NCAR workshop GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts

11 September 2008, 1:25pm

September 11 - NCAR workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts
October 27-29 2008

3rd NCAR workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts will take place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado on October 27-29, 2008. The workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss visions, challenges, and research needs in spatial integration of information from social, atmospheric and related sciences. The workshop will include presentations, panel and breakout group discussions, poster session and a reception.

The topics of the sessions, discussions and poster presentations will include but not limited to:

1) Progress in integration of GIS with atmospheric data and models across scales

2) GIS applications in weather and climate impacts research

3) GIS analysis and visualization of quantitative social science data for assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

4) GIS analysis and visualization of qualitative social science data

In working groups the workshop participants will explore:

1) Atmospheric data needs for spatial societal research and applications.

2) Social science data needs for integrative assessments and Earth System modeling;

3) Methodologies for integration of natural and social science data (both quantitative and qualitative) for weather hazards preparedness and climate change adaptation.

We invite you to join us at the workshop and share your research, experience and innovative ideas. There is no registration fee. All workshop participants must register on-line by *October 10th, 2008*.

Workshop participants are encouraged to present their work in a poster session.

For workshop-related questions, please contact workshop co-chairs Olga Wilhelmi (olgaw@ucar.edu) or Jennifer Boehnert (boehnert@ucar.edu)

For logistical questions, please contact Michelle Rangel at mrangel@ucar.edu

Geo: International