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Final SPC 2008 Agenda
Washington Court Hotel
525 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington DC 20001
The final agenda will be printed and provided to you upon check in on Sunday, June 1.
NOTE: ALL SESSIONS ARE IN THE MONTPELIER ROOM ALL BREAKFASTS AND LUNCHES ARE IN THE MADISON ROOM. CHECK SCHEDULE FOR LOCATION OF EVENING EVENTS
Sunday, June 1
5:30- 7:00pm
Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium)
7:00 -9:00 pm
Welcome/Introductions/Colloquium Overview
Franco Einaudi, Past President, AMS Keith Seitter, Executive Director, AMS William Hooke, Director, AMS Policy Program
Monday, June 2
7:30 -8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 -10:00 am
Policy Fundamentals
- Policy Overview Tobin L. Smith, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, Association of American Universities
10:00 -10:30 am
Break
10:30 -12:00 pm
Policy Fundamentals (Continued)
- The Federal Budget Process Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS
12:00-12:45 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm
leave for Senate Office Building (Russell 253)
1:30 -5:00 pm
Capitol Hill Visit (Senate)
1:30-2:00pm
Floyd desChamps, Senior Professional Staff member (minority), Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
2:00-2:30 pm
Amy Carroll, Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
2:30-2:45 pm
Break
2:45 -3:45 pm
Jonathan Black, staffer, United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Legislative Aide to Senator Bingaman (D-NM), (invited)
4:00 -5:00 pm
Dr. Michael Morgan, Congressional Science Fellow Office of Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
Stephanie Herring, Congressional Science Fellow
Maria Honeycutt, Congressional Science Fellow Office of Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL)
5:00 pm
return to Washington Court Hotel
Tuesday, June 3
7:30 -8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 -10:00 am
Policy Fundamentals
- The White House Dr. Gene Whitney, Assistant Director, Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy
10:00-10:30 am
Break
10:30 -12:00 pm
Dr. Michael Holland, Program Examiner, Office of Management and Budget
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
leave for House of Representatives, Rayburn 2325 (stop for group photo along the way)
2:00-3:00 pm
Capitol Hill visit (House Science Committee)
Chuck Atkins, Chief of Majority Staff, House Committee on Science and Technology Janet Poppleton, Chief of Staff (minority), House Committee on Science and Technology
3:00-3:45 pm
Ana Unruh Cohen, Deputy Staff Director, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
3:45 pm
Refreshment buffet
3:45 - 4:45pm
4:45 - 5:30pm
Ms. Judy Schneider, Government Division, Congressional Research Service
Dr. Peter Folger, Energy and Natural Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service
6:00-7:00 pm
House of Representatives visit continued Congressman Jay Inslee, (D-WA)
7:00 pm
return to Washington Court
Wed., June 4
7:30 -8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 -9:30 am
Case Study 1. Public-Private Partnerships in Norman, OK
Dr. James F. Kimpel, Director, National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA
9:30 -10:00 am
Break
Case Study
- Public-Private Partnerships continued
Panel discussion
Richard E. Hallgren, former director, National Weather Service
Deb Stirling, President, Stirling Strategic Services
John F. Heimmer, PARTECH, LLC (Phased Array Radar Technology)
(other panelists tbd)
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00-3:15 pm
Participant Group Exercise: Climate legislation Introduction Dr. Paul Higgins, Senior Policy Fellow, AMS
3:15-3:30 pm
Break
3:30-5:30 pm
Participant Group Exercise (Continued) Initial Discussions Preparation
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Dinner – Dr. Tim Killeen, Director, NCAR, incoming NSF Associate Director for Geosciences (Atrium)
Thursday, June 5
7:30 -8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 -9:45 am
Policy fundamentals: ethics
Dr. David Verardo,Paleoclimate Program Director, Geosciences Division, National Science Foundation
9:45 -10:00 am
Break
10:00 -12:00 pm
Policy fundamentals: ethics continued
Dr. Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor for Environmental Ethics, Science and Law in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University; Program Director, Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change; and Director, Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy
Dr. Wendy Parker, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Ohio University
12:00 -1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Human Dimensions of Climate Change
Elizabeth Malone, Joint Global Change Research Institute
2:45-3:15 pm
Break
3:15-4:45 pm
Thomas J. Wilbanks, ORNL Corporate Fellow, and Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL
4:45-6:00 pm
Participant Group Exercise – Climate legislation (second session)
Friday, June 6
7:30 -8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 -9:20 am
Julian Braithwaite, Head of Global Issues Group British Embassy, Washington, DC
9:20- 12:00 pm
Personal Perspectives on Executive Leadership
9:20- 10:40 am
Mark Myers, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey
10:40 - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 - 12:20 pm
Dr. George M. Gray, EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Participant Group Exercise (third session). Climate legislation Part I
Heather Holsinger, Senior Fellow for Domestic Policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Paul Higgins, Senior Policy Fellow, AMS
Josh Trapani, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow on the Policy Analysis staff of the USDA Forest Service
3:00 - 3:20 pm
Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Participant Exercise; Climate legislation (fourth session) The Experts Respond Part II
Holmes Hummel, Congressional Science Fellow, Office of Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Paul Higgins, Senior Policy Fellow, AMS
Josh Trapani, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow on the Policy Analysis staff of the USDA Forest Service
James Bradbury, Office of Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA)
6:00 pm (Optional)
Leave for the Nationals Baseball game (Tickets must be preordered through Jan)
Saturday, June 7
8:30 am
Shuttle Pick-up at Washington Court
9:00 -10:45 am
Brunch at the Hookes’ Home
11:00 -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 8
5:30- 7:00pm
Cocktail Buffet Reception (Atrium Room)
7:00- 8:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Neal Lane, former Science Adviser to President William J. Clinton, and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Monday, June 9
7:30 -8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 -9:30 am
William H. Hooke, Senior Fellow, and Director,
AMS Policy Program
9:30 - 10:00 am
Break
10:30 - 12:00 pm
Case Study 2. The Decadal Study continued. Panel
Richard A. Anthes, President, UCAR
Berrien Moore, Executive Director, Climate Central, Inc. (invited)
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Berrien Moore, Executive Director, Climate Central, Inc.
2:30 - 5:00 pm
Michael MacCracken, The Climate Institute
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Michael MacCracken, The Climate Institute
Tuesday, June 10
7:30 -8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 -12:00 pm
The media
A structured discussion moderated and led by Anthony Socci, AMS Policy Program.
Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism
Seth Borenstein, National science writer for The Associated Press
Edward Maibach, Director of the Center of Excellence in Climate Change Communication Research, George Mason University
Bill Blakemore, ABC TV science reporter
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Science Adviser to the Secretary of State
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Participant Feedback Session Final Logistics;
Concluding Remarks
Adjourn
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