Winter 2015 Meeting
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Dates
January 6-8, 2015
Venue
The 2015 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will be held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel (1143 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007).
Theme Options
- Data and services for mitigating and adapting to climate effects in agriculture (from Bill Teng)
- Food Resilience - Climate, Energy, Water Nexus and how data-driven (enabled?) science can support
- Adapting Land Use to Accommodate Climate Change using Earth Science Data: Food, Water, Energy & Economics (from Nancy Hoebelheinrich)
Meeting Enhancement Issues and Thoughts
Plenary Talks
NOTES:
Potential Speakers:
- http://foodsecurity.stanford.edu/people/davidlobell/
- http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/index.htm (http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=bio_hohenstein.xml)
- http://www.marktercek.com/ (Mark Tercek, President & CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature's Fortune")
- http://www.conserveca.org/our-stories/all/2-blog/150-bird-brain-trust#.U-p1IfldWI ; either Mark Reynolds, lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy's California migratory birds program or Sandi Matsumoto, Director of the Migratory Birds Initiative in California
Discussion and notes
LP DAAC is currently working with the MEaSUREs Global Food Security Area Database @ 30m team - w/ some provisional data to be available next year, and project completion in 2018. (from Stacie Bennett).
Has there been a recent ESIP on public engagement, particularly around unconventional energy development? Or even the broader topic of unconventional energy? Could even relate that back to climate... (from Denise Hills)