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The AMS Commission on the The AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise Weather and Climate Enterprise

Board on Enterprise Economic Board on Enterprise Economic Development (BEED)Development (BEED)

Pam Emch (Northrop Grumman)

Chair, Board on Enterprise Economic Development

Background & Activity StatusAugust 2008

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AgendaAgenda

• Background and OrganizationBackground and Organization

• Activities AccomplishedActivities Accomplished

• Activities PlannedActivities Planned

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Background and OrganizationBackground and Organization

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BEED MissionBEED Mission

ExternalExternal Focus: Promote growth in the economic Focus: Promote growth in the economic base of the weather and climate enterprise by base of the weather and climate enterprise by outreach to the user community, broadly defined outreach to the user community, broadly defined

HistoryHistory

Prior to the formation of the Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise, the BEED was the AMS Economic Development Committee, which reported to the AMS Executive Committee

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BEED OrganizationBEED Organization

Intelligent Transportation Systems & Surface Transportation Committee

Board on Enterprise Economic Development

(BEED)

Water Resources Committee

Energy Committee

Economic Sector Committee - X

Renamed, reorganized 2005

Reorganized 2005

2006

2008

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BEED Members - 2008BEED Members - 2008Name Organization Term

Expiration

1. Chair, Pam Emch Northrop Grumman 2011

2. Jan Dutton AWS 20093. Bill Graham NASA Stennis 20094. John Zack MESO, Inc. 20095. Monica Hale SAIC 20106. Dorlisa Hommel Raytheon 20107. Richard Ohlemacher Northrop Grumman 20108. Robert Plante Sasaki Institute (OU) 20109. Andrea Bleistein NWS Office of Science & Technology 201110. Holly Hartman University of Arizona 201111. John Henz HDR Engineering, Inc. 201112. Eva Regnier Naval Postgraduate School 2011

Ex Officio Members:• Post Chair, BEED – Bill Mahoney (UCAR)• Chair, ITS & Surface Transportation Committee– Paul Pisano (FHWA)• Chair, Energy Committee – Jon Davis (Chesapeake Energy)

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ITS & ST Committee Members - 2008ITS & ST Committee Members - 2008Name Organization Term

Expiration

1. Chair, Paul Pisano FHWA 2009

2. Brooke Pearson Vaisala 20093. Renee McPherson Oklahoma State University 20094. Robert Hallowell MIT / Lincoln Lab 20095. Jim O’Sullivan NOAA 20096. Kevin Petty NCAR 20097. Pat Welsh University of North Florida 20098. Ralph Patterson Utah DOT 20099. Denise Stephenson-Hawk UCAR 201010. Jim Block Meteorlogix 201111. Steve Conger AvaTerra Services / Iteris, Inc. 201112. Kathy Osborne Meridian Environmental Technologies 2011

Ex Officio Members:• Future Chair - Ed Boselly (Weather Solutions Group)• Chair, Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group, Intelligent

Transportation Society of America – Art Handman (Ret. Hartford Transit Authority)• Chair, TRB Task Force on Surface Transportation Weather - Dr. Wilf Nixon (U of IA)• Federal Coordinator (OFCM) or designee

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Energy Committee Members - 2008Energy Committee Members - 2008Name Organization Term

Expiration

1. Chair, Jon Davis Chesapeake Energy 2010*

2. Josh Darr Chesapeake Energy 20093. Dave Changnon Northern IL University 20094. Adam Stevens Velite Capital (prev. Citigroup) 20095. Marc Schwartz NREL 20096. Patrick Walsh TVA 20097. Ken Reeves AccuWeather 20098. Robert Mulloy Shell 20099. Beth Stump Chevron 201010. Kathleen Moore Integrated Environmental Data, LLC 201011. Cathy Finley WindLogics, Inc. 201012. Rick Petty DOE 2010

*J. Davis’ term was extended one year

Several other member terms were extended one year to give the charter members a full 3-year term.

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Water Resources Committee Water Resources Committee Members - 2008Members - 2008

Name Organization Term Expiration

1. Chair, John Henz HDR Engineering, Inc. 2011

2. New Member - 2008 20103. New Member - 2008 20104. New Member - 2008 20105. New Member - 2008 20106. New Member - 2008 20117. New Member - 2008 20118. New Member - 2008 20119. New Member - 2009 201210. New Member - 2009 201211. New Member - 2009 201212. New Member - 2009 2012

• New members will be drawn from across the enterprise, ensuring representation from all sectors: government/agency, industry/commercial and academia/labs

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BEED Primary ActivitiesBEED Primary Activities• Organize regular yearly events

– Users Forum• Takes place at the AMS Annual Meeting (~1 day)• Brings together the broader user community and the weather and climate

enterprise• Focus on local / regional users in vicinity of Annual Meeting location• Speakers asked to focus on industry needs for weather and climate information,

recent successes and failures in the use of products, and other aspects of products and services as they relate to the end user and decision maker

– Public-Private Partnership Forum (formerly “Corporate Forum”)• Takes place each spring in Washington, D.C. (1 ½ day)• Brings together key members of the community, government agencies, and policy

makers• The primary goal of the Forum is to identify business opportunities• Discussion topics include ongoing programs, new initiatives, business

opportunities, and policy issues

• Work with WCEC, BEP, BEC to plan and organize meetings, review statements, and participate in additional AMS activities

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BEED Primary Activities (cont’d)BEED Primary Activities (cont’d)• The BEED also supports the activities of its committees

– Identify and facilitate opportunities for engagement between the weather and climate community and the transportation, energy, and water resources sectors• Sponsor / attend conferences and web casts• Organize / co-chair AMS forums, sessions, and short courses

– Improve AMS committee websites and other methods of distributing committee information

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Activities AccomplishedActivities Accomplished

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Sixth Users ForumSixth Users Forum22 January 200822 January 2008

• Jointly organized by the BEED and the AMS Societal Impacts Board

• Session A: Emergency Management and Rescue Operations– Jennifer Suter – Harris County Office of Homeland

Security– Thomas Lee Smith – Building Consultant to FEMA– Brandon Bolinski – SE Region Hurricane Manager,

FEMA – Windell Curole – GM, Lafourche Levee District

• Session B: Extreme Weather, Climate Change, and the Energy Industry

– Brent Dorsey –Environmental Programs Director, Entergy– Cortis Cooper – Chevron– Jeff Zimmerman – McDermott Industries– Gary Crews – Spatial Energy– Ron Hughes – Global Industries– Mike Beeman – National Preparedness Director, FEMA Region II, DHS

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2008 Public-Private Partnership Forum2008 Public-Private Partnership Forum22-23 April 200822-23 April 2008

• Participants included:– Congressional Staff: Appropriations, Authorization– Federal Gov’t Agencies: NOAA, NASA, DHS, DOE

• Standard Sessions– Legislative Topics Panel – Authorization– Federal Agency Initiatives, Plans, Opportunities– Legislative Topics Panel – Appropriations Process

• “Elective” Sessions– Responding to Emerging Climate Change Policies

• NOAA Climate Service Plans• Nat’l Infrastructure Needs• Emerging Markets: Insurance, Risk Mgmt, and

Energy, Carbon, Emissions Trading– Establishing Community Priorities – Next Actions

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• Guest Speakers– Luncheon: Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future– Dinner: Ana Unruh Cohen, House Professional Staff (D), Select

Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

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Committees - AccomplishmentsCommittees - AccomplishmentsIntelligent Transportation Systems & Surface Transportation Committee:

• Held Short Course on Surface Transportation Meteorology at the AMS Annual Meeting (20 Jan. 2008)

• Organized Surface Transportation Weather session in the 24th Conference on International Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) at the AMS Annual Meeting (Jan. 2008)

• Held joint meeting with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group (23 Jan. 2008)

• Co-Sponsored 4th National Conference on Surface Transportation Weather held jointly with TRB Snow & Ice Control Technology Conference (18-20 June 2008, Indianapolis)

Energy Committee:

• Organized and chaired the session on Extreme Weather, Climate Change, and the Energy Industry for the Sixth Users Forum at the AMS Annual Meeting (22 Jan. 2008)

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Activities PlannedActivities Planned

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BEED Activities PlannedBEED Activities Planned• Grow membership and begin activities of new Water Resources Committee

– Approx. 8 members to start in 2008 and 4 to start in January 2009

• Organize Seventh Users Forum for 2009 AMS Annual Meeting

• Organize 2009 Public-Private Partnership Forum

• Support development of community priorities statements

• Continue improvement of AMS BEED website and distribution of BEED information

• Support activities of BEED Committees

• Expand cross-enterprise participation in AMS activities

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Seventh Users ForumSeventh Users Forum13 January 200913 January 2009

• Focus: Weather, Climate, and Water Resources in the Urban Environment

• Invite speakers from southwest region / Phoenix area

• Draft Agenda Topics– Session A: “Weather and Short-Term Decision

Making in Water Resource Operations”– Salt River Project, Central Arizona Project,

metropolitan water districts

– Session B: “Climate and Long-Term Planning of Water Resources” – Efficient, sustainable utilization of runoff water at large and small-

scale levels– City planning, structural design, decision support systems:

impacts of potential climate change, paleo-climate research– “How sure is a 100 yr water supply?”: uncertainty and climate

change in Arizona planning– NOAA planning: inputs from the Water Resource community

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2009 Public-Private Partnership Forum2009 Public-Private Partnership Forum21-22 April 200921-22 April 2009

• Standard Sessions– Legislative Topics Panel – Authorization– Federal Agency Initiatives, Plans,

Opportunities– Legislative Topics Panel – Appropriations

Process

• “Elective” Sessions– Private Sector Initiatives– Establishing Community Priorities – Next

Actions

• Guest Speakers– Luncheon– Dinner

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Committee Activities PlannedCommittee Activities PlannedIntelligent Transportation Systems & Surface Transportation Committee:

• Support ITS World Congress; hold joint meeting with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group (Nov. 2008, New York City)

• Organize Surface Transportation Weather session in the 25th Conference on International Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) (AMS Annual Meeting, 13 Jan. 2009)

• Organize Surface Transportation Weather session in the 4th Symposium on Policy and Socioeconomic Research (AMS Annual Meeting, 13 Jan. 2009)

• Hold joint meeting with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group (AMS Annual Meeting, Jan. 2009)

• Developing BAMS articles focused on surface transportation weather

Energy Committee:

• Continue working with NCDC on climate normals including support of upcoming conference call in late Aug/ Sept 2008

• Organize Energy session for the 8th Symposium on the Urban Environment (AMS Annual Meeting, Jan. 2009)