Water Management

Water Management Cluster

Water Management Session: 16th Federation Meeting - Jan 4-6, 2006 Notes/Highlights WaterNet Poster

ESIP Federation Water Management Cluster Paul Houser and Annette Schloss, Co-Chairs Michelle Hall, Education Liaison

January 2006, Initial Meeting Notes and Action Items

Purpose This cluster was formed to develop the EIE Water Management Portal for the ESIP Federation and to prepare materials to respond to a NASA solutions network or other relevant RFP and to identify funding sources for our activities.

Topic Areas for Earth Exchange Portal Drought Extreme events Pollution Goal: To have something for the portal in time for the Summer06 meeting. Action Items: Learn to input metadata into GOS2 Identify initial set of relevant ESIP products and services from GCMD [Annette] Identify non-ESIP products Assess web-based educational materials relating to the topic(s) [Michelle, John Pickle]

Community Engagement Goal: Develop a list of stakeholders and assess their needs and how we might help. Sample questions: What level of government should we target, (Federal, State, Local)? Who do they get their data/information from? How do we get known by them?

Goal: Partner with the Standing Committee for Community Engagement (SCCE) to begin to build relationships with agencies and other community stakeholders. Action Item: Set up telecon with SCCE leaders, Luann Dahlman (Chair) and Sue Heinz (Co-Chair) [Annette and Paul]

Goal: To have a presence at meetings/conferences attended by stakeholders Action Item: Check out and make list of what those are [no one assigned]

Table of Stakeholders (first cut) Agency/ Professional Association URL Contact(s) Who will make 1st contact? NOAA USDA EPA NASA Bureau of Reclamation David Toll USFS USGS Jim Burton DOI (Water 2025) http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/water2025.html Western Governors’ Assoc. http://www.westgov.org/ Chuck Hutchinson NIDIS (NOAA) http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ost/climate/NIDIS/ http://www.drought.noaa.gov/ CLEANER (NSF) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03607/nsf03607.htm Jami Montgomery Jami Montgomery American Water Resources Association http://www.awra.org/ International Water Resources Associaton http://www.iwra.siu.edu/worldwater/

• this site lists several other organizations

Summer Meeting, July 2006

Question: what it commonaility between disaster management and water management? floods (hurricanes), drought - What are our resources?

   UNIDATA -- Ben Domenico interested in connecting forecasts and models (atmospheric with hydrologic)

Potential Pilot Projects: -