DEBORAH R.
BELVEDERE
Assistant
Director,
Center for Research on
Environment and Water
4041 Powder Mill
Road, Suite 302
Calverton,
MD 20705-3106
USA
Office:
301/595-7001
Direct:
301/902-1276
Fax:
301/595-9790
Mobile:
410/991-2996
Email:
debbie@iges.org
Water Cycle
Research:
Considerable
attention has been given to the importance of the global water and
energy cycle in assessing the consequences of natural and
human-induced climate change. In particular, the U.S. Global
Change Research Program (USGCRP) Plan for a New Science
Initiative on the Global Water Cycle” and the subsequent National
Research Council response, have identified the global water cycle
as a critical research theme in order to advance climate-change
research in the coming decades. More recently, the Climate Change
Science Program (CCSP)
has identified the water-cycle as a critical cross-cutting theme
that all science agencies must address in a coordinated and
optimally synergistic fashion. As such, the challenge faced by the
scientific community is to construct an ambitious, focused and
coordinated implementation plan that will significantly advance our
understanding of and predictive capabilities within this
cross-cutting, scientific theme and, generally speaking,
climate-change science.
Career
Goal:
to strive for the highest level of commitment and ownership in the
planning, implementation and success of CREW. More specifically, I
wish to improve and increase my management skills and become more
involved in the education/public outreach, communication and
coordination aspect of large projects within the science
community.
Short
Bio:
Ms. Belvedere
accepted the position as CREW
Assistant Director on January 2, 2006. As a project coordination expert,
she brings expertise from coordinating many large interdisciplinary
programs. Her work
supports scientific collaboration and coordination of global water
and energy cycle research, specifically, planning task-forces
consisting of researchers from the broader scientific
community. These task
forces have worked to produce and enable implementation plans that
answer to the emergence of cross-cutting water-cycle research
initiatives brought forth by inter-agency and
government-administrative science panels. Currently she is involved in the
NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) , and WaterNet: The NASA Water
Cycle Solutions Network project,
Debbie received her
Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance from Oswego State
University, Oswego, NY.
She worked as a teacher, musician, and co-owner/manger of a white
linen restaurant before her tenure at Goddard in 1995 where she
assisted the Climate and Radiation and Hydrological Sciences
Branches respectively. Debbie is married to Joe Belvedere and has
two children, Melissa and Joseph III. Her hobbies include boating,
winter and water sports, hiking, music and dance.
Professional
Experience
2006 –
Present
Assistant Director, Center for Research on Environment
and Water, Calverton,
MD
1995-2005
Program Assistant (NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center-UMBC/GEST)
1978-1995
Musician and Educator
(Self-employed)
1984-1988
Co-owner/Manager (Anchorage
House Restaurant, Beaufort, S. Carolina)
Proposal
Support:
Houser,
P., 2006-2009: WEC Project Office, IGES. NASA GWEC Program, $463k,
in
progress.
Houser,
P., D. Belvedere, B. Imam, R.
Schiffer, C. Schlosser, H. Gupta, C. Welty, C. Vörösmarty, D.
Matthews, R. Lawford, 2006-2009: WaterNet: The
NASA
Water Cycle Solutions Network, IGES.
NASA-ROSES 2005 A.24;
NNH05ZDA001N-DECISION, $2084k, selected April 4, 2006, in
progress.
Houser,
P.,
D. Belvedere,
B. Imam, R. Schiffer, C. Schlosser, H. Gupta, C. Welty, C.
Vörösmarty, D. Matthews, R. Lawford, D. Toll, and F. Policelli,
2005-2008: A Water Cycle Solutions Network,
NASA-GSFC.
NASA
NN-H-04-Z-YO-010-C, withdrawn
Houser,
P., D. Belvedere, D. Matthews, D.
Toll, 2007-2010: Improving Climate-Driven Water-Management
Decisions,
IGES.
NOAA
Climate Program Office
(CPO) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 funding opportunity (OAR-CPO-2007-2000636),
Sector
Applications and Research Program (SARP), $460k,
submitted July 25, 2006,
pending
Houser, P., B. Doty, D. Belvedere,
P. Cornillon, and S. Kumar, 2006-2010: A Global Water Cycle
Observatory Cyberinfrastructure Demonstration. NSF
06-505: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories:
Prototype Systems to Address Cross-Cutting Needs (CEOP), $2,331k,
submitted January 26, 2006, rejected.
Houser,
P, D. Belvedere, 2007-2009: The
WaterNet Education and Outreach Project (WEOP): Cultivating
Understanding and Awareness of the Connections between NASA’s
Research Results, the Water Cycle, and the Decision Support Tools
that Improve Our Quality of Life, IGES, $45K, submitted June 30,
2006, rejected
Papers
Assessing a Satellite-Era Perspective of the Global Water Cycle,
(Paper presented) (3/04) C. Adam Schlosser, Joint Program on
the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, B. Adler, S. Chou, P.
Houser, G. Huffman, R. Koster, S. Mahanama, D. Belvedere, A. Nelkin, K. Manasfi, L Gratz,
M. Rodell, NASA/GSFC, P. Dirmeyer, COLA
Using GSWP 2 in a Global Water Cycle Synthesis and
Analysis) (Paper presented) C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of
Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R.
Houser, J. K. Entin, and D. R.
Belvedere
PROFESSIONAL and COMMUNITY SUPPORT
ACTIVITIES
Federation of Earth Science Information
Partners (ESIP), Water
Cluster Education lead, 2006
WECPO activities
associated with NEWS(NASA
Energy and Water Cycle Study) and NSIT
LISW
reporting
2006
Conference/Meetings/Workshops:
COHS
(Committee
on Hydrologic Science), "Research and Education Needs for Water
Management". 3/20/06,
Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th St.NW, Washington,
DC.
NEWS
Review Panel – 3/15-17/06, Calverton, MD
WaterNet
mtg/NASA/GSFC
Fulbright
Scholar Program Workshop, 4/10/06, GMU, Fairfax,
VA
AGU Joint
Assembly -5/23-26/06; Baltimore, MD -Poster
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network”
WaterNet
Meeting, GSFC- -6/15/06
2nd NEWS
meeting – 9/26-28/06, UM Inn & Conference Center -
Poster -“WaterNet:
The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network”
NSF
Regional Grants Conference – 10/23-24/06, UM Inn
& Conference Center
17th ESIP
Federation Meeting- 7/18-21/06, Palisades, NY -Presentation
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network”
Interoperable Portal Meeting, 10/05/06,
NASA/GSFC
NASA
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Related Applied Sciences –
8/21-25/06 –
Poster
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network”
RPC Workshop, 11/8/06, Greenbelt Marriott
ESIP
Federation Cluster-Technical-Portal meeting – 11/13/06, UM Inn
& Conference Center
COLA SAC
COLA/CREW
/ESSEC meeting
Presentations
17th ESIP
Federation Meeting- 7/18-21/06, Palisades, NY -Presentation
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network
Posters
AGU Joint Assembly
-5/23-26/06; Baltimore, MD -Poster
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network”
17th ESIP
Federation Meeting- 7/18-21/06, Palisades, NY -Poster
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network
2nd NEWS
meeting – 9/26-28/06, UM Inn & Conference Center -
Poster -“WaterNet:
The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network
NASA Biodiversity,
Terrestrial Ecology, and Related Applied Sciences – 8/21-25/06
–
Poster
-“WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions
Network
Professional
Memberships
American Meteorological
Society
Collaborations:
Adler,
R.; Amitai, E.; Bambacus, M.; Bosilovich, M.; Boushaki, F.; Carter,
G.;Chen, J.; Chern, J.; Clayson, C.; Curry, J.; Curtis, S.; Davis,
D.; Dirmeyer, P.; Engman, T.; Entin, J.; Esfandiari, M.; Betts, A.;
Famiglietti, J.; Fetzer, E.; Grecu, M.; Gu, G.; Gupta, H.; Houser,
P.; Hall, M.; Hendee, J.; Hilburn, K.; Hou, A.; Hsu, K.; Huffman,
G.; Imam, B.; Kato, H.; Kempler, S.; Kiang, R.; Knister, A.;
Koster, R.; Lapenta, B.; Larko, C. M.; Lawford, R.; L'Ecuyer, T.;
Ledley, T.; Leng, G.; Leung, R.; Levine, E.; Lin, B.; Liu, T.;
Logan, W.; Lohmann, D.;Lu, L.;Matthews,D.;
Meng, J.; Mooney, M.;
Nerem, S.; Njoku, E.; Olsen,
L.;
Olson, W.; Pegion, P.; Peters-Lidard, C.; Pozzi, W.; Rasmussen,
R.; Rienecker, M.;
Roads, J.; Robertson, P.; Rodell, M.; Romanou,
A.;Rossow, B.;
Santanello,
J.;Scheibe, T.; Schere,
K.; Schiffer, R.; Schloss, A.; Schlosser, C. A.;
Schubert, S.;
Shie, C.;Shuttleworth, J.;
Simpson, A;Soden,
B.; Sorooshian, S.;.Tang, W.;Tao, W.-K.;Toll, D.;
Velicogna, I.;Vorosmarty, C.;
Welty, C.;
Wentz, F.;Wertz, D.;Yang,
P.;
Zatichik, B.
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