Download Board on Enterprise Planning

Board on Enterprise
Strategic Topics
(BEST)*
2013 Annual Report and looking ahead into 2014
Chris Strager and Andrea Bleistein
* Formally known as the Board on Enterprise Planning (BEP)
2013 Membership
Member
Position
Term
Andrea Bleistein
Christopher Strager
NOAA, NWS
Co-Chairs 2012-2016
Don Winter
CSC
2013
David Green
NOAA, NWS
2013**
Bruce Bailey
AWS Truepower
2013**
Bruce Jones
Midland Radio
2013
George Smith
Riverside
2014**
Ana Barros
Duke University
2014**
Paul Sandifer
NOAA NOS
2016
Juli Trtanj
NOAA NOS
2016
Wendy Thomas
AMS
2015
Michael Hudson
NOAA NWS
2016
Bob Goldhammer
IAEM
2016
** These members served as co-chairs of an APT.
Primary Activities in 2013
• 1st Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise at 2013
Annual AMS Meeting
• Two active annual partnership topics:
• 1) Offshore Wind
• 2) Integrated Water Resources
• Transition of two APTs:
• Integrated Water Resources APT to new Water Resources committee
• Solar Energy APT to Renewable Energy Committee
• CWCE Reorganization Activities:
• Developed and finalized terms of reference for BEST
• Gained two pre-existing committees:
• Nationwide Network of Networks
• Climate Services
• Formation of two new committees:
• Ecological Forecasting
• Emergency Management
1st Symposium on Weather and
Climate Enterprise
• Welcome and Enterprise Highlights which included remarks from the BEP chairs
and highlights from the AMS 2012 Washington Forum and AMS 2012 Summer
Community Meeting.
• Panel Discussion: Improving the research to operations transition process (Joint
with the Third Conference on Transition of Research to Operations)
• Panel Discussion: Women in Leadership Across the Enterprise (Joint with the
Board on Women and Minorities)
• 2 Panel Discussions: National Mesonet Program and Related Research
• Presentation Session: More than just talking about the weather: The science
behind weather and climate communication (Joint with the Eighth Symposium
on Policy and Socio-economic Research)
• Presentation Session: Climate Change Communication Challenges and
Opportunities
• Panel Discussion: Committee to Improve Climate Change Communication
(CICCC)*
• Panel Discussion: Future Cooperation Within the US Space Weather Enterprise
(Joint with 10th Conference on Space Weather)
*Now known as the Committee for the Effective Communication of Climate and Weather Information
APT Committee on Offshore Wind
• Co-chaired by Bruce Bailey and David Green
• Extensive reviews both internally by AMS and externally by
members of industry as well as from the government and
academic sectors.
• Released APT white paper in July 2013 titled:
• “The Need for Expanded Meteorological and Oceanographic
Data to Support Resource Characterization and Design Condition
Definition for Offshore Wind Power Projects in the United
States”.
• Official work of this APT is now concluded with the hope that
other parts of the AMS act upon the recommendations.
APT Committee on Integrated Water
Resources
• Co-chaired by George Smith and Ana Barros
• The IWR APT and BEED Water Resources standing committee
will be merged as part of the CWCE reorganization as the
Water Resource Committee within the Board on Global
Strategies
• The APT is an example of a project that can be initiated by/within
the WR Committee as activities require in-depth analysis and a
deliverable to be provided.
• Specifically for the IWR APT, the major recent effort has been
to initiate and execute a survey of customer needs for
integrated water services.
APT Committee on Solar Energy
Forecasting
• In February 2013, John Schneider officially withdrew his
participation in the AMS BEP.
• Streamlining the solar energy APT with the Renewable Energy
Committee still allows this topic to be pursued in other ways
Committee on Ecological Forecasting
• Co-chaired by Paul Sandifer and Juli Trtanj
• Proposal was for an Ecological Forecasting APT at January
2012 AMS meeting.
• Commissioner recommended that this become standing
committee in 2013.
• Charter was finalized in August 2013.
• Members have been recruited.
Committee on Emergency Management
• Co-chairs: Michael Hudson and Bob Goldhammer
• Proposal was made by the Board on Enterprise and Economic
Development (BEED) for a new Emergency Management
Committee at 2013 Annual Meeting
• Commissioner recommended that it go under the BEST
• Charter was finalized in October 2013.
• Initial members have been recruited.
2014 Membership
Member
Committee
Position
Term
Andrea Bleistein
Christopher Strager
BEST
NOAA NWS
Co-Chairs 2012-2016
Paul Sandifer
Ecological Forecasting
NOAA NOS
2016
Juli Trtanj
Ecological Forecasting
NOAA NOS
2016
Wendy Thomas
BEST
AMS
2015
Michael Hudson
EM
NOAA NWS
2016
Bob Goldhammer
EM
IAEM
2016
James Stalker
NoNN
RESPR, Inc
2016
Stephanie Herring
Climate Services
NOAA NCDC
2017
Planned Activities for 2014
• BEST meeting at the AMS Annual Meeting Atlanta on Monday,
February 3rd at 3:00-4:00pm in the Omni Redwood Room
• 2nd Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise: Feb 45, 2014
• Ecological Forecasting and EM Committees both presenting
• Institute new CWCE structure as BEST
• Further define an Enterprise Topic Exchange
• Plan for 3rd Symposium on the Weather and Climate
Enterprise
• Develop website for BEST as part of AMS website refresh
process
Enterprise Topic Exchange
• Conduit between the enterprise and the CWCE for exchanging
critical ideas and concepts.
• Exchange may also take place among other Boards within the
Commission (if the theme fits suitably).