The Western States Water Council and the California Department of Water Resources are cosponsoring a workshop to discuss strategies for supporting and improving key observing systems, to be held in San Diego on June 23-25, 2014. The workshop will begin Monday, June 23 at 1:00 pm and conclude Wednesday, June 25 by 12 noon. Topics to be covered include an overview of the funding status of key federal monitoring programs, development of a 21st century observing system for extreme precipitation in the West, emerging opportunities for supplementing ground-based observations with remote sensing, and strategic planning for sustaining long-term observing records.
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Agenda CDWR-WSWC Hydroclimate Monitoring Workshop
Powerpoint Presentations
Monday – June 23rd
USGS Surface and Groundwater Monitoring Networks – Jerad Bales – USGS Chief Scientist for Water
External Perspectives on USGS Budget & Fiscal Constraints – Sue Lowry (Prezi Presentation) – Wyoming State Engineer’s Office, Interstate Streams Administrator
State Surface and Groundwater Monitoring Networks – Brian Dunnigan – Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, Director
State Surface and Groundwater Monitoring Networks – Ken Stahr – Oregon Water Resources Department, Hydrographics Manager
USDA NRCS Snotel Network – Mike Strobel – National Water & Climate Center, Director
CDWR Perspective on Use of Remote Sensing for Snow Measurement – Frank Gehrke – CDWR, Chief, Cooperative Snow Surveys
Unmet Monitoring Needs in the Upper Midwest/Missouri River Basin – Dennis Todey – South Dakota State Climatologist (remote presentation)
Tuesday – June 24th
Overview of NOAA Observing Systems and Budgets
- Hilawe Semunegus – NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
- John Murphy – National Weather Service (NWS) Observing Systems Portfolio
- Howard Diamond – NESDIS Climate Reference Network
- Matthew Menne – NESDIS Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily
- Chris Sabine – Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
Perspectives on Precipitation Observations
- Mike Anderson – California State Climatologist
- Nolan Doesken – Colorado State Climatologist
- Roger Pierce – San Diego National Weather Service, Meteorologist
Synthesizing Observations: A Western Observing Systems Vision
- Marty Ralph – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Director, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E)
- Mike Anderson – CDWR, State Climatologist
- Scott Sellars – University of California, Irvine, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, Ph.D. Candidate
Landsat & Follow-On Missions: Water Use Applications and Their Value
- Tony Freeman – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Manager, Innovation Foundry
- Tim Newman – USGS Land Remote Sensing Program Coordinator (remote presentation)
- Lee Johnson – CSUMB/NASA Ames Research Center, Senior Research Scientist
- Tony Morse – Retired, Idaho Department of Water Resources
- Sue Lowry – Wyoming State Engineer’s Office, Interstate Streams Administrator
Wednesday, June 25th
Strategic Planning for Maintaining Long-Term Observing Records
- Tony Willardson – WSWC, Executive Director
- Jonathan Kennen – USGS, National Water Census
- Dwane Young – EPA Senior Data Advisor/WestFAST Water Data Work Group Lead (remote presentation)
- Chris Lowry – Hach Hydromet, Director of Sales & Service