Registration opens

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Expeditions in Computing, Understanding Climate Change: A Data-Driven Approach (pdf)

Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University
Climate Stresses on Critical Lifelines and Key Resources (pdf)

Shafiqul Islam, Tufts University
BIG Data for BIG Floods: Can we BREAK the Predictability Limits? (pdf)

Break

Padhraic Smyth, University of California Irvine
Graphical Latent Variable Models with Applications to Climate Data (pdf)

Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota
Spatiotemporal predictive modeling for climate science: Are we there yet? (pdf)

Nagiza Samatova, North Carolina State University
Data-driven discovery of modulatory factors for African rainfall variability (pdf)

Lunch

Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center and Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)
Climate Resiliency Tools and Workflows Using the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) and OpenNEX Platforms (pdf)

Varun Mithal, University of Minnesota
Mapping forest fires from satellite data: A new predictive modeling framework in absence of ground truth labels (pdf)

Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University
Advances in Climate Informatics: Machine Learning Approaches to Improving the Multi-Model Ensemble and Defining Extreme Events (pdf)

Break

Soumyadeep Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
Understanding dominant factors for precipitation in great lakes region (pdf)

Brian Smoliak, The Climate Corporation
Empirical approaches to uncovering teleconnections in global climate data (pdf)

Stefan Liess, University of Minnesota
Introducing and Finding Tripoles: A Connection Between Central Asia and the Tropical Pacific (pdf)

Anuj Karpatne, University of Minnesota
Global Monitoring of Inland Surface Water Dynamics using Remote Sensing Data (PPT Mac | PPT Win)

Poster Session and Dinner

Registration opens, Breakfast

Raju Vatsavai, North Carolina State University
A View From Space – Remote Sensing Applications in Water, Food, and Energy Security (pdf)

Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
Spatial Decision Tree: A Novel Approach to Land-Cover Classification (pdf)

Daniel Jiménez R, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Big Data for Climate Smart Agriculture - Enhancing Rice Systems for Latin America (pdf)

Break

Fred Semazzi, North Carolina State University
The Role of the Atlantic Ocean in Modulating the Recent Multi-Decadal Drought of East Africa (pdf)

Tim DelSole, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University
Finding Relations in Climate Data Sets (pdf)

Abdollah Homaifar- North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University
Multiple change detection in climate time series: a machine learning approach

Lunch

Data Science and Mechanistic Understanding
Moderators: Shashi Shekhar & Arindam Banerjee

Panelists:
Tim Bodin, Cargill Minnesota
Tim DelSole, George Mason University
Sai Ravela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Sharp, University of Texas
Brian Smoliak, The Climate Corporation

Closing Reception