Agenda: January 28-29, 2004 Washington DC

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

0900

Brief Welcome USEPA and EEA -- Kimberley Nelson (USEPA), Jacqueline McGlade (EEA)

0915

Opening Remarks by USEPA Administrator Mike Leavitt

0945

Participant introductions

1000

General Remarks � Charles Ries, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs

1030

General Remarks - - Kimberley Nelson (USEPA), Jacqueline McGlade (EEA)

1045

Break

1100

Ecoinformatics Key Technical and Context Discussion Points (Proposed)

Environmental Health & Children�s Health Indicators

Ecoinformatics Research Agenda Coordination

Environmental Economics

Environment Information in Local Community Setting

Global Monitoring for Environment & Security (GMES)/ Global Earth Observations Process (GEO)

Technical Projects Issues & Achievements

1230

Terms Of Reference � J. McGlade or D. Stanners (EEA), K. Nelson or W. Sonntag (USEPA)

1300

Lunch (USEPA Caf�)

1430

Status Reports of Major Ongoing Projects and Introduction of Technical Projects -- Moderator, Bruce Bargmeyer

• Terminology
• • Gladys Cotter, USGS and Gerard Cunningham, UNEP
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• • Gladys Cotter, USGS
• EEA Data Dictionary, EPA Environmental Data Registry and XML Registries
• • Larry Fitzwater, EPA 
• EDEN-IW 
  • Palle Haastrup, JRC
• UNEP.net
• • Gerard Cunningham, UNEP
• NBII projects
  • Gladys Cotter, USGS
• EEA Reportnet and EPA Exchange Network
  • Stefan Jensen, EEA and Palle Haastrup
• Environmental Data Standards
  • Linda Spencer, EPA
• Semantic Prototypes In Research Ecoinformatics (SPIRE)
  • Joel Sachs, UMBC
• High Performance and GRID computing--�Science in Silicon�
  • Rick Martin, EPA
• Ecoinformatics Cooperation Web Page

  • Stefan Jensen, EEA

1600

Break

1620

(Meeting will break into parallel sessions for the remainder of this day.)

Session A � Environmental Indicators Workshop (see Annex 1 for detailed Agenda)

Session B  - Ecoinformatics Technical Track Brief discussion of potential new projects (See Annex 2 for detailed Agenda)

1800

Adjourn

Evening:

Dinner function

Thursday, January 29, 2004

0900

Parallel Sessions Continue

0900

Session A � Environmental Indicators Workshop � (See Annex 1 Agenda)

0900

Session B - Ecoinformatics Technical Projects Work Group (See Annex 2 Agenda)

1200

Lunch

1330

Full Group Re-convenes

1330

Presentation of discussion/agreements from break-out sessions

1500

Break

1530

Discussion of projects and next steps - Discussion leaders: David Stanners and William Sonntag

1630

Comments and Direction - Jacqueline McGlade and Kim Nelson

1700

Adjourn

Annex 1

Wednesday, January 28

1630 � 1800

Presentation, Discussion of �Report on State of Nation�s Ecosystems� � Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment � Robin O�Malley

Review of Health & Environment Indicators Progress � Preparation for Budepest Ministerial Meeting � EEA

Thursday, January 29th

0900 � 1200

Presentation on Council for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and other USEPA 
Children�s Health Indicators Activities � OCHP

Presentation USEPA and US Government Indicators Activities Draft Report On Environment � OEI, USEPA Office of Research & Development (ORD)

Presentations OECD Indicators Activities � OEI Office of Information Access and Analysis, Office of International Affairs (OIA)

Presentation Environmental Indicator related activities in the UN, Asbindu Singh, UNEP.

Discussions including next steps, possible indicators efforts - all

Annex 2

Detailed Agenda � Technical Projects Workgroup

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Opening

Bruce Bargmeyer

Building on the brief reports given earlier, each project discussion will be lead by the person named. The group will work to come to agreement on what actions to include in each cooperative project and next steps.

The time will be divided between the topics.

! ! ! Note that the meeting on these topics will extend Friday morning and part of Friday afternoon ! ! !

1630 � 1800

• OECD
• Phil Ross, OEI
• Combined NSF/EU 6^th Framework funding Stefan Jensen,  Bruce Bargmeyer, and Palle Haastrup
• Each project listed in the Wednesday topic entitled: Status Reports of Major Ongoing Projects and Introduction of Technical Projects
• Topics continued from Wednesday
• Finalize agreements and prepare summary of discussions/agreements for presentation to full group

Note: On Friday at 1000, Tim Lynch will give a presentation entitled NAL/USDA terminology web service