Wed, November 19, 2pm-3pm

OneNOAA Science Seminar

Speaker: Mark R. Deutschman, Ph.D., P.E., Houston Engineering, Inc., Maple Grove, MN

Seminar Sponsor: National Weather Service; North Central River Forecast Center. POC for questions: Pedro

Location: Remote access only; Webinar: https://join.me/nws-northcentral ; Telephone info: Dial-In: 866-440-7702 Access Code: 1743178832#

Abstract: There has been a drastic increase in the development of geospatial decision support systems (DSS) for water resource management. However, rarely have these developments accounted for the information needs of differing socio-economic end users to make decisions, or the process by which DSS developers decided to include water related data. This presentation highlights the result of research that evaluated the relationship between climate, water, and drought data and the resulting resource management decisions in the Klamath Basin, Oregon and California through the use of stakeholder Focus Groups. The results document the relationship between societal resource management decisions made on a frequent basis within the Klamath Basin, the temporal and spatial scales of these decisions and the data relied upon for decision-making. Through this research a “data vertical integration” process is being developed that harvests climate, water, and drought data (including forecasts) and presents it to a wide range of socio-economic end-users in a customized format that is tailored to their decision making needs.

Link to grant information: http://www.klamathdss.org/noaagrant.php