AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
2011 SUMMER POLICY COLLOQUIUM
(Preliminary/Working Schedule)
(last updated 06/05/11)

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

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
Telephone (202)-737-1234

NOTE:  
                                                           
(i = invited. All other speakers have accepted)

SUNDAY, JUNE 5

6:00 pm-7:00 pm         Cocktail Buffet Reception (Thornton Lounge)

7:00 pm-9:00 pm         Dinner/Welcome/Introductions/Colloquium Overview
(Thornton AB)
                                                all Colloquium participants
                                                Jonathan Malay, Lockheed-Martin, President, AMS
                                                Chris McEntee, Executive Director, AGU (i)
                                                William Hooke, Director, AMS Policy Program
                                                

MONDAY, JUNE 6

7:00 am-8:00 am         Breakfast (Glacier)

8:00 am-10:00 am       Policy Fundamentals (Congressional CD)

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 (Congressional CD)
                                               Judy Schneider, Government Division,
                                               Congressional Research Service
                                
12:00 pm-12:30 pm     Lunch (Glacier)

12:30 pm                     leave for Senate Office Building (Capitol Visitor Center
                                                 SVC209)
           
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                     John Righter, Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget
                                                          Committee staff  
                                                                                                                                                         
                                               
2:00 pm-2:45 pm                      Ann Zulkosky, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
                                                         and Transportation

2:45 pm-3:00 pm                    Break

3:00 pm-3:45 pm                    Kevin Rennert, Senate Energy and Natural Resources
                                                Committee 

                                               
4:00 pm-5:30 pm                   David Reidmiller, AMS-UCAR Congressional Science
                                                (with Senator Mark Udall)
                                               Patrick Meyer (IEEE Fellow with Rep Jay Inslee)
                                               Chris Martin, (AAAS Fellow with Senate Committee on
                                               Commerce, Science, and Transportation
                                               Ursula Rick (AGI Fellow with Sen Mark Udall)

   
                                                                                                                                   

5:30 pm                                    return to Hyatt Regency

TUESDAY, JUNE 7

7:00 am-8:00 am         Breakfast (Columbia C)

8:00 am-9:30 am         Policy Fundamentals 3. The White House (Congressional CD)
                                            Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director for Federal R&D,
                                            Office of Science and Technology Policy

9:30 am- 9:45 am        break

9:45 am-11:15 am       Policy Fundamentals (Congressional CD)
                                     3.  The White House
                                            Celinda Marsh, Program Examiner,
                                            NASA Programs, OMB

11:15 am-12:15 pm             Jonah Steinbuck, CEQ

12:15 pm-12:45 pm     Lunch (Congressional CD)

1:00 pm                       leave for House of Representatives, (Rayburn 2325)
                                    (stop for group photo along the way)

1:15 pm-5:00 pm       Capitol Hill visit (House staffers from Science Committee et al.)
                                               

1:15 pm-2:15 pm                    Gene Whitney,
                                                 Manager, Minerals and Energy Section,
                                                     Congressional Research Service
                                                 
2:15 pm-3:15 pm                    Tara Rothschild, House Science and Technology
                                                  Committee

3:15 pm-3:30 pm                     break

3:30 pm-5:30 pm                    Karen Hyun, Committee on Natural Resources
                                              

5:30 pm                        return to Hyatt Regency
                                                                                                    
                                                

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

7:30 am-8:00 am         Breakfast (Yellowstone/Everglades)

8:00 am-9:30am          AGU Media Session I. “Effectively Communicating Science”
                                    (Congressional CD)

10:15 am-12:00 pm     AGU Media Session I continued. “Effectively communicating
                                      science.”
Speakers
Sarah L. DeWitt, NASA Office of the Chief Scientist
Lauren Morello, ClimateWire
Matthew Nisbet (tentative), American University, School of Communication
Brian Vastag, Washington Post
Karen Wayland, The Nature Conservancy

12:00 pm-1:00 pm       Lunch (Yellowstone/Everglades)

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) (Congressional CD)

6:30 pm-7:00 pm        reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm         Dinner and invited speaker – Bob Inglis, former
                                    U.S. Congressman, S. Carolina’s Fourth District

                                    (Congressional A)

THURSDAY, JUNE 9

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast (Thornton)

8:30 am-9:45 am         the value of information (Yellowstone/Everglades)
                                     Molly Macauley, Resources for the Future
                                              

9:45 am-10:00 am       Break

10:00 am-11:15 pm     Adam Finkel, Sc.D., Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Penn
                                        Program on Regulation and Professor of Environmental and
                                        Occupational Health, UMDNJ School of Public Health
                                               

11:15 am-12:15 p.m.   Carl Shapiro, US Geological Survey (i)

12:15 pm-1:00 pm       Lunch (Thornton)

1:00 pm-3:00 pm       AGU Media Session 2. Hands-on workshop.
                                       (Yellowstone/Everglades)

                                    
3:00 pm-3:15 pm         Break

3:15 pm-5:00 pm        AGU Media Session 2 continued. Social Media
Speakers:
Callan Bentley, Northern Virginia Community College (and AGU Blogosphere)
Jason Samenow, Washington Post Capital Weather Gang

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

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast (Bryce)

8:30 am-12:00 pm       Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership (order of these
                                    speakers is subject to change)
(Yellowstone/Everglades)
                                   
8:30 am-9:45              Dr. Steven R. Shafer, Deputy Administrator for Natural Resources
                                    and Sustainable Agricultural Systems, ARS/USDA

9:45 am-10:00 am     Break

10:00 am-11:15 am     Dr. Michael Morgan, Director, Division of Atmospheric and
                                    Geospace Sciences, NSF

11:15 am-12:30 pm    Dr. Robert Pietrowsky, Director, Institute for Water Resources,
                                    USACE

12:30 pm-1:30 pm       Lunch (Bryce)

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         Participant Group Exercise (third session). Climate legislation
                                   Participant presentations/the experts respond

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

8:30 am                       Shuttle Pick-up at Hyatt Regency
           
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 Hyatt Regency

SATURDAY LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON

FREE TIME FOR WASHINGTON-AREA ACTIVITIES

SUNDAY, JUNE 12

6:00 pm-7:00 pm         Cocktail Buffet Reception (Columbia Foyer)
7:00 pm-8:30 pm         dinner and invited speaker (Columbia A)
                                    Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan,
                                    Assistant Secretary of Commerce
                                    for Environmental Observations and Prediction

MONDAY, JUNE 13

7:30 am-8:30 am         Breakfast (Congressional CD)

8:30 am-9:30 am         the environment and national security (Yellowstone/Everglades)

                                                Richard A. Matthew, Director, Center for Unconventional
                                                     Security Affairs, University of California at Irvine.

9:30 am-10:00 am        break              

10:00 am-12:00 pm    the environment  and national security, continued                                       
                                                       
                                                David Michel, Senior Associate, the Henry L. Stimson
                                                      Center (i)
                                                

12:15 pm-1:15 pm       Lunch (Congressional CD)

1:15 pm-2:30 pm         International Perspectives (Yellowstone/Everglades)

                                               Dr. Eric Bone, Office of the Science Advisor to the
                                                     Secretary of State

2:30 pm-3:00 pm         break

3:00 pm-5:00 pm         International Perspectives continued

 Dr. Genevieve Maricle, USAID

TUESDAY,  JUNE 14

7:00 am-8:15 am         Breakfast (Congressional CD)

8:15 am-12:30 pm       ethics and integrity (Congressional B)

8:15 am-9:15 am        Dr. David Verardo, Director, Paleoclimate Program, and
                                   Acting Deputy Director, Atmosphere and Geospatial Sciences,
                                   National Science Foundation
 
9:15 am-10:15 am      Ms. Allison Lerner, Inspector General,
                                    the National Science Foundation

10:15 am-10:30 am    break

10:30 am-11:30 am    Dr. Rachelle Hollander, Director, NAE Center for Engineering,
                                     Ethics, and Society

11:30 am- 12:15 pm    Panel discussion (Hollander, Lerner, Verardo)

12:15 pm-1:15 pm       Lunch (Congressional CD)

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

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