Event Type
Conferences and Workshops

Town Hall at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings

Event Dates
2015-12-14
Location
Moscone West, Room 2006, San Francisco, California

Town Hall Announcement
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)
Accelerating the Pace of Arctic Research
2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings

Date: Monday, 14 December 2015
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: Moscone West, Room 2006
Session Number: TH25G

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will convene a town hall meeting entitled "Accelerating the Pace of Arctic Research" during the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meetings in San Francisco.

This town hall provides a forum for exchange of information on IARPC, a working group of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), and will include a discussion of IARPC collaborations with the research community. Specifically it will discuss how:

  • IARPC is accelerating the pace of Arctic research.
  • The Arctic research community can engage in IARPC Collaborations, an innovative partnership between the Federal and non-Federal research communities.
  • The Arctic research community can inform the future of IARPC planning.

The town hall will be convened by:

  • Simon Stephenson, Senior Advisor, NSF Geosciences
  • Martin Jeffries, Program Officer and Arctic Science Advisor, ONR
  • Tammy Dickinson, Principal Assistant Director for Environment and Energy, OSTP, EOP
  • Sandy Starkweather, Implementation Scientist, IARPC
  • Jessica Rohde, Web Manager and Project Coordinator, IARPC.

Members of the Arctic research, education, and policy communities are invited to attend.

For more information, please contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org