NASA sea-level scientists to meet in Annapolis

The NASA Sea Level Change Team’s annual meeting will take place on March 11-13 in Annapolis, Maryland. This meeting is an opportunity for the team’s scientists to share research results, further collaborative efforts and discuss the team’s next direction.

The event will kick off with a one-day decision-making workshop, where invited decision-makers and planners from around the mid-Atlantic region can interact with the team’s scientists. The workshop’s objectives are to:

1. Identify gaps in scientific knowledge or understanding that are presently limiting the ability to plan for future sea-level rise.
2. Identify what scientific information is being used to make plans, how this information is obtained and where improvements are needed.
3. Discuss the information pathway from scientist to decision-maker, and provide guidance to scientists so they can provide more useful sea-level information.
4. Discuss the role of the scientist in the decision-making process.

The expected outcome is to help scientists (both on the team and beyond) to provide useful sea-level information for decision-making support.

The next two days will be dedicated to discussing the team’s web portal resource development and the overall sea-level research landscape in the near future.