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Possible Cluster Activities:
:Explore links with air quality and other application areas
:Listen to what activities ongoing within agencies
:Collect use cases
:Align with ESIP Strategic plan
:Plan Winter Meeting with Decisions theme
:Include other social sciences, not just decision-making

Desired Outcomes:
:Establish Metrics- How to measure success? This is everything. ROI, risk assessment, articulation methods, tracing outcomes to actions. Confuse outcomes with outputs. Assessments drive evaluations. Are assessment tools adequate? Are we measuring/collecting the science info needed and did decision decisions produce desired results? If not, why?
:Success stories sometimes lack success stories (don’t answer metrics questions)
:Link outcomes/benefits/societal benefits

Winter Meeting themes: 
:success stories/failures, metrics for success, gather use cases, decision tools/services

Potential speakers and attendees: 
:World Bank, RFF/Molly, Rand, Pam Whitney (House Committee on Science), NOAA/RISA, NCAR Societal Impacts Program, USDA Extension, high-level managers, actual decision makers

Needs:
:Success stories. And what did not work. 
:Systematic, retrospective analysis. Are tools/data appropriate to the needs. Lawrence mentioned successful applied stories
:Data integration complicates the process – did it add value to reduce risk?
:How to identify generalized needs at broader scale?
:Who is using environ indicators? Reality of forces/pressures. Recognize all aspects
:Environmental conditions? Should responses relate more to pressures?
:Better articulate responsiveness of info to needs
:What do the data mean?
:Readiness, timeliness needs
:Case studies / success stories / use cases- IT/benefits
:Defining added value may be difficult
:Try to understand how people make decisions
:Data Standards for decision-making
:Language barriers between scientists and policy makers

Roles of IT:
:IT and info products aspect of decision making
:Overpromising IT?

Roles of social science
:Value of the information
:Decision perceptions
:Human aspects of organizations/architecture