15th NOAA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD MEETING Washington, DC FINAL AGENDA GENERAL LOGISTICS AND SCHEDULE Tuesday March 18, 2003 Location: Washington Marriott, West End Ballroom, Salons A and B 1221 22nd Street NW Washington, DC 20037 202-872-1500 10:15 AM Sign in by all Participants and Audience [Note: Attendance is open to any interested individual, but registration is REQUIRED. Verbal public input will only be conducted during the period identified for public statements on Wednesday, March 19, 2003, unless the Chair requests otherwise. The limit for verbal statements by any individual or group is 5 minutes, with follow-up questions and discussion by the SAB, if requested by the Chair.] 10:25 AM Official Call to Order and Review of Meeting Format (Michael Uhart - Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 10:30 AM Opening Statement of the Chair and Self-Introductions of the SAB Members Present (Leonard Pietrafesa - Interim Chair, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 10:35 AM Welcoming Remarks and Statement (Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr. - Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator) 10:45 AM NOAA Social Science Research Review Panel - Final Report (Susan Hanna, Review Panel Chair) 11:45 AM LUNCH 12:45 PM NOAA Research - FY 2004 Budget (Alexander MacDonald, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, OAR) 1:15 PM National Weather Service - FY 2004 Budget (Jack Kelly, Assistant Administrator, NWS) 1:45 PM National Ocean Service - FY 2004 Budget (Jamie Hawkins, Acting Assistant Administrator, NOS) 2:15 PM National Marine Fisheries Service - FY 2004 Budget (John Oliver, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations, NMFS) 2:45 PM BREAK 3:00 PM NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations - FY 2004 Budget and the NOAA Fleet Plan (Bob J. Taylor, Deputy Director, and Don Spillman, Chief Financial Officer, NMAO) 3:30 PM National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service - FY 2004 Budget (Gregory Withee, Assistant Administrator, NESDIS) 4:00 PM NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems) Science Issues - Proposed Review (Gregory Withee, Assistant Administrator, NESDIS) 4:30 PM Earth Observing Summit (Gregory Withee, Assistant Administrator, NESDIS) 5:00 PM Unfinished Business 5:30 PM Adjourn Wednesday March 19, 2003 Location: Washington Marriott West End Ballroom, Salons A and B 1221 22nd Street NW Washington, DC 20037 202-872-1500 8:00 AM Sign in by all Participants and Audience and Registration for Public Statements to NOAA SAB [Note: Attendance is open to any interested individual, but registration is REQUIRED. Verbal public input will only be conducted during the period identified for public statements unless the Chair requests otherwise. The limit for verbal statements by any individual or group is 5 minutes, with follow-up questions and discussion by the SAB, if requested by the Chair.] 8:20 AM Official Call to Order and Review of Meeting Format (Michael Uhart - Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 8:25 AM Opening Statement of the Chair and Self-Introductions of the SAB Members Present (Leonard Pietrafesa - Interim Chair, NOAA Science Advisory Board) 8:30 AM Working Group and Subcommittee Reports - Education Subcommittee (Denise Stephenson-Hawk) - NESDIS Office of Research Applications Review Panel (Denise Stephenson-Hawk) - Council on Long-Term Climate Monitoring (Thomas Karl) a - Climate and Global Change Working Group (Otis Brown) 9:15 AM Marine Mammals and Sonar (Roger Gentry, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS) 9:45 AM Stellar Sea Lions - NOAA and the National Academy Report (William Fox, Director, Office of Science and Technology and Chief Scientist, NMFS) 10:15 AM BREAK 10:30 AM Public Statements 11:00 The Climate Change Science Plan (James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere) 11:30 AM The NOAA Climate Program Office (Mary Glackin, Acting Director and Deputy Assistant Administrator, NESDIS) 12:00 PM LUNCH 1:00 PM Panel Discussion with Congressional Staff (Eric Webster, House Committee on Science) (Other House and Senate Staff - Invited) 2:00 PM The NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (Sam Williamson, Director, OFCM) 2:30 PM NOAA Grants Reform (Rimas Liogys, NOAA Office of Finance and Administration) 3:00 PM BREAK 3:15 PM The NOAA Research Council (David Rogers, Chair) 3:45 PM U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy - Update (Terry Schaff, Associate Director, Government Relations and Ken Turgeon, Associate Director, Research, Education, and Marine Operations) 4:15 PM Pew Oceans Commission - Final Commission Report and Reports on Fisheries (Christophe Tulou, Executive Director) 5:15 PM Adjourn