Sept 22

Participants: Ed Armstrong, Bob Chen, Yuechen Chi, Naomi Diedenbecker, Bob Downs, Greg Foti, Dave Jones, Carol Meyer, Drew Pilant, Will Pozzi, Ana Prados, Rob Raskin, Manny Smith

Announcements:

Fall AGU Meeting (Dec. 14-18, San Francisco) - 2 Environmental Decision Making Sessions (17 presentations)

• Poster Session
• Oral Session

NAS Symposium on Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making (Sept. 24 in Washington, DC)

• held in conjunction with NAS Board on Research Data and Information (formerly US International Committee on CODATA)

Winter ESIP Federation Meeting:

1. Invitations issued for federal panel plenary, policy/decision maker panel and author/researcher Sheril Kirshenbaum
2. Breakout track related to environmental decision making
3. How to understand federal partner challenges in supporting decision making under GEOSS
4. Case Studies (Tuesday afternoon)

• Need session leader

1. Technology Developers (Wednesday afternoon)

• Need session leader
• understand how decision support systems are used
• data integration tools/methods

1. Community Needs (Thursday morning)

• Need session leader
• ESIP Clusters
• Scientists - how their data could be used (new missions/decadal missions)

1. Metrics (Thursday afternoon)

• Need session leader
• what makes a good decision?
• what is the value of the data produced by ESIP Federation partners?