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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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APPENDIX B
WORKSHOP AGENDA

Decision Support Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting Workshop

Hosted by the

U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center

Irvine, California, USA

May 6-8, 2004

Agenda

Summary of workshop activities:

On Day 1 (Thursday) we will spend most of our time discussing each of the cases. We will start each discussion with a focus on the needs of the users of forecasts and try to get beginning answers to questions such as (1) What “success” of the forecasting system means. (2) Where is the system close to and far from success? (3) What have been the greatest barriers or challenges? (4) How have those been successfully addressed? WHILE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO ARRIVE AT THE WORKSHOP HAVING THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR CASE AND EXPERIENCE IN LIGHT OF THE THEME PAPER WE WILL SEND, WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE A PREPARED POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOW. WE SEE THIS MORE AS A GIVE-AND-TAKE DISCUSSION.

On Day 2 (Friday), we will take a cross-cut look at the different cases, focusing on our three themes: (1) What makes forecasts salient, credible, and legitimate? (2) How do systems deal with cross-scale interactions (e.g., international to local)? and (3) What kinds of institutional and organizational structures contribute to success? On the evening of Day 2, participants will begin identifying lessons learned.

On Day 3 (Saturday), we will have an in-depth discussion of the lessons participants identify - discussing parallels across cases and interactions across themes. The activities of this day are critical in synthesizing the work of the prior two days.

AGENDA:

Wednesday May 5

~6:30pm

Dinner - Workshop Goals, Introductions

Thursday May 6

8:00-8:30

Breakfast at Beckman Center

8:30-8:45

Plenary - Outline of workshop, plan of work

8:45-9:30

Plenary - Central themes/questions on which we’ll focus

Salience, credibility, and legitimacy

Scale

Institutions

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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9:30-10:45

Plenary - Case: U.S. Pacific Northwest

Each Case discussion will start with a focus on the users, and probe questions about (1) What does “success” mean? (2) Where is the system close to and far from success? (3) What have been the greatest barriers or challenges? (4) How have those been successfully addressed?

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:15

Plenary - Case: Brazil

12:15-1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:30

Plenary - Case: Pacific ENSO Applications Center

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-4:00

Plenary - Case: Colombia

4:00-5:15

Plenary - Case: Queensland, Australia

5:15-5:30

Plenary - Wrap-up

5:30

Adjourn

6:00

Dinner

Friday May 7

8:00

Breakfast at Beckman Center

8:30

Plenary - Charge for the day

8:30-10:00

Parallel break-out groups - Theme 1: Salience, credibility, and legitimacy.

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:00

Plenary - Discussion of Theme 1

Report out by three rapporteurs

11:00-12:30

Parallel break-out groups - Theme 2: Linking global to local, cross-scale interactions.

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:15

Plenary - Discussion of Theme 2

Report out by three rapporteurs

2:15-2:30

Break

2:30-4:00

Parallel break-out groups - Theme 3: Institutions for linking forecasts to decision making

4:00-4:45

Plenary - Discussion of Theme 3

Report out by three rapporteurs

4:45-5:00

Break

5:00-5:45

Plenary - Discussion of connection between themes, missing issues

Charge for the report writers

5:45

Adjourn

Saturday May 8

9:00-10:00

Plenary - Report on lessons learned

10:00-12:00

Break-out groups by case: Discussion of case-specific examples of lessons learned

12:00-1:00

Plenary - Next steps; Closing remarks/discussion

1:00

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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The National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted a workshop "Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting" in 2004 to discover and distill general lessons about the design of effective systems for linking knowledge with action from the last decade's experience with the production and application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts. Workshop participants described lessons they had learned based on their experiences developing, applying, and using decision support systems in the United States, Columbia, Brazil, and Australia. Some of the key lessons discussed, as characterized by David Cash and James Buizer, were that effective knowledge-action systems: define and frame the problem to be addressed via collaboration between knowledge users and knowledge producers; tend to be end-to-end systems that link user needs to basic scientific findings and observations; are often anchored in "boundary organizations" that act as intermediaries between nodes in the system - most notably between scientists and decision makers; feature flexible processes and institutions to be responsive to what is learned; use funding strategies tailored to the dual public/private character of such systems; and require people who can work across disciplines, issue areas, and the knowledge–action interface.

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