Summer 2013 Meeting

Dates

July 9-12, 2013

Venue

Friday Center at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Afternoon at NC Museum of Natural Sciencees (http://naturalsciences.org)

Program

Theme

• Disasters & Data/Information

• Data life cycle and disaster response
• Connecting to climate theme from winter meeting - taking data to action
• Bringing Data and Information to Action: Meeting needs on the ground in preparing for and response to disasters and extreme weather events
• Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response and Management

Session Ideas

• Data sharing across agencies
• Sea level rise (UNC, TheSeaMonster.net), John Bruno
• Climate change impacts on cities (NYC), Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA GISS
• Infographics workshop

Known Activities/Sessions

• co-located DataONE User Working Group (July 7-8?)
• July 10 afternoon at the Museum of Natural Sciences and Specialty Venue Format Requirements (baseline)

• Immersive Theater
• Daily Planet
• Broadcast

• ISEES town hall

Action Items

• First timer follow up
• IT&I Rant & Rave on Infographics (periscopic.com)
• Possible approach: Prizes for best infographics, used to select some of museum presentations - disasters.

Earth Intelligence: Infographics Contest

Draft:

Cautionary note; the timing of this may not be sufficient for a contest to be realized by the summer meeting... an immediate challenge is to locate (for potential contestants) data resources for a range of natural disasters: [volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, droughts, famine, extreme weather events, sea level rise, ocean acidification...{what did I miss?}] . As this is a fundamentally ESIP thing to do, cataloging these data should be possible, but might take a while... and then there's the data access issues... So we need to be shape the data access part before we can invite people to use the data to tell their stories.

In the Winter of 2013, the Federation announced the theme of moving from climate assessment, to intelligence and action.

This move is signaled by a shift from earth data displays to earth data infographics and earth data public awareness and policy.

To promote the development of earth data-rich infographics on the topic of understanding natural disasters through the use of earth data resources, the Federation is now proposing a contest for the best earth-data infographic about natural disasters.

The goal of this contest is to encourage and support visualizations that enable the public to access earth science data and to realize how these data can help us understand natural disasters and our vulnerability to these.

The contest will include two tracks: students and open. The student track is available to any student from high-school through university (and post-docs too). The open track is available to any submission, including corporations.

Prizes: ???? The winning infographic will be displayed at the ESIP Summer meeting and ????

Deadlines:

Rules: ???? [should be clear and specific]

The submitted infographic must be original and not have been made public prior to this event.

Can we do star ratings or other simplified ratings within the commons for combined star and comments for the infographics? Can we use these ratings in the balloting for the winners. This would give us a chance to exercise a commenting system in the Commons in addition to enabling the competition.

The Foundation for Earth Science will receive a non-exclusive right to use all submissions. bruce c (talk) 12:13, 6 February 2013 (MST)