1. PO.DAAC Team 2012 PO.DAAC User Working Group (UWG) Meeting March 7-8, 2012

2. Rec. 1. Half-day UWG deliberations for future onsite meetings. Rec. 2. PO.DAAC presentations need to be concise reviews. Rec. 3. Widespread advance notification of the new web portal. Rec. 4. Harden portal software and address sub-optimal system performance. Rec. 5. Creation and distribution of homework assignments to UWG. Rec. 9. Establish and test data and metadata standards for Aquarius. Rec. 10. Develop user documents for Aquarius. Rec. 13. Brief report on gravity measurements and data services. Geodesist nomination. Rec. 17. Participate in IPCC/CMIP5 data preparation activities. Rec. 18. Earth System Grid (ESG) technology at PO.DAAC. Rec. 21. Develop a phase out plan for POET. Rec. 22. Tuning data browse and discovery. Rec. 24. Tuning data analysis support. Rec. 25. Tuning State of the Ocean. Rec. 26. Tuning Dataminer. Rec. 28. Change the UWG Terms of Reference. Rec. 29. Creation of a forum or wiki to support UWG business.

3. Rec. 6. Do dataset gap analyses and create a report. Rec. 7. Request that NASA management aid the PO.DAAC in gaining interoperable access to the ocean color data. Rec. 8. Assessment of bringing together SAR measurements and non-US satellite scatterometer measurements. Rec. 11-12. Define how PO.DAAC will support SPURS. Rec. 14-15. As part of Dataset Life Cycle management, define acceptance procedures and unique, citable, identification for datasets. Rec. 16. Collaborate with NSIDC on the QuikSCAT multi-year ice fraction dataset. Rec. 19. PO.DAAC provide climatologies, anomalies, indices, and various dataset statistics for selected datasets. Rec. 20. Dataset Lifecycle Management plan. Rec. 23. Tuning guiding users to data. Rec. 27. Feeding major science data users (MIXED).