140 likes | 306 Views
GCOOS-RA DMAC Committee Report. Board of Directors Meeting 5-Sept-2007 Matt Howard. to the. GCOOS DMAC Committee. Ed Kearns (Chair) (S. Florida Nat. Resource.Center) Steve Anderson (Horizon Marine) Brenda Babin (LUMCON) Steve Beaudet (SAIC/NDBC) Bill Burnett (NDBC)
E N D
GCOOS-RA DMACCommittee Report • Board of Directors Meeting • 5-Sept-2007 • Matt Howard to the
GCOOS DMAC Committee • Ed Kearns (Chair) (S. Florida Nat. Resource.Center) • Steve Anderson (Horizon Marine) • Brenda Babin (LUMCON) • Steve Beaudet (SAIC/NDBC) • Bill Burnett (NDBC) • Jennifer Colee (Mobile Dist, USACE) • Scott Duff (TAMU Corpus Christi) • Jay Ratcliff (New Orleans Dist. USACE) • Robert Raye (Shell) • Susan Stark (NCDDC) • Vembu Subramanian (USF) • Matthew Howard (TAMU)
DMAC Action Plan • Revise DMAC parts of GCOOS Business PlanDMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke • Implement National DMAC in GCOOS-RA (create implementation plan)DMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke • Establish data standards committeeBill Burnett, Scott Duff, Brenda Babin • Consider/Recommend DMAC-related pilot projectsSteve Beaudet, Ed Kearns • Build a GCOOS data portalVembu Subramanian, Brenda Babin, Scott Duff, Matt Howard • Demonstrate interoperability by pushing data & model output to OPENIOOSVembu Subramanian, Ed Kearns, Matt Howard • Review the regional operations center conceptBill Burnett, Steve Beaudet, Susan Starke • Identify potential new DMAC committee membersDMAC members provide information to the chair
1) Revise DMAC parts of GCOOS Business PlanDMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke • No action • Priority demoted. Waiting for certification criteria to be developed by Altalo and Ocean.US lawyers. No progress since previous BOD meeting
IOOS DMAC Essentially Defunct No Meeting in November 2006 Schnebel Retires 31-Aug-07 Looking for Nov 07 Meeting money 2) Implement National DMAC in GCOOS-RA (create implementation plan)DMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke • No formal action taken. • It’s premature to write a detailed plan. • Why premature? • National Guidelines not established • IOOS Workshop in October 2007 will help
3) Establish data standards committeeBill Burnett, Scott Duff, Brenda Babin • No Action • Planned to meet at QARTOD IV in Woods Hole in 2006 but were not able to get together. No progress since previous BOD meeting
4 & 7) Consider/Recommend DMAC-related pilot projectsSteve Beaudet, Ed Kearns • No pilot projects recommended • Two pilots reviewed and comments made • Modeling Activity • Regional Operations Center Concept
5) Build Portal Subramanian (lead) with Howard, Duff, Babin • Data Portal development FUNDED!!! $500K one year • Plan to transition Data Portal to Regional Operations Center • Data Portal/Regional Operation Center proposal for FY08 NOAA CSC opportunity
6) Demonstrate interoperability by pushing GCOOS data and model outputfrom GCOOS providers to OPENIOOSVembu Subramanian, Ed Kearns, Matt Howard • USF demonstrated interoperability by serving fields to SEACOOS (and continuing) • TAMU supplied fields to OPENIOOS and Texas Mesonet Sites • TGLO TABS Data • TGLO Model Output
8) Identify potential new DMAC committee membersDMAC members provide information to the chair • DMAC Chairs not able to devote time. • Scott Duff (TCOON) took another job • Jeff Davis (TCOON) suggested replacement
New Developments • NOAA/CSC Registry - Implemented (Howard on SC) • NWS Adopts OGC WMS server approach • OOSTethys morphs into OGC Ocean Interoperability Experiment. (Sensor Web Enablement) TAMU Involved. • MMI to host metadata workshop - GOM likely to be location. (February 2008 - looking for IOOS support) • Beach Water Quality (Florida first) to be posted on web