Dear Steering Committee,
Please plan to meet as a group for lunch on Monday to go over 
objectives for the Tuesday's working group meetings.   On Tuesday, 
time is of the essence, since the bulk of our work must be 
accomplished  during the three parallel working groups.  All of the 
topics are meritorious of their own dedicated workshops, so go for 
the cream.   We aren't going to solve all the problems, particularly 
for WG III; rather we should encourage the participants to view this 
as a brain storming session, rather than as the single opportunity to 
define "the" solution.

Let's plan to meet Tuesday night to summarize our progress, perhaps 
for dinner.  Wednesday afternoon we need to draft the report outline 
and make writing and other assignments.

We have working group chair assignments as follows:
Peter - group 1
Mark  - group 2
Chris, with as Eric as co-chair - group 3
Steve - group 4
Dan and MJ - floaters

Several things to consider as working group chairs:
1.  assign a rapporteur for your working group - perhaps a different 
person for each topic, to spread the work.   We need to capture the 
ideas for the sessions to include in the report, so hopefully the 
rapporteurs will be conscientious.
2. you may wish to rotate who does the reporting in the plenary 
sessions; or you may choose to do the summaries yourselves.
3. identify specific examples that could be included in the report. 
Make a note of who could provide us with high quality electronic 
figures, verbiage, references for the report.


Working group session I: Identify major science questions best 
addressed by A/L platforms.

Working group session II: Identify needs for more capable platforms 
and sensors (ideas for things that need to be developed; this could 
be a funding opportunity)

Working group session III: Propose models to advance technology and 
to enable the community's broader access to A/L platforms and sensors 
(brain storming session)


Best wishes, and see you in La Jolla.
Mary Jane
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