[Esip-disasters] FW: ESIP Disasters cluster - Special June 30 telecon on proposed workshop

Fri Jun 24 14:56:51 EDT 2016

Emily has organized a special conference call for next Thursday, June 30 at our regular 1pm PDT/4pm EDT time slot. We will be discussing the "Data Driven Decision Making for Disasters” workshop goals, scope and agenda. She’s brought up the “ThinkHazard!” https://understandrisk.org/tool/think-hazard-online-resource-thor/, and the role of Understanding Risk in the disasters lifecycle as an example.

If you would like to participate, please let Emily know so you can get her Webex invitation for calling in.

Please note we will have our regular (and final before the ESIP Summer Meeting) Disasters cluster telecom on July 7.

Thanks,
Karen

From: "Law, Emily S (3980)" <emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov>>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:23 PM
To: Dave Jones <dave at stormcenter.com<mailto:dave at stormcenter.com>>, Karen Moe <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>
Subject: Re: ESIP Disasters cluster - June 2 telecom?

Hi Dave,

This workshop sounds great.  But we need to spend some time to plan and organize this. ESIP can also help. I envision some of the UR community folks will be quite interested. I am very sorry that I can’t call in this Thursday. Depending on what transpires at the telecom, may be we can have a follow on brainstorming session next week.

Thanks,
emily

From: Dave Jones <dave at stormcenter.com<mailto:dave at stormcenter.com>>
Organization: StormCenter Communications, Inc.
Reply-To: Dave Jones <dave at stormcenter.com<mailto:dave at stormcenter.com>>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 4:57 PM
To: "Moe, Karen (GSFC-4070)" <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>
Cc: Dave Jones <dave at stormcenter.com<mailto:dave at stormcenter.com>>, Emily S Law <emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov>>
Subject: RE: ESIP Disasters cluster - June 2 telecom?

Hi Karen,
I found this e-mail from last week. Here are my thoughts on the workshop for our discussion on Thursday:

Data Driven Decision Making for Disasters, A Workshop for Operational Decision Making
This workshop is designed to bring together various decision makers in emergency management and the private sector to educate them on various data sets that are available that can be used for improved situational awareness and decision making. At a recent meeting that included State Emergency Management Directors, a question was asked “Do you have a plan that identifies your data needs prior to any type of threat and if so what is it?”

All of the emergency management Director’s present indicated that they did not have a plan (or had even thought about it) but also indicated that thinking about and developing a plan was a good idea. The ESIP Federation Disaster Lifecycle Cluster is focused on making data matter to address the decision making process. Specifically, the following core vision and values are identified below and are a part of the disaster Lifecycle Cluster’s strategic plan:

ESIP Vision and Values
To be a leader in promoting and applying the collection, stewardship and use of Earth science data, information and knowledge internally and externally to partner organizations so they can be ready, responsive and resilient to extreme events and disasters on a local, regional, national and international scale.

2015-2020 Strategic Goals
Goal 1: Increase the use and value of Earth science data and information
Task: Identify, promote and showcase trusted authoritative data sources/products for decision making across all member organizations.

Goal 2: Strengthen the ties between observations and user communities (e.g. technologies, research, education and applications)
Task: Work with user communities to identify the information flow model and observations/outputs needed to enhance their decision making.

Goal 3: Promote techniques to articulate and measure the socioeconomic value and benefit of Earth science data, information and applications
Task: Capture impact stories of how relevant data products and tools have helped decision making during disasters.

Goal 4: Position ESIP to play a major role in Earth science issues (e.g., addressing effects of climate change, adaptation, supporting sustainable science data infrastructure)
Task: Identify information model and technology that are relevant to science data infrastructure with the goal of streamlining the identification and provisioning of remote sensing data products to support the needs of different disaster types throughout the disaster life cycle.

All of the above goals are relevant to the proposed workshop and should work to engage all participants. We envision attendees from Federal Agencies, State Agencies, Universities and the Private Sector. Working toward a common goal should coalesce an approach to identifying datasets (and putting datasets to work) that can be applied to improve situational awareness and decision making across agencies and the private sector…and the ESIP Federation will be a catalyst in this area!

Sponsors for the Data Driven Decision Making for Disasters Workshop should include the All Hazards Consortium, ESIP Federation Disaster Lifecycle Cluster and a private sector partner or two. Dave can work on these sponsorships and we may be able to request funding from the FICOM to cover food, refreshments and maybe some signage. We may be able to hold the workshop at a private sector location in Washington, DC and see if they can donate the space and facilities. All of this including the title is up for discussion. I’d like to have everyone’s input before I contact the partners.

Regards,
Dave

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