CSSP Winter Meeting, 2-4 December 2017

Saturday, 2 December 2017

CSSP Executive Board Meeting

CSSP Board of Directors Lunch

Attendee Registration

Session One

• Communicating Science Seminar conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  Emily Cloyd, Projector Director, Public Engagement, AAAS

• The State of Science: The future of science in the current political/policy atmosphere
  Linda Moore, President and CEO, TechNet, Washington, DC and Norm Augustine, Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Presentations will be followed by panel Q&A.

Opening Reception

Dinner will be on your own following the reception.

Sunday, 3 December 2017

CSSP Committee Meetings

Participants will meet with at least two different committees during this time. A list of the committees that will meet will be published prior to the meeting.

Session Two: Climate and Coastal Effects

• Rapid Evaluation of Coastal Change in Texas Following Hurricane Harvey
  David Mohrig, John E. “Brick” Elliott Centennial Professor in Geological Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin

• Coastal Hazards; Storm Surge
  Rick Luettich, Professor and Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina: Lead Author, NAS Panel on Coastal Hazards

• Designing Resilient Communities
  Robert Twilley, Executive Director, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University

• Climate and Coastal Effects – A Panel Discussion
  David Mohrig, Rick Luettich, and Robert Twilley; Sharon Mosher, moderator.

Session Three: Frontiers of Science

• Future of Superior Artificial Photosynthesis and N-Fixation
  Chong Liu, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Jeffery and Helo Zink Development Chair, UCLA

• Organic Aqueous Flow Batteries for Massive Electrical Energy Storage
  Michael
  Aziz, Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Global Analysis of Protein Folding Using Massively Parallel Design, Synthesis, and Testing
  Gabriel Rocklin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle

Dinner at Logan Tavern

Monday, 4 December 2017

Session Four

• Newest data from the Nelson Diversity Surveys
  Donna J. Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma

• Scientific and Professional Integrity – Evolution of the AGU Ethics Program and the Address of Harassment in Science
  Chris McEntee, CEO and Executive Director, and Billy Williams, Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century, and Best Practices: Council of Graduate Schools: What do Ph.D.s Need in Order to be Successful
  Kate Stoll, MIT, and Layne Scherer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

• Best Practices for Science Communication
  Bethany Johns, American Institute of Physics, Government Relations Advocacy Associate

• The Primacy of Public Data to Science and Economies
  Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

  Moderated by John Downing, Director, Minnesota Sea Grant; Professor, Biology and Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota-Duluth

Committee Reports and Call for Action

Fred Kavli Science at the Frontiers Lecture

The Systems View of Life: A Science for Sustainable Living
FRITJOF CAPRA, Ph.D., Physicist and Systems Theorist; Founding Director, The Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, California

Welcome by Dr. Robert Barsley, Board Chair, CSSP, and
Margaret Moerchen,, Science Deputy to the President, Carnegie Institution for Science

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Congressional Breakfast

• How Congress Gets Its Information
  Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas)

CSSP Board of Directors Meeting

Visits to Capitol Hill

Visits will be arranged individually by CSSP staff as requested.