Decisions
The Environmental Decision Making Cluster of the ESIP Federation
Chair: Ana Prados aprados@umbc.edu
Vice Chair: Chuck Hutchinson chuck@ag.arizona.edu
Get Involved: Monthly Telecons
The Decisions Cluster has regular telecons on the fourth Wednesday of every Month at 3 PM EST
- Next telecon: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 3pm EST
- Dial: 1-877-669-3239
- Access: 23133897
Minutes from Past Telecons
2012
Minutes from Previous Years
Funding Opportunities
NSF funding opportunity: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084
Join the Cluster E-mail List
Evaluation Resources and Workshops
ESIP 2011 Winter Meeting Decisions Workshop
Mid-Term Evaluation of GEOSS Implementation note: large pdf document, loads slowly
Environmental Evaluators Network
June 2011 Environmental Evaluators Network Forum in Washington D.C
June 2011 EEN Evaluation 101 Workshop
June 2011 EEN Evaluation 101 Workshop Exercises
Events and Activities
Upcoming Meetings
ESIP Summer Meeting, July 17-20, 2012, Madison, WI
Project Evaluation 101 Workshop, July 17th, 2012
Other Resources
Articles, Books, reports
- The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
- The Emerging Science of Environmental Applications (Dozier and Gail)
- Uses and limitations of observations and data in decision support for selected sectors and regions
- Unscientific America - a quick and interesting read about barriers to communicating and using science information
GEO request for advisors to join Decision Support teams
About the Cluster
Earth Science data and research can play an important role in informing decision making activities and applications in the commercial and public sectors. One of the main priorities of the Decisions cluster is to support ESIP member evaluation activities and assessments concerning the value of Earth Science data.
The Cluster also addresses topics such as:
- The value of scientific models in predicting future states and scenarios, such as the IPCC
- the economic value of Earth science data in decision settings;
- data requirements for environmental decisions-making
- decision making under deep environmental uncertainty;
- collaborative environments for assessing scenarios and consequences of decisions involving multiple stakeholders;
- case studies in environmental decision-making;
- integrated physical-economic models;
- perceptions of long-term climatic uncertainty;
- tools, services, models, and associated standards for data-driven decision support.
Chair- Ana Prados Vice-Chair- Chuck Hutchinson
