date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:16:06 -0400 from: "Bamzai, Anjuli" subject: Scientific Accomplishment as potential input for CCSP Our Changing to: "Bamzai, Anjuli" Dear PI, I just got back from 2 weeks of Annual Leave, hence the delay in getting this request to you. I'm looking for items in the category Highlights of Recent Research for OCP FY 10. (see email below). If you have something you like to submit as potential input please send across by Sept 20. That way I will make the deadline of Sept 25. You may include figures. The submission should be based on a peer-reviewed publication(s); exciting new results intelligible to a lay audience are particularly encouraged. If the result is somewhat difficult to communicate to the OCP audience, despite its intrinsic value, we're probably best not to send up for consideration. A highlight that includes more than one reference will work fine. I'm attaching the CVC chapter from OCP FY09 so you get an idea of length and level of the write-up. The references are at the end of the chapter. Right for now, you could send a highlight with its corresponding reference(s). The final number is small, 7-10, and will depend on balance of topics, etc. If you have something that falls in one of the other research elements of OCP (e.g. Water Cycle, Atmos Composition), you can indicate that. OCP FY 09 is available at www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2009 Thanks for your help. Anjuli ---------------- From: cvc-bounces@usgcrp.gov [mailto:cvc-bounces@usgcrp.gov] On Behalf Of Rick.Rosen Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:21 AM To: cvc@usgcrp.gov Cc: Robert Curran; cvcplus@usgcrp.gov; Mary Glackin Subject: [cvc] Call for OCP FY10 by 25 September Dear CVC IWG, As described in the attached memo from Bob Curran (CCSPO), the CCSP Principals have agreed to a release schedule and format for the FY2010 issue of Our Changing Planet. Our Changing Planet FY2010 will look very much like the FY09 edition (available at ), although efforts to make the document more concise and readable will continue. To meet the goal of releasing OCP FY10 next spring, please submit your contributions to me (with copies to Randy Dole and Anjuli Bamzai) by September 25, 2008, so we can organize your inputs and fill in possible gaps before providing a final package to Bob by the date he requests. We seek inputs from you in two categories: Highlights of Recent Research, and Highlights of Plans for FY2010. In each case, please provide a paragraph of no more than 3-4 sentences describing the highlight, following the attached guidance from Bob (note, in particular, his additional guidance on style). Because our chapter in OCP FY 09 covered work published primarily in 2007, your highlights of recent research should focus on papers published in the peer-reviewed literature during 2008 or in press for 2009. Please note that only papers published, or in press, in the refereed literature should be included in your submission. Highlights reporting on our CCSP priorities dealing with integrated Earth system analysis or abrupt change and other highlights reflecting interagency collaborations are especially welcome and will be given priority if we receive more than the 7-10 highlights allowed in each category for our chapter. The research highlights selected for our chapter in OCP FY10 will help form the basis for introductory text to be drafted by CCSPO on the progress made toward achieving the CCSP Goals. It would be helpful, therefore, if you were to identify which of the Goals in the CCSP Strategic Plan your research highlight best aligns with. Similarly, please cite the specific "Questions" from the Strategic Plan that each of your submitted highlights of plans for FY2010 is intended to address. Finally, although the number of figures will again be limited to two per chapter, we welcome your submitting relevant graphics along with your highlights. At this stage, a low-resolution figure is acceptable, but if your graphic is selected for inclusion in the final OCP, please be prepared to provide a high-resolution version. As you are aware, each year's edition of Our Changing Planet receives wide circulation, both within government and beyond. With the transition in administration taking place next January, progress and plans in our field may well be of particular interest. Your help in making OCP for FY2010 as compelling as possible will, therefore, help advance the science you promote in your agencies and across the CCSP as a whole. Randy, Anjuli, and I look forward to receiving your inputs by September 25. Sincerely, Rick CVC IWG coordinator -- Richard D. Rosen, Ph.D. Senior Advisor for Climate Research NOAA Climate Program Office SSMC3, Room 12872 1315 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-734-1250 Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\ocp2009-hi-clivar.pdf"