Graduate students Stephanie Zick and José J. Hernández Ayala attended the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 2nd User Workshop on June 9-11th, 2015 at College Park, Maryland. This workshop brought together all different levels of users, focusing on a broad range of applications areas including disasters, weather forecasting, agricultural modeling and food security, public health, ecological forecasting, and climate modeling.
The workshop had keynote speeches, panel discussions and a poster session focused on communicating the GPM suite of products, discussing user needs and questions, and strategic discussion on how the GPM applications program can grow to better suit the user communities. A training session was held at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center to provide an introduction to GPM products and conduct some hands on training to access and apply this data.