The meeting will provide an opportunity to review collective progress towards our goals, discuss the science directions and operations of the program, and plan special initiatives. We aim to limit the attendance to PIs/project representatives, core team leads, SMC and oversight committee, secretariat and core KM/outreach, data management, and communications staff.

The Meeting will focus on the following broad issues:

• Next phase of GWF and the 2020 CFREF mid-term review of GWF.
• GWF’s Planetary Water Prediction Initiative – structure and links to current and future projects, global initiatives and other research
• Indigenous community water research – what are the projects doing, what more can be done, how to share best practices across other projects and the program in general?
• UN Sustainable Development Goals – linkages to the United Nations University - Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH); announcement of the Water Portal for the UN Water Action Decade: Water for Sustainable Development, 2018–2028; update on GWF contributions to the UN SDGs, and further activities we can pursue in that area.
• Coordination with core teams on prediction (core modelling, computer science, IMPC, others), adoption of new components for models, remote sensing, testing models on GWF observatory data, visualisation.
• Observations and data – what is being done across observatories, what gaps are there to fill? What is the status of our data archive?
• Knowledge mobilisation best practices and capabilities – coordinated regional (provincial level) multi-project KM planning – the “GWF travelling road show”.

The meeting will include presentations and strategic discussions, with the aim of producing the following:

• Refined plans and target applications for GWF Planetary Water Prediction Initiative;
• A roadmap for GWF and UNU-INWEH to lead Canada’s contribution to the UN Water Action Decade, and launch of an inventory of how GWF contributes to the UN SDGs;
• Best practices for Indigenous community water research;
• A complete observatory and metadata inventory across GWF;
• Pathways for which a revitalized modelling and prediction strategy links to GWF projects;
• A plan for a coordinated knowledge mobilisation effort in provincial capital cities;
• Enhancing the coherence, alignment, and integration of GWF scientific projects and core teams in order to achieve remaining program objectives and deliverables.

Please see below for the meeting agenda and downloadable presentation files:

A summary of this Operations Team Meeting may be downloaded below.

• 3rd Operations Team Meeting Summary

If you have any additonal questions or concerns, please contact Chris DeBeer.

• Chris DeBeer

On behalf of the organizing team, thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in Hamilton!