1. Data Management And Communications Committee (DMACC) Report to the GCOOS-RA BOD March 04, 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana Vembu Subramanian, Chair GCOOS DMACC

2. GCOOS DMACC - Current Members and Composition Babin, Brenda – LSU, LA Bosch, Julie - NCDDC, NOAA Burnett, Bill - NDBC,NOAA Davis, James - TAMU, Corpus-Christi Raye, Robert - Shell Hu, Lei - Dauphin Island Sea lab Howard, Matthew – TAMU (GCOOS DMAC Coordinator) Ratcliff, Jay - USACE Darrell Duncan - SAIC Subramanian, Vembu – USF, FL (GCOOS DMACC Chair) Colee, Jennifer - USACE

3. GCOOS DMACC - Current Members – contd.. O’keife, Kathleen – FWRI, FL Conover, Helen - UAH, AL Porter, Dwayne – NERRS, CDMO Office, USC, SC Davis, James - TAMU, Corpus-Christi Stabenau, Erik - NPS Virgil Zetterlind – EarthNC, Inc. Total 16 members; Government - 7; Academic - 6; Private: 3 Steve Anderson, Private Member resigned and we are looking for a Private Sector member to join the committee

4. GCOOS DMACC Liaisons to other GCOOS Committees and Council Bill Burnett – Observing Systems Committee Lei Hu – Education & Outreach Council Jay Ratcliff – Products and Services Committee Virgil Zetterlind – Stakeholders Council

5. Liaisons from other committees and council to GCOOS DMACC Simoniello, Chris - Education and Outreach Council Awaiting appointments from other committees to DMACC

6. GCOOS BOD Liaisons to GCOOS DMACC Alferdo, Prelat - Terralliance Jan Van Smirren – Fugro GEOS

7. GCOOS DMACC Activities - 2009 3 rd GCOOS DMACC Meeting, Orlando, FL, February 23- 24, 2009 Total 22 attended the meeting, included SECOORA, CaRA and NERRS – Discussion on RA Collaborations on Data Management Issues and identification of overlap with GOMA Meeting Notes Available on GCOOS web site - http://gcoos.tamu.edu/meetingreports/2009_Feb_DMAC/ minutes.html

8. GCOOS DMACC Members Engagement in other GCOOS RA meetings Global Positioning Workshop for Educators, April 23-24, 2009 – Lei Hu GCOOS Education and Outreach Council August 6-7, 2009 – Lei Hu and Matt Howard GCOOS Products and Services Committee 7 August 2009 – Julie Bosch, Jay Ratcliff and Matt Howard GCOOS BOD and Annual Parties Meeting (February 2009) and GCOOS BOD Meeting (September 2009) – Vembu Subramanian, Chair DMACC, Liaison to the GCOOS BOD Ecosystem Modeling Workshop – Matt Howard

9. GCOOS DMACC Members Engagement in GCOOS Data Projects Standardization of Local Data Nodes in the GCOOS –RA – Ann Jochens, PI and Matt Howard, Co-PI – 10 Non – Federal data providers were funded to implement DMAC technologies at their node recommended by IOOS DMAC - Some node managers are members of the GCOOS DMACC GCOOS Data Portal – DMACC members provided feedback to Matt Howard and Felimon Nonong, Lead Computer Programmer – in progress

10. GCOOS DMACC Members Engagement in DMAC Projects relevant to GCOOS-RA Bill Burnett, NDBC – Quality Assurance of Real-Time Oceanographic Data (QARTOD) - continuing multi- agency effort to address the Quality Assurance and Quality Control issues of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and broader international community (www.qartod.org)www.qartod.org Julie Bosch, Co-PI – Q2O (http://q2o.whoi.edu/ ) enable implementation of QA/QC standards into the evolving OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) – Sensor Web Enablement frameworks.

11. GCOOS DMACC Members Engagement in DMAC Projects relevant to GCOOS-RA Matt Howard and Vembu Subramanian – Technical Advisory Committee, IOOS Observations Registry Project (http://obsregistry.org/)http://obsregistry.org/ Matt Howard – GCOOS – RA Liaison to IOOS DMAC Virgil Zetterlind – EarthNC, Inc specializes in spatial mapping systems development and the integration of static and dynamic data systems within the Google Earth Framework (http://earthnc.com)http://earthnc.com Kathleen O’Keife and Vembu Subramanian – Bio Hab Site, SECOORA

12. GCOOS DMACC Members Engagement in DMAC Projects relevant to GCOOS-RA Dwayne Porter – Providing NERRS water quality. Meteorological (real-time) and nutrients (non-real time) to RAs and NDBC Erik Stabenau and Vembu Subramanian worked with NDBC on an inter-agency effort to make real-time National Park Service Everglades Marine Monitoring Network Stations data available on NDBC web site – GCOOS Data Portal should be able to get the same from NDBC.

13. GCOOS DMACC interaction with Gulf of Mexico Alliance Data Management Advisory Committee (GOMA DMAC) GCOOS DMACC Members representation - Matt Howard – Water Quality PIT member and IT/Tech - Julie Bosch - One of the Federal Advisor to GOMA DMC - Vembu Subramanian – Recommended and Elected by Worth Nowlin, Chair, GCOOS BOD for GOMA DMAC/GCOOS DMACC coordination

14. GCOOS DMACC and GOMA DMAC Matt Howard, Julie Bosch and Vembu Subramanian attended the GOMA DMAC Meeting held at St. Petersburg, FL. Chris Simo (GCOOS E&O) also attended as Environmental Education Rep. Discussions on: GOMA DMC Mission, Council Membership, Communication with other groups, Election of Chairs, Data Management Activities and Needs of PITs, Tools to help with Data Management (GCOOS Data Portal was identified as one of them), near-term and long-term action items Melanie Morris, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Nutrient PIT Team and Jim Gibeaut, Harte Research Institute were elected as Co-Chairs

15. GCOOS DMACC Data Management Plan (DMP) Document Preparation Status Worth Nowlin, Chair requested GCOOS DMACC to take on this activity at GCOOS BOD meeting in September, 2009 To address the preparation of the draft document, GCOOS DMACC Conference Call was held and we discussed how committee members can help to prepare this document in October 2009. This is an on-going effort, Anticipated completion by Summer 2010

16. GOMA DMAC Meeting Concluded with Pep Rally for NO Saints

17. GCOOS DMACC Members Participation in Conferences Several DMACC Members and Local Data Nodes (Node Managers) have submitted or presented papers in meetings such as MTS/IEEE Ocean 09, Ocean Obs 09, QARTOD etc.

18. Next Steps Need upgrade to the GCOOS Web site and to the GCOOS Data Portal. Need to think about strategies to keep the local data network nodes contributing to the GCOOS data portal Going after new data (bio-geo-chem) providers other than local data nodes projects within the GCOOS region. Guidance Document need to be prepared and provided to new data providers Establishing customer projects in the utilization of the GCOOS aggregated data. Data Archival and Redundancy

19. Next Steps Recommending to have a joint DMACC and PSC meeting this year. Other Suggestions?

20. THANK YOU