Workshop Objectives:
- To inform a broad audience of the activities, plans and capabilities of the GEO Water Cycle Community,
- To explore the linkages between the GEO Water Cycle Societal Benefit Area (SBA) and the activities of other GEO SBAs,
- To encourage discussion regarding ways to improve the coordination among the various components of the GEO Water Cycle SBA and other GEO SBAs at the planning and implementation levels.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Meeting Place: Lecture Hall (First Floor) in Steinman Hall
0900 – 0915: Welcomes, Introductions and Workshop Objectives (Dean Barba, Douglas Cripe, Rick Lawford)
Background on Water Cycle Programs and Initiatives
0915- 0935: Introduction to GEO (Douglas Cripe)
0935-0955: History of Water Cycle Activities (Rick Lawford)
0955-1015: US GEO and its water activities (Peter Colohan(TBC))
1015 – 1030: Break
Global and Regional Approaches
1030 – 1050: CEOS and its global data systems (Sakoto Miura)
1050 – 1110: GTN-H (Balazs Fekete)
1110 – 1130: GEWEX Data Services (SB?, RL?)
1130 – 1150: Regional Water Cycle Initiatives (Toshio Koike)
1150 - 1210: Water Cycle Initiatives in the Americas (David Toll)
Water and Economic Activities
1210 – 1230: Developments in Official Water Statistics and Accounting (Jeremy Webb (TBC))
1230 – 1250: US Government Water Research to support Agriculture (Bradley Doorn to be given by David Toll)
1250 – 1300: Transboundary Waters Assessment Program (Frank van Weert to be given by Sophie Vermooten)
1300 – 1400: Lunch
Meeting Place: Exhibit Room in Steinman Hall
Water Cycle Data Systems
1400 – 1415: GEO Alliances for Water Cycle Data Centres and Services (Rick Lawford)
1415 - 1430: Global Water Cycle Indicators (Charles Vorosmarty)
1430- 1445: JAXA Distributed Data Integration System for Water Community (Sakoto Miura)
1445-1500: DIAS: a system for regional data integration (Toshio Koike)
1500 – 1515: CIESIN Data Systems (Alex de Sherbinin)
1515 – 1530: Break
1530 – 1545: Global Groundwater Information Systems (Sophie Vermooten)
1545 – 1600: The Southwest Groundwater Assimilation Centre (Norman Miller)
Presentations from CCNY Experts:
1600 – 1615: CUNY Remote Sensing activities in land/hydrology" (Prof. Reza Khanbilvardi)
1615 – 1630: A global geography of rivers in crisis: human and biodiversity perspectives (Charles Vorosmarty)
1630 – 1645: Baseline hydrography and reconsidering water cycle use Monitoring (Balazs Fekete)
1645 – 1700: Integration of Multi-Satellite Remote Sensing Observations to study the Global Water cycle and climate (Fabrice Papa)
1700 – 1715: Application of Microwave Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture and Snow (Tarendra Lakhankar)
International Projects:
1715 – 1730: The use of adaptive planning for climate change in the Lake Victoria basin (Norman Miller)
1730 – 1745: The use of Earth Observations in Indonesia (Eddy Hermawan)
1745 – 1800: The use of Earth Observations in agricultural production in India (Prasad Thenkabail to be given by TBD)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Meeting Place: Exhibition room, in Steinman Hall
Assessments of Observational Systems
0830 – 0900: Climate and the Changing water cycle (Ghassem Asrar by Webex)
0900 – 0910: Introduction to GEO Evaluation Surveys (John Adamec)
0910 – 0930: Soil Moisture Measurements and surface water storage (Kyle McDonald)
0930 -0950: GRACE (Matt Rodell)
0950 – 1010: Geodetic measurements of the water cycle (Hans Peter Plag)
1010 - 1030: Break
Water Quality
1030 -1050: Tools for Improved Discovery and Decision-Support for Water Quality Data Applications (Anand Mudambi)
1050 – 1110: USGS Water Quality Information Programs (Richard Smith)
1110 – 1130: Role of Observations in predicting water quality and its health implications (Angelica Gutierrez-Magness)
1130 – 1150: Ensemble hydrological forecasting and the needs of water resource managers (John Schaake)
1150 – 1210: Estimating Water Demand for Agriculture (Dennis Lettenmaier)
1210 – 1230: World Wildlife Fund water and environment monitoring systems (Bart Wickel)
1330: Lunch
Extremes
1330 – 1345: Overview of Information Requirements for Extremes (Ron Stewart)
1345 – 1400: WMO Flood Projects and Programmes (Wolfgang Grabs)
1400 – 1415: Flood Reporting (Alexis Coplin)
1415 – 1430: NIDIS (Chad McNutt)
1430 – 1445: EUGENE (Michael Nyenhuis)
1445 - 1500: Water for the World (Tom Wiener to be given by RL)
1500 – 1530: Break
1530 – 1630: Panel Discussion (Panel Members: Charles Vorosmarty, Ronald Stewart, Wolfgang Grabs, Douglas Cripe)
Topic: What are the most important contributions Earth Observations can make to climate adaptation and climate services for the water sector?
1630- 1700: Workshop Summary
Turkish Dinner: Details to be provided by Balazs Fekete
