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OPP Office Advisory Committee
Agenda
November 4 – 5, 2008 • Stafford II — Room 595
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4 |
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Topic |
OAC Lead |
NSF/Other Lead |
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| 8:30 |
Introduction and Approval of Minutes |
Andrea Lloyd |
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| 8:45 |
OPP Director’s Report (including budget outlook) |
Andrea Lloyd |
Karl Erb |
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| 9:20 |
Briefing on the Request for Proposal for the Antarctic Support Contract procurement |
Andrea Lloyd |
Gunther Imer, Contracting Officer, Division of Acquisitions and Cooperative Support |
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| 9:30 |
Update on Canada’s Arctic Science Strategic Planning activities |
Andrea Lloyd |
Danielle Labonté,
Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada |
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| 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:45 |
Strategic Planning in an Era of Limited Budgets: Introduction and discussion plan |
Andrea Lloyd |
Karl Erb |
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| 11:00 |
OPP Response/Adjustment to FY 2009 Budget Constraints. Choices awaiting future decisions. |
Richard Honrath |
Scott Borg,
Simon Stephenson,
Brian Stone |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 |
Strategic Planning in an Era of Limited Budgets: How should we organize community input, set capital investments, and scientific priorities? |
Sarah Church |
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| 1:30 |
Strategic Planning in an Era of Limited Budgets: OAC roles. How can OAC best communicate with the community, and what expertise is needed on the OAC? |
Eric Saltzman |
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| 2:00 |
Strategic Planning in an Era of Limited Budgets: How can OPP maximize flexibility to enable quick response to newly emerging frontiers? |
Ed Brook |
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| 2:30 |
Preparing for the Arctic Science Committee of Visitors (COV) Review: draft tasking and other issues |
Ben Fitzhugh |
Michael Van Woert
Simon Stephenson |
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| 3:00 |
Break |
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| 3:30 |
Preparing for the Antarctic Science and the Antarctic Logistics COV Reviews: draft taskings, and how to address synchrony between OPP's internal science and logistics decision processes |
Mark Engebretson |
Karl Erb
Scott Borg
Brian Stone |
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| 4:30 |
IPY Legacy-building Activities. What should NSF be doing? |
Anne Henshaw |
Karl Erb
NSF Staff |
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| 5:00 |
Discussion/wrap-up/return to earlier issues |
Andrea Lloyd |
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| 5:30 |
Adjourn |
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 |
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| Time |
Topic |
OAC Lead |
NSF/Other Lead |
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| 8:30 |
Building and coordinating national and international scientific polar activities (SEARCH, DAMOCLES, ice sheet studies, observing network implementation, etc). How can we maintain emphasis on the key science questions? |
Hajo Eicken |
NSF staff |
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| 9:00 |
The International SAON (Sustained Arctic Observing Network) Planning Process |
Hajo Eicken |
Martin Jeffries
John Calder, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
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| 9:30 |
Identify Key topics for discussion with NSF Deputy Director |
Andrea Lloyd |
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| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:30 |
Discussion with NSF Deputy Director Dr. Kathie Olsen |
Andrea Lloyd |
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| 11:15 |
Challenges in defining, supporting and doing Systems Science: Discussion |
Ed Brook |
Simon Stephenson
Scott Borg |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 |
Broadening participation; Outreach; Education: The SACNAS annual meeting; Science week at Summit Station; Results from an NSF-side study |
Bernice Joseph |
Julie Palais; Sonia Ortega, Program Director, Division of Graduate Education, Directorate for Education & Human Resources |
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| 1:45 |
Planning for the three COV meetings: meeting dates, OAC liaisons |
Andrea Lloyd |
Michael Van Woert |
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| 2:15 |
Wrap-up discussions and planning for the next OAC meeting |
Andrea Lloyd |
Karl Erb
Susanne LaFratta |
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| 3:00 |
Adjourn |
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Last updated: 10/30/2008
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