Report from WMO Secretariat

- Membership- Terms of Reference- Organizing

Structure- Timeline of OSC

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Membership of the International Organizing Committee

Guidelines

* Expertise to accomplish the tasks in ToR* Geophysical, Gender, Developed/Developing Countries* Research, Operation, Academic, and User Communities* Cooperative/Collaborative Organizations

Membership of the International Organizing Committee

Co-Chair: Michel Béland, President of CAS Co-Chair: Alan Thorpe , Director General of ECMWFPresident-elect of ICSU: Dr. Gordon McBean Secretary General of IAMAS: Prof. Hans VolkertWMO Officials:Dr. Deon Terblanche, Director, Atmospheric Research Department of WMO,From Canada, David Grimes, Head, Met. Service of CanadaFrom USA: Dr. Louis Uccellini, AMS/NCEP representativeFrom Europe: Dr. Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, MetOfficeFrom Asia: Dr. Meiyan Jiao, Deputy Administrator of CMAFrom Africa: Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld, President, National Research Foundation of South Africa

From South America: Dr. Pedro Leite da Silva Dias, Director of LNSC (National Laboratory for Scientific Computation), Brazil.From Australia: Dr. Rob Vertessy, CEO Bureau of Meteorology

From NSF, Dr. Roger Wakimoto, NSF Assistant Director for the Geosciences

Terms of Reference of the International Organizing Committee

1. Provide overall leadership for the organization of the OSC2. Provide oversight on the scientific and stakeholders science programme

structures3. Help Identify and or approve invited or keynote speakers4. Provide oversight and contribute, as necessary to the financial,

communications, sponsorships and technical planning5. Make final decisions on matters related to the OSC overall budget, financial

support to participants and sponsorships6. Establish a Scientific Program Committee (SPC) and a User Program

Committee (UPC): their mandates will be to define the format of the OSC, including the selection of conveners and of the abstracts for presentation at the OSC

7. Provide oversight to the Local Organizing Committee8. Provide oversight to the venue (Congress Center) on all logistical arrangements9. Ensure that the OSC is conducted in line with Canadian and WMO policies /

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Organizing Structure of the International Organizing Committee

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Sponsorship

Ex-officio Membership of the International Organizing Committee

Co-chairs of Scientific Program Committee

Gilbert Brunet, Sarah Jones

Co-chairs of User Program Committee

David Rogers, Brian Mills

Chair of Local Organizing Committee

Chair of Sponsorship Committee

Communications

Timeline of the Open Science Conference

December 2012 Establish the IOC

January 2013 1st IOC meeting (Approve Co-chairs of the SPC and UPC)

February 2013 Establish the SPC and UPC

April 2013 1st SPC/UPC meeting to draft the Program

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11 months prior Start abstract submission and registration

6 months prior End abstract submission

4 months prior End registration

17-23 Aug. 2014 Conference

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