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, October 24, 2012, 3pm EST
- Dial: 1-877-668-4493
- Access Code: 23133897
- Minutes of past telecons/meetings:
- November 27, 2012 telecon
- September 26, 2012 telecon
- August 22 telecon
- July 27 telecon
- March 23 telecon
- February 23 telecon
- January 26 telecon
- December 22 telecon
- November 29 telecon
- June 23 telecon
- June 2 telecon
- April 28 telecon
- March 24 telecon
- Feb 24 telecon
- Dec 15 telecon
- Dec 1 telecon
- Oct 27 telecon
- Sept 22 telecon
- Aug 25 telecon
- Aug 13 telecon
- July 8-9 Santa Barbara Meeting
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Evaluation Resources and Workshops
ESIP 2014 Winter Meeting Decisions Workshop & Breakout Session
Half-Day Evaluation Workshop Building on the successful full day workshop in January 2013, these two half-day sessions will help the attendees understand the concepts underlying proposal formation and evaluation. Evaluation Discussion Roundtable Building on newly acquired knowledge by Evaluation Workshop participants and others, this session will be a facilitated roundtable designed to share attendees' experiences in project, program and organizational evaluation. Speakers are invited to contribute their Evaluation stories using the following format: Slides 1-3 - Program/Project Description Including What Was Being Assessed Slides 4-6 - Evaluation Approach/Methodology Used (can be more than 1 approach/methodology) Slides 6-9 - Results & Impact of Evaluation The Evaluation stories do not have to be the result of a formal evaluation, rather, they can be informally generated analyses. The results of this session will be captured and shared in the ESIP Commons for the community to consult. To share your project's evaluation story, please email it to aprados at umbc dot edu. Breakout Session Leaders: Ana Prados & Carol Meyer
ESIP 2013 Winter Meeting Decisions Workshop
ESIP 2012 Winter Meeting Decisions Workshop
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
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
