Agenda

Unidata Policy Committee

5-6 February 2004
Boulder, Colorado
Unidata Conference Room, FL4, Room 1318

Thursday, 5 February

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Merrill)

• New member introduction (Maidment, Bogden, Steenburgh Users Committee Chair)
• Review October 2003 summary notes
• Set next meeting dates
  • Spring 04 Meeting, 24-25 May 2004 (Boulder):
  • Fall 04 Meeting, (Arlington):
• Review of action items from the October meeting
  • Action Item 1: The Policy Committee will compose a letter to the Deans of the IDD
    Relay sites with copies to IT and site representatives. The letter should
    explain the relay's importance to the Earth sciences community, and, the
    reason for the size and the importance of the data being moved (handout)
  • Action Item 2: The UPC will solicit a letter of support from the National Weather Service (Greg Mandt or Jack Kelly to sign) for its Outstanding Achievement award nomination materials. Linda will coordinate this with Leroy Spayd. (Status: Done)
  • Action Item 3: Ben will contact Jeff Reaves to discuss the private sector's needs for access to real-time weather data and invite him or a representative of Peak Weather to the February Policy Committee meeting to discuss how Peak Weather could work with the UPC on the Level II/CONDUIT issue. (Status: Done, Friday agenda item)
• Chair Designate Discussion
• Adopt Agenda

9:15 Status Reports

Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
Budget Report (Graham)
Users Committee Report (Steenburgh)

10:15 Break

10:30 Agency Reports

NSF (Grant, Jacobs)
NWS (Spayd)

11:30 Level II Data Distribution (Miller, Ramamurthy)

12:15 Lunch (Fl2 Cafeteria)

1:30 Proposed NCAR Reorganization (NCAR realignment slides) (Fellows)

2:45 Break

3:00 UCAR Realignment Discussions (Fellows, Anthes)

Rick Anthes will join us for all or part of the above two discussions

4:00 GIS Activity at the UPC (Domenico)

5:00 End Day One

6:00 Working Reception at the Rews (all participants and Unidata staff)