Decisions

The Environmental Decision Making Cluster of the ESIP Federation

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Telecons

Next telecon: Tuesday Oct 27, 1pm EDT

Dial: 800-508-7631

Access Code: *1297219*

Agenda:

• Plan ESIP Winter Meeting with Decisions theme

Minutes of past telecons/meetings

• Sept 22 telecon
• Aug 25 telecon
• Aug 13 telecon
• July 8-9 Santa Barbara Meeting

Cluster E-mail List

http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-decisions

Symposium on Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making

Thursday sept 24, 3:30-6pm EDT (audiocast available) [[1]]

Winter 2010 ESIP Meeting (Jan 5-7, Washington, DC)

All listed names are tentative, unless marked "confirmed". Go to meeting logistics.

Plenary 1 (Tues AM)

1. Federal Panel: Invite NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS Reps to speak about the challenge of doing science and supporting decision makers/end users.

2. Policy Panel: Pam Whitney (House Committee on Science); RISA rep; Molly Macauley (RFF), US Forest Service rep; NCAR RALS

Case Studies - what worked and what didn't (Tues PM)     Session leader: Ana Prados

Eight 30-minute presentations from decision makers, spanning multiple applications. Each presentation should explicitly address: application area/context, data inputs, decision tools used, and decision-making process.

1. E. Lucien Cox (NASA HQ)/Will Pozzi (WaterNet)

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Plenary 2 (Wed AM)

1. Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author Unscientific America and researcher at Duke University (invited)

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Tools/Methods/Data integration (Wed PM)     Session leader: Karl Benedict

Eight 30-minute presentations from technologists and decision scientists describing decision tools, methods, services, and models, data integration, handling uncertainty, and how to make decision components more usable and interoperable. Co-organized with Information Technology and Interoperability Committee.

1.Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.. Topic: Enabling Decision Makers Along the Gulf Coast

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3. Drew Pilant, US EPA. Topic: Decision Support for Ecosystem Services in the Coastal Carolinas

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Application needs (Thurs AM)     Session leader: Will Pozzi

Eight 15-minute presentations from application areas describing application-specific needs.

1. Air Quality Working Group

2. Water Cluster

3. Disaster Management

4. Defense

5. Agriculture

6. Insurance (work with Tami Huston, NCDC to identify people)

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Science data inputs (Thurs AM)     Session leader: Menas Kafatos

Two 15-minute presentations from scientists describing science data inputs for decision makers

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Metrics - toward better informed decisions (Thurs PM     Session leader: Chuck Hutchinson

Open discussion on decision metrics

Where do we go from here?

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Fall 2009 AGU Meeting

• Environmental Decision Making session Abstract deadline: Sept 3, 2009

Use Cases and Success Stories

coming soon

End Users and Decision Makers

• EPA
• Regional (state and local) regulators
• Environmental Justice Community
• World Bank
• Homeland Security

Resources of Interest

Past Meetings

Summer 2009 ESIP Environmental Decision Making Workshop

Decision Support Tools:

coming soon

Funding Opportunities:

NASA/ROSES Earth Science Decision Making: Gulf Coast Region

Web sites:

NCAR Societal Impacts Program

NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA)

NOAA Economics Web Site

CIRUN (Climate Information Responding to Users Needs - U. Maryland)

IPCC

Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

Books, reports:

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

Cluster Objectives

An important end use for Earth observational data is to support better informed decisions and policies in the commercial and public sectors. Observations (both real-time and historical) play an important role in reducing the uncertainty inherent in environmental-related decisions. Scientific models provide further value in predicting future states and scenarios, such as those associated with increased greenhouse gas emissions. This Cluster addresses topics such as:

• the economic value of Earth science data in decision settings;
• data requirements for environmental decisions, policies, and IPCC;
• 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.

Cluster Governance

Interim Chair- Rob Raskin