1. PODAG.24 November 3-4, 2005 (Friday Oct 28 Draft) Ron Weaver NSIDC DAAC Manager http://extranet.nsidc.org/nasa/daac/podag/24/index.html

2. I’m going through these quickly. You should have read them before the meeting. Ask me questions.

3. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 3 Topics Budget/Fiscal Report User Report Data Set Report EOS/ECS Topics Non-EOS/ECS Topics New Inititiatives PoDAG Housekeeping  Membership Dr. Abdalati on the Daily Show

4. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 4 Budget/Fiscal Report  Budget status  Staff Changes  NSIDC DAAC Follow- on Contract  NSIDC DAAC FY05/06 Workplan

5. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 5 NSIDC DAAC Budget Budget for FY 2006 is not yet determined. We expect word on this sometime in mid to late November. NASA on Continuing Resolution, SMD budget priorities not set. FY06 Preliminary allocation is $5.563 MY. FY07 and FY08 budgets have not been announced

6. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 6 Budget: DAAC Expenses

7. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 7 Staffing Levels, 6/2003 – 9/2005 by Functional Group

8. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 8 Staffing Changes Archive Management  Operations o Hired Fran Coloma, 6/05 o Hired Nancy Miller, 6/05 (since departed to NOAA, position is being filled now) o Heidi Schumacher departed 4/05 o Student hires have been used to backfill a 5 th OPS position o The DAAC OPS group is currently at 4 FTE and 1 FTE student) Information Services  USO o Currently hiring USO rep to back fill internal staff moves (e.g Lisa Ballagh to NOAA program)  Com/Writers Team o Jason Wolfe departed 8/05, position being filled now o Marijke Unger departed 3/05 o Hired Stephanie Renfrow 5/05, technical writer, emphasis on outreach o Hired Kara Pharris, web designer (February 2005) o Hired Lynn French 6/05 Technical writer, DAAC documentation o Hired Lindsey Husted 6/05 (NOTE, not a DAAC position) Information Technology Services  Vince Troisi assumed ITS lead responsibilities  Doug Young assumed lead for systems administration group, Tom Priestley reverted to SA status  Ken Knowles re-assumed scientific programmer management Science/Mission Coordination  Melinda Marquis departed October 15, position open  Todd Arbetter departed to BAS 10/05  Laurie Schmidt departed 10/05 DAAC Annual editing to be assumed by COM/Writer team ECS/Raytheon  No changes

9. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 9 NSIDC DAAC Contract 5 year contract started June 1, 2003 and was definitized on September 30, 2003  Ron Weaver is PI, Roger Barry and Vince Troisi are Co-PIs  Total Contract value is $ 32.872 my for 5 years, with $2.231 MY held back for optioned tasks (No we do not expect to receive all the contract value) We are now in month 28 of 60, assuming no extensions.

10. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 10 FY06 Workplan FY06 Themes  Continue operations for MODIS, AMSR-E, GLAS, SSMI, and V0 data sets  Hold science user workshop  Successfully complete the NSIDC DAAC Data Prioritization Workshop  Continue evolution of NSIDC V0 systems as resources permit  Update NSIDC (DAAC) website Workplan on hold per ESDIS instruction. We expect to submit in January 2006  Budget not yet resolved  Awaiting results of Evolution directives from SMD AA Copy of FY05 workplan is linked to PoDAG.23 agenda page

11. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 11 User Statistics Summary  Overall user contacts has dropped slightly over last year. Note however that FTP and web interactions continue to increase.  Mix of users essentially unchanged  AMSR-E continues as most active EOS data suite  Foreign vs US user ratio tilting in favor of US.

12. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 12 User Statistics * “Requests” involve direct contact with User Services personnel. They do not include ftp, Web hits, etc. Data Requests FY 78 – FY05

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14. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 14 Data Report: Data related items of interest since last meeting, other than routine operations.  Reprocessing of PM data underway  GLAS data subsetting service available  State of Sea Ice Website Released  CLP I data set compilation work completed  AMSR-E validation data sets added to NSIDC collection Engineering related items of interest  Moved major servers (mail, web, ftp, development) to linux boxes  Assessment of evolution pathways for NSIDC systems  Evaluation of the COPAN MAID continues

15. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 15 Science-Data Liaison (in addition to the items on the agenda) SEARCH: several NSIDC staff attended the NSF sponsored SEARCH planning workshop in May. We participated in the discussion and eventual draft of the data management section in the SEARCH science plan CLASS data workshop: Several NSIDC DAAC staff participated in a NGDC sponsored CLASS workshop in August AGU Data Modeling poster session planned

16. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 16 EOS/ECS Topics EOS Instrument Status ECS Data Flows

17. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 17 EOS Instrument Status ICESat:  Interim Team Leader: Doug Fowler  Release 22 data being distributed, started mid-summer  Began subsetting, July 25th  “Borg” table being developed  Almost 200K files of GLAS data have been distributed to 241 users AMSR-E:  Interim Team Leader: Amanda Leon  Ingest and Distribution nominal MODIS: Ingest and Distribution nominal  Senior Review extended Terra for 4 years

18. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 18 NON-EOS/ECS Topics NSIDC’s release (joint with NASA) on the minimum Arctic sea ice extent generated many media contacts and articles. The September 28 th release generated over 200 instances in the press.  media interviews from BBC, ABC, CNN  Numerous live radio interviews including one in Spanish language  Over 200 published articles

19. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 19 Other Activities Tour of the Cryosphere Video to be released at Fall AGU DAAC Annual  11th volume nearing completion Google Interactions EOS Article on Winter Sea Ice Minimum (see NSIDC NOTES for information about NSIDC activities)  http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/

20. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 20 Other Activities NSIDC Website Enhancements  Conducted Usability Survey - POINT Evaluation (report linked from website) o Presentation, Interaction Changes (link standardization, headings and captions, alt tags, incorporate help) o Address Navigation (usability engineering to focus site to achieve stated goals) o Content and organization of independent sections  Combine glossary pages  Consolidate links  Group gallery pages to address one audience  Researcher content templates  Reorganize News o See end of linked report for task status  All about sea ice section released

21. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 21 Other Activities - NSIDC Product Review HQ Initiated All NSIDC DAAC products to be reviewed three steps:  January 2006 meeting probably at GSFC: o NSIDC will provide metrics on the data sets o Instrument/measurement PIs will present information on their products, e.g. science completed, stability of the measurements, maturity, science value etc. o Review committee will write a report of their findings and present it to HQ and NSIDC.  Proposed Action Report (my term) o NSIDC will write a ‘proposal’ which responds to the report of the science committee.  Science committee report and the NSIDC Proposed Action Report along with reviews of other DAACs will be reviewed through a Senior Review process sometime in the next two years.

22. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 22 Actions: Other Items that NSIDC would like PoDAG to consider How should NSIDC support the NASA Ice Sheet Program (aka Son of PARCA?)  http://nsidc.org/data/parca/ http://nsidc.org/data/parca/ How should NSIDC DAAC support the CReSIS STC center at KSU?  NSIDC was asked to support data management during proposal process  We are trying to meet with Prasad’s group next year It’s a broken record but…  Priorities of data sets  Ways we can better package our data for effective data use

23. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 23 PoDAG Members Chairman  Dr. Mark Anderson, University of Nebraska Rotation of members  Mike VanWoert; has rotated off, replacement TBD  Bob Thomas has asked to rotate off, replacement TBD  Dorothy Hall has asked to rotate off, replacement TBD  Bert Davis has re-joined PoDAG Nominations for new members  Should we wait until we hear results of Evolution study?  To be discussed at the meeting?

24. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 24 Thanks To: John Bates and NCDC for hosting us. Anne Markel for helping with logistics

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26. METRICS: PODAG 24 Compiled by Donna Scott NSIDC User Services Manager

27. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 27 Metrics Notes Not certain why downturn in overall numbers in 05. FTP remains strong, as does web hits Surge in AMSR-E around March-April due to reprocessing MODIS users haven’t responded to data pool despite attempts to advertise the service Domestic users are rising over foreign users Human Dimension peak is the Uggi CD

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38. PoDAG 24: Highlights Presentation 38 EOS Data Flows EOSDIS Core System Components  Ingest  Science Data Server  Distribution Systems  Workstations  Mass Store  RAID  Output Devices Non ECS (V0 or Heritage) System Components  Ingest  Production  Archive  Distribution  Information Services Systems  Workstations/Servers  Mass Store  RAID  Output Devices AMSR-E GLAS MODIS PDS SUBSETTER EDG V0 GATEWAY NISE Data Pool AMSR-E L1A NSIDC WEBSITE AMSR-J L1A AMSR-J L1A AMSR-E L1A SSM/I TDRs User Communities CD-Rs, DVDs, Tape ftp, http ftp SNOWI

39. Slides from Berrien Moore’s presentation at AMS on NPOESS and CDRs

40. Roadmap Workshop February 2005 Ron Weaver, NSIDC Scientific Manager 40 From Berrien Moore’s presentation at AMS 2005 (Tom Karl’s AMS NPOESS Presentation 2004)

41. Roadmap Workshop February 2005 Ron Weaver, NSIDC Scientific Manager 41 NPOESS Challenges: Green is Doable; Red is doable but tougher!! How to ensure adequate overlap for all climate critical measurements  More frequent launches  Agreements through Global Earth Observing partnerships (GEO) (multinational)  Redefining instrument failure in terms of time dependent biases Replacement strategy must ensure overlap, especially for critical climate measurements  Aerosols, Solar irradiance, Sea level, Earth radiation budget Missing critical Measurements ** personal bias**  Total column CO 2 all seasons all latitudes, day/night. Ensuring an adequate data archive and distribution system Ensuring a Scientific Stewardship Program Ensuring the development of CDRs  Agreements through Global Earth Observing partnerships Tom Karl’s AMS NPOESS Presentation 2004 plus additions by Berrien Moore’s AMS NPOESS Talk 2005