Summer 2013 Meeting

Dates

July 9-12, 2013

Venue

Friday Center at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Afternoon at NC Museum of Natural Sciencees (http://naturalsciences.org)

Program

The Summer ESIP Federation meeting (July 9-12, 2013 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) will feature topics related to the meeting theme of Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response, Management and Awareness. The agenda will follow the following structure:

July 9

Workshops

July 10:

Morning – plenary
Lunch at Friday Center
Afternoon – special sessions at NC Museum of Natural Sciences (transportation will be provided, if requested)
Early Evening – reception

July 11

Breakout sessions (work sessions, discussion-based sessions and workshops)

July 12 (adjourn at noon)

Breakout sessions (work sessions, discussion-based sessions and workshops)

We are inviting proposals for sessions that support the meeting’s theme and which further the on-going work of our community. Unique to this meeting, we have the opportunity to spend one afternoon at the new Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh). The Museum has opened its doors to us to allow us to share the exciting technology and other products you create with the public. Visualizations and animations will play very well in this environment, as will short talks (15-20 minutes) about how science data and technologies are informing Disaster Planning, Management , Response and Awareness.

Theme

Disasters & Data/Information

Data life cycle and disaster response
Connecting to climate theme from winter meeting - taking data to action
Bringing Data and Information to Action: Meeting needs on the ground in preparing for and response to disasters and extreme weather events
Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response, Management and Awareness

Session Ideas

Data sharing across agencies
Sea level rise (UNC, TheSeaMonster.net), John Bruno
Climate change impacts on cities (NYC), Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA GISS
Infographics workshop
Crowd sourcing scenario throughout meeting for hurricane(?) response
Emlyn Koster, Director, NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Presentation on New US Policy on Open Access to Federally Sponsored Research

Known Activities/Sessions

Co-located DataONE User Working Group (July 7-8)
July 10 afternoon at the Museum of Natural Sciences and Specialty Venue Format Requirements (baseline)

ISEES town hall

Action Items

First timer follow up
IT&I Rant & Rave on Infographics (periscopic.com)

Earth Intelligence: Infographics Contest

formalizing the workflows (data access, etc.) and the goals through Summer meeting: exhibit at 2014 Winter meeting

Draft:

Between NOW and the summer meeting the initial challenge is to locate (for potential contestants) data resources for a subset of natural disasters: coastal vulnerabilities to earthquake (tsunami) wind, surge, flooding, algal blooms, and sea level rise. As this is a fundamentally ESIP thing to do, cataloging these data should be possible, but might take a while... and then there's the data access issues... So we need to be shape the data access part before we can invite people to use the data to tell their stories.

In the Winter of 2013, the Federation announced the theme of moving from climate assessment, to intelligence and action.

This move is signaled by a shift from earth data displays to earth data infographics and earth data public awareness and policy.

To promote the development of earth data-rich infographics on the topic of understanding natural disasters through the use of earth data resources, the Federation is now proposing a contest for the best earth-data infographic about natural disasters.

ESIP is building a resource for infographics designers: check out the Infographics page (and thanks to Sarah Clark for putting this together!).

The goal of this contest is to encourage and support visualizations that enable the public to access earth science data and to realize how these data can help us understand natural disasters and our vulnerability to these. This means that there are 2 main types of infographic: the first is an infographic that explores the DATA, and explains how the data relate to other types of information that people already know. The second is an infographic that explores the PROCESS of using earth data to make decisions and to stay safe in a disaster. Other types of infographic are also possible.

The contest will include two tracks: students and open. The student track is available to any student from high-school through university (and post-docs too). The open track is available to any submission, including corporations.

Prizes: ???? The winning infographic will be displayed at the ESIP Summer meeting and ????

Deadlines:

Rules: ???? [should be clear and specific]

The submitted infographic must be original and not have been made public prior to this event.

Can we do star ratings or other simplified ratings within the commons for combined star and comments for the infographics? Can we use these ratings in the balloting for the winners. This would give us a chance to exercise a commenting system in the Commons in addition to enabling the competition.

The Foundation for Earth Science will receive a non-exclusive right to use all submissions. bruce c (talk) 12:13, 6 February 2013 (MST)