1. PODAG.28 October 14-15, 2009 Ron Weaver NSIDC DAAC Manager http://extranet.nsidc.org/nasa/daac/podag/28/index.html California fire smoke enhances a Colorado sunset Budget/Fiscal Report User Report Data Set Report EOS/ECS Topics Non-EOS/ECS Topics New Initiatives PoDAG Housekeeping

2. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Topics Budget/Fiscal Report User Report Data Set Report EOS/ECS Topics Non-EOS/ECS Topics New Inititiatives PoDAG Housekeeping

3. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Budget/Fiscal Report  Budget status  Staff Changes

4. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 NSIDC DAAC Budget FY07 expense was $ 5.609 MY FY08 expense was $ 5.817 MY FY09 expense was $ 6.22 MY FY10 allocation is $5.87 MY

5. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Budget: DAAC Expenses No Salary merit increases given in FY09 due to CU policy

6. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Staffing Changes Changes only since the last meeting in October 2008 – no changes in overall FTE level NSIDC Director Hired: Dr. Mark Serreze Science Communication Service Group:  Science writer o Stephanie Renfrow departure, Natasha Vizcarra replacement hire  USO o Lisa Booker (Jan, replacement hire)  Com/Writers Team o Ann Windnagel to NOAA program o Daniel Webster (Apr, replacement hire) Information Technology Service Group: no change in FTE level  Systems Engineering o I-Pin Wang departure (Dec 2009, replacement hire in progress)  Systems Administration, no change  Operations o David Grant, replacement hire Scientific Programmers  J. Mauer departure, replacement hire in progress Administration  Matthew Wilson (.5FTE, replacement for Natasha Vizcarra) ECS/Raytheon: no change Scientists:  Dr. Jeff Deems hired on-site late October (.5 FTE, Lidar Icesheets and snow hydrology)

7. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 User Metrics Separate presentation to be posted Arapahoe Glacier, Boulder County, September 19, 2009

8. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Data Set Report: (Data related items of interest since last meeting, other than routine operations. )  MODIS, AMSR-E, AMSR-J, GLAS o Terra passed 10 year mark o Operations generally routine o Update presentations on website  Passive Microwave processing o F13 to F17 transition o Update presentation on website  AMSR-E validation data sets and documentation  AVDM team has essentially removed data set ingest backlog  Update presentation on website  Operation IceBridge planned data management o Report on website, discussion later in meeting

9. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 EOS Instrument Status Brief Status Reports posted on website for:  ICESat:  AMSR-E:  MODIS:

10. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Related Tasks

11. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Science-Data Liaison Candidate data sets for PoDAG review in the coming year: Submitted requests (Brown, Dirksen, GLIMS) Preview of data sets coming to the UWG for action in coming year (not in priority order)  Kimball MeaSures frozen ground ESDR  Long passive microwave and scatterometry  Long ReaSON data o SSMI global enhanced swath/grid data (10TB) o AMSR-E global enhanced swath/grid (10TB) o NSCAT and QuickSCAT polar EASE grid subsets (1TB) o CReSIS snow/firn product o G-CAP and A-CAP MeaSures products o Robinson/Anderson NH Snowcover CDR o MODICE data set (Armstrong) Discuss status and priority order

12. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Engineering related items of interest ECS/EMD (see following slide) NON-EOS/ECS (see following slide) All NSIDC DAAC data are now on rotating disk, either in ECS or non-ECS RAID systems.

13. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 EOS/ECS Topics ECS/EMD upgrades completed  7.22 install of software complete o Code reduction and simplification  Migration of data from Powderhorn to LTO tape library complete. All 9MY + files have been verified. Powderhorn is off line and is to be removed by end of CY2009 ECHO/WIST  We are now operating with the centralized metadata warehouse at GSFC for access to our data. This system replaces the EDG. Data Pool access is via the data pool web interface or direct FTP access ECS/EMD planned upgrades  7.23 release planned in January 2010 to include additional system monitoring tools and minor software updates.  Most major development deferred while “bridge contract” is in place for Raytheon

14. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 NON-EOS/ECS Topics Non-ECS system upgrades  Virtual servers operational  RAID capacity increased and migration of data from MAID to RAID is complete  Backup hardware and systems replaced  Off-site backup system for V0 high priority data under development. Completion in December 2009  HVAC upgrade/replacement for ECS computer room in construction design review. (We are exploring energy saving HVAC as replacement.) NSIDC’s Searchlight Development (separate presentation at meeting) .

15. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 Other Activities NSF data management efforts complimentary to DAAC  NSF Data Net proposal submitted  NSF EAGER proposal funded

16. PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009 PoDAG Membership We should increase membership by 1 - 3 members  What areas of NASA user community are under represented? o Modeling!  What areas of the broader user community are under represented?  Consider both science and data systems expertise?

17. Actions Membership Recommendations on Decadal Survey Missions Recommendations on Searchlight and SAGE Set up telecon schedule for CY 2010 Next meeting date and location (Washington DC?) PoDAG 28: Highlights Presentation October 14-15, 2009

18. BACKUP SLIDES The Arapahoes, September 24 th Fall has arrived