7:30 am

Registration and Poster Setup
Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome by CO-LABS Chair Cindy Schmidt
Introduction of Dignitaries
Presentation about Colorado’s Federal Labs, economic impacts and scientific contributions, DeAnne Butterfield, CO-LABS Executive Director

8:50 am

Keynote Speaker Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“How US federal labs contribute to advances in knowledge, support for higher education, and solutions to our nation’s pressing problems”

9:30 am

BREAK

9:40 am
- 10:50

SHOWCASING COLORADO’S FEDERAL RESEARCH LABS

Small Group Breakouts Sessions
     1. Renewable Energy Advances at NREL
           Dr. Adam Bratis, Biochemical Platform Manager, National Bioenergy Center, NREL
           Dr. Robert Thresher, NREL Research Fellow, National Wind Technology Center
           Dr. John Benner, Manager, PV-Industry Partnerships,
           NREL National Center for Photovoltaics

     2. Human Impacts and Interactions with Nature
           Dr. Larry Clark, Director, National Wildlife Research Center
           Dr. Dan Williams, Research Social Scientist, US Forest Service
           Rocky Mountain Research Station
           Dr. Tom DiNardo, USGS Geographic Science Center

     3. Water and the West
           Dr. Joe Barsugli, Research Scientist, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory
           Dr. Curt Brown, Director of Research and Development, US Bureau of Reclamation
           Dr. Tom Trout, Water Management Research Unit, Agriculture Research Service
           Clifford (Kip) Bossong, Hydrologist, USGS Colorado Water Science Center

11:00 am
- 12:10

SHOWCASING COLORADO’S FEDERAL RESEARCH LABS

Small Group Breakouts Session
     4. Climate and Weather
           Dr. Peter Backlund, Director of Research Relations,
           National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
           Dr. Melinda Marquis, Office of Research,
           NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory (NOAA)

     5. Complex Modeling
           Dr. Andrew Dienstfrey, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division,
           National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
           Dr. Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
           Dr. Dusanka Zupanski, Director, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences,
           National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),
           Cooperative Institute on Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
           
     6. Photonics, Optics and Lasers
           Dr. Eric Cornell, Fellow of JILA, Nobel Prize for Physics 2001 (JILA)
           Keith Emery, Photovoltaic Cell and Module Performance Characterization
           Group Manager, Center for Photovoltaics,
           National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
           Dr. Marla L. Dowell, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
           Optoelectronics Division (NIST)
    

12:15 pm - 12:45pm

Luncheon Served

12:45 pm

Tying It Together: A Grand Looming Urban Challenge?
Walt Dabberdt, VAISALA, Inc., 2008 President, American Meteorological Society

1:15 pm

Remarks by Hon. Jared Polis, Member of Congress,
Second Congressional District

1:30 pm

Announcement of Governor’s Awards for Research Impact

1:50 pm

Closing Remarks

2:00 pm

END