Lessons Learned from NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Applications Efforts: How to Leverage Stakeholder Engagement & Applications Activities to Inform Decision-Making
Abstract
NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) applications efforts have successfully engaged stakeholders and potential end users of CMS data to ensure that the current and planned CMS science outcomes and data products are used in broad decision-making contexts. The overarching goal of the efforts are to enable a greater impact of NASA space-based observations in science and applications in service to the nation, and global society. The project led by experts at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has already successfully developed and implemented a CMS Applications Framework, which can be used as guidance for future CMS projects and/or by other NASA Earth science missions and programs in their stakeholder engagement and applications efforts. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the stakeholder engagement and applications efforts had to transitioned to the virtual world, which helped to expand our CMS stakeholder community. We have continued the work layout in the framework, with a particular emphasis on the coordination of virtual panels and joint applications workshops; the draft and publication of synthesis reports describing the data needs, interests, applications, challenges, lessons learned, and impact of the use of CMS data products for the stakeholder community; and the development of flow diagrams illustrating how CMS data evolves from science to beneficial support of agency decisions and operations. We also started researching the utility of the carbon monitoring data products for advancing carbon science, management and policy decision, and for providing guidance on key attributes of the current and potential future CMS products to the NASA CMS program. For the past year we have organized and hosted virtual monthly policy speaker series seminars with huge interest from the stakeholder community; several applications workshops; and conducted several surveys to understand the data needs, challenges, and interests from the CMS stakeholder community. The presentation will highlight the usefulness and successes of this year's virtual applications efforts, and most importantly, describe how these efforts, information and activities have and can inform different decision-making contexts, as well as shaped the science behind NASA's Carbon Monitoring System Initiative.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMB108.0006S
- Keywords:
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- 0414 Biogeochemical cycles;
- processes;
- and modeling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0428 Carbon cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0466 Modeling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0480 Remote sensing;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES