1. ESIP Air Quality Cluster

2. ESIP Federation A Network of Diverse Organizations Working Together to Bring Earth Observation Information to Bear on Environmental Research, Education and Decision-Making June 12, 2007

3. Milestones 1998 - ESIP Formed by NASA in Response to a NRC Recommendation for “Community Involvement” in EOSDIS. 2003 – Evolved Plan to Become a Broad-Based Inter-Disciplinary Collaborative Forum (Cyberinfrastructure) for the Earth Science Information Community. 2004 - NOAA/NESDIS Becomes Second Strategic Partner. 2007 – EPA becomes Third Strategic Partner. 2003-2007 – Membership Grows from 24 to 103 Entities.

4. Continuum of Interests EROS Data Center (USGS) National Climatic Data Center (NOAA) Oak Ridge National Lab (NASA) StormCenter Communications Earth Data Analysis Center (UNM) ESRI TERC New Media Studio Museum of Science ARIA (University of Arizona) University of Alabama in Huntsville (ITSC) Global Land Cover Facility (UMD) EOS-Webster (UNH)

5. Common Ground Type II ESIPs Scientists/Researchers/Technologists Type I ESIPs Data Centers Type IV ESIPs Sponsors Type III ESIPs Application Developers/ Educators Collaboration Users

6. Strategic Goals Provide Leadership for the Earth Science Data Information Community. Promote Efficient Flow of Earth Science Information from Collection to End-Use. Improve the Quality and Usability of Earth Science Data and Information Systems. Increase the Use of Earth Science Data and Information. Expand Public Awareness of Earth Science Data and Information Systems.

7. Challenges Bridging the “Valley of Death” between Research and Operations. Bridging the “Grand Canyon” between Researchers and Information Technologists. Bridging the “Chasm” between Public and Private Interests. Bridging the “Gaps” between Major Federal Agencies. Bridging the “Ravine” between the Earth Science Professionals and the General Public.

8. Internal Organization VOLUNTEER DRIVEN – Small Coordinating Staff Provided by the Foundation for Earth Science GOVERNANCE -Assembly/Executive Committee – One Entity, One Vote – Round Table Lets All Speak with Equal Weight. STANDING COMMITTEES - - - Products and Services – - - Commercial Development - - - Information Technology and Interoperability - - - Education – - - Community Engagement ISSUE AREA CLUSTERS – US GEO Aligned - - -Air Quality – - - Water Management – - - Disaster Management – - - Coastal Management - - - Ecological Forecasting - - - Climate WORKING GROUPS - - - Semantic Technologies – - - Web Services - - - GIS

9. External Outreach Provide Neutral Turf where Major Earth Observing Agencies Can Work Together with Other Community Interests to Advance Key National Objectives Provide a Broad-Based Community-of-Practice where Strategic Partners can Seek Advice, Generate New Collaborations and Cultivate New End-Users. Provide a Forum in which Inter-Agency, Inter-Disciplinary, Interoperability Problems can be Addressed and Resolved. Provide an Earth Information Exchange where the Products and Services of all ESIP Members can be Easily Found and Acquired.

10. Strategic Goals 1. Serve as facilitator and advisor for the Earth science information community. 2. Promote efficient flow of Earth science data from collection to end-use. 3. Improve quality and usability of Earth science data and information systems. 4. Expand the use of Earth science information – get it to the decision-makers. 5. Educate the public about Earth science and science information systems. ESIP Federation Clusters Clusters are formed by a group of ESIP members to address a particular problem of interest Intended to promote informal, easy exchange of information among partners

11. ESIP Air Quality Cluster datatools,methods,services AQ Cluster brings together groups and builds links among them in order to achieve an effective use of data in decision-making that could not be achieved by any organization acting on its own. The objective of the ESIP Air Quality Cluster is to connect air quality data consumers with the providers of those data by:  bringing people and ideas together on how to deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and other users  facilitate and demonstrate the information flow of from data providers to air quality consumers datatools,methods,services a) b) c)...... AQ Cluster aids in reuse of data, processing tools and other services so that projects, programs and agencies avoid the burden of developing those capabilities or establishing connections to them. users

12. Interoperability Efforts GALEON NASA GIO – DAACS EPA AMI Coordination OGC GSN (demos) OGC OWS testbeds Portals / Catalogs NASA Programs/Projects EPA Programs/Projects NOAA Programs/Projects Air Quality Forecasting (Fine) NGDC (Haberman, Kozimor) Hazard Mapping System (Ruminski) REASoN (Friedl, Moe) WRAP (Ambrosia, Sullivan) EDAC (Morain, Benedict, Hudspeth) LAITS (Di, Yang) PM Management (Husar, Falke) ACCESS (Lindsay, Maiden) Giovanni (GSFC – Kempler) DECISIONS (Friedl) 4D AQS (Hoffman) RS for BlueskyRAINS (Raffuse) AQ Forecasting (McHenry) ROSES (Moe) SAMITS (NGC - Falke) DAACS GIO (Cole, Yang, Alameh) AMI (Young, Keating) GEO (Young, Washburn, Lyon, Foley) AirNOW (Dickerson) OAQPS (Scheffe, Frank, Dimmick, Solomon) IDEA (w/ NASA,NOAA) (Szykman) HTAP (Keating) Remote Sensing Gateway (Paulson, Walter) Environmental Science Connector (Kapuscinski) DataFed (Husar) Unidata (Domenico, Ramamurthy) CDE (Ambrosia, Sullivan) Giovanni (Kempler, Leptoukh ) LAITS (Di) RSG Forest Service Programs/Projects Bluesky (Goodrick, …) The Air Quality Web Landscape (more of an inventory at this point) Mediators Earth Information Exchange (ESIP) Earth Observation Portal (GEO) Geospatial One Stop Earth Science Gateway (NASA) Environmental Science Connector (EPA) Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) ECHO LEAD

13. DataFed Wiki Catalog/Data Access Descriptions

14. Summer Meeting AQ Relevant Sessions –AQ Demos –GEO Near Term Opportunities –AQ Cluster