Summer 2011 Meeting

Summer 2011 Meeting

Santa Fe, NM on July 12-15, 2011.

Venue

The Meeting will utilize the following adjacent hotels in the heart of Santa Fe:

• Hotel La Fonda (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)

• Meeting Space Capacity Chart

• Inn and Spa at Loretto (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at these hotels at the rate of $100/night.

Two airports serve the Santa Fe vicinity:

• The Albuquerque airport (ABQ) is 65 miles from Santa Fe and is served by most major airlines. Shuttle service from ABQ to the Meeting hotels is available via Sandia Shuttle.
• The Santa Fe airport (SAF) is served by only American Eagle airlines with a limited number of daily flights (to Dallas and LA). Taxi service is available from SAF to the hotels.

Theme Ideas

Data and Information Quality

Keeping the end users and purposes in mind for the discussion of data quality.

Breakout sessions

6 contracted breakout rooms, plus other, less formal, areas for discussion.

• IQ cluster (terminology, standardization, IQ framework, IQ4EO white paper preparation)
• Semantic web cluster (to discuss data quality ontology)
• Air quality cluster
• Proposed updates to the Federation Bylaws
• Preservation and Stewardship Cluster
• Visualization Working Group
• Climate Education Working Group (discuss priorities and direction)
• Climate Education Working Group (Ongoing session - to review CLEAN educational resources)

NOTE: Best practices for Technical Workshops are here: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Technical_Workshop_Best_Practices

Agenda by Day

• Tues July 12 (Technical Workshops)
• Wed July 13 (Plenary, Breakouts, Poster Session)
• Thurs July 14 (Open Meeting Day)
• Fri July 15 (Committee/Cluster Meetings and FundingFriday)