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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