Oct 27
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Environmental Decision Making Cluster October 27, 2009
Participants: Karl Benedict, Yuechen Chi, Bob Downs, Chuck Hutchinson, Dave Jones, Carol Meyer, Drew Pilant, Will Pozzi, Rob Raskin, Manny Smith
Winter Meeting
- Plenary Sessions:
- Day 1
- Panel 1 - federal agency reps from NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS
- Pane1 2 - Pam Whitney, House Committee on Science and Technology; Roy Rasmussen, NCAR Research Applications Laboratory; Linda Myrnes, NCAR Institute, Caitlin Simpson, NOAA RISA Program Manager, Brad Quayle, Remote Sensing Applications Center, US Forest Service
- Day 2
- Speaker 1 - Sheril Kirshenbaum, Duke University researcher and author, Unscientific America
- Spekaer 2 - Rich Engel, Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Day 1
- Breakout Sessions:
- Day 1 (6 30-minute sessions)
- Case Studies
- Day 2
- Tools/Methods/Data Integration (7 20-minute sessions)
- Science data inputs (2 15-minute sessions)
- Day 3
- Application Needs
- Flood Tracking
- Defense
- Carbon Tracking
- Solutions - toward better informed decisions
- Metrics - possible OMB speaker
- Application Needs
- Day 1 (6 30-minute sessions)
- Items for discussion
- -Linkages with domain clusters, in parallel Thursday morning? This would allow 90 minutes for each application area to focus on decision-making aspects.
- -We will invite Moly Macauley to be a "breakout keynote" to start the Wednesday afternoon session.
- -Several of the panel speakers will be invited to give more extended presentations during the breakouts
- -Participants not currently Federation members will be encouraged to have their associated organizations join!
- -Invitations to attend the Winter meeting will be sent to presenters at the Fall AGU (see below) and to winners of Decision-related grants (see the wiki for list of winners from six recent solicitations)
Fall AGU Meeting
There are two sessions on Environmental Decision Making at the Fall AGU Meeting: A31A (Wed AM posters) and A34A (Wed 4-6pm oral presentations).