The User and the GEOSS Architecture XVI - Boulder

Workshop Theme: "Regional Decisions for Climate Change"

September 21 and 22, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Workshop Agenda and acronymn list.
A description of the workshop is available.
The workshop is also on the IEEE/GRSS website
Workshop was held in conjunction with the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings.

Day 1: 21 September 2007

• Session 1: Opening
• Session 2: Regional Effects of Climate Change
• Session 3: Use of Earth Observations in Regional Decisions
• Session 4: GEOSS Architecture and Open Interoperability
• Session 5: Interoperability Demonstrations
• Session 6: Break-out sessions

Day 2: 22 September 2007

• Session 7: Summary of Breakout Sessions
• Session 8: Keynote Presentation
• Session 9: Panel Discussion

Boulder Workshop Chairs:

• David Arctur, OGC II
• Peter Backlund NCAR/UCAR
• Ron Birk, Northrop Grumman
• Ben Domenico, Unidata/UCAR
• Al Gasiewski, IEEE/Univ. of Colorado
• Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, CIRES

Workshop Series Chairs

• Jay Pearlman IEEE
• Ian Dowman, ISPRS
• George Percivall, OGC

Day 1: 21 September 2007

Session 1: Opening

• Welcome and Opening, Peter Backlund, NCAR
• Workshop Objectives George Percivall, OGC
• Overview of GEOSS; Greg Withee, NOAA

Session 2: Regional Effects of Climate Change

• Regional Climate Change: Motivation, Challenges, Responses ; David Schimel, NCAR & NEON, inc.
• Moving from Global Climate Simulations to Regional Model Predictions ; Lawrence Buja, NCAR
• GEO Web Portal introduction; Ingo Simonis, OGC
• Demonstrations of GEO Web Portal candidates
• Robert Thomas, Compusult Portal
• Jolyon Martin, ESA/FAO Portal
• ESRI Portal

 Session 3: Use of EO in Regional Decisions 

• Integrating climate science with regional planning and policy; Andrea Ray, NOAA ESRL
• Applications for Regional Decision Support ; Cindy Domenico, Boulder County Commissioner & URISA Past President
• Boulder County and geospatial data Movie (.wmv); Cindy Domenico

Session 4: GEOSS Architecture and Open Interoperability

• GEOSS Architecture; Jay Pearlman, Co-chair, GEO Architecture and Data Committee and Boeing
• Future Earth Observing systems and capabilities to monitor Global Change; Ron Birk, Northrop Grumman (ppt )
• Open Standards for GEOSS Interoperability ; Andrew Woolf, BADC

Session 5: Interoperability Demonstrations

• Demonstration: Decision support client access to water resource and climate change data including IPCC Data Distribution Centers. Tom Whitenack, SDSC and GEO AI Pilot and Gerry Creager, Texas A&M University

• Demonstration: Impact of regional climate change for biodiversity Stefano Nativi, IMAA/CNR and GEO IP3. Link to the demonstration contains the GBIF demo videos and the useful codec to play one of them.

Session 6: Break-out sessions and Session 7: Summary of Breakout Sessions

• A. Predictive Models
• B. Standards & Interoperability
• C. Regional Decision Support

Session Leads and Rappateurs
A. Stan Morain, ISPRS/ University of New Mexico and Al Gasiewski, IEEE/Univ. of Colorado
B. Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, IEEE/Univ of Colorado and Ted Habermann, NOAA
C. David Arctur, OGCii and Ben Domenico, Unidata/ UCAR

Session 8: Keynote

• Challenges in Downscaling Global Climate Information for Regional Water Resources and Air Quality Studies - Dr. Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas at Austin

Session 9: Panel Discussion: The role of GEOSS in Enabling Decisions regarding Regional Climate Change

• Moderator: Peter Backlund, National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Cindy Domenico, Boulder County Commissioner and URISA
• Gary Geller, JPL - The Model Web for Ecological Forecasting
• Breakout session reports