[Foss4g2009] Fwd: FOSS4G 2009 Climate Change Keynote Speaker

[Bruce Bannerman]

Cameron,

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:05 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Bruce, great news to hear about securing Andy.
> Could we please get a photo of him for the website too.
> 
> I'd love to have a chat with Andy if possible. Any chance you could 
> forward through his contact details to me, or get him to call me.

Will do.

> I'm keen to get him to also cover:
> 1. Very briefly, a summary of Climate Change.

He will touch on the CC issues, but he only has 20-30 minutes, allowing
time for questions.

When we first considered a focus for this Key note address, Tyler was
quite keen to not have a divisive talk.
It was felt that the Climate Modeling approach would be better.



> 2. The people in the FOSS4G audience will be more qualified to help fix 
> Climate Change that most people.


???


> * How is Climate Change going to effect their jobs?
> * How can the participants make positive contributions toward the 
> environment, or helping change government policy etc?
> ** The room consists of data custodians, SDI sponsors, developers, 
> motivators (open source project leads need to be good motivators to 
> attract people to work on their projects for free).


I think that Andy has a good proposal.

He will cover the Climate Modeling process as it currently stands (warts
and all) and in the process, I'm sure he'll discuss scientific
observations that have been made to date.

Opening up the models and software as open source will make the issues
more transparent for all.

Have a talk to him about what he is proposing and we can talk after
that.


Bruce


> 
> Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> > We have been very fortunate attract Professor Andy Pitman as our Key 
> > Note speaker on Climate Change at FOSS4G-2009.
> >
> > http://profiles.science.unsw.edu.au/apitman/
> >
> >
> > I understand from fellow managers at the National Climate Centre in 
> > the Bureau of Meteorology that Andy is well respected in his field and 
> > considered one of Australia's best communicators on climate modeling 
> > issues. He comes highly recommended from a number of senior people in 
> > the National Climate Centre.
> >
> > Andy's proposed outline of his keynote talk is included below.
> >
> > One point that he would like to make strongly is that all models used 
> > in Climate Change analysis (including software) should be open and 
> > available as Open Source to allow public scrutiny and improvement.
> >
> > Andy is also keen to attract developers to help with Climate Modeling.
> >
> > 30 minutes is OK for his talk.
> >
> >
> >
> > Attached is Professor Andy Pitman's bio.
> >
> >
> >
> > I propose that we accept Professor Pitman as our Climate Change 
> > Keynote Speaker.
> >
> >
> > Bruce Bannerman
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Sent: Monday, 15 June 2009 3:55 PM
> > > To: Bruce Bannerman; Andy Pitman
> > > Subject: Re: FW: Geospatial conference and Climate Change
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > > bio attached
> > >
> > > bullets:
> > >
> > >    1. what are climate models
> > >    2. how are they built
> > >    3. how are they evaluated
> > >    4. why they matter
> > >
> > > and then
> > >
> > >    1. what issues arise from 2, 3 and 4
> > >    2. ways forward to address these issues - involving open source
> > >       philosophies
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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