Session 6 | 
|   | Climate Services (Room 619/620) | 
|   | Chair: Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO 
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 | 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Climate Services: Where Do We Go From Here?      Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK | 
 | 8:45 AM | 6.2 | Crafting climate services    Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and K. T. Redmond | 
 | 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Meeting the climate needs of the US public: the next big challenge      Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Hill, R. Pulwarty, and K. Redmond | 
 | 9:15 AM | 6.4 | The National Weather Service's role as a partner for providing climate services at the regional and local levels    Robert E. Livezey, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Koepsell, M. Timofeyeva, R. Leffler, F. Horsfall, A. Bair, G. Hufford, P. Leftwich, V. Murphy, H. Thurm, and J. Weyman | 
 | 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Developing effective partnerships for service provision at regional and local scales: A problem-based approach    Susan Avery, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Dole and R. Livezey | 
 | 9:45 AM |  | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   
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 | 11:00 AM | 6.6 | Climate services from the state climatologist perspective    David A. Robinson, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ | 
 | 11:15 AM | 6.7 | Climate service partnership activities at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center      Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC | 
 | 11:30 AM | 6.8 | Climate Services—A USDA Perspective      Phillip A. Pasteris, Global Water Resources, Portland, OR; and T. Puterbaugh and R. Motha | 
 | 11:45 AM | 6.9 | Climate science and services: some lessons from CLIMAS      Andrew C. Comrie, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. C. Lemos, M. Hughes, and J. Overpeck |