Decisions Breakouts at Winter 2010 Meeting
This page describes the Environmental Decision-Making breakouts at the Winter 2010 Meeting. All listed names are tentative, unless marked "confirmed". See also:
Tues AM: Plenary 1
- 1. Federal Agency Panel on Science Supporting Decision Making - Invited: EPA, NASA, NOAA, USGS
- 2. Decision Maker Panel from the Field: National - Regional - Local (Invitations to Capitol Hill, NCAR/RALS, RISAs, Forest Service)
Tues 1:30-4:45PM: Case Studies - what worked and what didn't Session leader: Ana Prados
- Six 30-minute presentations from decision makers, spanning multiple applications. Each presentation should explicitly address: application area/context, data inputs, decision tools used, and decision-making process.
- 1. E. Lucien Cox (NASA HQ)/Will Pozzi (WaterNet)
- 2. Climate Information (TBD)
- 3. Doris McLeod - Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
- 4. Debra Baker - Maryland Department of Environmental Quality
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Tues eve: Poster Session
- Includes separate poster area for Environmental Decision Making.
Wed AM: Plenary 2
Wed 2:00-5:00PM: Tools/Methods/Data integration Session leader: Karl Benedict
- Presentations from technologists and decision scientists describing decision tools, methods, services, and models, data integration, handling uncertainty, and how to make decision components more usable and interoperable. Co-organized with Information Technology and Interoperability Committee. The session will be divided into two sections, the length of each determined by the distribution between presentations and demonstrations.
Presentations: 15-minute presentations that include time for discussion/questions
- 0. Molly Macualey (RFF) (keynote, invited)
- 1. Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.. Topic: Enabling Decision Makers Along the Gulf Coast
- 2. Naomi Detenbeck, US EPA. Topic: e-Estuary: A Decision-Support System for Clean Water Act Applications in Estuaries and Coastal Watersheds
- 3. Drew Pilant, US EPA. Topic: Decision Support for Ecosystem Services in the Coastal Carolinas
- 4. Tyler Stevens and Scott Ritz, NASA/CEOS IDN: CEOS Climate Diagnostics site for decision making
- 5. Ana Prados, UMBC/NASA, Training Workshops on use of NASA data and Tools for Air Quality Applications
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Demonstrations: Interactive demonstrations using provided flat-panel monitors to illustrate Decision Support tools. The demonstrations will take place concurrently within the available space.
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Wed 5:00-5:30PM: Science data inputs Session leader: Menas Kafatos
- Two 15-minute presentations from scientists describing science data inputs for decision makers
- 1. Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN, Columbia University
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Thurs 10:30AM-12Noon: Application needs Session leader: Will Pozzi
- Six presentations from application areas describing application-specific needs. We may choose to run some of these in parallel.
- 1. Air Quality Working Group
- 2. Water Cluster
- 3. Disaster Management
- 4. Defense
- 5. Agriculture
- 6. Insurance (work with Tami Huston, NCDC to identify people)
Thurs 1:30PM: Solutions - toward better informed decisions Session leader: Chuck Hutchinson
- 1. Decision metrics
- 2. Open discussion on solutions
- 3. Where do we go from here?