Welcome by Ken Foster, Purdue University, Dave Gustafson, ILSI Foundation, and Ron Sands, USDA

Overview and lessons from the Pilot Project by Tom Hertel, Purdue University, Paul Hendley, ILSI Foundation, and Navin Ramankutty, University of British Columbia 

Why GEOSHARE? by Navin Ramankutty, University of British Columbia 

1. Informing irrigation investments in Tanzania by Jawoo Koo, IFPRI

2. Irrigation in India

   • Understanding irrigation in India by Stefan Siebert and Gang Zhao, University of Bonn

   • Implications of irrigation for climate change impacts in India by Delphine Deryng, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Stefan Siebert and Gang Zhao, University of Bonn

   • Irrigation shortfalls, food production and trade in India by Jing Liu, Purdue University 

Coffee Break, MRGN cafe 

Why GEOSHARE? (continued)

3. Productivity growth and poverty reduction in India by Andy Nelson, IRRI

4. Predicting the spatial pattern of land conversion by Nelson Villoria and Jing Liu, Purdue

   University 

Evaluating GEOSHARE’s Potential by Tom Hertel 

Lunch in the MRGN cafe 

Overview of HUBZero by Carol Song, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University 

Demonstrating two GEOSHARE workflows on the HUB

1. Connecting communities through HUBZero: The AgMIP tool for global impact assessment of climate change, presented by Nelson Villoria

   1. Accessing 36,000+ climate impacts results and aggregation to geographic and political units and reporting

   2. Implications for nutritional outcomes in 2050 (with Uris Baldos, Purdue)

2. Integrating geospatial data sets on HUBZero:

   1. Open access SPAM for Ghana: Challenges and opportunities, Ulrike Wood-Sichra and Liangzhi You, IFPRI

   2. Running SPAM on the HUB and incorporating private and public sector knowledge, Paul Preckel and Jingyu Song, Purdue University 

Breakout sessions to discuss prospects and potential for HUBZero to transform the landscape for analysis of food and environmental security at global scale – 45 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes to report back to the group (Summary)

Coffee Break, MRGN cafe 

Institutional Design for GEOSHARE: Tom Hertel and Dave Gustafson presentations (20 min. total), breakout session (50 min.), report back and discussion (20 min.) (Summary)

Reception in MANN Hall; opening remarks by Al Rebar, Executive Director of Discovery Park and Mark Lundstrom, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and NCN founding director, Purdue University. 

Bus departs for hotels (meet in front of MRGN) 

Continental Breakfast, MRGN cafe

The derived demand for geospatial data in global change analysis and the need for data endorsement: Ron Sands, USDA, Chair

• -  Niven Winchester, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

• -  Hermann Lotze-Campen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research (PIK)

• -  Petr Havlik, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 

The future of geospatial data fusion: Implications for GEOSHARE

• -  Current state of the art in data fusion : Navin Ramankutty, U. of British Columbia

• -  Incorporating regional knowledge into global data sets: Andrew Nelson, IRRI

• -  Potential future approaches to data fusion: Paul Preckel, Purdue University 

Breakout separate sessions on data fusion and the demand for geospatial data

1. Derived demand for data, data validation and endorsement(Summary)

2. Data reconciliation: How can we get a consistent data base?(Summary) 

Coffee break, MRGN cafe

Breakout groups report back, discussion 

Perspectives from prospective stakeholders 

Wrap up, next steps: Tom Hertel and Dave Gustafson 

Lunch, MRGN cafe