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:

Full Meeting Agenda

Meeting logistics

Decisions Cluster wiki

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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. Can include Decision Support System technology demos.

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Wed AM: Plenary 2

See Full Meeting Agenda

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.

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

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7. Ana Prados, UMBC/NASA, Training Workshops on use of NASA data and Tools for Air Quality Applications

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?