1. 5.4 Closing Remarks Mary Kicza NESDIS

2. What a GREAT Week... Key stats: 600+ attendees 175+ posters 70+ presentations 25 exhibits Plus panels, weather/center briefs, tours, User Feedback Sessions, and additional Workshops AND nearly perfect WEATHER (until today at least)

3. Again... Importance of Partnerships! “Combining these different conferences comingles scientific, engineering, and user communities, enabling a powerful cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences. Partnerships have always been key to NOAA’s success, and they are especially important now with the pioneering GOES-R and JPSS systems coming closer to reality.”  Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, April 8 th, 2013 Importance of User Feedback!

4. Decommissioning of NOAA-17… Significant milestone for ongoing cooperation with EUMETSAT- NOAA now relying exclusively on EUMETSAT in the mid-morning orbit NOAA-17 retired after 11 years of service, one of NOAA's longest operating spacecraft NOAA will continue to operate NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, and Suomi-NPP

5. Expected Outcomes... 1.Enhanced interaction, coordination, and communication between and among environmental satellite programs. 2.Improved user access, reception and readiness for data, technology and applications from current and future polar-orbiting and geostationary environmental satellite constellations. 3.Improved use of environmental satellite data by leveraging science advances, data fusion, blended products, decision aids, advanced visualization, training, instrument and product calibration and validation, and new data assimilation techniques. 4.Recognition as the premier environmental satellite users’ event in the Western Hemisphere. 5.Reduced costs of participation, travel and logistics by combining the Satellite Direct Readout, GOES and POES/JPSS communities in one conference. QUESTION --- Did we accomplish these???

6. Please... Complete the Post- Conference Survey at your earliest opportunity: http://satelliteconferences.noaa.gov/2013/ (YOUR INPUT WILL HELP US DECIDE WHEN/IF/HOW WE DO THIS AGAIN)

7. THANK YOU... Interpreters! On-site catering: Kloud Kafe! Mobile caterer: Smoking Swine Conference Hotel...and Shuttle Drivers Sponsors! Exhibitors! Presenters! Co-Chairs! Facilities/Engineering/Janitorial...and Security NCWCP Tenant Board Volunteers! and most importantly... EVERYONE who ATTENDED!

8. And the Organizing Committee! Co-Chairs: Ken Carey, John Furgerson, Steve Goodman, Jim Gurka, Eric Madsen, Mitch Goldberg, Scott Rogerson, Fuzhong Weng GOES-R: Chris Daughtrey, Marilyn Mix, Kathryn Mozer, Michelle Smith, Janel Thomas JPSS: Gary McWilliams, Bill Sjoberg NESDIS: Leesha Saunders NWS: Mike Johnson, Jennifer Lewis, Jim Yoe OSPO: Denise Buckmon, Jason Dong, Natalia Donoho, Kay Metcalf, Matt Miglin, David Ngo, Jess Pejsa, Marlin Perkins, Letecia Reeves, Tom Renkevens, Matt Seybold, Paul Seymour, Clint Sherwood STAR: Lin Lin, Tim Schmit, Danette Warren, Fangfang Yu International: Kathy-Ann Caesar