Sept 22

Environmental Decision Making Cluster September 22, 2009

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)

NASA ESDSWG meeting next month

• Tech Infusion - should decision support technology be a subgroup (like web services, sensor web, semantic web)

Winter ESIP Federation Meeting:
-Invitations issued for federal panel plenary, policy/decision maker panel and author/researcher Sheril Kirshenbaum
-How to understand federal partner challenges in supporting decision making under GEOSS
-Invite NASA Decisions winners to meeting/poster session; others from NSF, NOAA
-Breakout track related to environmental decision making
1. Case Studies (Tuesday afternoon)

• Ana Prados, session leader
• Links to ESIP Clusters

2. Technology Developers (Wednesday afternoon)

• Karl Benedict, session leader
• understand how decision support systems are used
• data integration tools/methods

3. Science Data Inputs/Community Needs (Thursday morning)

• Menas Kafatos, session leader (to be confirmed)
• Scientists - how their data could be used (new missions/decadal missions)

4. Metrics (Thursday afternoon)

• Chuck Hutchinson, session leader
• what makes a good decision?
• what is the value of the data produced by ESIP Federation partners?
• where do we go from here?

-Outcomes:

• Need to be solution-oriented (not just problem identification)
  
• Cluster poster at poster session

Where to Go from Here:

• use cases
• supporting near-real time data access

Next Meeting: October 27, 2009