1. UWG 2013 Meeting Science Information Services Status

2. 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 PO.DAAC Functional Areas

3. Consumers Archive Ingest Web Services & Publishing Direct Data Access High-Level Access Tools Web Portal Visualization Inventory Information Providers Data In Information In Data Out Information Out Data Providers Data Providers High Level Functions

4. 2.2 Data organization on new web-portal  Recommendation 13: Visibility and enhancement of facetted filter functionality. PARTIALLY CLOSED  Recommendation 16: Improve “sort-by” search accuracy. PARTIALLY CLOSED  Recommendation 17: Increased visibility of dataset comparison table. CLOSED 3 Web Portal  Recommendation 22: Improve consistency and accuracy on data information pages. PARTIALLY CLOSED 3.2 Tools and Services  Recommendation 25: Improve linkages between tools and datasets. CLOSED Web Portal: Portal Enhancements

5. PO.DAAC is currently in the development phase to apply enhancements and updates to the web portal (web portal phase 2 enhancements) based on UWG recommendations and suggestions from UWG homework. Web Portal Enhancements:  Left Navigation Filter in ORANGE when selected  Advanced Search  Allows Free Text Search with auto-suggest, Start date and End Date  Stop Date returns the most timely datasets  Toggle between "List View" and "Table View"  Data Information Page  Data Access Tab - Additional Links to include Tools and Services Interface, THREDDS, LAS, Datacasting Feed  Documentation Tab - New  One search text field in the PO.DAAC Top Navigation bar - toggle between datasets or website  Script to locate broken links

6. Web Portal: Portal Enhancements Other user suggested Web Portal Enhancements in development:  Simplified layout, removal of redundancies, and making important functional selections more pronounced  Rotating banner to feature new information  Organize missions by mission vs. project (landing page)  Consistent template between mission/measurement/parameter pages  Result pagination at the top and bottom of the page What other functionalities would you like to see? What are your user needs?

7. Web Portal: Portal Enhancements 4 Progress on inter-DAAC inter-operability (sea-ice and ocean color)  Recommendation 30-31: Emphasize NSIDC (OBPG) as the official cryosphere (ocean color) DAAC. CLOSED

8. Web Portal: Forum 3.1 Forum  Recommendation 23: Reorganize the forum. OPEN

9. Web Portal: Forum  Issues Identified:  propWeb: current help desk no longer supported  Common questions not published in KnowledgeBase (KB)/Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)  Low participation in current Drupal forum organization and misleading tally of posts on the landing page The forum is being reworked to a combined help desk/forum system  Software Choice:  phpBB (PO.DAAC Internal trade-study)  Kayako Help Desk Tool (ESDIS supported – EarthData)  Status:  phpBB prototype configuration in progress  Kayako Help Desk Tool in progress  Working closely with ESDIS/Earthdata support team for setting up a PO.DAAC Help Desk Environment in their Development Server

10. Forum Category Topics Messages Forum Category Topics Messages Kayako Help Desk Tool Kayako Help Desk Tool Managed by Forum Owner(s) Can be managed by Moderator(s): User Service, SME Can be managed by Moderator(s): User Service, SME, Users Managed by User Service Help Desk System  User forum as part of the Help Desk System for posting user questions/answers, KB search, FAQs, announcements, science group collaborations, etc  Improve user interactions and communications, and USO Helpdesk/FAQ effectiveness  Provide user friendly collaborative environment and integration with the Kayako Help Desk Tool Web Portal: Forum Proposed Help Desk/Forum System

11. PODAAC Forums (Post a Topic) General Questions Datasets & Algorithms Data Access Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) General Information FAQ Forum FAQ Announcements General Announcements System Monitor Announcements Science Community Collaborative Forums Ocean Wind Ocean Topography Ocean Temperature Gravity Salinity User Working Group (private) Search Forum Posts Date 100 2012/11/06 25 31 2012/11/06 Posts Date 55 2012/11/06 10 2012/11/06 Posts Date 35 2012/11/06 18 2012/11/06 Posts Date 35 2012/11/06 18 2012/11/06 35 2012/11/06 18 2012/11/06 35 2012/11/06 18 2012/11/06 Web Portal: Forum Proposed Help Desk/Forum System

12. Web Portal: Ocean Stories http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanEvents

13. Social Media http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAJPLPODAAC https://twitter.com/podaac http://podaac.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/podaac Facebook Statistics

14.  NASA movie, “The Ocean - A Driving Force for Weather and Climate” (Hausman, Moroni, Vazquez)  NASA movie, “Earth's Water Cycle” (Hausman, Moroni, Vazquez)  NASA Earth Science Week (Gierach, Vazquez, Boening)  NASA booth and hyperwall presentations at AGU (Thompson, Hausman, Vazquez)  NASA Know Your Earth 3.0, Local Connections (Gierach)  NASA/JPL/COSEE-West Salinity Workshop for K-12 educators (Gierach, Vazquez, Tsontos)  NASA/JPL Climate Day (Gierach, Hausman, Tsontos)  JPL Open House (Hausman, Sumagaysay, Tsontos)  NASA Museum alliance (Vazquez)  USC Climate Palooza (Vazquez)  Seattle Museum of Flight's Climate Day (Gierach)  Pasadena City College Girls Science Day (Hausman)  Aquarium of the Pacific Science on a Sphere movie, “Instrument Earth” (Gierach)  Presentation of Aquarius, GRACE, and TOPEX/Jason data to NASA HQ and political officials (e.g., Senator Boxer, John Grunsfeld, Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee Staff Delegation) (Gierach, Boening) Outreach Activities

15. Consumers Archive Ingest Web Services & Publishing Direct Data Access High-Level Access Tools Web Portal Visualization Inventory Information Providers Data In Information In Data Out Information Out Data Providers Data Providers High Level Functions