Agenda for START08-HIPPO Telecon : Monday, September 17, 2007, 13:00 ET Chair: Laura Pan 0. (10 minutes) Introductions, clarifying the objectives of the telecon 1. (5 minutes) Schedule for future telecons Discussion of proposal : every other *Tuesday* at 13:00 ET, beginning in *three* weeks 2007-10-09 2007-10-23 2007-11-06 2007-11-20 2007-12-04 2007-12-18 (if needed) Schedule to resume in 2008 after the workshop (item 3). Agenda items and materials for each telecon to be submitted to the telecon chair by close of business the preceding day for posting on the START08- HIPPO web site before the telecon. 2. (5 minutes) Additional telecon participants Send names and e-mail addresses for additional participants to Laura Pan (liwen@ucar.edu) 3. (5 min) operational and payload schedule clarification 4. (10 minutes) Planning workshop Discussion of proposal for planning workshop be held at NCAR the week of January 7 - 11, 2008. 5. (20 minutes) Primary areas of tasks, action lists and lead persons Payload and instrument status (including certification schedule) Forecasts plan (what tools/models/products we use, what parameters, routine versus special, who are participating) Flight planning procedure and protocol Data management plan operational website (sub field catalog) modeling activities Communications 6. (5 minutes) Action items and items for next telecon