Joint Session 7 |
| | U. S. Global Change Research Program water cycle initiative (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) |
| | Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:25 PM | | Opening Remarks by James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA)
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| 1:30 PM | J7.1 | An overview of global water cycle scientific issues (Invited Presentation)
Roni Avissar, Duke University, Durham, NC |
| 1:45 PM | J7.2 | USGCRP and CCRI: Improved Management of the Science-Policy Interface (Invited Presentation)
Richard Moss, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, Washington, DC |
| 2:00 PM | J7.3 | Contextual Considerations for the US Global Water Cycle Program (Invited Presentation)
Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Eden |
| 2:15 PM | J7.4 | NASA plans for a Water- and Energy-cycle Resarch (WatER) Initiative to Advance Global Water Cycle Science and Prediction (Invited Presentation)
C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. L. Bras |
| 2:30 PM | J7.5 | Water Cycle Research at the National Science Foundation (Invited Presentation)
Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA |
| 2:45 PM | | Questions and Discussions: Avissar, Moss, Lawford, Stephens, and Schlosser
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| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hours 1:30–7:30 p.m.)
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| 3:30 PM | J7.6 | NOAA Water Cycle Program (Invited Presentation)
Jin Huang, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Lawford |
|  | J7.7 | DOE water cycle activities (Invited Presentation)
Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD |
| 3:44 PM | J7.7a | DOE WATER CYCLE ACTIVITIES (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD; and T. Cress |
| 3:59 PM | J7.8 | Overview of water resources research issues pertaining to the Bureau of Reclamation (Invited Presentation)
Shannon E. Cunniff, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, DC |
| 4:14 PM | J7.9 | A Strategy for Global Water Cycle Research
Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 4:29 PM | J7.10 | The U.S. Global Water Cycle Initiative and its Interface with the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) (Invited Presentation)
Soroosh Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Try and M. P. L. Whitaker |
| 4:44 PM | J7.11 | The water cycle across scales: An NCAR initiative 
Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hack, M. A. LeMone, M. Moncrieff, D. Parsons, K. Trenberth, T. Warner, and J. Wilson |
| 4:59 PM | J7.12 | The U.S. Weather Research Program and its Contributions to Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather
Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/U.S. Weather Research Program Interagency Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Gaynor and R. Gall |
| 5:14 PM | | Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP4 (Please note that the Formal Viewing Time for these posters will be on Thursday, 13 February at 9:45 a.m.)
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