Tuesday, October 28, 2008:

7:45 – 8:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15 – 9:40 Welcome and Overview

Welcome to NSF (Kathie Olson)

Welcoming remarks (David Grimes and Teresa Fryberger)

GEO overview (Michael Tanner, GEO Secretariat)

US GEO overview (Greg Withee, US GEO)

Canadian GEO overview (Ken Korporal, Canadian GEO)

9:40 – 10:20 Theme One: Drought Overview

Overview of the importance of drought form a socioeconomic perspective and related US drought activities (Jim Verdin, USGS)

A Canadian perspective on the links between drought activities and GEO (Ronald Stewart/Rick Lawford, University of Manitoba)

10:20 – 10:40 Break

10:40 – 11:20 Theme Two: Marine Ice Overview

Operational ice products, services, and challenges (Doug Bancroft, Canadian Ice Service and North American Ice Service)

Sea ice, climate, and the marine ecosystem (Dave Barber, University of Manitoba)

11:20 – 11:30 Introduction to the Breakout Sessions

11:30 – 12:30 Themes One and Two Breakout Sessions

Drought breakout presentations (Heather McNairn, chair):

Evapotranspiration during drought (Martha Anderson, USDA/ARS)

Operational drought monitoring (Richard Heim, NOAA)

VegDRI – A New Hybrid Drought Index for Monitoring Vegetation in the U.S. (Brian Wardlow, Univ of Nebraska/National Drought Mitigation Center)

Vegetation Indices for Monitoring Drought (Jim Verdin, USGS)

Discussion

Ice breakout presentations (Walt Meier, chair):

Operational needs for US ice services (Pablo Clemente-Colon, NOAA/National Ice Center)

Operational needs for Canada (Leah Braithwaite, Canadian Ice Service)

Ice Forecasting (Todd Arbetter, National Ice Center)

Discussion

12:30 – 13:45 Lunch (on your own)

13:45 – 15:15 Breakout Sessions continue

Drought session (Jared Entin, chair):

Precipitation monitoring during drought (Chris Funk, University of California-Santa Barbara)

Monitoring groundwater response to drought (Matt Rodell, NASA/GSFC)

ET monitoring/modeling at regional scale with MODIS thermal infrared imagery (Gabriel Senay, USGS/EROS)

Discussion

Ice session (Leah Braithwaite, chair):

Ice observations: capabilities and gaps (Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for observations of sea ice (Sheldon Drobot, University of Colorado)

The IGOS Cryosphere Theme and a WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (Jeff Key, NOAA)

Discussion

15:15 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:30 Breakout sessions continue

Drought session (Jim Verdin, chair):

National precipitation analyses blending station, NEXRAD, and satellite data (Victor Murphy, NOAA/NWS)

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for soil moisture monitoring during droughts (Heather McNairn, Agriculture Canada)

Discussion

Ice session (Anne Walker, chair):

Snow cover and glacier observations over Canada (Richard Fernandes, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)

Joint US-Canada field campaign to support snow remote sensing (Don Cline, NOAA/NOHRSC)

Discussion

16:30 – 17:30: Plenary Summary Discussions (Rick Lawford and Jeff Key)

Recommendations from the Drought discussions

Recommendations from the Marine and Freshwater Ice discussions17:00 – 17:30: Looking Forward to Day Two (Rick Lawford and Jeff Key)

17:45 – 19:30: Poster viewing

17:45 – 19:30 Reception at Dan and Brads restaurant, Hilton Arlington (no host)

 

Wednesday, October 29,2008

Theme Three: Closing the Water Balance

08:00 – 08:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30 – 10:00 Theme Three Plenary Session

The importance and challenges of closing the water budget (Kevin Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder)

Special considerations for water budgets in the cold season (J. Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan)

Data constraints in water budgets in small watersheds (Chris Duffy)

Data constraints in water budgets for intermediate size and continental scale basins (Kit Szeto, Environment Canada).

Data constraints in water budgets for global scale water balances (Balazs Fekete, City College of New York)

Data constraints in observing the terrestrial cryosphere (Anne Walker, Environment Canada)

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:45 Theme Three Plenary Session, continued

The role of precipitation data and estimates in closing water budgets (Robert Adler, University of Maryland)

Data Constraints in quantifying solid precipitation (Daqing Yang, CliC Project Office and University of Alaska-Fairbanks)

The effect of urbanization on the water and chemical budgets of large lakes and water bodies (John Lyon, EPA)

Predicting variability in the global water cycle (Al Pietroniro, Environment Canada)

11:45 – 12:35 Considerations for the Design of a North American Monitoring System to Address Climate Needs

Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) (Martin Jeffries, NSF)

Canadian observing networks, surface and satellite (Mike Manore, Environment Canada)

Hydrometric Observations (Vern Schneider, USGS)

The MORSE Initiative (Graham Gibbs, Canadian Space Agency)

12:35 – 13:45 Lunch (on your own)

13:45 – 14:45 Theme Three Plenary Sessions

North American contributions to CliC (Daqing Yang, CliC Project Office and University of Alaska-Fairbanks)

North American contributions to GEWEX and GEO Water Cycle activities (Rick Lawford, U. Maryland-Baltimore County and University of Manitoba)

Water for the world (Tom Wiener, IEEE)

NEWS (Jared Entin, NASA)

Water sector capacity building in the Americas (David Toll)

The WATERS Network (Jeff Dozier, University of California-Santa Barbara)

14:45 – 15:00 Breakout Session Objectives

15:00 – 15:20 Break

15:20 – 17:00 Theme Three Breakout Sessions – Closing the Water Budget (Al Pietroniro and Don Cline, chairs)

Warm Season

Cold Season

17:00 - 17:30 Plenary Summary Discussions

17:30 Looking Forward to Day Three (Jeff Key/Rick Lawford)

 

Thursday, October 30, 2008:

Theme Four: Data Assimilation

08:00 – 08:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30 – 08:45 Value added to data through data assimilation systems (Paul Houser, CREW)

08:45 – 10:15 Status and challenges of data assimilation

Atmospheric Data Assimilation (Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA)

Ice/Snow Data Assimilation (Mark Buehner, Environment Canada)

High resolution data assimilation systems (LIS) (Christa Peters Lidard, NASA)

Considerations for assimilating cold season processes (Don Cline, NOAA/NOHRSC)

Perspectives on Land Surface Prediction and Assimilation Systems in Canada (Stephane Belair, Environment Canada)

Discussion

10:15 – 10:30: Break

10:30 – 11:15 Data assimilation Discussion (John Pomeroy, chair)

11:15 – 11:45 Summary (Rick Lawford/Jeff Key)

11:45 – 12:00 The Way Forward (Dan Walker, USGEO/David Grimes, CGEO)

12:00 Adjourn

13:15 – 17:30 USGEO-CGEO Bilateral Meeting (by invitation)

 

Posters

Incorporation of DNA Barcodes into Stream Bioassessments  (Jami Montgomery)

 

DNA Barcoding: A New Tool for Biodiversity Research  (Jami Montgomery)

 

Improved Processes and Parameterisation for Prediction in Cold  Regions,

The IP3 Network, Snow and Ice Observations and Hydrometeorology (John Pomeroy and Julie Friddell, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

 

CUAHSI Water Data Services (David Maidment, U. Texas-Austin, David Tarboton, USU, Michael Piasecki, Drexel, Ilya Zaslavsky, SDSC, Jon Goodall, U. South Carolina, David Kirschtel, CUAHSI)

 

Baseline Hydrography Datasets for the Global Observing System of Systems

(GEOS/BHD) (Balazs Fekete)