Earth System Science Symposium (USA)

NASA's Earth Science Division has planned a three-day symposium to examine our scientific accomplishments during the twenty years following the initiation of Earth System Science (ESS) as an integrated scientific discipline, significantly enhanced by the global perspective of space, while considering future plans and challenges for the next twenty years of ESS at NASA.

The web site for the Symposium is up and running and is located at: <http://dels.nas.edu/osb/nasa.shtml>, and contains information on the Symposium, including an agenda and on-line registration capability.

We would like to invite you to participate in the symposium entitled,"NASA Earth System Science at 20: Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges" to take place at the National Academy of Sciences located at 2100 C St. N.W., Washington, D.C., USA) from 22-24 June 2009. The National Academy of Sciences' Space Studies Board, Ocean Studies Board, and Board on Earth Sciences and Resources will co-host the event. The meeting has been organized by a planning committee from the science community with backgrounds that span the breadth of science and engineering that have been part of NASA Earth Science's history.

Please join us as we take a revealing look at our past while charting our future.

Sincerely,

Jack A. Kaye
Assoc. Director for Research
Earth Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters

and the ESS@20 Planning Committee:

Eric Barron (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Paula Bontempi (NASA Headquarters)
Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Jeff Dozier (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Marvin Geller (Stony Brook University)
Tony Janetos (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Maryland)
Charlie Kennel (University of California - San Diego)
Michael King (University of Colorado)
Bernard Minster (University of California-San Diego/Scripps Institution of
Oceanography)
Berrien Moore (Climate Central, Inc.)
Lisa Shaffer (University of California - San Diego)
Marshall Shepherd (University of Georgia)
Jagadish Shukla (George Mason University)