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Past Meeting Documents

Note: SAB Working Group reports found here under Meeting Documents are the DRAFT versions.  Final versions of all reports can be found in the Report Library.
Meeting Documents for 15 & 16 November 2023

Consent Calendar

Review of Action Items from July 2023 SAB Meeting

NOAA Update

NOAA Science Update

NOAA Response to SAB Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) Subseasonal and Seasonal (S2S) Report

SAB Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) Report on NESDIS Observing System Backbone

SAB Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP) Terms of Reference Update

SAB Data Archive and Access Requirements Working Group (DAARWG) Workplan Update

Update on NOAA Cooperative Institute (CI) Reviews

SAB Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) Report on Gap-Filling Radars

NOAA Response to SAB Report on Open Data/Open Science 

SAB Climate Working Group (CWG) Report on Organizing US Civilian Operational Oceanography Forecasting Services

Meeting Documents for 11 September 2023

Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration (OECI)

Meeting Documents for 26 & 27 July 2023

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Science Update

2023 Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) Report to Congress

SAB Special Session

The 2025 and 2026 Strategic Research Guidance Memorandums (SRGM)

SAB Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP) Statement on National Risk Assessment

Sustaining Operational Capabilities to Meet NOAA’s Space Weather Mission

Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR)

SAB Special Session on Artificial Intelligence

SAB Climate Working Group (CWG) Review of the Climate Program Office Strategic Plan

Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration (OECI)

Meeting Documents for 26 & 27 April 2023

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Science Update

SAB Climate Working Group (CWG) White Paper on Air Quality in a Changing Climate: NOAA’s Role

NOAA Response to Leadership in Coastal Resilience Report

SAB Climate Working Group (CWG) White Paper on Climate Information Needs for 5-10 Year Hazard Mitigation Planning Cycles

NOAA Response to Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP) 1st Quadrennial Report

Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP) 2022 Annual Report

Discussion of SAB Working Group Topics of Interest

SAB Outline for a Study of the Net Zero Emission Fleet

SAB Subcommittee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility at NOAA (DEIA at NOAA) Report on DEIA at NOAA: Promising Developments and Critical Needs

“Nothing about us without us”: Presentation on NOAA’s New Youth Engagement Efforts

Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS)

Report from the SAB Subcommittee on Public-Private-Partnerships

Overview of the NOAA Office of Space Commerce

SAB Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) Statement on Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and its Successor Data Source for Space Weather Operations

Meeting Documents for 30 November & 1 December 2022
Meeting Documents for 30 & 31 August 2022

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Science Update

Review of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES)

NOAA Response to SAB CWG Report: Advancing Earth System Prediction

TSTAP Strategic Plan

NOAA Response to SAB CWG Review of the Climate and Fisheries Initiative Implementation Approach

EISWG Review of NOAA Subseasonal to Seasonal Report to Congress

NOAA Response to SAB CWG Review of the Coastal Inundation at Climate Timescales White Paper

Updates from SAB 2022 Work Plan Topics

Update on SAB Working Group Review

Meeting Documents for 27 & 28 April 2022

Consent Calendar

NOAA Response to DAARWG Recommendations Concerning the NOAA Data Strategy Implementation Plan

EISWG 2022 Report to Congress

NOAA Response to DAARWG Recommendations Concerning the NOAA Cloud Strategic Plan Actions

TSTAP Post-Tsunami Review Report to the SAB

NOAA Response to CWG Report on opportunity for COVID-19-related Earth System monitoring and prediction efforts as a result of worldwide shelter in place/stay at home policies 

NOAA Update

Climate-Ready Nation Briefing

NOAA Science Update

SAB 2022 Work Plan Topics

NOAA Response to ESMWG Report on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty 

Report on Leadership in Coastal Resilience

Meeting Documents for 7 & 8 December 2021

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Science Update

NOAA Response to EISWG Statement Concerning the Ongoing NWS Data Dissemination Challenges

Priorities for Weather Research (PWR) Report

Tsunami Science & Technology Advisory Panel Report

NOAA Response to EISWG Report Concerning HFIP

EISWG 2021 Report to Congress

NOAA Response to CWG Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge Strategic Plan Review

Meeting Documents for 25 August 2021

Consent Calendar

WG Review of the NOAA Climate and Fisheries Initiative Implementation Approach

CWG Review of the Coastal Inundation at Climate Timescales White Paper

Review of the Report and Recommendations to the NOAA Science Advisory Board Concerning Tsunami Science and Technology Issues for the United States from the Tsunami Science & Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP)

Update on Priorities of Weather Research (PWR) Report

Meeting Documents for 20 & 22 July 2021

Consent Calendar

Science Update

Update on Priorities for Weather Research (PWR) Report

Update from the Tsunami Science & Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP)

External Review of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)

Update on UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 

Open time for Discussion of SAB Topics

Meeting Documents for 11 June 2021

EISWG Statement Concerning the Ongoing NWS Data Dissemination Challenges 

Update on the Priorities for Weather Research (PWR) Report

Meeting Documents for 30 April 2021

EISWG Statement Concerning the Ongoing NWS Data Dissemination Challenges 

Update on the Priorities for Weather Research (PWR) Report

Meeting Documents for 15 & 17 March 2021

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Response to SAB DAARWG Report: Preparing for a Cloudy Future

NOAA Response to SAB ESMWG Report: Improving Fish Stock Assessments

DAARWG Report on Cloud and Data Implementation Plans

NOAA Response to SAB CWG White Paper: Subseasonal-to-Seasonal-to-Decadal

FY21 Omnibus Appropriations Act: SAB Report on Weather Research Priorities 

CWG White Paper on Advancing Earth Systems Prediction

ESMWG Report on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty

Meeting Documents for 27 & 28 October 2020

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

Update on Unmanned Systems (UxS) Workshop and Implementation Plan

Update on SAB Chair Meeting with Working Group Co-Chairs

NOAA Response to SAB Report: CWG Review of the Draft NOAA Ocean and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan 2020-2029

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Discussion

SAB EISWG Review of the NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program

SAB Work Plan Priority Topics

Update on SAB and NOAA S&T Focus Area Implementation Plans

UN Decade of Ocean Science

Meeting Documents for 22 September 2020
Meeting Documents for 27 August 2020
Meeting Documents for 22 & 23 July 2020

Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

EISWG Report to Congress

Update on Working Group Process and Strategies

Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP) Update

SAB Work Plan and NOAA Priorities

NOAA Response to the CWG Review of the CPO Climate and Global Change Post-Doctoral Program

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

Review of the NGI Cooperative Institute

Meeting Documents for 14 & 15 April 2020

Consent Calendar

Presentation of NOAA Priorities

NOAA Artificial Intelligence Strategy Updates  

NOAA ‘Omics Strategy  

NOAA Tsunami Program 

SAB Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel 

Further Discussion of the NOAA Priorities and 2020-21 SAB Work Plan

Climate Working Group Letter: Opportunity for COVID19-Related Earth System Monitoring and Prediction Efforts

Meeting Documents for 16 & 17 December 2019

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update 

FY 2020-2021 SAB Work Plan 

Data Access, Data Science and AI-Based Analysis of Environmental Data

Data Archiving and Access Requirements Working Group (DAARWG) Update

Topic 3 Update: Enhance Strategic Investment and Use of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems

Climate Working Group S2S2D White Paper

CWG Report on the Review of the NOAA Ocean Acidification Strategic Plan

IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere

Topic 9:  New Technologies for Fisheries Stock Assessments Final Report

NOAA Response to the SAB Citizen Science Report

Meeting Documents for 9 September 2019

Consent Calendar:

Recommendations from the SAB Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) on the NOAA Environmental Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) initiative:

Meeting Documents for 10 & 11 July 2019
Meeting Documents for 23 & 24 April 2019
Meeting Documents for 27 February 2019

 SAB Consent Calendar

Discussion of the NOAA Research and Development Plan

Climate Working Group Review of the Climate Program Office Climate and Global Change Post-Doctoral Program

Environmental Information Services Working Group Update on SAB Work Plan Topic 2 Use of Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)

Update on NOAA Weather Programs

Meeting Documents for 1-2 November 2018
Meeting Documents for 17-18 July 2018

SAB Consent Calendar

Advancing the NOAA Research to Operations Pipeline

NOAA Science Update

Presentations on NOAA Science in the Northeast

Work Plan Updates

Unmanned Systems (UxS): Revolutionizing NOAA Missions

Update on the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)

Finalization of the SAB 2018-2019 Work Plan

Response to NOAA’s SAB Review of the High Arctic Program in NOAA

Current NOAA Activities on Aquaculture and Coordination with SAB Work Plan

Meeting Documents for 9-10 April 2018
Meeting Documents for 30-31 October 2017

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Chief Scientist Update

Discussion of the “Value of Information” Topic

Session 1. Quantification and documentation of the value of information gathered by NOAA

Session 2. Better understanding of the Use and Communication of Information

Discussion of SAB Next Steps on Short-Term Topics

Discussion of SAB Review of Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge (ILEK)

Post Meeting Documents

Meeting Documents for 31 August 2017
Meeting Documents for 24-25 April 2017

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Chief Scientist Update

Transition Materials from the SAB for new NOAA Leadership Team

Draft Process to Review SAB Standing Working Groups

Draft Report on Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge and NOAA from the Ecosystem Sciences Working Group

Proposal for Creation of a High Performance Computing Standing Working Group

Meeting Documents for 17-18 November 2016

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

  • Presentation

NOAA Chief Scientist Update

Review Report for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Preliminary Reaction: An Assessment of the Use and Potential Use of Ecosystem Services Valuation in NOAA ESMWG Report

Ecological Marine Units: A Three-Dimensional Mapping of the Ocean Based on NOAA’s World Ocean Atlas

  • Presentation
 

The State of Sea Grant: 2016 Biennial Report to Congress 

Discussion on GOES-R Level 0 Data

Update on NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program and RSPAWG Meeting Prospectus

SAB Subcommittee Concept of Operations

Draft Report on Emerging Technologies for NOAA Ocean Research, Operations and Management in the Ecosystem Context from the Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group 

Strategy Session

Meeting Documents for 2-3 August 2016
Meeting Documents for 28-29 April 2016

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

Chief Scientist Update

Working Group Issues

Strategy Session

  • Presentation by RADM Jon White
  • Presentation by Dr. Katherine von Stackelberg

Update from the NOAA Chief Economist

  • Risk Communication and Behavior Report (updated 4/27/16)

Ecosystem Services Valuation Report

Meeting Documents for 28 January 2016
  • SAB Consent Calendar

    Report from the Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) on a Review of the NOAA Partnership Policy.

    Discussion of Ways to Optimize SAB and Working Group Operations and Working Group staff support from the Line Offices.

    • Questions to guide the Discussion
    • Current Working Group Concept of Operations.
Meeting Documents for 29-30 October 2015

SAB Consent Calendar

NOAA Update

NOAA Chief Scientist Update

Review Report for the joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)

NOAA Observing Systems Council: Current Status and Way Forward

Strategy Session

Review Report for the Cooperative Institute on Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)

Update on the NOAA Cooperative Institute Review Process

Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Program Advisory Working Group (RSPAWG) Report on the RESTORE ACT Science Program’s Performance Metrics Plan and Coordination Plan.

Meeting Documents for 3-4 August 2015
Meeting Documents for 13 February 2015
Meeting Documents for 17-18 November 2014
Meeting Documents for 29-30 July 2014
  • Report on the Review of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
  • Report on the Review of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean (JISAO)
  • Recommendations from the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Science Program Advisory Working Group (RSPAWG)

NOAA Boulder: A Leader in Environmental Intelligence

Meeting Documents for 23 June 2014
  • Revised Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Report from the Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group
Meeting Documents for 15-16 April 2014

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Meeting Documents for 23 January 2014

Proposed New Members and Renewal of Member Terms for the Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group (ESMWG)

Proposed Members for the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Science Program Advisory Working Group (RSPAWG)

Meeting Documents for 19-20 November 2013
  • NOAA Update
    • New Assistant Secretary – Dr. Mark Schaefer
  • Review Report on the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
  • Report and Proposed New Members from the Data Archive and Access Requirements Working Group; Background on the Working Group and Current Activities
  • Discussion of Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) and Climate Working Group (CWG) comments on the NOAA Response to the Climate Partnership Task Force Report
Accordion Tab Meeting Documents for 23-24 July 2013
Meeting Documents for 27-28 March 2013
  • NOAA Response to the SAB White Paper: On the Need for a NOAA Environmental Data Management Framework
  • Review Report on the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research and Technology (CIOERT)
  • Review Report on the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS)
Tab TitleMeeting Documents for the 19 February 2013

Review of Terms of Reference for the Environmental Information Sciences Working Group

Proposed Chair of the Climate Working Group

Meeting Documents for 14-15 November 2012
  • Preliminary Recommendations from SAB R&D Portfolio Review Task Force (PRTF)
Meeting Document for 5-6 April 2012
Meeting Documents for 31 January 2012
Meeting Documents for 29-30 November 2011
Meeting Document for 20-21 July 2011
Meeting Documents for 16 May 2011

Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Report from the Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group

Meeting Documents for 9-10 March 2011

SAB Data Archive and Access Requirements Working Group Report

NOAA Response to SAB Recommendations on Implementing Integrated Ecosystem Assessments

NOAA Response to SAB Recommendations on Integrated Ecosystem Assessments, the Ecosystem Approach to Management and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning

SAB Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group Report on Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning

NOAA Response to the SAB Recommendations on Oceans and Human Health