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The Decisions Cluster has regular telecons on the fourth Wednesday of every Month at 3 PM EST
 
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Revision as of 15:00, August 23, 2011

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, August 24, 2011, 3pm EST   
Dial: 1-877-669-3239 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              1-877-669-3239      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Access Code: 23133897

NSF funding opportunity http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084

Minutes of past telecons/meetings:

Join the Cluster E-mail List

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


ESIP Summer 2011 Meeting

  • Evaluation Workshop

Potential Topics (please add additional topics of interest).

1) how to do an evaluation
2) Case Studies (need example ideas).
3) NOAA Risas (Chuck to contact Dan and look into that)
4) Hands-on component
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  • Decisions Breakout

Session Topics (Subject to change) Data and services quality and their impact on the quality of decision-making activities.

Speakers: local, regional, or state decision-makers to include topics such as energy, climate, water resources management

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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

Events and Activities

Upcoming Meetings

July 12-15, 2011 ESIP Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
ESIP 2011 Winter Meeting

Past 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

End Users and Decision Makers

Use Cases and Success Stories

Other Useful Links

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