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Agenda (Joint with Energy & Climate Work Group)

LuAnn Dalhman (NOAA Climate Program Office) on Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT), Case Study template, and process for becoming a CRT Case Study
Amir AghaKouchak (Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, UC Irvine) on his current research and what could be a basis for a CRT Case Study. Here's his presentation at the Summer Meeting in Asilomar: Remote sensing of drought: Progress and opportunities for improving drought monitoring in California
Open Discussion
Winter 2016 Meeting theme(s) for our session(s)

Minutes:

October 6th, 2015 Telecon: Discussion Notes

Bill's notes from Oct'15 telecon

Bar's Minutes:

Climate Resiliency Toolkit

Anyone is a potential contributor.
The toolkit - Has been live for one year and is in redesign phase I

Two main parts for contribution:

1. Case Studies - There are 9 topics so far. Can be filtered by topic, region, etc. Agriculture (for example) has close to 100

2. Tools - Behind the scenes. Inter-agency effort Each topic has a “theme leader”

For Case Studies:

There is a metadata template (word document) - redesign is happening soon, but still useful to look at.
There is also a “Tip Sheet” for writing Case Studies:

Ideally looking for a story/narrative in a word file.
400-800 words
protagonist/character with a problem to solve, narrative flow
There are collaborators/science editors willing to work with the text/collaborate

The Case Study Template (a bit outdated) http://bit.ly1k9bQye (zipped file)

10’s of thousands of users per month use the CRT according to Google Analytics
People are going to “Climate Explorer” first, it seems.

Drought Monitoring: Amir

No particular narrative, per se, but with many calls form users and want-to-be-users from all over the world:

Grant to talk to farmers.
Example outputs of model.
Developed a mobile app: drought information tool - GIDMap = online mobile app
four data sources (not real-time, but could be with the proper servers) GPCP / GPM / TRIMM / MER
4km global resolution and near real time.
Only NOAA has the “real time data” - otherwise, wait 72 hours after its published. They run algorithims on NOAA machines.

Climate Resiliency Toolkit:

Classic ingredient for a story - people are callling.
The group is obviously trying to meet the needs of the community, and there are clearly needs in the community.
Example: They are getting a lot of emails about the data. EX: from a small city in northern Canada.
Recipe is to pair scienctists with writers… potential users to show the range

NEXT STEPS

tips available from the CRT
continue to connect researchers with CRT (LuAnn and writers)

Winter Meeting Thoughts/Ideas:

NSF Program Officer: Food/Energy/Water (FEW) -- future proposals/intentions
agro/climatology/crop yield monitoring = enegy and ag at the USDA?
Follow up on collaboration ideas

Attendees:

Bill Teng
Lindsay Barbieri (Bar)
Richard Eckman
Brian Wee
Yonsook Enloe
LuAnn Dahlman
Brent Newman
Seung Kim
Amir AghaKouchak
1 other call-in attendee?

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 Agenda (Joint with Energy & Climate Work Group)
-* LuAnn Dalhman, Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT)<br>
+* LuAnn Dalhman (NOAA Climate Program Office) on Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT), Case Study template, and process for becoming a CRT Case Study
-* [catalog, CRT use cases, nexus, winter'16 meeting, ...]
+* Amir AghaKouchak (Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, UC Irvine) on his current research and what could be a basis for a CRT Case Study. Here's his presentation at the Summer Meeting in Asilomar: [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/8000 Remote sensing of drought: Progress and opportunities for improving drought monitoring in California]
+* Open Discussion
+* Winter 2016 Meeting theme(s) for our session(s)
-'''Minutes:<br>'''
-September 1st, 2015 Telecon: Discussion Notes<br />
-''This Telecon was used as a Follow-Up Discussion to the ESIP Summer Meeting Joint Session between Agriculture and Climate Cluster and the Energy and Climate Workgroup. In addition, the discussion focused on what the "next steps" would be for an actionable items around the idea of helping to ferry Use-Cases to the CRT''<br />
-Connection of Agriculture and Energy - groups at ESIP and connections with groups beyond ESIP: With a Focus on Climate Resiliency and Community Resiliency
-* GCRP, Climate Activities
-* CRT: Climate Resiliency Toolkit = climate.data.gov - Whitehouse Initiative. NOAA led.
-* CDI - NASA led
-<br />
-We know that the agriculture and energy communities need data, need apps and need tools - we also know that there are a lot out of those things out there, but where are the gaps?
-'''Goal:''' Helping to put the story out and pursuing connections with the CRT<br />
-'''Clarification of goal:''' We want to help make people aware of tools/datasets by utilizing data.gov as a launching pad.<br />
+'''Minutes:<br>'''
-'''Group / Project Background:'''<br>
+October 6th, 2015 Telecon: Discussion Notes<br />
-* Agriculture and Climate Cluster - Quick background as to how it started:
-* Long Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
-* Originally the cluster was going to create a data inventory specific to them on the ground at the LTAR sites
-* But since then, the group has felt we should do this at a broader level<br>
-'''Call In Discussion:'''<br>
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZrw0XFapuwzwGvT0rAMQ-CvPGrcwJI5_txTW39nr20/edit Bill's notes from Oct'15 telecon]
-* Jason** Geo platform built off of data.gov - brainstorming how to get data out to users
-* Part of what we’re searching for is how to bring all the things together in a way that’s useful for helping people solve problems. Data sources, but also needs and uses on the other side to bring together.
-'''ESIP Winter Meeting: not too early to think about'''<br>
-* Potential Joint Session for ESIP Winter Meeting, again: Energy and Climate / Ag and Clim
-* Session Built Around the idea of “Use Cases”
-* Resiliency as a topic (and possibly a broader ESIP theme as well - continuation from our last meeting)
-<br />
+'''Bar's Minutes:<br>'''
-AIP Geoss group -
+<br>
-share best practices in terms of
+'''Climate Resiliency Toolkit''' <br>
+*Anyone is a potential contributor.
-* cloud computing
+*The toolkit - Has been live for one year and is in redesign phase I
-* technical workflow
+<br>
-so you don’t need to necessarily need to know the data across ag, energy and climate but instead sharing the technical components of each… meshes with Teri “nuts and bolts” presentation.. dataflow approach
+'''Two main parts for contribution:<br>'''
-:-- Jason said he could send along the document or something that they use to show the research component and the technical component
-<br />
-Bill’s involved with the water group at the AIP - use cases are a great way to integrate disparate interests in all directions. A way to bring in societal decision making, and a way to bring many pieces into a single use case.
-<br />
-'''How to develop use cases:'''
+. Case Studies -
-* Focus on bringing together different interests, and connecting with the CRT would be a great platform.
+There are 9 topics so far. Can be filtered by topic, region, etc.
-* First “Task” - action Item -- formally have discussion with CRT to see how we can set up that pipeline. Invite LuAnne to next month’s telecon to have that conversation.
+Agriculture (for example) has close to 100
-* Hitting several different pockets of interested users.
-:Goddard: Consumption Chain
-<br />
-CRT is focused on what problem a particular group is having?
+. Tools -
-Viewpoints matter - hitting different groups of people all within the same tool
+Behind the scenes.
-What can ESIP specifically add to this?
+Inter-agency effort
-:One thing we talked about leading up to the Summer Meeting is discussing a data inventory but not reinventing the wheel. What can “we (at ESIP)” bring that would be useful within this?
+Each topic has a “theme leader”
-'''Identify Use Cases: Next Step'''<br />
+'''For Case Studies:'''
+<br>
+<br>
+*There is a metadata template (word document) - redesign is happening soon, but still useful to look at.
+*There is also a “Tip Sheet” for writing Case Studies:
+<br>
+*Ideally looking for a story/narrative in a word file.
+*400-800 words
+*protagonist/character with a problem to solve, narrative flow
+*There are collaborators/science editors willing to work with the text/collaborate
+<br>
+'''The Case Study Template (a bit outdated)''' http://bit.ly1k9bQye (zipped file)
+*10’s of thousands of users per month use the CRT according to Google Analytics
+*People are going to “Climate Explorer” first, it seems.
+<br>
+'''Drought Monitoring: Amir'''
-# Create a Template or Find the CRT Template
+No particular narrative, per se, but with many calls form users and want-to-be-users from all over the world:
-# Talk with people who have given talks at the ESIP Winter and Summer Meetings in 2015
+*Grant to talk to farmers.
-# Put a general call out to our listservs or identify other people who may have good Use-Cases <br />
+*Example outputs of model.
-Important to note: It would not be bad to have more than we can handle, we can have a running roster.
+*Developed a mobile app: drought information tool - GIDMap = online mobile app
+* four data sources (not real-time, but could be with the proper servers) GPCP / GPM / TRIMM / MER
+* 4km global resolution and near real time.
+* Only NOAA has the “real time data” - otherwise, wait 72 hours after its published. They run algorithims on NOAA machines.
+<br>
+'''Climate Resiliency Toolkit:'''
+*Classic ingredient for a story - people are callling.
+*The group is obviously trying to meet the needs of the community, and there are clearly needs in the community.
+* Example: They are getting a lot of emails about the data. EX: from a small city in northern Canada.
+*Recipe is to pair scienctists with writers… potential users to show the range
+<br>
+'''NEXT STEPS'''
+* tips available from the CRT
+* continue to connect researchers with CRT (LuAnn and writers)
+<br>
+'''Winter Meeting Thoughts/Ideas:'''
+*NSF Program Officer: Food/Energy/Water (FEW) -- future proposals/intentions
+*agro/climatology/crop yield monitoring = enegy and ag at the USDA?
+*Follow up on collaboration ideas
-[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZMd6OpZ0fleSHtjjv1M1YclntDkKa6R3UKR827dQ6Jg/edit Bill's raw notes from Sep'15 telecon]
-[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZMd6OpZ0fleSHtjjv1M1YclntDkKa6R3UKR827dQ6Jg/edit?usp=sharing Bill's raw notes from Sep'15 telecon (shareable link)]
+<br>
+<br>
 '''Attendees:'''
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 Bill Teng<br>
 Lindsay Barbieri (Bar)<br>
-Nancy Hoebelheinrich<br>
 Richard Eckman<br>
-David Bassendine<br>
+Brian Wee<br>
-Erin Robinson<br>
+Yonsook Enloe<br>
-Gary Foley<br>
+LuAnn Dahlman<br>
-Roshani Dangi<br>
+Brent Newman<br>
-Jason Barnett<br>
+Seung Kim<br>
-Arif Albayrak<br>
+Amir AghaKouchak<br>
-other call-in attendee
+other call-in attendee?