Decisions

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

The Environmental Decision Making Cluster of the ESIP Federation


Chair: Ana Prados aprados@umbc.edu

Vice Chair: Chuck Hutchinson chuck@ag.arizona.edu


Get Involved: Monthly Telecons

The Decisions Cluster has regular telecons on the fourth Wednesday of every Month at 3 PM EST

Next telecon: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 3pm EST   
Dial: 1-877-668-4493
Access Code: 23133897

NSF funding opportunity http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084

Minutes of past telecons/meetings:

Join the Cluster E-mail List

http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-decisions


Evaluation Resources and Workshops

ESIP 2011 Winter Meeting Decisions Workshop

Mid-Term Evaluation of GEOSS Implementation note: large pdf document, loads slowly

Environmental Evaluators Network

June 2011 Environmental Evaluators Network Forum in Washington D.C

June 2011 EEN Evaluation 101 Workshop

June 2011 EEN Evaluation 101 Workshop Exercises

Events and Activities

Upcoming Meetings

July 12-15, 2011 ESIP Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
ESIP 2011 Winter Meeting

Past Meetings

Other Resources

Articles, Books, reports

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
The Emerging Science of Environmental Applications (Dozier and Gail)
Uses and limitations of observations and data in decision support for selected sectors and regions
Unscientific America - a quick and interesting read about barriers to communicating and using science information

GEO request for advisors to join Decision Support teams

End Users and Decision Makers

Use Cases and Success Stories

Other Useful Links

About the Cluster

Earth Science data and research can play an important role in informing decision making activities and applications in the commercial and public sectors. One of the main priorities of the Decisions cluster is to support ESIP member evaluation activities and assessments concerning the value of Earth Science data.

The Cluster also addresses topics such as:

  • The value of scientific models in predicting future states and scenarios, such as the IPCC
  • the economic value of Earth science data in decision settings;
  • data requirements for environmental decisions-making
  • decision making under deep environmental uncertainty;
  • collaborative environments for assessing scenarios and consequences of decisions involving multiple stakeholders;
  • case studies in environmental decision-making;
  • integrated physical-economic models;
  • perceptions of long-term climatic uncertainty;
  • tools, services, models, and associated standards for data-driven decision support.

Chair- Ana Prados     Vice-Chair- Chuck Hutchinson