Programmatic, Research and Applications Opportunities for Users and Sponsors of the Global Terrestrial Network – Hydrology (GTN-H) Location: Steinmann Hall, The City College of New York at the CUNY, New York, NY 10035 GOAL: To set the stage for the planning of current and future GTN-H activities in the upcoming GTN-H Coordination Panel meeting, by: • presenting key examples of progress in the technical, scientific and applications realms that have developed or are using GTN-H relevant data resources • recognizing and integrating data provider, data user, and data synthesis perspectives • developing an initial vision of short (0-2 year), medium (2-5 year), and longer term (>5 year) progress AGENDA Tuesday - 07 July 2009 10:00 – 11:15 Introduction and Stage-Setting 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome on behalf of CCNY and CUNY (Charles Vörösmarty) 10:10 – 10:40 Introduction to GTN-H (Wolfgang Grabs [WMO], Stefan Bojinski [GCOS]) 10:40 – 11:00 Workshop Framework and Expected Outputs of Value to GTN-H (Charles Vörösmarty [CCNY/CUNY]) 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:15 GTN-H Building Blocks: Technology and Innovation in Data Provision 11:15 – 11:30 Satellite and Merged Precipitation (Phil Arkin [UMD]) 11:30 – 11:45 Soil Moisture Mission (Tarendra Lakhankar [NOAA-CREST] at CCNY) 11:45 – 12:00 Remote Monitoring of Surface Waters (Charon Birkett [UMD]) 12:00 – 12:15 Groundwater (Neno Kukuric [IGRAC]) 12:15 – 12:30 Dircharge and GPCC products (Balázs Fekete [CCNY/CUNY] and Tobias Fuchs) 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (CCNY Faculty Dining Hall, North Academic Center) 14:00 – 14:45 GTN-H Information Integration 14:00 – 14:15 Integrated Water Budgeting Strategies (Fabrice Papa [CCNY/CUNY]) 14:15 – 14:30 Surface Water Data Base (Bernhard Lehner [McGill] 14:30 – 14:45 GEWEX and Lessons from CEOP (Rick Lawford [GEWEX emeritus])     14:45 – 15:30 User Perspectives and GTN-Relevant Data Needs: Managing Nature and Human-Water Cycle Interactions 14:45 – 15:00 Aquatic Ecosystem Protection (Bart Wickel [WWF]) 15:00 – 15:15 Humans altering the water cycle (Alex de Sherbinin [CIESIN, ColumbiaUniversity]) 15:15 – 15:30 Operational Tracking of the State of Global Water Resources (Andrea Muñoz-Hernandex, Charles Vörösmarty [CCNY/CUNY]) 15:30 – 15:45 United Nations: System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (Michael Vardon) 15:45 – 16:00 World Bank/GEF: Data limitations as a constraint on development investment. (Peter Bjornsen) 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 – 17:45 Open Discussion 17:45 – 18:00 Synthesis of the Day (Wolfgang Grabs, Charles Vörösmarty) 18:30 – 20:00 Reception (Marshak Science Building Room#925-926) Wednesday 08 July a.m. 09:00 – 10:45 Panel Discussion: Dialogue with the Agencies Together, How Can We Make GTN-H “Happen”(Teresa Fryberger, George Komar, Reza Khanbilvardi, David Bjerklie, Robert Dry, Michael Vardon, Wolgang Grabs, Doug Cripe) 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 -11:30 Panel Discussion: Future directions of GTN-H Converging on common views for near-, mid-, long-term 11:30 – 12:00 Synthesis of the workshop (Charles Vörösmarty, Wolfgang Grabs) 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch (CCNY faculty dinning hall)

 

 

 

Fourth Session of the GTN-H Coordination Panel

Location: Steinmann Hall, The City College of New York at the CUNY, New York, NY 10035

AGENDA

Wednesday 08 July p.m.

13:30 – 15:00	Introductory Session
	Welcome address (Dean Joseph Barba, Grove School of Engineering)
	Invited keynote lecture (Prof. Reza Khanbilvardi)
	Adoption of the agenda (Chairperson)
	Objectives and expected outcomes of the panel session (GTN-H Coordinator)
15:00 – 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:00	GTN-H data infrastructure and data standards
15:15 – 15:30	CUAHSI HIS and Modeling platforms (CHyMP, CSDMS, ESMF, etc.) (Balázs Fekete on behalf of David Maidment, Michael Piasecki)
15:30 – 15:45	NASA infrastructure (George Komar)
15:45 – 16:00	GRDC metadatabase (Ulrich Looser)
16:00 – 16:15	GTN-H Web portal (Balázs Fekete and Tarendra Lakhankar)
16:15 – 16:30	Arctic-RIMS and NEESPI (Richard Lammers)
16:30 – 16:45	Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:00	Discussion

Thursday 09 July

9:00 – 10:30	Status report of GTN-H milestones
9:00 – 9:10	Activity status (WMO/GCOS, Wolfgang Grabs)
9:10 – 9:20	Status report – GPCC (Wolfgang Grabs on behalf of Tobias Fuchs)
9:20 – 9:30	Status report – GRDC (Ulrich Looser)
9:30 – 9:40	Status report – GEMS Water (Richard Robarts)
9:50 – 10:00	Status report – National Snow and Ice Data Center (Richard Armstrong)
10:10 – 10:20	Status report – IGRAC (Neno Kukiric)
10:20 – 10:30	Status Report – Arctic-RIMS (Richard Lammers)
10:30 – 10:40	Status Report – GEO (Doug Cripe)
10:40 - 10:50	HYDROLARE (Wolfgang Grabs on behalf of Valery Vuglinsky)
10:50 – 11:00	Discussion
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00	Matching program activities
11:15 – 11:30	WMO’s Climate and Water programs with activities of GTN-H Introductory notes (Ghassam Asrar)
11:30 – 12:00	Interaction of GTN-H and WMO’s integrated global observing system (WIGOS) and the WMO Information System - Introductory notes and discussion (WMO/GCOS)
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch (CCNY faculty dinning hall)
13:30 – 15:00	Interaction between GTN-H and other programs
13:30 – 14:15	IGWCO/GEO - Community of Practice (IGWCO-GEO) Introductory notes (Rick Lawford)
14:15 – 14:45	GTOS with activities of GTN-H Introductory notes (Stephan Bojinsky)
14:45 – 15:00	IEEE Water for the Word (Tom Wiener)
15:15 – 17:00	Review/Re-orientation of GTN-H projects/activities(Strategy discussion)
15:15 – 16:00	Towards the generation of integrated GTN-H data products – the way forward (All)
16:00 – 17:00	GTN-H work plan and milestones 2009 – 2011 (All)

Friday 10 July

9:00 – 12:00	Conclusions
9:00 – 9:15	Summary of findings from Day 1 and Day 2 (Coordinator)
9:15 – 10:30	Formulation and adoption of key recommendations and the GTN-H work plan (All)
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45	Any other business (All)
11:45 – 12:00	Closure of the session (Chairperson/All)