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Climate Working Group

A Presentation to the NOAA Science Advisory Board

Otis BrownDean - Rosenstiel School/UMiami

Chair - CWG

July 26, 2006

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Outline

• WG Appointments• Vetting Process• SAB Decisional Action on Appointment

Recommendations

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Purpose

• Requesting the SAB to:– Provide recommendations on CWG

Appointments including a new Chair

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Issues

Key Issues• Continuation of Climate Working Group • New Chair• Return Membership to full strength• Broaden the membership diversity • Retain history in the rotation process

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Background

• Three members rotate off– Mark Abbott– Otis Brown (Chair)– Kevin Trenberth

• Three vacancies on the CWG currently• Linkage to SAB (FACA)• Broaden the membership diversity

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CWG Chair Appointment

• Chair recommendation– Prof. Tony Busalacchi - Director, Earth

System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) / University of Maryland

• Acceptable to program• He is willing to serve• Would be a good link to the SAB

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CWG Rotation

• Retain Expertise and History– Reappoint

• Joyce Prenner• Tony Busalacchi

• New Appointments

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CWG Appointments

• Committee Appointments– Need to Select 6 new members with no more than

one per specialization for a three year term in the following areas

• Regional Services• Operations• Industry• Carbon• Ecosystems• Satellites and Observing Systems

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CWG Appointments [2]

• Regional Sevices - recommendations– Kelly Redmond, Deputy Director and Regional

Climatologist, Western Regional Climate Center, Atmospheric Sciences Division - Climate Dynamics, Large-Scale Dynamic Meteorology

– David Robinson, New Jersey State Climatologist and Chair, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854

– Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, Professor and Chair of Economics, – climate change economics

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CWG Appointments [3]

• Operations - recommendations– Tony Hollingsworth, ECMWF– David Anderson, retired, formerly ECMWF, Head,

Probabilistic Forecasting and Diagnostics Division

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CWG Appointments [4]

• Industry - recommendations– Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of

America– Heidi Cullen, Weather channel, climate expert at The

Weather Channel and has the key responsibility of adding explanation, depth and perspective to climate stories for The Weather Channel network and other platforms

– Hemant Shaw, Risk Management Solutions Inc.– Mack MacFarland, Dupont, Global Environmental Manager

for DuPont’s fluorochemicals business

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CWG Appointments [5]

• Carbon - recommendations– Chris Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of

Global Ecology, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve – global ecology, satellites, atmospheric data, models and census data, vegetation-climate feedbacks, member of National Academy of Sciences

– Cindy Lee, SUNY - Ocean carbon cycle, marine geochemistry of organic compounds, organic and inorganic nitrogen-cycle biochemistry, silicate and carbonate bio-mineralization

– Scott Doney, Senior Scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, WHOI, carbon-climate feedbacks

– Stephen Pacala, Petrie Professor of Biology, Princeton, and Director of Princeton Environmental Institute, interplay between community and ecosystem-level processes, and the interactions between the global biosphere and climate

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CWG Appointments [6]

• Ecosystems - recommendations– Francisco Chavez, Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay

Aquarium Research Institute, Biology and chemistry of the ocean in relation to global change, Instrumentation and systems for long-term ocean observing, satellite remote sensing

– Dave Karl, UHawaii, Chairman, Marine Biology Specialization, microbiological oceanography, microbial ecology, biogeochemical cycles, Member National Academy of Sciences

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CWG Appointments [7]• Satellites and Observing Systems - recommendations

– Mark Schoeberl, NASA/GSFC, Chief Scientist, Earth-Sun Exploration Division, Project Scientist for EOS Aura mission, specializes in stratospheric processes including wave dynamics, ozone depletion and trace gas transport

– Mike King, NASA/GSFC, Senior Project Scientist for Earth Observing System, atmospheric physicist

– Bruce Wielicki, Senior Scientist for Radiation Sciences, NASA Langley Research Center, CERES instrument science team leader, Validation of remotely-sensed cloud properties, Effect of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget

– William Smith, NASA Langley Research Center, Chief, Atmospheric Sciences Division, participant in the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) on cloud climatology

– Thomas Ackerman, Chief Scientist for the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program - atmospheric scientist, climate forcing and climate change, impact of aerosols on climate

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NOAA Coordination & Views

• Coordination with:– Endorsed by Climate Program Manager– SAB secretariat

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Desired Outcome

• Decisional• Appoint one nominee from each group

– Could be from the recommendations presented or a new nominee

• Appoint a new Chair• Appoint new liaison with SAB• Bring the CWG back to full strength with

increased diversity in the membership