Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

25-26 October 2004
Arlington, Virginia
NSF Headquarters

Monday, 25 October (Room 730)

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Administrative Matters (Wetzel)

• New member introduction (Steve Businger [University of Hawaii], Jim Koermer [Plymouth State University], and Paul Ruscher [Florida State University])
• Acknowledgement of participation and contributions of retiring members: Chair John Merrill and Arlene Laing.
• Review May 2004 Summary Notes
• Set next meeting date
  • Spring 2005
  • Fall 2005

8:45 Status Reports

Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

9:45 Committee Report

Users Committee Report (Steenburgh)

10:00 Break

10:15 Agency Reports

NSF (Grant, Jacobs)
NASA (Goodman)
NWS (Spayd)

11:15 DVB-S Ingest Software and Licensing Issues

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Unidata 2008 Review and Related Activities and Priorities

• Budget Overview (Graham)
• Overview, Progress, and Goals (Ramamurthy and others)
  • Review of 5-year Funding Proposal Endeavors

3:00 Break

3:15 Unidata Program Priorities

4:00 Wrap of priorities discussion

4:15 Evaluation and Metrics Discussion

5:00 Adjournment

6:00 Working dinner at:

Sequoia
3000 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20007

Tuesday 26 October (Room 770)

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Unidata's Evolving Collaboration with the Hydrology Community

• CUAHSI (Rick Hooper)
• USGS (Matt Larsen)
• NWS (Gary Carter)

9:45 Break

9:50 Hydrology Collaboration: Next Steps

11:30 Wrap-up/Unstructured Discussion

11:45 Adjournment

Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@ucar.edu