1. UWG Meeting 2012 WELCOME!!

2. Rob Raskin 1957 - 2012

3. Day 1 - March 7thStart Time Duration Welcome (Bingham/Gentemann)8:30 AM15 HQ – PO Program (Lindstrom)8:45 AM15 ESDIS (Murphy)9:00 AM15 JPL Program Office (Crichton)9:15 AM10 Acheivements/Status (Bingham)9:25 AM30 Parameter Status (Gierach), Aquarius (Vazquez), SPURS (Tsontos)9:55 AM35 Break10:30 AM15 Dataset Lifecycle Introduction (Tauer)10:45 AM15 Dataset Maturity Evaluation (Tauer)11:00 AM60 Lunch12:00 PM60 Dataset Gap Analysis (Gierach)1:00 PM60 Web Portal Status (Sumagaysay)2:00 PM15 Tools & Services (Thompson)2:15 PM60 Break3:15 PM15 Closeout of Action Items (Gierach)3:30 PM30 FY12 & FY13 (Bingham/Gierach)4:00 PM60 Wrap up (Gentemann)5:00 PM15 UWG Dinner in Pasadena6:30 PM Day 2 - March 8thStart Time Duration UWG Break Out8:30 AMTBD

4. 23 Operating missions 30 Past missions 11 Under development ~5 Petabytes of data Earth Science Disciplines Cryospheric science Land use/land cover change Terrestrial ecology Physical oceanography Biological oceanography Terrestrial hydrology Precipitation science Atmospheric modeling

5. 6 Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Instrument Teams EOS Spacecraft Direct Broadcast/ Direct Readout Stations Direct Broadcast (DB) Data and Operations System Data Processing White Sands Complex (WSC) EOS Polar Ground Stations Internet (Data Search & Access) Research Education Value-Added Providers Interagency Data Centers International Partners Earth System Models Decision Support Systems Data Acquisition Flight Operations, Data Capture, Initial Processing, Science Data Processing, Archive, & Distribution Mission OperationsScience Operations EOS Operations Center Mission Control Data Centers

6. 7 ASF DAAC SAR Products Sea Ice, Polar Processes SEDAC Human Interactions in Global Change LP DAAC Land Processes & Features PO.DAAC Physical Oceanography ASDC Radiation Budget, Clouds, Aerosols, Tropo Chemistry ORNL DAAC Biogeochemical Dynamics, EOS Land Validation GES DISC Atmos Composition & Dynamics, Global Modeling, Hydrology, Radiance LAADS/ MODAPS Atmosphere OBPG Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry GHRC Hydrological Cycle & Severe Weather CDDIS Crustal Dynamics Solid Earth NSIDC DAAC Cryosphere, Polar Processes

7. Data Management & Stewardship Preserve NASA’s data for the benefit of future generations Data Access Provide intuitive services to discover, select, extract and utilize data Science Information Services Provide a knowledgebase to help a broad user community understand and interpret satellite ocean data and related information

8. Provide knowledge of and access to all satellite data related to the physical state of the global oceans

10. NASA Missions & Projects Gravity Ocean Circulation & Currents Ocean Surface Salinity Ocean Surface Topography Ocean Vector Winds Sea Surface Temperature Sea Ice Seasat, TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, NSCAT, SeaWinds on ADEOS-II, QuikSCAT, GRACE, GHRSST, MeASUREs, Aquarius Ocean & Climate Science Products Value-added datasets in support of NASA programs

11. Project Management A. Bingham User Services R. Sumagaysay Data Engineering E. Armstrong System Operations C. Chen Core System Dev. T. Huang Tools & Service Dev. C. Thompson Project Science Team M. Gierach Project System Engineering E. Tauer 2011 Key Hires M. Gierach – Project Scientist E. Tauer – Project System Engineer R. Sumagaysay – User Services Lead V. Tsontos – SST/SSS Data Engineer R. Kim – Web Services Cognizant Engineer 2011 UWG Members C. Gentemann (Chair), RSS M. Caruso (Co-Chair), U. Miami B. Beckley, NASA/GSFC M. Bourassa, FSU D. Chambers, U. South Florida K. Dohan, ESR T. Strub, OSU D. Vandemark, UNH J. Wilkin, Rutgers C. Wilson, NOAA S. Worley, NCAR/UCAR Outgoing Members K. Casey, NOAA B. Evans (FSU)

12. Project Management : Responsible for the success of the Project. Sets vision, priorities and goals. Ensures objectives are met. Manages time, cost and quality constraints. Project Science Team : Responsible for advising the project on science requirements, science product definition and validation, and science algorithms. Performs analysis to evaluate data quality and publishes results. Supports education and public outreach. System Engineering : Responsible for the design, creation and operation of the end-end PO.DAAC system. User Services : Responsible for the services through which users interact with the PO.DAAC system and staff. Generates and maintains the content that accompany the services. Ensures quality and usability of the services. Markets the PO.DAAC data holdings and services; coordinates education and public outreach. Data Engineering Team : Responsible for the stewardship of the PO.DAAC data holdings. Defines and enforces data format and metadata standards, ensures data and metadata quality and completeness, creates and maintains user guides, responds to user queries, supports education and public outreach. System Operations Team : Responsible for the day-day operations and maintenance of the PO.DAAC system. Includes deployment and test of in-house and third party software, data management operations, and system administration. Core System Development Team : Responsible for creating software solutions that enable data management, search and discovery. Tools & Services Development Team : Responsible for creating software solutions for accessing, manipulating and visualizing PO.DAAC data holdings.