Schedule

Reports

On The Side

Associated Press:
U.S. Touts Forestry Law Success in Court

San Francisco Chronicle:
Feinstein, Pombo back plan to unblock CALFED

San Francisco Chronicle:
Profile: Rep. Richard Pombo

NY Times:
Fears (Real & Excessive) From Warning on Tuna

Investor's Business Daily
Why not more oil?

Guest Column:
EPA Rules on Mercury Responsible

AGENDA

Oversight Hearing on the status of Ocean Observing Systems in the United States

WITNESSES

PANEL I

Dr. Richard W. Spinrad
Assistant Administrator
National Ocean Service, NOAA

Dr. Margaret S. Leinen
Assistant Director for Geosciences
National Science Foundation

Mr. Robert Winokur
Technical Director
Oceanographer of the Navy

Dr. Robert A. Weller
Senior Scientist
Director, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Dr. Donald F. Boesch
President
Center for Environmental Science
University of Maryland

PANEL II

Dr. Newell "Toby" Garfield
San Francisco State University
Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education (CICORE)

Ms. Molly McCammon
Executive Director
Alaska Ocean Observing System

Mr. Evan Richert
President
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System

Mr. Cortis Cooper
Metocean Consultant
Energy Technology Co, ChevronTexaco

Dr. J. Frederick Grassle
Director
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Ms. Helen A. Brohl
Executive Director
National Association of Maritime Organizations