Winter 2015 Meeting
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Dates
January 6-8, 2015
Venue
The 2015 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting will be held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel (1143 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007).
Theme Options
- Data and services for mitigating and adapting to climate effects in agriculture (from Bill Teng)
- Food Resilience - Climate, Energy, Water Nexus and how data-driven (enabled?) science can support
- Adapting Land Use to Accommodate Climate Change using Earth Science Data: Food, Water, Energy & Economics (from Nancy Hoebelheinrich)
Meeting Enhancement Issues and Thoughts
Plenary Talks
NOTES:
Potential Speakers:
- http://foodsecurity.stanford.edu/people/davidlobell/
- http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/index.htm (http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=bio_hohenstein.xml)
- http://www.marktercek.com/ (Mark Tercek, President & CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature's Fortune")
- http://www.conserveca.org/our-stories/all/2-blog/150-bird-brain-trust#.U-p1IfldWI ; either Mark Reynolds, lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy's California migratory birds program or Sandi Matsumoto, Director of the Migratory Birds Initiative in California
- John Bolten at NASA Goddard
Discussion and notes
LP DAAC is currently working with the MEaSUREs Global Food Security Area Database @ 30m team - w/ some provisional data to be available next year, and project completion in 2018. (from Stacie Bennett).
Has there been a recent ESIP on public engagement, particularly around unconventional energy development? Or even the broader topic of unconventional energy? Could even relate that back to climate... (from Denise Hills)
