Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee
15-16 April 2010
NSF Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia
Room 770

Staff Status Reports and Meeting Index

Acronym List

Thursday, 15 April

7:45 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Administrative Matters (Businger)

• Adopt Agenda
• Approve October 2009 meeting notes
• Set fall 2010 meeting dates (calendar)
  
• Resolutions: no resolutions were taken at the fall 2009 meeting
• Action Items
  1. Carried over to the next meeting in Boulder. Linda Miller will invite UNAVCO staff member Shelly Olds to present a seminar on ground-based GPS.
  2. An NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) staff member should be contacted and asked to speak at a future meeting. Linda Miller has the contact, but the item must be deferred for one year until the meeting is in Boulder
  3. The UPC should explore setting future meeting sites at federal labs, both in Boulder and off-site.
  4. The UPC should consider collaborations with any of the following UCAR's Visiting Scientists Program (VSP), the Advanced Studies Program (ASP), Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Science and Research (SOARS), and the University of Colorado to optimize its resources while increasing its outreach.

8:45 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

9:45 Budget Report (Mitchell)

10:00 Break

10:15 AWIPS-II Update (Scheduling)

J.C. Duh (NOAA)

11:00 NAWIPS-AWIPS-II Transition (Michelle Mainelli, NWS)

12:00 Lunch Break, Room 730

Climate Discussion

Background information:

Dear Colleague Letter: Climate, Energy, and Sustainability
Overview presentation on NOAA Climate Services (Tom Karl, Director, NCDC)
NOAA Climate Services (Jane Lubchenko, NOAA Administrator)

1:00 NOAA Climate Services Overview (Chester J. Koblinsky, NOAA)

1:45 Unidata's Involvement in Developing and Supporting Climate Science Infrastructures (Rew)

2:15 Making Climate Science Data Available to Other Communities: Standards-based Interoperabilities (Domenico)

2:45 Break

3:00 Unidata's Role in Climate Education, Research, and Services (Ramamurthy)

Discussion

4:30 Network of Networks (Curtis Marshall [NWS])

5:00 Adjourn for dinner

6:30 Working Dinner at Filomena Ristorante Map, directions, and contact information

Friday, 16 April

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Agency Reports

NSF (Grant)
NASA (Griffith)

9:30 Users Committee Report (Whittaker)

10:00 Break

10:30 Community Survey (Whittaker)

10:45 Ongoing Metrics Collection Activity (Miller)

11:00 Wrap up

11:30 Adjournment

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