Session 5 | 
|   | Environmental challenges in a changing world | 
|   | Chair: Amanda H. Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Vic Australia 
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 | 8:15 AM | 5.1 | Climate Change—What does that mean for our future?    James Mahoney, NOAA, Washington, DC | 
 | 8:35 AM | 5.2 | The environmental impacts on policymakers    William Hooke, AMS, Atmospheric Policy Program, Washington, DC | 
 | 8:55 AM | 5.3 | Weather impacts on surface transportation    Leon F. Osborne Jr., Regional Weather Information Center and Institute for Surface Transportation Weather Research, Grand Forks, ND | 
 | 9:15 AM | 5.4 | The economicsof commercial weather forecasting    Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL | 
 | 9:35 AM | 5.5 | Where on earth is space weather headed?    John Foster, MIT, Cambridge, MA |