaine, Climate Change Advisor, African Bureau, USAID
                                   Genevieve Maricle, AAAS Fellow at Policy Bureau, USAID

12:15 pm-1:15 pm       Lunch

1:15 pm-4:00              Participant Feedback Session
Final Logistics; Concluding Remarks
Adjourn

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