Description:

• General considerations about Earth prediction innovation and community modeling, practices, governance, policy, approaches and frameworks. Processes and solutions for community modeling collaboration and advancing scientific innovation.
• Approaches to define and nourish communities and approaches for collaborating in Earth sciences. Identification of community member needs and practices to develop strong and inclusive communities. User stories and strategies to increase communication, engagement, sense of belonging and connection in communities dedicated to Earth systems innovation and development. Building and maintaining thriving communities of practice. Strategies to increase access to weather and climate forecast systems, products and services, and augment feedback from users. Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as drivers of innovation, collaboration and strong communities.
• Strategies to engage students and young scientists towards using and contributing community modeling innovations. Development of course materials employing community models. Single-column models, idealized cases, usability tests and toy models.