Decisions Breakouts at Winter 2010 Meeting
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General Meeting logistics Decisions Cluster wiki
All listed names are tentative, unless marked "confirmed". 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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Solutions - toward better informed decisions (Thurs entire afternoon) Session leader: Chuck Hutchinson
- 1. Decision metrics
- 2. Open discussion on solutions
- 3. Where do we go from here?
