WARREN WASHINGTON NOMINATED FOR NSB

Warren Washington, director of the Climate and Global Dynamics 
Division (CGD), is one of six people nominated by President Clinton to 
the National Science Board for six-year terms to extend until the year 
2000.  Nominations are expected to be approved by the Senate early this 
fall.  The 24-member board assists the president and Congress in 
formulating science, engineering, and education policies for the National 
Science Foundation and for the nation at large.

Warren, who joined NCAR in 1963 and has directed CGD since 1987, is 
currently president of the 11,000-member American Meteorological 
Society.  He also has founded the Black Environmental Science Trust 
(BEST), a nonprofit foundation working toward increasing the number of 
African-American environmental scientists.

Clinton's other five nominees for the NSB include Eve Menger, director of 
technology administration and services at Corning, Incorporated; 
anthropologist Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, director of the Center for Afro-
American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles; Diana 
Natalicio, president of the University of Texas at El Paso and professor of 
languages and linguistics; Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow, 
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and John White, 
dean of the College of Engineering and professor of manufacturing at the 
Georgia Institute of Technology.

"The NSB has a great deal of influence on the programs and plans of 
NSF," says Warren.  "I'll be placed on two subcommittees of the board.  
One deals with the larger grants and strategic planning for the NSF.  The 
other is the polar subcommittee, which has many responsibilities, 
primarily overseeing the Arctic and Antarctic programs and facilities 
maintained by the NSF.  This is a major responsibility, since NSF is the 
lead agency in the federal government on this issue.

"I just returned from a meeting last week with the NSB and I was 
impressed with the broad issues being discussed with people from the 
White House science office as well as the NSF director and assistant 
directors.  Hopefully, my time spent on the committee will allow me to 
address some core issues dealing with national science policy as well as 
the direction of NSF."  „Joan Vandiver Frisch (Media Relations) and BH