Energy Cluster Jan 2011 Agenda

ESIP Winter Meeting 2011 (Washington, DC)

Jan 4-6, 2011 Energy Cluster – Agenda

January 4, 2011 Tuesday Afternoon

2:00 – 3:30 PM Track 4 Climate and Energy Policy and User Requirements

• 'Energy Requirements for Military Installations' – Harold Sanborn, USACE HQ, ERDC-CERL
• Developing Innovative Tools for Geospatial Analysis of Bioenergy – Alison Goss-Eng, DOE Biomass Program

3:30 – 4:00 PM Break

4:00 – 4:45 PM Track 4a Climate and Energy Policy and User Requirements (Cont'd)

• User Needs, Technology Transfer and Cross-agency Data-sharing (Shekar Rao, TechComm)

4:45 – 5:30 PM Track 4b Energy and Air Quality Joint Session

• Open Discussion for Future Activities

January 5, 2011 Wednesday Afternoon

Track 4 Climate and Energy: Data, Models and Decision Support Solutions

1:45 – 3:15 PM

• Climate Service support to the Energy and Water sectors – Scott Hausman, NOAA/NCDC
• Assessing the utility of Earth observation measurements informing energy sector applications - Richard Eckman, NASA

3:15 – 3:45 PM Break

3:45 – 5:15 PM

• GFDL model, Hi-Res Datasets, and their Availability for Analysis - V. Ramamurthy, NOAA/GFDL
• Uncertainty Quantification and Risk Assessment – Duane Apling, NGC
• Improving Short-Term Forecasting for Wind Energy: Overview of a Planned DOE/NOAA/Private-Industry Study – Jim Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL