Register to Attend: 2nd PrimeWater MultiUser Panel Workshop

You are invited to take part in the second PrimeWater MUP workshop which will take place from 15 to 19 Nov 2021.

About the Multi User Panel (MUP): The purpose of the MUP is to serve as an international panel of users providing expert feedback on EO-enabled services developed or extended in the context of the PrimeWater project and participate in the co-generation process itself through dialogue.

The first MUP workshop, held in October 2020, gathered initial feedback on what different users think about different services (e.g. monitoring water quality, forecasting, and provision of decision support on forecast and observations).

This second MUP meeting 15th-19th November as ‘Stakeholders week’ with participants from the following sectors:

  • Disaster risk management
  • Amenity / Recreation
  • Aquaculture
  • Water resource management
  • Potable water production
  • Energy (thermal)

Stakeholders from each sector will be invited to a 2.5-hour session during this week. Each day, we will focus on a different sector:

  • Day 1: Water Resources Management
  • Day 2: Disaster Risk Management
  • Day 3: Potable Water
  • Day 4: Energy Sector (focus on thermal plants)
  • Day 5: Amenity, Recreation and Aquaculture

The main objectives of this workshop will be:

  • To provide an overview and update on the services that PrimeWater can offer to participants.
  • To understand how different sectors are using EO service to address issues such as Extreme hydrological events (EHEs) and harmful algal bloom (HAB) events.
  • To discuss the added value of PrimeWater products when addressing these issues (e.g., advanced predictive tools based on hydrological and ecological forecasts; Early Warning System; EO-monitoring and hydro-ecological modeling tools; near-surface and satellite remote sensing and hydrodynamic modeling tools).

Registration is now open: https://www.primewater.eu/2021/10/15/register-now-for-the-primewater-multi-user-panel-stakeholders-week-15-19-nov-2021/.

For any questions, please contact samuela.guida@iwahq.org

Release of JEDI-MPAS to the Community

The JCSDA is excited to announce the first public release of JEDI-MPAS to the community.

JEDI-MPAS is a multi-component software package that provides everything that is needed to run data assimilation applications for the atmospheric core of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS).  The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the JEDI core team jointly develop JEDI-MPAS.

MPAS is a collaborative project for developing atmosphere, ocean and other earth-system simulation components for use in climate, regional climate and weather studies, whose primary development partners are Los Alamos National Laboratory and NCAR. The atmospheric core of MPAS solves the the fully compressible nonhydrostatic equations of fluid motion on an MPAS unstructured Voronoi mesh and offers a subset of the Advanced Research WRF physical parameterizations.  MPAS is used at NCAR for research into Earth-System predictability, spanning both weather and climate.

JEDI-MPAS employs MPAS’s native meshes, including regional and variable-resolution meshes, and performs I/O with native MPAS-A files.

Find out more here.

14th Annual AOGEO Symposium – Virtual Nov 10-12, 2021

On behalf of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), it is my pleasure to announce the 14th Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations (AOGEO) Symposium to be held virtually from 10 to 12 November 2021. The Symposium is being organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT) with support from the GEO Secretariat.  Find out more here

Be a LIMNADES Beta-tester!

The University of Stirling, who hosts the recently improved LIMNADES Database, is excited to announce that it’s website has recently been updated with new features to help you upload your data into LIMNADES!

These developments were made with assistance from the GEOAquaWatch community and we now need beta-testers!  Please try out the beta-version of the website and give immediate feedback on any problems found – as these newly introduced features need your testing and bugs fixes.

Find us at https://limnades.stir.ac.uk

New Users can register in the upper right corner.  Existing Users can use your same login to access the database and try the features.

Image of LIMNADES Website Homepage Showing Registration and Login Buttons circled in red in the upper right corner

Register Now: Engaging Users In Solving Coastal Issues – CEOS COAST Webinar

Register now for the “Engaging Users In Solving Coastal Issues – CEOS COAST Product Showcase” webinar that will be held on 05 October, 14:00-15:30 hrs CEST. 

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat is pleased to co-convene this webinar with CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) on Coastal Observations, Applications, Services, and Tools Ad Hoc Team (COAST) to illustrate the utility of Earth observations (EO) in providing evidence-based solutions to environmental challenges.

CEOS Coastal Observations, Applications, Services, and Tools (COAST) seeks to engage with coastal stakeholders to guide the next stages of its ambition.  At this community webinar you will learn more about CEOS COAST and see product demonstrations directed at solving coastal issues in pilot regions. COAST EO applications will be co-developed and co-designed with users to better inform decision-making and to improve products with local data for validation.  The initial foci include: Flooding and inundation, bathymetry/coastline mapping, coastal eutrophication, and turbidity/sedimentation. 

By showcasing some of the EO products and services that are currently available, the aim is to seek feedback and to use this to refine and tailor existing products to other coastal communities around the world.  New EO product development will also be considered where issues are raised through this consultation.  CEOS COAST has been endorsed as a contribution to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.  Presentations by ISRO, Geoscience Australia, ESA, NOAA, GEO AquaWatch, and GEO BluePlanet will be featured.

Who should attend? Anyone looking to make evidence-based decisions with Earth observations to address coastal issues are encouraged to attend and learn more, but especially those in the following initial pilot regions: Bay of Bengal, western coast of Africa, LaPlata Estuary, Chesapeake Bay (USA), and Caribbean and Pacific small island nations.  Experience using Earth observation for coastal management is not needed to attend this webinar or to engage with COAST – new users are welcome! 

To register please click here.   Slido.com Session #EngagingUsers

Agenda:

  • Welcome Statements from GEO Secretariat and CEOS Strategic Implementation Team Co-Chair- Yana Gevorgyan and Adam Lewis 
  • Introduction to COAST – Paul DiGiacomo (NOAA) and Raj Kumar (ISRO) 
  • Description of Users, Pilot Regions and Products (pre-recorded talks)
    • Products: physical oceanography, coastline mapping, bathymetry, sediments/turbidity, coastal eutrophication 
  • Q&A and Discussion (moderated by Raj and Paul) – up to 45 minutes
  • Closing – Doug Cripe (GEO, Sr. Scientific Advisor) and Marie-Claire Greening (CEOS CEO)