Table of Contents Preface xiii Bruce’s Letter xv Conference Poster xvi Organizing Committees xvii Conference Photograph xviii List of Participants xix The Milky Way: Four Centuries of Discovery of the Galaxy 1 S. N. Shore Gas in the Disk & Halo HI Clouds Beyond the Galactic Disk 17 F. J. Lockman The WHAM Northern Sky Survey and the Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy 25 G. J. Madsen The Structure of Galactic Hydrogen on the Largest Scales 34 N. M. McClure-Griffiths, J. M. Dickey, B. M. Gaensler, & A. J. Green The BU-FCRAO Galactic Ring Survey 39 T. M. Bania, J. M. Jackson, D. P. Clemens, M. H. Heyer, R. Simon, R. Shah, & J. Rathborne The View of the Interstellar Medium with the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey 43 K. A. Douglas, & A. R. Taylor Dark Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane 47 S. J. Gibson, A. R. Taylor, J. M. Stil, L. A. Higgs, P. E. Dewdney, & C. M. Brunt