OOI CyberInfrastructure Workshop: Ocean Observation Programs

1. OOI CyberInfrastructure Workshop:Ocean Observation Programs Preparation Phone MeetingMay 5, 2008 Alan Chave, Michael Meisinger OOI CI System Engineering Team WHOI, UCSD/Calit2

2. Topics • Welcome • Program & Workshop Goals • Workshop Organization • Preliminary Agenda • Preparation Materials • Questionnaire Overview • Clarification of Terms • Expectations • Feedback

3. Goal of the OOI CI Implementing Organization • To build • The next generation community cyber-infrastructure for an integrated ocean observatory system • Funded by NSF’s MREFC program • Serving scientists, educators and the general public • Integrating the resources of 3 co-funded marine observatories under construction: coastal/global, and cabled regional • Providing cyber-infrastructure support for sensor access, instrument data acquisition, processing and distribution, data analysis and visualization, mission planning and control • Guaranteeing security, data integrity and quality of service • With operational scope of 30 years • Designed and constructed in a time frame from 6/2007 to 2014

4. Goals of the workshop • The Ocean Observing Programs Requirements Workshop will • Focus on the needs of the instrument provider and science user communities for planning, simulating, and executing observational missions. • Target requirements elicitation from domain scientists and engineers • Discuss the following topics:  • Longitudinal programs • repeated observations of the same processes over long periods of time • automate tasks such as instrument configuration or calibration, instrument processes, data acquisition, metadata acquisition, or interactions with marine facilities • Objective-driven observational programs • design, assemble, and operate configurations of fixed and mobile resources from across the OOI into unique systems for planning, testing and prosecuting observation requests, • leveraging the nested and autonomous capabilities of the fully integrated network of sensing, modeling, and control resources • behavior-based autonomous mission planning and execution • event-driven observational programs

5. NOT in scope of this Workshop • Not goals • elaborating or refining the actual design of the OOI CI • Will be topic of separate meetings, to be planned • Topics, not covered by this workshop • instrument interfaces, instrument direct access or instrument life cycle management • Data Product Generation Workshop, May 2008 • assimilation-driven programs, observing system experiments, observing system simulation experiments and the virtual ocean simulator • Numerical Modeling Workshops, July 2007, Jan 2008

6. Organization • Location • WHOI, Woods Hole, MA • Fenno House Conference Room 410 on the WHOI Quissett Campus, Tue @ 9:30am • Participants • from outside and within the OOI • Travel arrangements • Karen Schwamb, WHOI • kschwamb@whoi.edu • 508-289-2675 • See Website • http://www.ooici.ucsd.edu/spaces/display/WS/RWS-OOP

7. Workshop Agenda • Time Frame • From Tuesday, 5/13 at 9:30am EDT • To Wednesday, 5/14 at 5pm EDT • Topics • OOI program and CI overview • Science background and representative projects of participants • Existing science requirements validation • Topic analysis and use case sessions • as-is • envisioned scenarios • Extended questionnaire walk-through • Domain modeling session • Community involvement and Feedback

8. Participant Questionnaire • General • Goals are stated at the beginning of the questionnaire • An example filled out questionnaire will be provided for reference • Please fill out details as relevant • Topics • Current Situation and Transformative Vision • Instruments and Instrument Platforms • Mission Tasking • (User and Application) Interfaces • Security, Privacy, Policy • Operation and Maintenance • Education and Outreach • Feedback, Additional Materials, Misc

9. Domain Modeling • Purpose • Depict core concepts of a domain with their dependencies • Increase language tangibility, create a common language • Notation

10. Reading Materials • Requirements Workshop Reports • First Numerical Modeling • Second Numerical Modeling • In particular the requirements • Additional materials • see Website • OOI Overview • Concepts of Operations

11. Questions • Clarification of Terms • Expectations for the workshop from the participants • Organizational Questions • For further information, please ask Alan Chave

12. Thanks! Thanks a lot for your important contributions and your time and efforts!