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Davis Oakville Station, Napa Valley, California<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext'>Date: November 5<sup>th</sup> and 6th, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application for Workshop:<br></span><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Space for the workshop is limited to 30 participants. To apply for attendance at the workshop, interested participants must email the VACCINE Center at </span><a href="mailto:vaccine@purdue.edu"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>vaccine@purdue.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> by </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>September 21, 2015</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> with the required application materials below. You will be notified of the application decision by (insert date).</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>2-page NSF Biographical Sketch (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf15001/gpg_2.jsp)<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>1-page position paper on one or more of the topics listed below:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Where do water resources face the greatest stress and uncertainty?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>What impact will a changing climate have on the global and regional precipitation pattern?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>How can integrated modeling efforts inform decision making with respect to seasonal high-risk-of-failure water quantity and quality?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:36.7pt;text-indent:-9.35pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>What technological innovations in engineering and agricultural practices will prove most effective in achieving water-food system resiliency and sustainability?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'>This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation award CNS-1541863. Partial to full travel and accommodation support will be available to participants<span style='color:#333333'>. </span><span style='color:#333333'>There is no registration fee for the workshop itself.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Summary:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'>Changing environmental conditions coupled with societal and agricultural growth and associated energy demands are creating stresses and presenting new challenges to the food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) interaction. Thanks to resources provided by the National Science Foundation, our workshop will focus on addressing these challenges and developing a roadmap to outline short-term and long-term research, technology and farming challenges for the NSF FEWS program. The workshop will concentrate on the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Opportunities to integrate novel microclimate weather, subsurface soil, and remotely sensed image data with hydrology models, high-resolution soil models and pedology, and perennial crop plant models into effective and sustainable value-added farming solutions;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Novel remote sensing and wireless in-situ sensing technology, opportunities and practical constraints;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Data integration, visualization, and interactive predictive decision making environments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>The workshop will include leading researchers from the variety of scientific disciplines that underpin this novel and evolving topic, as well as agricultural producers who are experiencing food, water system challenges created by changing climate and weather conditions. The two-day workshop will bring together researchers as well as end-users, and will define the scope and relevant research priorities. (Please see attached agenda for more details). Feedback from the breakout sessions will serve as the basis for workshop proceedings and recommendations to both the National Science Foundation and the scientific communities.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><b>Intended Participants:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'>Participants will include researchers, cooperative extension specialists, and farmers with a common goal of defining novel research topics based on the most pressing needs of perennial crop farmers in the Western U.S.<o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Workshop Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• David Ebert, Purdue University, visual and predictive analytics (Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Doug Adams, Vanderbilt University, sensing technology and environmental engineering<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Christian Butzke, Purdue University, enology, viticulture, and food science<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Melba Crawford, Purdue University, remote sensing technology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Kelly Gaither, University of Texas at Austin, advanced computational infrastructure and large-scale data visualization<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Terry Nipp, Aegis, crop science and biofuels<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Phillip Owens, Purdue University, soil pedology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue University, wireless sensor technology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Jonathan Gilligan, Vanderbilt University, climate change<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- <a href="http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org">http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org</a> -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <a href="http://www.purvac.org">www.purvac.org</a> -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- <a href="mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu">ebertd@purdue.edu</a> <a href="http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd">http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd</a> -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David S. Ebert [mailto:ebertd@ecn.purdue.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 09, 2015 4:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Dr. David S. Ebert'; 'Butzke, Christian E (cbutzke@purdue.edu)'; 'Kelly Gaither'; Terry at AEGIS (tnipp.aegis@gmail.com); Crawford, Melba M (melbac@purdue.edu) (melbac@purdue.edu); 'jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu'; douglas.adams@vanderbilt.edu; dperouli@purdue.edu; beck35@purdue.edu; prowens@purdue.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> CFP: NSF Food, Energy, Water Systems Nexus Workshop: Technology and Information Fusion, Nov. 5-6, 2015 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:windowtext'>Call for Participation:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:windowtext'>National Science Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:windowtext'>Food, Energy, Water Systems (FEWS) Nexus Challenges Workshop: Technology and Information Fusion <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext'>Oakville Station, Napa Valley, California<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext'>November 5<sup>th</sup> and 6th, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'>Scientists at Purdue University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Food, Energy, and Water Systems (FEWS) Nexus Challenges Workshop: Technology and Information Fusion, hosted at <b>the University of California’s Oakville Station in Napa Valley on November 5<sup>th</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup>, 2015. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><b>Overview:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'>Changing environmental conditions coupled with societal and agricultural growth and associated energy demands are creating stresses and presenting new challenges to the food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) interaction. Thanks to resources provided by the National Science Foundation, our workshop will focus on addressing these challenges and developing a roadmap to outline short-term and long-term research, technology and farming challenges for the NSF FEWS program. The workshop will concentrate on the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt'>• Opportunities to integrate novel microclimate weather, subsurface soil, and remotely sensed image data with hydrology models, high-resolution soil models and pedology, and perennial crop plant models into effective and sustainable value-added farming solutions;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt'>• Novel remote sensing and wireless in-situ sensing technology, opportunities and practical constraints;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-9.0pt'>• Data integration, visualization, and interactive predictive decision making environments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>The workshop will include leading researchers from the variety of scientific disciplines that underpin this novel and evolving topic, as well as agricultural producers who are experiencing food, water system challenges created by changing climate and weather conditions. The two-day workshop will bring together researchers as well as end-users, and will define the scope and relevant research priorities. (Please see attached agenda for more details). Feedback from the breakout sessions will serve as the basis for workshop proceedings and recommendations to both the National Science Foundation and the scientific communities.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><b>Intended Participants:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'>Participants will include researchers, cooperative extension specialists, and farmers with a common goal of defining novel research topics based on the most pressing needs of perennial crop farmers in the Western U.S.<o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application for Workshop:<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Space for the workshop is limited to 30 participants. To apply for attendance at the workshop, interested participants must email the VACCINE Center at </span><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-weight:normal'><a href="mailto:vaccine@purdue.edu"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>vaccine@purdue.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>by </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>September 21, 2015</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> with the required application materials below. You will be notified of the application decision by (insert date).<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>2-page NSF Biographical Sketch (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf15001/gpg_2.jsp">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf15001/gpg_2.jsp</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>1-page position paper on one or more of the topics listed below:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Where do water resources face the greatest stress and uncertainty?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>What impact will a changing climate have on the global and regional precipitation pattern?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>How can integrated modeling efforts inform decision making with respect to seasonal high-risk-of-failure water quantity and quality?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>What technological innovations in engineering and agricultural practices will prove most effective in achieving water-food system resiliency and sustainability?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:14.0pt;text-autospace:none'>This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation award CNS-1541863. Partial to full travel and accommodation support will be available to participants<span style='color:#333333'>. There is no registration fee for the workshop itself.</span><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Workshop Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• David Ebert, Purdue University, visual and predictive analytics (Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Doug Adams, Vanderbilt University, sensing technology and environmental engineering<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Christian Butzke, Purdue University, enology, viticulture, and food science<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Melba Crawford, Purdue University, remote sensing technology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Kelly Gaither, University of Texas at Austin, advanced computational infrastructure and large-scale data visualization<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Terry Nipp, Aegis, crop science and biofuels<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Phillip Owens, Purdue University, soil pedology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue University, wireless sensor technology<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-9.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>• Jonathan Gilligan, Vanderbilt University, climate change<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Dr. David S. Ebert, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Purdue University; 465 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907 -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Director, Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Environments (VACCINE), DHS CCI Center of Excellence -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- <a href="http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org">http://www.VisualAnalytics-CCI.org</a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Director, Purdue Visualization and Analytics Center, <a href="http://www.purvac.org">www.purvac.org</a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- <a href="mailto:ebertd@purdue.edu">ebertd@purdue.edu</a> <a href="http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd">http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~ebertd</a> -<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>