1. The AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise Board on Enterprise Economic Development (BEED) Bill Mahoney (NCAR) Chair, Board on Enterprise Economic Development Background & Activity Status January 2008

2. Mission To promote growth in the economic base of the weather and climate enterprise by outreach to user communities.

3. History Prior to the formation of the Commission, the BEED was the AMS Economic Development Committee, which reported to the AMS Executive Committee.

4. BEED Organization Board on Enterprise Economic Development (BEED) Surface Transportation Committee Energy Committee Economic Sector Committee - X Economic Sector Committee - Y External Focus

5. Board Members - 2007 NameAffiliationTerm Expiration Chair, Bill MahoneyUCAR2008 Future Chair, Pam EmchNorthrop Grumman 1. Greg WilsonBaron Environmental Services2008 2. Josh FosterNOAA2008 3. Brenda PhilipsECS/UMASS2008 4. Jim O’SullivanNOAA2008 5. Bill GrahamNASA2009 6. Jan DuttonAWS2009 7. John ZackMESO, Inc.2009 8. Pam EmchNorthrop2009 9. Robert PlanteSasaki Institute (OU)2010 10. Dorlisa HommelRaytheon2010 11. Richard OhlemacherNorthrop Grumman2010 12. Monica HaleSAIC2010 Ex Officio Members: Chair, AMS Surface Transportation and ITS – Paul Pisano (FHWA) Chair, Energy Committee – Jon Davis (Chesapeake Energy)

6. Board Members - 2008 NameAffiliationTerm Expiration 1. Chair, Pam EmchNorthrop Grumman2012 Post Chair, Bill MahoneyUCAR2009 2. Bill GrahamNASA2009 3. Jan DuttonAWS2009 4. John ZackMESO, Inc.2009 5. Robert PlanteSasaki Institute (OU)2010 6. Dorlisa HommelRaytheon2010 7. Richard OhlemacherNorthrop Grumman2010 8. Monica HaleSAIC2010 9. Holly HartmanUniversity of Arizona2011 10. John HenzHDR Engineering2011 11. Eva RegnierNaval Postgraduate School2011 12. Andrea BleisteinNWS Office of Science & Tech2011 Ex Officio Members: Chair, AMS Surface Transportation and ITS – Paul Pisano (FHWA) Chair, Energy Committee – Jon Davis (Chesapeake Energy)

7. Major Activities - 2007 The BEED organizes the following major activities: * Corporate Forum * Users Forum The Board also supports activities of its two committees ITS/ST Committee * National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium * Joint meeting with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group * Short Course on Surface Transportation Weather * Organized road weather session in IIPS Energy Committee * Assisted NCDC with two national telecons on climate normals * Organized energy session for Sixth Users Forum

8. BEED Website A new BEED website was developed in 2007. It will soon be integrated into the AMS website

9. Corporate Forum Brings together several key members of the community, government agencies, and policy makers, to discuss ongoing programs, new initiatives, business opportunities, and policy issues. The primary goal of the Forum is to identify business opportunities. To increase the participation in the Forum, the name of the Forum was changed in 2007 to the Public-Private Partnership Forum Next PPP Forum: 22-23 April 2008 University of CA Washington Ctr.

10. 2008 PPP Forum 22-23 April 2008 Participants to include: Federal Government Agencies - NOAA - NASA - DHS - DOE - Congressional Appropriations Staff - Congressional Authorization Staff 2008 Special Topics - Responding to Emerging Climate Change Policies - Establishing Community Priorities – Defining, Prioritizing, and Advocating Effectively BAMS Advertisement

11. Users Forum Brings together industry users and the weather and climate enterprise. 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. BAMS Advertisement

12. Sixth Users Forum 22 January 2008 Focus: * Emergency Management & Rescue Operations * Offshore Energy Industries Participants will include: Session A – Emergency Management Jennifer Sutter – Harris County Office of Homeland Security Thomas Lee Smith – Building Consultant to FEMA Brandon Bolinski – Southeast Region Hurricane Manager, FEMA Windell Curole – GM, Lafourche Levee District Session B – Offshore Energy Brent Dorsey – Director of Environmental Programs, Entergy Cortis Cooper – Chevron Mike Beeman, FEMA, Region II, DHS Gary Crewa – Spatial Energy Ron Hughes – Global Industries Jeff Zimmerman – McDermott Industries

13. ITS & Surface Transportation Weather Committee 2008 NameAffiliationTerm Expiration 1. Chair, Paul PisanoFHWA2009 2. Brooke PearsonVaisala2009 3. Renee McPhersonOklahoma State University2009 4. Robert HallowellMIT Lincoln Lab2009 5. Jim O’SullivanNOAA2009 6. Kevin PettyNCAR2009 7. Pat WelschUniversity of North Florida2009 8. Ralph PattersonUtah DOT2009 9. Denise Stephenson-HawkUCAR2010 10. Jim BlockMeteorlogix2011 11. Steve CongerIteris2011 12. Kathy OsborneMeridian Environmental Technologies2011 Ex Officio Members: 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

14. ITS & Surface Transportation Weather Committee 2007 Activities: Co-sponsored 3 rd National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium (June ’07, Washington, D.C.) Developing BAMS volume focused on surface transportation weather Developed AMS Short Course on Surface Transportation Weather Developed web site (not live yet) Organized surface transportation weather session in IIPS 2008 Planned Activities: Co-Sponsor Surface Transportation Weather Conference (16-18 June 2008, Indianapolis) Co-Sponsor TRB Snow & Ice Control Technology Conference (18-20 June 2008, Indianapolis) Support ITS World Congress, November, New York City Organize surface transportation weather session in IIPS Continue to identify opportunities to engage the weather and climate community and the transportation sector

15. Energy Committee - 2008 NameAffiliationTerm Expiration 1. Chair, Jon DavisChesapeake Energy2009 2. Josh DarChesapeake Energy (prev. RMS)2009 3. Dave ChangnonNorthern IL University2009 4. Adam StevensVelite Capital (prev. Citigroup)2009 5. Marc SwartzNREL2009 6. Patrick WalshTVA2009 7. Ken ReevesAccuWeather2009 8. Robert MulloyShell2009 9. Beth StumpChevron2010 10. Kathleen MooreIntegrated Environmental Data, LLC2010 11. Cathy FindleyWindLogics, Inc.2010 12. Rick PettyDOE2010 Several terms were extended one year to give the charter members a full 3-year term.

16. Energy Committee 2007 Activities: Co-sponsored NCDC webcasts on revisions to climate normals Organized the energy component of the Sixth Users Forum Developed a committee web site ( http://www.ametsoc.org/committeepges/energy/index.html) 2008 Planned Activities: Support NCDC climate normals user outreach activities Organize energy session at ther 2009 Annual Meeting (Symposium on the Urban Environment) Continue to identify opportunities to engage the weather and climate community and the energy sector

17. BEED Plans - 2008 1)Transition Chair to Pam Emch 2) Identify and establish new committee Human Health or Water resources 3) Support development of community priorities statements and industry participation in AMS activities 4) Submit proposal for AMS to be an “Invited Organization” at the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston 5) Organize PPP Forum and Seventh Users Forum 6) Support BEED Committees