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The AMS Commission on the
Weather and Climate Enterprise
Board on Enterprise Economic
Development (BEED)
Background & Activity Status
January 2008
Bill Mahoney (NCAR)
Chair, Board on Enterprise Economic Development
Mission
To promote growth in the economic
base of the weather and climate
enterprise by outreach to user
communities.
History
Prior to the formation of the
Commission, the BEED was the AMS
Economic Development Committee,
which reported to the AMS Executive
Committee.
BEED Organization
External Focus
Board on
Enterprise Economic Development
(BEED)
Surface Transportation Committee
Energy Committee
Economic Sector Committee - X
Economic Sector Committee - Y
Board Members - 2007
Name
Chair, Bill Mahoney
Future Chair, Pam Emch
Affiliation
UCAR
Northrop Grumman
1. Greg Wilson
2. Josh Foster
3. Brenda Philips
4. Jim O’Sullivan
5. Bill Graham
6. Jan Dutton
7. John Zack
8. Pam Emch
9. Robert Plante
10. Dorlisa Hommel
11. Richard Ohlemacher
12. Monica Hale
Baron Environmental Services
NOAA
ECS/UMASS
NOAA
NASA
AWS
MESO, Inc.
Northrop
Sasaki Institute (OU)
Raytheon
Northrop Grumman
SAIC
Term Expiration
2008
Ex Officio Members:
Chair, AMS Surface Transportation and ITS – Paul Pisano (FHWA)
Chair, Energy Committee – Jon Davis (Chesapeake Energy)
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Board Members - 2008
Name
1. Chair, Pam Emch
Post Chair, Bill Mahoney
Affiliation
Northrop Grumman
UCAR
Term Expiration
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2. Bill Graham
3. Jan Dutton
4. John Zack
5. Robert Plante
6. Dorlisa Hommel
7. Richard Ohlemacher
8. Monica Hale
9. Holly Hartman
10. John Henz
11. Eva Regnier
12. Andrea Bleistein
NASA
AWS
MESO, Inc.
Sasaki Institute (OU)
Raytheon
Northrop Grumman
SAIC
University of Arizona
HDR Engineering
Naval Postgraduate School
NWS Office of Science & Tech2011
Ex Officio Members:
Chair, AMS Surface Transportation and ITS – Paul Pisano (FHWA)
Chair, Energy Committee – Jon Davis (Chesapeake Energy)
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Major Activities - 2007
The BEED organizes the following major activities:
* Corporate Forum
* Users Forum
The Board also supports activities of its two committees
ITS/ST Committee
* National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium
* Joint meeting with the Intelligent Transportation
Society of America’s Weather Information &
Applications Special Interest Group
* Short Course on Surface Transportation Weather
* Organized road weather session in IIPS
Energy Committee
* Assisted NCDC with two national telecons on climate normals
* Organized energy session for Sixth Users Forum
BEED Website
A new BEED website
was developed in 2007.
It will soon be integrated
into the AMS website
Corporate Forum
Brings together several key members of the community,
government agencies, and policy makers, to discuss ongoing
programs, new initiatives, business opportunities, and policy
issues. The primary goal of the Forum is to identify business
opportunities.
To increase the participation in the Forum, the name of the
Forum was changed in 2007 to the
Public-Private Partnership Forum
Next PPP Forum: 22-23 April 2008
University of CA Washington Ctr.
2008 PPP Forum
22-23 April 2008
Participants to include:
• Federal Government Agencies
- NOAA
- NASA
- DHS
- DOE
- Congressional Appropriations Staff
- Congressional Authorization Staff
• 2008 Special Topics
- Responding to Emerging Climate
Change Policies
- Establishing Community Priorities –
Defining, Prioritizing, and Advocating
Effectively
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Users Forum
Brings together industry users
and the weather and climate
enterprise.
Speakers asked to focus on
industry needs for weather and
climate information, recent
successes and failures in the
use of products, and other
aspects of products and
services as they relate to the
end user and decision maker.
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Sixth Users Forum
22 January 2008
Focus: * Emergency Management & Rescue Operations
* Offshore Energy Industries
Participants will include:
Session A – Emergency Management
• Jennifer Sutter – Harris County Office of Homeland Security
• Thomas Lee Smith – Building Consultant to FEMA
• Brandon Bolinski – Southeast Region Hurricane Manager, FEMA
• Windell Curole – GM, Lafourche Levee District
Session B – Offshore Energy
• Brent Dorsey – Director of Environmental Programs, Entergy
• Cortis Cooper – Chevron
• Mike Beeman, FEMA, Region II, DHS
• Gary Crewa – Spatial Energy
• Ron Hughes – Global Industries
• Jeff Zimmerman – McDermott Industries
ITS & Surface Transportation Weather Committee
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1. Chair, Paul Pisano
Affiliation
FHWA
Term Expiration
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2. Brooke Pearson
3. Renee McPherson
4. Robert Hallowell
5. Jim O’Sullivan
6. Kevin Petty
7. Pat Welsch
8. Ralph Patterson
9. Denise Stephenson-Hawk
10. Jim Block
11. Steve Conger
12. Kathy Osborne
Vaisala
Oklahoma State University
MIT Lincoln Lab
NOAA
NCAR
University of North Florida
Utah DOT
UCAR
Meteorlogix
Iteris
Meridian Environmental Technologies
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Ex Officio Members:
• Chair, Weather Information & Applications Special Interest Group, Intelligent
Transportation Society of America – Art Handman (Ret. Hartford Transit Authority)
• Chair, TRB Task Force on Surface Transportation Weather (Dr. Wilf Nixon, U of IA)
• Federal Coordinator (OFCM) or designee
ITS & Surface Transportation Weather Committee
2007 Activities:
• Co-sponsored 3rd National Surface Transportation Weather Symposium
(June ’07, Washington, D.C.)
• Developing BAMS volume focused on surface transportation weather
• Developed AMS Short Course on Surface Transportation Weather
• Developed web site (not live yet)
• Organized surface transportation weather session in IIPS
2008 Planned Activities:
• Co-Sponsor Surface Transportation Weather Conference (16-18 June
2008, Indianapolis)
• Co-Sponsor TRB Snow & Ice Control Technology Conference (18-20 June
2008, Indianapolis)
• Support ITS World Congress, November, New York City
• Organize surface transportation weather session in IIPS
• Continue to identify opportunities to engage the weather and climate
community and the transportation sector
Energy Committee - 2008
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1. Chair, Jon Davis
Affiliation
Chesapeake Energy
Term Expiration
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2. Josh Dar
3. Dave Changnon
4. Adam Stevens
5. Marc Swartz
6. Patrick Walsh
7. Ken Reeves
8. Robert Mulloy
9. Beth Stump
10. Kathleen Moore
11. Cathy Findley
12. Rick Petty
Chesapeake Energy (prev. RMS)
Northern IL University
Velite Capital (prev. Citigroup)
NREL
TVA
AccuWeather
Shell
Chevron
Integrated Environmental Data, LLC
WindLogics, Inc.
DOE
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Several terms were extended one year to give the charter members
a full 3-year term.
Energy Committee
2007 Activities:
• Co-sponsored NCDC webcasts on revisions to climate normals
• Organized the energy component of the Sixth Users Forum
• Developed a committee web site
(http://www.ametsoc.org/committeepges/energy/index.html)
2008 Planned Activities:
• Support NCDC climate normals user outreach activities
• Organize energy session at ther 2009 Annual Meeting (Symposium on
the Urban Environment)
• Continue to identify opportunities to engage the weather and climate
community and the energy sector
BEED Plans - 2008
1) Transition Chair to Pam Emch
2) Identify and establish new committee
• Human Health or
• Water resources
3) Support development of community priorities statements and industry
participation in AMS activities
4) Submit proposal for AMS to be an “Invited Organization” at the 2009
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston
5) Organize PPP Forum and Seventh Users Forum
6) Support BEED Committees