Community Services

Community Services Status Report

October 2007-April 2008

Work referenced in this report is based on advocacy, community outreach, and identifying new data sources and distribution trends within the community, associated with "Endeavor 1: Responding to a broader and more diverse community" and "Endeavor 2: Comprehensive Support Services, [Data services, systems, and tools]" from the Unidata 2008 Proposal. There is overlap of external activities in the areas of "Real-time, self-managing data flows" (Endeavor 3), Endeavor 4: Software to analyze and visualize geoscience data", along with "Distributed, organized collections of digital material" (Endeavor 5), and "Improved data access infrastructure" (Endeavor 6).

Note: This report combines the activities of Jo Hansen, Linda Miller, and Jeff Weber

Community Outreach and Service

Publication of monthly online e-letter has continued.
- Six e-letters have been published since October 2007

Unidata Seminar Series .One seminar, Opportunities and Challenges for Meteorology in Africa with a focus on
West Africa: A Perspective from current ongoing UCAR projects, took place in October 2007, and three are scheduled for the April, May and June 2008.

Participated in the following meetings:
Planning for Seven Generations: Indigenous and Scientific Approaches to Climate Change - 19-21 April 2008
- Webcast
AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans
- Unidata's presence at the AMS

AGU Fall Meeting

Chaired and judged a poster session in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (Standards Based Interoperability among Tools, Data Services in Earth Sciences)

Unidata's presence at the AGU

Provided IDV demonstrations at UOP booth

NOAA's Regional Budget Rollout, Mary Glackin, Deputy Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere

UCAR Members Meetings

UCAR Annual Meetings

Coordinated meetings with NWS and NCEP staff about N-AWIPS transition to AWIPS II

Presentation by Jason Tuell, NWS

Presentation by Scott Jacobs, NCEP

Community member website featured on Unidata's home page: San Francisco State University - California Regional Weather Server

Data Access and Distribution

COSMIC (Radio Occultation Data Opportunity) was announced in February, 2008, to the .edu community.

Discussion of access to USPLN data will take place at Users Committee meeting, 10-11 April 2008.

Working with CUAHSI group and the USGS to access stream gauge data and make available in near real time via the LDM/IDD

Working with GALEON team and others to access EPA air quality data and make available in near real time via the LDM/IDD

Miscellaneous

Performed wizardly acts of science for Super Science Saturday at the NCAR Mesa Lab

Working with the Arctic Observation Network during the International Polar Year(s) and facilitating data exchange, format conversion, and visualization. This is Unidata's role in the CADIS project.