Management Oversight Board Remarks and Updates
Exciting remarks and updates from the Management Oversight Board at the 18th JCSDA Technical Review Meeting and Science Workshop. Includes discussions on the MOB's role, changes in membership, new MOA for JCSDA, and future plans.
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Opening remarks from the Management Oversight Board (MOB) 18thJCSDA Technical Review Meeting and Science Workshop June 7, 2021
Its exciting to meet again this year Virtual setting remains essential Lots of credit due to the JCSDA team for organizing the meeting Special thanks to Kat Shanahan and Jim Yoe and, of course, all of you for making the meeting a success
Role of the MOB Set big-picture strategy communicate to Agency Executives Work with ET to define work plan and with Agency funding Approving the Annual Operating Plan current activities Let s recognize the exceptional work done by the ET
Changes in the MOB Welcome to: Many thanks to: Joe Pica and Mitch Goldberg now represent NESDIS in a rotating role Anil Rao is now beginning his tenure as Chief Scientist in Air Force Weather and serves on the MOB Mike Farrar has a new role as the NWS representative Harry Cicanek, who play a major role until he retired from NESDIS Kurtis Schubeck, for admirably representing the Air Force after Mike Farrar departed Brian Gross, for his generally excellent servce as the NWS member Jon Petch, who represents The UK Met Office s investments in JCSDA
Members: The MOB Michael Farrar, NOAA-NWS Mitch Goldberg, NOAA-NESDIS James Hansen, NRL-Navy Ex-officio members: Brian Gross, NOAA-NWS Tsengdar Lee, NASA Dorothy Koch, NOAA-OAR Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA-OAR David McCarren, Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy Steven Pawson, NASA Stephan Smith, NOAA-NWS Jon Petch, The Met Office Joe Pica, NOAA-NESDIS Anil Rao, USAF Weather
New MOA in Place for JCSDA The new Memorandum was signed by all of the Agencies some weeks ago! A BIG thank you to Jim Yoe and Tsengdar Lee for pushing this through the approval process
Looking ahead Expect to meet with our Agency Executive in August Convey the excitement the MOB feels about the maturing investment that has been made in the JCSDA, as the tools are turning from a dream into a reality for our systems