NCIM Mid-Year Luncheon Meeting Agenda

December 23, 2008

 Time:  Noon – 2 PM

Date:  Monday, January 12, 2009

Place:  Hyatt Regency Hotel, Remington C/Russell A Rooms

Phoenix, AZ

 

·        President’s Welcome (Lyons)

·        Self Introductions (around the table)

·        Introduction/announcement of newest NCIM members and

introduction of current officers, reviewing new terms (Lyons)

·        Approval of Minutes of Annual Summer Meeting (Lyons)

·        Loren Crow 2009 scholarship winner (Lyons)

·        NCIM Financial Statement (Wagner)

·        NCIM Investment Account (Marsh)

·        Update on NCIM Affiliate Member category definition (Lyons)

·        CWSA Perspectives (VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher)(tentative)

·        Call for Nominations: NOAA Science Advisor Board Environmental

Information Service Working Group

·        Status of the NCIM Brochure, or just prepare business cards with a

URL? (Wagner)

·        The new NCIM Website (Falconer/Lyons)

·        List of “useful” URLs for website, a membership project (Lyons)

·        The new NCIM Blog (Westergard)

·        Presentation: Government transport and dispersion modeling contracts directed to non-meteorologists (Steve Hanna, CCM)

·        Presentation: What’s New At SPC? Dr. Joseph Schaefer, CCM

(Director, NOAA Storm Prediction Center)

·        Update on 2009 Annual Meeting Planning (Lyons)

o   A decision to be made: split meetings / elections?

o   Front Range in June or Norman in August?

o   Interactions with AMS Summer Community Meeting / CWCE

·        Future Short Course/Workshops at AMS Annual Meetings (brief

discussion)

·        Reminder of AMS Award Nomination process (Lyons)

·        Upcoming CCM Forum highlights (Gerry Mulvey, CCM)

·        Briefing on 2008 Highlights from the AMS Commission on the

Weather and Climate Enterprise (Matt Parker, CCM, AMS CWCE)

Member news items (as time permits)