AQCluster Telecons 8Aug08

[edit] August 8, 2008 Telecon

1:30pm EST
Phone: 866-489-0573;
Meeting Code: *2279431*

Topics (feel free to add your ideas):

AQ Cluster FY09 Budget
- Submit budget to ESIP Finance & Appropriations Committee by Aug 15
  - Budget Request Guidelines
  - Budget Request Template
- Possible AQ Cluster budget items
  - collaborative development of GEOSS AQ Community Catalog, Portal & Dataspaces to interface with GEOSS AI Pilot
    - interoperability grants to interface with Community Catalog, Portal & Dataspaces
  - Organization of GEOSS UIC AQ Community of Practice, possible travel to GEO Summit in November to introduce and report on the GEOSS UIC AQ Community of Practice.
  - Cluster contribution to OGC GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot
    - Respond to Call for Participation by Sep 1
    - Community components (portal, catalog, dataspaces)
    - Liaison, tech support for assisting organizations and projects in connecting with GEOSS architecture
co-I on NASA AIST Proposal: Middleware based Distributed Assimilation of Science-data (PI: Prasanta Bose, Lockheed Martin)
- follow-on to current NASA AIST project
- ESIP AQ Cluster would be co-I providing scenarios using MIDAS workflows and offering data services.
- Interested in providing AQ perspective for proposal?
AQ Cluster as GEOSS Community of Practice
- draft a Charter Statement to provide an introduction to the Cluster for new participants
AQ ontology derived from building an AQ network
- see hydrology ontology created by Water Management Cluster
AQ Community of Practice