Agenda
35th Annual Meeting
American Association of State Climatologists
12 – 15 July 2010
Embassy Suites Hotel
4130 Lake Tahoe Boulevard
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
last updated 7/9/2010 1:00PM EDT
Monday July 12
2 PM Informal recreational opportunites for early arrivers
1. Vikingsholm Tour
2. U.S. Forest Service Taylor Creek Visitor Center and Rainbow Trail
3. Ride the Heavenly Gondola
4. Lake Tahoe Cruises (2 hours)
(RSVP to Mike Anderson if you wish to meet up with other AASCers for these activities Otherwise, just enjoy!) manderso@water.ca.gov
5:30 – 7:00 PM Registration (Tallac Room)
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Ice Breaker and poster session (Tallac Room) If you intend to display a poster,
please let us know by RSVPing Nolan@atmos.colostate.edu so enough mounting boards are available.
Tuesday July 13
8:15 AM Welcome by local hosts (Mike Anderson (CA), Jeff Underwood (NV))
Introductions and meeting overview (Nolan Doesken (CO))
8:40 AM State of the Association (Membership, AASC Recognized State Climate Offices, Journal of Service Climatology, State Climatologist Exchange Program, other)
9:10 AM Introduction of new State Climatologists and RCC Directors (NH, NM, WA, SERCC, HPRCC)
9:30 AM California Welcome -- Dale Hoffman-Floerke DEPUTY DIRECTOR, INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT, California Dept. of Water Resources
9:40 AM “A View of California Climate” SC emeritus presentation -- James Goodrich, (former CA SC – retired and precipitation expert extraordinaire)
10:00 AM Break
10:20 AM Toward a NOAA Climate Service – Mary Glackin, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere
10:50 AM NOAA Climate Service: Some Regional Perspectives – Eileen Shea, NCDC
11:20 AM Climate Service in Action – Panel A: Regional perspectives (Gregg Garfin, convener, Dennis Todey (SD-SC), Mark Shafer (RISA), Kevin Robbins (SRCC), Eileen Shea (NOAA))
12:10 AASC Annual Luncheon: “The state of the climate” -- Deke Arndt, NCDC and Nolan Doesken, AASC
1:40 PM Climate Service in Action – Panel B: Federal Partnerships ( Paul Knight, convener; Dave Robinson (NJ-SC), Mike Brewer (NIDIS), Tim Brown (WRCC ), Jan Curtis, (USDA), Fiona Horsfall (NOAA-NWS) )
2:40 PM National Climate Assessment -- plans and opportunities -- Anne Waple, NCDC
3:10 PM Break
3:30 PM State Reports : WY (Steve Gray), PA (Paul Knight), LA (Barry Keim), VT (Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux), OK (McPherson, McManus)
4:15 PM SCOs - What is our impact and how do we measure that?
(Jennifer Kushner, Univ. of Wisconsin )
5:15 PM The business of AASC – introduction to the 2010 business meeting agenda
5:30 PM Adjourn for the day
Evening Open -- Dinner on our own -- Enjoy Lake Tahoe area
Wednesday July 14
8:00 AM What’s happening with the “Nationwide Network of Networks”?
Paul Campbell, Campbell Scientific, Renee McPhereson, OU
8:30 AM State Climatologists as observing network managers – issues, opportunities, challenges, partners, pitfalls and victories
(Dave Robinson, NJ (convener); David Legates, DE; Stuart Foster, KY; Adnan Akyuz, ND)
9:30 AM The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Lou Pitelka
10:00 AM U.S. Dept of Interior Regional Climate Change and Wildlife Science Centers (David E Busch USGS - Pacific Southwest Area)
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Partner updates: Activities supporting or assisting SCOs: NIDIS (M. Brewer),
NDMC (B. Fuchs, M. Svoboda), NOAA Coastal Services Center (S. Fauver)
10:55 AM Update on NWS Climate Services, COOP program, Historical Climate Network,
Climate Reference Network, and several other issues of interest to AASC
Noon – 2 PM Regional Climate Center – State working lunch meetings
(RCC directors organize meal locations and coordinate SCs and other partners)
2:00 PM Garnering state and local support for State Climate Offices (Nolan Doesken, CO (convener);
Renee McPherson (OK); Ryan Boyles (NC); Stephen Underwood (NV), Hope Mizzell (SC))
2:45 PM SC/RCC efforts at improving drought monitoring
(Jim Angel, IL convener; Kelly Redmond, WRCC; Mike Anderson, CA; Nancy Selover, AZ)
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM Communicating Climate Change information (Panel of SCO experts)
(John N-G, TX (convener); George Jacobson (ME), John Christy (AL), Rob Gillies (UT))
4:30 PM SC-ACIS: What’s new and SC feedback (Keith Eggleston, NERCC)
5:00 PM Adjourn to prepare for evening festivities
6:00 PM Bus transportation available or ~1 mile walk to Riva Grill
Cash bar -- on the shore of Lake Tahoe
7:00 PM Dinner and Story Time -- Tahoe History, Mark McLaughlin
Thursday July 15
8:00 AM State and special reports (H. Hillaker, IA; D. Zierden, FL; John Young, WI; K. Law, WV;
K. Vinnikov, MD; H. Reges, CoCoRaHS; N. Westcott, CDMP-FORTS, H. Angelhoff, AK -- and anyone else we forgot)
9:30 AASC Business meeting – all are welcome but only SCs and RCC directors vote
Topics this year include: treasurers reports, future meetings, officer elections, Exec. Committee expansion,
executive director — feasibility and next steps, RISA membership in AASC,
committee reports (curriculum, metadata standards, etc.) and other new and old business.
12:30 PM Adjourn for the year
See you in 2011!
Post meeting activities for those who will be leaving Reno very late in the day on Thursday or not until Friday
3:00 PM Tour of Desert Research Institute facilities in Reno, NV including the Western Regional Climate Center, the 6-sided wildfire virtual reality laboratory, and other facilities of interest.
6:00 PM Cookout at WRCC Director’s home – Tim Brown
(Thanks Tim!!!) Please RSVP to Nolan@atmos.colostate.edu