1. 1 Climate Working Group A Presentation to the NOAA Science Advisory Board Otis Brown Dean - Rosenstiel School/UMiami Chair - CWG July 26, 2006

2. 2 Outline WG Appointments Vetting Process SAB Decisional Action on Appointment Recommendations

3. 3 Purpose Requesting the SAB to: –Provide recommendations on CWG Appointments including a new Chair

4. 4 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

5. 5 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

6. 6 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

7. 7 CWG Rotation Retain Expertise and History –Reappoint Joyce Prenner Tony Busalacchi New Appointments

8. 8 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

9. 9 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

10. 10 CWG Appointments [3] Operations - recommendations –Tony Hollingsworth, ECMWF –David Anderson, retired, formerly ECMWF, Head, Probabilistic Forecasting and Diagnostics Division

11. 11 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

12. 12 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

13. 13 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

14. 14 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

15. 15 NOAA Coordination & Views Coordination with: –Endorsed by Climate Program Manager –SAB secretariat

16. 16 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