Decisions

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

The Environmental Decision Making Cluster of the ESIP Federation



Telecons

Next telecon: Wednesday, June 23rd, 3pm EST
Dial: 800-508-7631
Access Code: *1297219*
Agenda:
  • ESIP Summer Meeting, July 20-23, Knoxville, TN
Discussion of Speakers to Date
Workshop: how to communicate with decision-makers and the public


Summer Meeting Logistics
  • GEO request for advisors to join Decision Support teams
Update. Here are the present Decision-making categories that one can register as their expertise. We can expand these, as needed:
Decision Models
  -Economic Analysis
  -Optimization
  -Multi-Criteria Analysis
  -Risk Assessment
Decision Processes
  -Assessment
  -Conservation Process Workflow
  -Landscape Change Model
  -NEPA
  -Policy
  -Public Comment
End Use Applications
  -Air Quality Planning
  -Energy Planning
  -Environmental Conservation
  -Regional Planning
  -Urban Planning
  -Water Planning


Minutes of past telecons/meetings:

Cluster E-mail List

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

Summer 2010 ESIP Meeting (July 20-23, Knoxville, TN)

Tuesday

Wednesday

Session Title: Local Level Climate Change and Energy Decision Making Process and Assessment:

Earth Science data has a unique yet complex role in policy making. This session will explore how Chicago, the Southwestern U.S, other countries and industry are planning and designing climate and energy projects to help governments adapt to our changing world, mitigate climate change, and implement renewable energy projects. The session will also describe the technical, economic and other social aspects of these projects and decision making activities.

  • 1:15 - 1:20 Session Goals and objectives (Ana Prados, UMBC and NASA/GSFC)
  • 1:20 - 1:50 Ask the Climate Question: Adapting to Climate Change Impacts in Urban Regions (Josh Foster, Center for Clean Air Policy)
  • 1:50 - 2:30 The Chicago Climate Action Plan (Peter Mulvaney, City of Chicago)
  • 2:30 - 2:45 Interactive Discussion
  • 2:45 - 3:15 Break
  • 3:15 - 4:00 The RetScreen Clean Energy Project Decision-Support System (Gregory Leng, Natural Resources Canada)
  • 4:00 - 4:45 Improving Climate Services in the West: evaluation lessons from CLIMAS (Zack Guido, University of Arizona/RISA )
  • 5:00 - 7:00 Poster session and reception

Thursday

Day Long Workshop: Communicating Science

Resources

Upcoming Meetings

Past Meetings

Winter 2010 ESIP Meeting
Fall 2009 AGU Environmental Decision Making session -
Summer 2009 ESIP Environmental Decision Making Workshop
Symposium on Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making, Sept 24

End Users and Decision Makers

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

Use Cases and Success Stories

coming soon

Decision Support Tools:

coming soon

Funding Opportunities (current):

NASA/ROSES Earth Science Decision Making: Gulf Coast Region

Funding Awards (past):

2008 NASA/ROSES Decision Support
2008 NASA/ROSES Decision Making: Gulf of Mexico Region
2008 NOAA/RISA
2007 NASA/ROSES Decision Support
2005 NASA Decision Support
2004 NSF/CCRI Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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

Articles, Books, reports:

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

About the Cluster

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.

Chair- Ana Prados     Vice-Chair- Chuck Hutchinson