Tuesday morning, March 24, 2015
Testing the equipments ...
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... and preparing for the remote WebEx participants
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The co-chairs of Plenary Session 3, Paola Campus and Andiswa Mlisa, talking about the session.
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Participants of the AIP-8 Kick-off meeting on Monday joint the workshop on Tuesday.
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The workshop provided ample opportunities for networking.
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Jay Pearlman, IEEE, USA, in conversation with Wolfgang Grabs, Germany.
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Senay Habtezion: “Report of breakout session 2.1”
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Senay Habtezion: “Report of breakout session 2.1”
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The Session Co-Chair, Andiswa Mlisa, GEO Secretariat, taking questions.
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Kathrine Fontaine, RDA, USA: Report of Breakout Session 2.2
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The Rapporteur of Breakout Session 2.2, Kathrine Fontaine, and the Chair, Antonio Bombelli, Italy in dialog with the audience.
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Antonio Bombelli answering questions concering essential variables.
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Paola Campus, ESF, Strassbourg, France: “Introduction to Monitoring of Changes.”
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Paola Campus, ESF, Strasbourg, France: “Introduction to Monitoring of Changes.”
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The audience listening to the presentation.
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Preparing for the presentation by Roberto Azzolini, Italy
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Roberto Azzolini, Italy: “Monitoring the polar regions.”
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Roberto Azzolini, Italy: “Monitoring the polar regions.”
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The audience in Plenary Session 3 |
Paola Campus, Co-Chair of Plenary Session 3, introducing the next speaker |
The Session Co-Chairs and one of the workshop co-chairs. |
Making sure things are working ... |
Using the break for readings ... |
Break conversations (Jay and Francoise Pearlman) ... |
Using the breaks to continue working ... |
Joan Maso, Coordinator of ConnectinGEO in intense conversation ... |
Relaxing during the break (in the background, Stefano Nativi and Paolo Mazzetti) ... |
Business during breaks (Douglas Cripe, Osamu Ochiai, and Wolfgang Graps) ... |
Building new relations (Senay Habtezion, START, and Dennis Oijma, Future Earth) ... |
Sorting out registration issues ... |
German dialogs (Carsten Detmann and Wolfgang Grabs) ... |
Jay Pearlman, Dork Sahagian, and Mark Bourassa |
Wolfgang Grabs, Germany, chairing Plenary Session 2, introducing the presentation by David Arctur |
The first slide of David Arctur's presentation. |
David Arctur, USA: GEOSS Water Services: Federating Regional and National Water Data |
Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA: “Key essential variables: The example of the oceans.”
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Slides in Mark Bourassa's presentation |
The session chair and the speaker answering questions ... |
More questions ... |
The audience engaged in the dialog ... |
The speaker is about to bring up ... |
... a slide ... |
... and the workshop co-chair has a comment ... |
Dork Sahagian addresses the question “Science and Society: Symbiotic or Askew?” |
... and his thoughts are fundamental ... |
... leading to many questions ... |
... and answers ... |
... while everbody is in dual processing mode. |
Dennis Oijma speaks about the “Future Earth Research Challenges” ... |
... presents the mission ... |
... and introduces the big challenges Future Earth addresses ... |
... which engages the audience ... |
... and leads to many questions. |
Stefano Nativi, CNR, Italy: “The Next Revolution for the GEOSS Common Infrastructure” |
Stefano Nativi answering questions after his presentation |
More questions ... |
Stefano Nativi's presentation stimulated an engaging discussion. |
In the foreground, Dork Sahagian and Dennis Oijma. |
The session chair and the speaker in a pre-session dialog. |
The speaker looking forward to the presentation. |
The session chair, Hans-Peter Plag, ODU, USA, introducing the speaker, James Syvitski, USA: “Use of Surface-Dynamic Models for Identifying Environmental Indicators and Processes” |
The session co-chair taking questions after James Syvitski's presentation |
James Sysvitski dived into details in his response to the questions. |
There were many questions after James Syvitski's presentation. |
