PODAG 24 November 3 -4 2005 Friday Oct

PODAG. 24 November 3 -4, 2005 (Friday Oct 28 Draft) Ron Weaver NSIDC DAAC Manager http: //extranet. nsidc. org/nasa/daac/podag/24/index. html Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

I’m going through these quickly. You should have read them before the meeting. Ask me questions. Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Topics • • Budget/Fiscal Report User Report Data Set Report EOS/ECS Topics Non-EOS/ECS Topics New Inititiatives Po. DAG Housekeeping Dr. Abdalati on the Daily Show § Membership 3 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Budget/Fiscal Report § Budget status § Staff Changes § NSIDC DAAC Followon Contract § NSIDC DAAC FY 05/06 Workplan 4 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

NSIDC DAAC Budget • Budget for FY 2006 is not yet determined. We expect word on this sometime in mid to late November. NASA on Continuing Resolution, SMD budget priorities not set. • FY 06 Preliminary allocation is $5. 563 MY. • FY 07 and FY 08 budgets have not been announced 5 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Budget: DAAC Expenses 6 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Staffing Levels, 6/2003 – 9/2005 by Functional Group 7 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Staffing Changes • Archive Management § Operations o o o • Information Services § USO o § Currently hiring USO rep to back fill internal staff moves (e. g Lisa Ballagh to NOAA program) Com/Writers Team o o o • Hired Fran Coloma, 6/05 Hired Nancy Miller, 6/05 (since departed to NOAA, position is being filled now) Heidi Schumacher departed 4/05 Student hires have been used to backfill a 5 th OPS position The DAAC OPS group is currently at 4 FTE and 1 FTE student) Jason Wolfe departed 8/05, position being filled now Marijke Unger departed 3/05 Hired Stephanie Renfrow 5/05, technical writer, emphasis on outreach Hired Kara Pharris, web designer (February 2005) Hired Lynn French 6/05 Technical writer, DAAC documentation Hired Lindsey Husted 6/05 (NOTE, not a DAAC position) Information Technology Services § Vince Troisi assumed ITS lead responsibilities § Doug Young assumed lead for systems administration group, Tom Priestley reverted to SA status Ken Knowles re-assumed scientific programmer management • • 8 § Science/Mission Coordination § Melinda Marquis departed October 15, position open § Todd Arbetter departed to BAS 10/05 § Laurie Schmidt departed 10/05 DAAC Annual editing to be assumed by COM/Writer team ECS/Raytheon § No changes Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

FY 06 Workplan • FY 06 Themes § Continue operations for MODIS, AMSR-E, GLAS, SSMI, and V 0 data sets § Hold science user workshop § Successfully complete the NSIDC DAAC Data Prioritization Workshop § Continue evolution of NSIDC V 0 systems as resources permit § Update NSIDC (DAAC) website • Workplan on hold per ESDIS instruction. We expect to submit in January 2006 § § • 10 Budget not yet resolved Awaiting results of Evolution directives from SMD AA Copy of FY 05 workplan is linked to Po. DAG. 23 agenda page Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

User Statistics Summary § Overall user contacts has dropped slightly over last year. Note however that FTP and web interactions continue to increase. § Mix of users essentially unchanged § AMSR-E continues as most active EOS data suite § Foreign vs US user ratio tilting in favor of US. 11 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

User Statistics Data Requests FY 78 – FY 05 * “Requests” involve direct contact with User Services personnel. They do not include ftp, Web hits, etc. 12 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

User Statistics 13 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Data Report: Data related items of interest since last meeting, other than routine operations. § § § Reprocessing of PM data underway GLAS data subsetting service available State of Sea Ice Website Released CLP I data set compilation work completed AMSR-E validation data sets added to NSIDC collection Engineering related items of interest § Moved major servers (mail, web, ftp, development) to linux boxes § Assessment of evolution pathways for NSIDC systems § Evaluation of the COPAN MAID continues 14 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Science-Data Liaison (in addition to the items on the agenda) • SEARCH: several NSIDC staff attended the NSF sponsored SEARCH planning workshop in May. We participated in the discussion and eventual draft of the data management section in the SEARCH science plan • CLASS data workshop: Several NSIDC DAAC staff participated in a NGDC sponsored CLASS workshop in August • AGU Data Modeling poster session planned 15 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

EOS/ECS Topics • EOS Instrument Status • ECS Data Flows 16 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

EOS Instrument Status • ICESat: § § § Interim Team Leader: Doug Fowler Release 22 data being distributed, started mid-summer Began subsetting, July 25 th “Borg” table being developed Almost 200 K files of GLAS data have been distributed to 241 users • AMSR-E: § Interim Team Leader: Amanda Leon § Ingest and Distribution nominal • MODIS: Ingest and Distribution nominal § Senior Review extended Terra for 4 years 17 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

NON-EOS/ECS Topics • NSIDC’s release (joint with NASA) on the minimum Arctic sea ice extent generated many media contacts and articles. The September 28 th release generated over 200 instances in the press. § media interviews from BBC, ABC, CNN § Numerous live radio interviews including one in Spanish language § Over 200 published articles 18 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Other Activities • Tour of the Cryosphere Video to be released at Fall AGU • DAAC Annual § 11 th volume nearing completion • Google Interactions • EOS Article on Winter Sea Ice Minimum • (see NSIDC NOTES for information about NSIDC activities) § http: //nsidc. org/pubs/notes/ 19 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Other Activities • NSIDC Website Enhancements § Conducted Usability Survey - POINT Evaluation (report linked from website) Presentation, Interaction Changes (link standardization, headings and captions, alt tags, incorporate help) o Address Navigation (usability engineering to focus site to achieve stated goals) o Content and organization of independent sections o q q q o Combine glossary pages Consolidate links Group gallery pages to address one audience Researcher content templates Reorganize News See end of linked report for task status § All about sea ice section released 20 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Other Activities - NSIDC Product Review HQ Initiated All NSIDC DAAC products to be reviewed three steps: § January 2006 meeting probably at GSFC: NSIDC will provide metrics on the data sets Instrument/measurement PIs will present information on their products, e. g. science completed, stability of the measurements, maturity, science value etc. o Review committee will write a report of their findings and present it to HQ and NSIDC. o o § Proposed Action Report (my term) o NSIDC will write a ‘proposal’ which responds to the report of the science committee. § Science committee report and the NSIDC Proposed Action Report along with reviews of other DAACs will be reviewed through a Senior Review process sometime in the next two years. 21 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Actions: Other Items that NSIDC would like Po. DAG to consider • How should NSIDC support the NASA Ice Sheet Program (aka Son of PARCA? ) § http: //nsidc. org/data/parca/ • How should NSIDC DAAC support the CRe. SIS STC center at KSU? § NSIDC was asked to support data management during proposal process § We are trying to meet with Prasad’s group next year • It’s a broken record but… § Priorities of data sets § Ways we can better package our data for effective data use 22 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Po. DAG Members • Chairman § Dr. Mark Anderson, University of Nebraska • Rotation of members § § Mike Van. Woert; has rotated off, replacement TBD Bob Thomas has asked to rotate off, replacement TBD Dorothy Hall has asked to rotate off, replacement TBD Bert Davis has re-joined Po. DAG • Nominations for new members § Should we wait until we hear results of Evolution study? § To be discussed at the meeting? 23 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Thanks To: • John Bates and NCDC for hosting us. • Anne Markel for helping with logistics 24 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

BACKUP SLIDES Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

METRICS: PODAG 24 Compiled by Donna Scott NSIDC User Services Manager Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

Metrics Notes • Not certain why downturn in overall numbers in 05. FTP remains strong, as does web hits • Surge in AMSR-E around March-April due to reprocessing • MODIS users haven’t responded to data pool despite attempts to advertise the service • Domestic users are rising over foreign users • Human Dimension peak is the Uggi CD 27 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

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EOS Data Flows EOSDIS Core System AMSR-E GLAS MODIS SUBSETTER • Components § Ingest § Science Data Server § Distribution • Systems § Workstations § Mass Store § RAID § Output Devices AMSR-E L 1 A AMSR-J L 1 A NISE V 0 GATEWAY PDS Non ECS (V 0 or Heritage) System Components § § § • Systems § § Ingest Production Archive Distribution Information Services Workstations/Servers Mass Store RAID Output Devices NSIDC WEBSITE Data Pool SNOWI ftp, http EDG ftp CD-Rs, DVDs, Tape User Communities 38 Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation AMSR-E L 1 A AMSR-J L 1 A SSM/I TDRs

Slides from Berrien Moore’s presentation at AMS on NPOESS and CDRs Po. DAG 24: Highlights Presentation

40 From Berrien Moore’s presentation at AMS 2005 (Tom Karl’s AMS NPOESS Presentation 2004) Roadmap Workshop February 2005 Ron Weaver, NSIDC Scientific Manager

• NPOESS Challenges: • Green is Doable; Red is doable but tougher!! • How to ensure adequate overlap for all climate critical measurements § More frequent launches § Agreements through Global Earth Observing partnerships (GEO) (multinational) § Redefining instrument failure in terms of time dependent biases • Replacement strategy must ensure overlap, especially for critical climate measurements § Aerosols, Solar irradiance, Sea level, Earth radiation budget • Missing critical Measurements ** personal bias** § Total column CO 2 all seasons all latitudes, day/night. • Ensuring an adequate data archive and distribution system • Ensuring a Scientific Stewardship Program • Ensuring the development of CDRs § Agreements through Global Earth Observing partnerships 41 Tom Karl’s AMS NPOESS Presentation 2004 February 2005 by Berrien Moore’s AMS NPOESS Talk 2005 Roadmap Workshop plus additions Ron Weaver, NSIDC Scientific Manager