First, some photos from the workshop (click each for a bigger version).

List of attendees:

• Ruzanna Chitchyan
• Michael Tobis
• Mehmet Aksit
• Pietu Pohjalainen
• Juha Taina
• Lisa Jamba
• Maryam Purvis
• Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
• He Zhang
• Richard Biehl
• Eric Van Wyk
• Martin Glas
• Wolf von Reden
• Bernd Bruegge
• Jorge Vallejos
• Carsten Goerg
• Chris Parnin
• Steve Easterbrook
• Jon Pipitone
• Jorge Aranda

And apologies from Lin Liu and J. Scott Hawker, who have been there if they could.

• Opening slides (agenda and goals). The reports Steve mentioned in the opening slides were:
  • Report from an NSF workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Climate Change
  • The APA report Psychology and Global Climate Change
  • and Ultra-Large Scale Systems (not about climate change, but a useful model for how you frame a challenge
• Keynote talk:
  • Cybernetics of Climate by Michael Tobis, University of Texas at Austin
  • (See also the animations Michael used in his talk)
• Slides from participants:
  • Jorge Vallejos
  • He Zhang (Jimmy)
• Images used during the discussions:
  • World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector (from the wonderful UNEP collection)
  • Steve's brainstorming grid: intellectual assets vs. challenge problems

By the end of the workshop, we had clustered our ideas into five groups, along with a set of cross-cutting concerns. Here's the clusters:

• Education, Advocacy, Social Epistemology and Visualization
• Metrics and Decision Support for (a) policymaking and (b) software engineering project management
• IT Energy Consumption
• SE for Climate Models (and environmental modeling in general)
• Human Behaviour Modification
• Cross-Cutting Concerns

And of course, we took lots of notes during the discussion: