Workshop to develop CRT (Climate Resilience Toolkit) Case StudiesPublished on Commons (https://commons.esipfed.org)

Workshop to develop CRT (Climate Resilience Toolkit) Case Studies [1] Submitted by Wteng on Tue, 2015-10-27 16:05 Friday, January 8, 2016 - 09:00 to 10:30Event: Winter Meeting 2016 [2]Session Type: Workshop [3]Room Location: McKinley [4]Expertise Level: Beginner [5]Collaboration Area: Climate Education Working Group [6]Energy and Climate [7]Abstract/Agenda: This Workshop continues the theme of the joint sessions (Ag&Climate Cluster and Energy & ClimateWorkgroup) at the ESIP Summer Meeting in Asilomar on CDI (Climate Data Initiative), CRT (ClimateResilience Toolkit), and ongoing work that could form the bases for CRT Case Studies.

Workshop agenda:

- Introduction to the workshop, logistics, etc.

- Introduction to CRT, LuAnn Dahlman

- Brief description of work related to energy that forms the basis for a potential CRT Case Study, PaulStackhouse (LaRC)

- Brief description of work related to agriculture that forms the basis for a potential CRT CaseStudy, Jason Barnett (LaRC)

- Two concurrent breakout groups, one for energy and one for agriculture, to be led by Paul andJason, respectively. The two groups discuss and draft the incipient CRT Case Studies, using the CRT"templates."

- The two groups recombine and share results, thoughts, next steps, etc.

Notes: POWER: http://power.larc.nasa.gov [8]

SSE: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse [9]

1. Case studies are:1. 400-800 words2. stories (i.e. struggling protagonist)3. examples of real people/communities that other can follow4. take action5. build toward resilience

2. Basic story format: ________ AND_________, BUT______________, THEREFORE.3. All the CRT templates are located on Google Drive: https://goo.gl/sLCjwI [10]

1. Tips for developing case studies2. Case Study Metadata (PDF form)3. Tool template4. Standards for graphics & videos

4. NASA’s POWER validates many parameters and provides user with metrics.1. Data is accessible to users through web portal.

5. SSE v6 has 22 years of climatological data.1. Over 200 parameters focused ot renewable energy2. Partnered with RETScreen3. 460,000+ users; release 4 in 26 different languages4. Nearly all RETScreen use utilizes SSE data

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Workshop to develop CRT (Climate Resilience Toolkit) Case StudiesPublished on Commons (https://commons.esipfed.org)

6. 9 newsletter articles showing RETScreen use1. Example 1: Wisconsin’s Solar Water Heating System Program2. Example 2: Wiked Joe’s Coffee Roasting Company

7. RETScreen is about to upgrade to new version, Expert, coming out in April 2016.8. RETScreen Plus can allow favility operators to analyse and monitor energy performance data,

integrating weather and NASA-derived solar data.1. 175,000+ users2. Example 1: Solar Panel System at NASA3. Example 2: Solar Power Plant in Ottawa, CA4. Able to detect issues with facility systems using monitoring tool.

9. POWER also formats data for agricultural use.1. Example 1: DSSAT2. Example 2: AgMIP/AgMerra3. Example 3: POWER Agricultural Usage by CSIRO

10. Create an awards program for innovative uses of RETScreen to obtain additional stories ofuse.

Breakouts

1. DSSAT provides a crop model which were featured in Nationgal Geographic.1. Farmers may need to switch crop type due to “climate uncertainty.”2. Who is the protagonist?

1. County extension agent2. NC State used tabular data

2. What was the reasoning for using these data?3. Trouble identifying actual decision maker

1. Organic farmer in ME, “Tasha”4. Create model for identify use cases:

1. Potentially through social media1. AgMIP active on Twitter

5. Identify strong user-groups that can then help identify an individual for a case study.6. Farmer-woman Tasha AND she farms in Maine, with Tasha’s Organic Veggies BUT due to a

change in her yields, THEREFORE she used AgMIP/DSSAT tools to make better decisions oncrop type and processes to use on her farm.

Notes from Bill Teng

https://toolkit.climate.gov/taking-action [11]What CRT is looking for to develop Case Studies: Stories, from user’s perspectiveConsumption chain!Randy Olson’s “Houston, We Have a Narrative”; http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo21174162.html [12]Bare bones of a story: ___ and ___ and ..., but ___, therefore ___Paul Stackhouse, LaRC, presented on energy/agriculture applied science projects as potentialCRT Case Studies

One involving RETScreen International, http://www.retscreen.net/ [13]The other involving Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), http://dssat.net/ [14]Any project that uses RETScreen also, via RETScreen, uses LaRC data (in data.gov).DSSAT uses solar and met data for agricultural applications (e.g., crop modeling).This Workshop produced 2 stories that form incipient CRT Case Studies.L. Friedl (NASA HQ) suggested an award mechanism for RETScreen.

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Workshop to develop CRT (Climate Resilience Toolkit) Case StudiesPublished on Commons (https://commons.esipfed.org)

Attachments/Presentations: CRT Case Study Workshop.pptx [15]

EnergyApplicationsUsingSSE_ESIP_v2.pptx [16]Notes takers: Name: Chris Beltz [17]

Email: cbeltz@uwyo.edy [18]

Creative Common License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 LicenseTeaser: Unlike legislative sessions, in this CRT session, it's good to see how the sausage is made!Accepted: Keywords: agriculture [19]Energy [20]Climate [21]CDI [22]CRT [23]use case [24]resilience [25] Source URL: https://commons.esipfed.org/node/8785

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