Monday, 9 March
1:00-5:00	The Personnel Committee will meet in Room 320 at NSF.
6:00	Informal dinner for the Trustees,Beatty, and President’s Council Members in the Picasso/DaVinci Room at the Arlington Hilton Hotel.
Tuesday, 10 March
8:00 am	A continental breakfast will be available before the meeting.
8:30	The Board will convene in Regular Session
	1.	WELCOME AND AGENDA REVIEW
	Chairman of the Board J. Snow will welcome meeting participants and guests, ask for adoption of the agenda, with changes as needed.
	ACTION:		Adopt the agenda
8:35	2.	SECRETARY’S REPORT
	Secretary R. Hallgren will ask for approval of the draft minutes from the 14 January Conference Call Meeting of the Board.
	ACTION:		Approve the minutes
8:40	3.	TREASURER’S REPORT
	UCAR Treasurer L. Hutton will report on FY98 funding and expenditures to date. (The report was mailed to Trustees in advance of the meeting.)
	ACTION:		Receive the Treasurer’s Report
8:50	4.	CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
	Chairman of the UCAR Board, J. Snow will report UCAR activities from the Board perspective.
9:00	5.	NSF REPORT
	R. Greenfield, Director of ATM/NSF and C. Jacobs, Head-UCAR and Lower Atmospheric Facilities, will report on the current budget situation, NSF programs and activities of interest to UCAR and the university community, the status of the renewal of the cooperative agreement and other items of interest.
9:30	6.	UCAR PRESIDENT’S REPORT
	UCAR President, R. Anthes will update the Board on the status of various UCAR activities. Please refer to his written report.
9:50	7.	UCAR OFFICE OF PROGRAMS (UOP) DIRECTOR’S REPORT
	J. Fellows, Director of UOP, will update the Board on UOP activities. Please refer to the UOP status report.
10:10	Break
10:30	8.	NCAR DIRECTOR’S REPORT
	R. Serafin will update the Board on NCAR activities. His written status report can be found here.
11:00	9.	STATUS REPORT DISCUSSIONS
	This time is allotted for discussion of UCAR, NCAR and UOP activities as presented, or for cross-cutting issues of interest to the Trustees and meeting participants.
11:30	10.	UCAR ADVOCACY DISCUSSIONS
	C. Schmidt, Director-Office of Government Affairs, and A. Burke, Lewsi Burke and Associates will discuss UCAR Federal relations priorities and strategy.
12:00	Luncheon Break
1:00	11.	NSF DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND GEOSCIENCE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR REMARKS
	J. Bordogna, Acting Deputy Director-NSF, and R. Corell, Assistant Director, Directorate for Geosciences will join the Trustees for remarks and discussion.
2:00	12.	THE U.S. WEATHER RESEARCH PROGRAM (USWRP): A PANEL DISCUSSION
	R. Carbone, (NCAR) Chief Scientist, USWRP will moderate a panel discussion on the status of the program. Other participants are: F. Marks (NOAA/AOML) - Co-Chair of the Hurricane Landfall Workshop S. Nelson (ATM/NSF) R. Pielke - (ESIG/NCAR), Chairman, User Advisory Committee L. Uccellini - (NWS/NOAA) Chair, USWRP Interagency Working Group
3:15	Break
3:30	13.	SOARS PROGRAM PRESENTATION
	T. Windham, Director of the SOARS Program will bring the Trustees and invited Sponsors of the Program up to date on current program activities.
4:15	The Board will convene in Executive Session. Trustees and Counsel Beatty will be present.
5:30	Recess
6:30	A reception will begin at the Sequoia Restaurant, Washington Harbor, 3000 K Street, NW.
Wednesday, 11 March
7:00 am	A continental breakfast will be available before the meeting begins.
7:30	The Board will reconvene in Regular Session.
	14.	NOAA ADMINISTRATOR AND NWS DIRECTOR REMARKS
	J. Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmophere, and Administrator of NOAA will make remarks. General J. Kelly, recently appointed Director of the National Weather Service, will also join the Trustees.
8:30	15.	PERSONNEL COMMITTEE REPORT
	C. Leovy, Chairman of the Personnel Committee, will report on the Committee meeting held the previous day. Recommendations regarding salary range adjustments for FY98 will be made.
	ACTION:		Receive the Personnel Committee Report and act on recommendations.
9:00	16.	UCAR/AMS CONGRESSIONAL FELLOW DISCUSSION
	Fellows and Hallgren will report on the status of this activity.
9:15	Break
9:45	17.	UCAR’S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
	Fellows, Chairman of UCAR’s Information Technology Council will report on the status of the development of an information technology strategy. A UCAR IT strategy is being developed in response to an NSF Review Panel recommendation: to develop an IT strategy to enhance UCAR’s service to the research community and to improve the way UCAR conducts its administrative and scientific business.
10:15	18.	UNSTRUCTURED DISCUSSION
	This time is alloted for discussion of items not on the agenda, or for further discussion of agenda items of interest to the Trustees.
11:00	Adjourn
End of Agenda
NB: The next meeting of the Board will be on the 8-9 July in Boulder, Colorado.

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