Agclimate telecon 2014-04-07

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Agenda

• Jim Fox's presentation on Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT)
• Preparation for July ESIP on the wiki and on the Commons

Minutes:

Recording of the Telecon Meeting: (Starts 30 minutes in) Jim Fox Presents on Climate Resilience Toolkit

Jim Fox presented on the Climate Resilience Toolkit
The Design of the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) website follows the agenda of the CRT: getting useful data in a form people can easily use

Goals:

• Moving from data acquisition to action
• Provide things that will help with risk and uncertainty
• Help to look at things from a value perspective
• Provide decision making building blocks - need to relate the data to what people care about

Workflow to answer three basic questions:

• Did you know?
• Why should I care?
• What can we do about it?

There are other ways to dive into the data (examples - Topic Based & Use Cases) which get at a lot of problems which result in the lack of widespread adoption of Earth Science data.

• Data in easy, usable formats
• Trust
• Traceability

Who are the users?

• Decision Makers
• Community Level
• Staff and county managers - the planners who are accountable to elected officials
• Not usually elected officials

What scenarios are highlighted as use cases are specifically Taking Action Stories: This is a way to connect to the information. Bringing people directly to case studies to see how they can relate and what could be useful to them. They can filter by problem topic, by examples, by areas of interest. For example:

People in the Agriculture Sector:

• What tools they are using
• What data they are accessing
• Case studies show their progress on their action goals
• Case studies tell their story

Climate Explorer: Another Way of Interacting (Interactive Map View)

• Spatial and temporal data
• directed by map viewer by topic
• interactive and very easy to interact with
• transparent layers, legends and data sources available to download
• permalink allows users to share with other users they map they create

Taking Action:

• Tools - and how the tools take action
• Not trying to replicate, trying to point at sources and key aspects - linking to other data sources
• Not every single tool is linked to a use-case, but that is the goal (don't really like having "orphan tools")
• Different teams lead different topics - to add data and tools

Attendees: Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Lindsay Barbieri, Jim Fox, Richard Eckman, Brian Wee, Arif Albayiak, 2 Callers