Session 1 |
| | Opening Session |
| | Chair: Mary M. Cairns, NOAA/OFCM, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:00 AM | 1.1 | Opening Remarks 
Mary M. Cairns, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD |
| 8:15 AM | 1.2 | Partnerships for Environmental Literacy, serving the American public
D. L. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 8:45 AM | 1.3 | NCEP: NWP in the era of common infrastructures WRF & ESMF
Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Lord and G. DiMego |
| 9:15 AM | 1.4 | The COMET Program: Fifteen years of education and training for weather forecasters and the user community
Timothy Spangler, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO |