AMS/UCAR 15 TH MEETING OF THE HEADS & CHAIRS OF PROGRAMS IN ATMOSPHERIC, OCEANIC, HYDROLOGIC, AND RELATED SCIENCES
Joint with
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION’S SIXTH MEETING OF HEADS AND CHAIRS OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS
12 -13 OCTOBER 2006
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (NCAR)
CENTER GREEN CAMPUS
BOULDER, COLORADO
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Meeting
Agenda |
| THUR 12 OCT | 7:45 A.M. | Registration; Continental breakfast | |
| 8:30 A.M. | Welcome from meeting chairpersons; goals of the meeting | ||
| 8:35 A.M. | Welcome & update on Decadal Report | ||
| Richard Anthes, President, UCAR, Boulder, CO | |||
| 8:50 A.M. | Update on new AGU initiatives | ||
| Gene Bierly, Senior Scientist, AGU, Washington, DC | |||
| 8:55 A.M. | Update on new AMS initiatives | ||
| Franco Einaudi, AMS President, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD | |||
| Session 1: Agency Funding Including Challenges for Young Faculty | |||
| 9:00 A.M. | Jarvis Moyers, Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Geoscience Directorate, NSF, Arlington, VA | ||
| 9:10 A.M. | Sandy MacDonald, Director NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO | ||
| 9:20 A.M. | NASA representative TBA | ||
| 9:30 A.M. | Jerry Elwood, Director, DOE Climate Change Research Division, Office of Biological & Environ. Research, Washington, DC | ||
| 9:40 A.M. | Questions from the floor for Agency representatives | ||
| 9:50 A.M. | Faculty perspective on the funding process | ||
| Toby Carlson, Professor, Penn State University | |||
| Comments from the floor / general discussion | |||
| 10:30 A.M. | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 2: New Directions in Geoscience: Advances in GIS/GPS Applications in Atmospheric & Space Sciences | |||
| 10:45 A.M. | COSMIC and the Applications of GPS Radio Occultation Technique to Weather and Climate | ||
| Bill Kuo, Director, COSMIC | |||
| 11:00 A.M. | Unidata activities to integrate scientific data systems and tools with GIS databases and services for education and research | ||
| Mohan Ramamurthy, Director, Unidata | |||
| 11:15 A.M. | Chuck
Meertens, UNAVCO "GPS and seismology: blurring the boundaries, sharpening our vision." |
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| 11:30 A.M. | Open floor discussion | ||
| 12:00 P.M. | Luncheon | ||
| Session 3: Forum on Department Issues and Challenges | |||
| 1:30 P.M. | NRC US Research Doctorate Programs Rating Study | ||
| Jack Fellows, UCAR Office of Programs (UOP) Director | |||
| 1:45 P.M. | Open floor discussion of current and recent challenges facing departments | ||
| 2:15 P.M. | Improving Diversity in Earth/Atmospheric Science | ||
| Quinton Williams, Chair & Associate Professor, Jackson State University | |||
| 3:00 P.M. | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:15 P.M. | Trends in Geoscience as indicated by the AMS membership survey | ||
| Roman Czujko, American Institute of Physics | |||
| 4:00 P.M. | From Surviving to Thriving Continued from 2004: Programmatic review, Curricula and questionnaires | ||
| Keith Seitter, Executive Director, AMS, Boston, MA | |||
| 4:20 P.M. | Breakout Sessions
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| 5:30 P.M. | Adjourn for the Day | ||
| 6:00 P.M. | Reception at Twenty Ninth Street Mall Grand Opening: Celebrating Shopping – and Science! (sponsored by AGU, AMS and UCAR) | ||
| FRI 13 OCT | |||
| Session 4: New Directions in Geoscience: What do you know about nanoscience? | |||
| 7:45 A.M. | Continental breakfast | ||
| 8:30 A.M. | Why Nano is Important to Geo | ||
| Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky, Distinguished Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry and Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of California, Davis | |||
| 10:00 A.M. | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 5: Open Discussion/Resolutions | |||
| 10:15 A.M. | Follow up discussions from previous sessions | ||
| Formulation of resolutions to be undertaken by the AGU, AMS or UCAR | |||
| 12:00 P.M. | Adjourn | ||
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