OceanSITES Project Office Report Kelly Stroker JCOMMOPS

Outline New JCOMMOPS Project Office Coordinator Project Office main duties and responsibilities Priority tasks for Progress in achieving those tasks –Network Status information etc Future priority tasks 2

Project Office 3 Hester Viola departed in Oct, 2010 Kelly Stroker arrived in Sept, 2011 Kelly most came to JCOMMOPS from Boulder, CO where she has worked at the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) since 2003.

4 Reminder: Main Duties and Responsibilities Provide technical assistance and support to OceanSITES members Follow guidance of the Co-chairs of OceanSITES. Assist the OceanSITES Steering Committee to: –ensure that data is shared and used, continually assess the success of the network in delivering the required data. –consider system resources, logistics, data delivery (real-time, delayed-mode) –ensure updates to OceanSITES maps, as sites change. –update and contribute to website content (general information, news, etc) Assist the OceanSITES Data Management team to: –Document data sources, in a centrally accessible Metadata Catalogue –Develop and improve data formats –Assist in assigning site NAMES for the data system and ensure that data flows are correct for new sites and address any problems to GDACs and responsible parties

5 Main Duties and Responsibilities Maintain and Compile documentation (Metadata Catalogue, Whitepapers) for new sites or system elements (including deleting sites if necessary). Attend meetings and workshops arranged by or on behalf of the OceanSITES Global Team (Science Team and Data Management Team) as required. Develop preparatory documents as required. Assist in arranging meetings as required. Promote OceanSITES and related programmes to encourage use of observing platform data, and new participants in these programmes Liaise with other related programs to increase integration of data access and resources (such as real time data sharing and ship time) Maintain contact details for OceanSITES participants and Principal Investigators, lists and user groups

Priority tasks for Resume Project Office tasks New map products to view network status Website transfer to JCOMMOPS and updates/improvements to site Updating contact details and user groups Supporting the Data Management Team in getting data (and metadata) onto GDACs –Maintaining Site Catalog, monitoring data flows Sustained funding 6

7 High OngoingOceanSITES TORsWork to the OceanSITES Project Office Terms of Reference on behalf of the Steering Team and Data Management Team Medium OngoingOngoing Performance metrics: Need to generate OceanSITES performance metrics for national and international agencies/bodies, and for funding agencies. Also refer to Indicators based on OceanSITES data on the website. Medium OngoingOngoingMaintain OceanSITES Station list and (automate) site catalog (referring to GDAC Index files) High Source all relevant OceanSITES metadata from Global Variables in the GDACS and the Index File details - create script to generate Site Catalog. Ensure that routine network status can be reported in maps (with monthly, quarterly and live Google Earth views) High Set up process to automatically generate site catalog from JCOMMOPS database. Ensure that naming conventions are clear and followed. Process for naming of OceanSITES and check data holdings versus expected. Track presence of historical data. High Develop letter and distribution scripts to send about White Paper documentation for new sites. High Send out list of New OceanSITES Sites to Exec for approval. Put all OceanSITES metadata into the database. Process Spreadsheet and then word docs from for loading into the new database High Follow up on all actions from Steering and DATa management team meetings and Work on tasks as outlined in the 2008 Steering Commitee Meeting report and 2010 Data Managmenet meeting Medium JCOMMOPS to provide an interactive map viewer (Standard JCOMM projection) for OceanSITES layers (on flat earth) within GOOS/JCOMM viewer, as alternative to Google Earth View. Including a viewer for data type. And Google Earth files for all different maps types ie. Data flow, data type and operational status (GDAC/GTS) Medium Check the data sharing for KEO and PAPA (plus FLEX moorings) with CLS America Medium-Low Finalise OceanSITES contact details in JCOMMOPS DB Medium-Low Ensuring OCeanSITES requirements are in BUOY bufr template. See how it can be cross matched from NEtCDF. Create FGDC files for all shapefiles then translate to ISO19115 with Ted's assistance. Medium-Low Input to redesign of oceansites brochure and develop generic powerpoint presentation. Need for promotional material to highlight uses of data and value of the global network (work with WHOI - P White) Medium-Low OceanSITES Web review – simplify the structure, correct missing and incomplete links, missing documents, update site lists and maps, provide link to JCOMMOPS and OSMC for stats. Medium-Low OceanSITES Indices, indicators: Provide entry portal and links for products and indicators on member websites Medium-Low Enhance sharing of platforms, sensor expertise and sensors documentation: Maintain a List of mentors for each sensor and list of participants willing to share platforms Medium-Low OceanSITES MOIN map needs to be updated with existing moorings (plus a vision map created). New Google earth maps needed to symbolise by discipline and by data flow (GTS/GDAC or both). Medium-Low Need for compilation of Best Practices on dealing with Bio-fouling (coordinate documents from Steering Team) Tasks from Project Office

8 Documents to Review Documentation: –Review the ‘How to Become an OceanSITES’ Document and finalize –Review the ‘OceanSITES Approval’ Document –Several sites currently waiting for approval: POSEIDON-Pylos CalOCFI CCE-1 Wyville Thomson Ridge Overflow South China Indonesian Seas Transport Exchange (SITE) Sundra Strait Dynamics Faroe Bank Channel Overflow HAUSGARTEN Agulhas Retur Current Reference Station

Current GDAC Sites 9

10 Current Status (2009)

Vision (2009) Including discontinued sites 11

OceanSITES on the GTS (08/2009) 12

Google Earth 13

Google Earth 14

Site Metadata Familiarization with the metadata in the OceanSITES NetCDF data format Assisted NDBC in compiling a questionnaire for metadata management. –Followed up with some DACs to ensure that the questionnaire was filled in and metadata put onto GDACs in.doc or.xml format Maintained Site Catalog with up-to-date information about sites which were preparing or ready to share data on the GDACs. –Reviewed data on GDACs –Worked with GDAC administrators on how to deal with older datasets and problems with synchronizing Monthly map now available showing sites sharing data on the GTS of WMO 15

Site Catalog 16

Websites –Reviewed web structure –Provided updates to documentation for website (hosted at WHOI) –Corrected outdated links and simplified structure –Added new data links on –Links to maps are straight to JCOMMOPS, so they are easily updated for changes to network –Removed link to the web mapping tool, using Google Earth in preference (plus web mapping at JCOMMOPS) Network status Maps and Documents available via JCOMMOPS FTP Remind participants to contribute to the OceanSITES Photo album: (or send images directly to New web content entered on 17

18 Communications Maintained contact details for OceanSITES participants and Principal Investigators (in a central repository either on the JCOMMOPS or JCOMM website) Created new lists Plus aliases Created user groups/mailing lists on the JCOMM website (OceanSITES Science Team, Data Management Team)

19 Funding at JCOMMOPS JCOMMOPS - hosted at CLS in Toulouse, France and funded through the following annual (or ad hoc) national voluntary contributions –DBCP: Australia, Canada, Europe (E-SURFMAR), France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA. –Argo/SOT (all annual): Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, South Korea, United Kingdom, USA. –JCOMMOPS (2007): India OceanSITES - Funding from Australia and USA, plus commitment from IFREMER, France. –POGO declared its support of OceanSITES as outlined in the final Seoul Declaration : Establishment of a globally-coordinated network of time series observation station in the oceans to monitor a rapidly changing Earth System through OceanSITES.

Future priority tasks Support DACs in providing data and metadata –New DACs and expanded data sets for existing DACs in line with DMT priorities New sites - constantly work to identify additional operators of candidate sites and convince them to become part of the OceanSITES system Help to make the OceanSITES web page, a portal to all the other products/indicators and for data web pages. –Assist with finding and providing products (15m currents, surface fluxes, SSS, etc) and indicators collected from various OceanSITES member websites –Ensure that each site’s web page adds an OceanSITES logo or name at the top/side. 20

Future tasks Create groups to contact as experts on specific sensors and variables (Mentors) Develop JCOMMOPS metadata loading routines to check status of GDACs and automatically update database –Create monthly map showing GDAC data flows. –Maintain list of DAC’s and data flows to and track progress of data provision/flow Google earth file updated daily/monthly with full metadata descriptions and links to GDAC datasets Redesign web mapping tools at JCOMMOPS for all OceanSITES layers (synchronized with Google Earth) 21

Questions, Comments Six monthly reports are on: – 22

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