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EVENTS ON WEDNEDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PROGRAM holds a workshop to discuss draft version of its Strategic Plan for climate change and global change studies.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Bruce Alberts, President, NAS
Robert Card, Undersecretary of Energy
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Director, NSF
VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Administrator, NOAA
Dr. John H. Marburger, Director, OSTP, EOP
Prof. G.O.P. Obasi, Secretary General, WMO
Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, NASA
Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
Hon. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, UNEP
DATE: December4, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Bob Hopkins, 202-482-6090
WEB ADDRESS: climatescience.gov
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Division on Earth and Life Studies
Board on Radioactive Waste Management holds a meeting to discuss Improving Practices for Regulating and Managing Low-Activity Radioactive Waste.
AGENDA: Highlights:
1:00 p.m. - Welcome guests and introductions
David Leroy, Committee chairman
1:15 p.m. - Nuclear Regulatory Commission presentation
Jim Kennedy and Scott Flanders
2:15 p.m. - Department of Energy presentation
Patrice Bubar
3:30 p.m. - Southeast Compact Commission presentation
Mike Mobley
4:30 p.m. - Public comments
David Leroy
DATE: December 4, 2002
LOCATION: National Academy of Sciences Building, 2100 C St. NW, Washington, DC CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS LECTURE SERIES presents "When is a Child a Research Subject?" with Dr. Greg Koski, Director, Office of Human Research Protections.
DATE: December 4, 2002
LOCATION: Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-496-2563
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN National Air and Space Museum holds a curator's lecture with expert Michael Neufeld of the Department of Space History discussing America's attempt in 1957 to launch its own satellite just weeks after the Soviets' success with Sputnik. The rocket carrying TV-3 rose about 4 feet in the air before crashing and exploding on the pad.
DATE: December 4, 2002
LOCATION: Meet at the Museum Seal, National Air and Space Museum Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 2002-2003 DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES presents "From Genes to Pores: Nuclear Transport and Growth Control," with Dr. Pamela A. Silver, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
DATE: December 4, 2002
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-496-5595
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
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