Public Agenda
Committee on Programs and Plans - NSB Meeting
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National Science Foundation
August 5, 2009
8:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Room 1235
Open Session: 8:35 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
- Approval of May 4, 2009 and May 27, 2009 CPP Minutes
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, CPP Chairman
- Report from Task Force on Sustainable Energy
Dr. Dan Arvizu & Dr. Jon Strauss, Co-Chairs
- Subcommittee on Polar Issues (SOPI):
Dr. Jon Strauss, SOPI Chairman
Dr. Joan Frye, SOPI Executive Secretary
- SOPI Chairman's Remarks
- Director's Report - Office of Polar Programs
- Developments in Regional Climate Modeling
- Restrictions on Fuels for Southern Ocean Shipping
- NSB Information Item: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- NSB Information Item: NSF Data Policy Discussion
- NSB Information Item: Management and Operation of the Gemini Observatory
BREAK (10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Closed Session: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
- NSB Information Item: Operations for Future Coherent Light Source R&D
BREAK (Lunch, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Closed Session: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- NSB Information Item: Status of Track-2 Award
- NSB Action Item: TeraGrid Extension: Bridging to XD
- NSB Action Item: George E. Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Operations
BREAK (3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
Closed Session: 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
- NSB Action Item: Preliminary Design for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL)
- NSB Action Item: Approval of Construction Funding for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST)
Sonya Mallinoff
Executive Secretary