2009 Air Quality Workgroup Report
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
ESIP Air Quality Workgroup Report
January 2010
Highlights from the Air Quality Workgroup’s activities
- GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase II (Sept 2008 – May 2009)
- Coordination of the AIP Air Quality Working Group
- Contribution of Air Quality Community Catalog and Portal as part of an Air Quality Community Information Infrastructure and its connection to the GEOSS Common Infrastructure
- ESIP data access demonstration at the International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRE) in Stresa, Italy (May 2009)
- Organized a panel discussion on Air Quality and GEOSS
- Contributed air quality demonstration for ESIP booth
- Air Quality Meeting at Summer ESIP Meeting in Santa Barbara
- Organized and coordinated meeting that assembled key participants across academia, government and industry to discuss next steps in networking the air quality community
- Air Twitter FUNding Friday project
- Provided development platform for a twitter application that ‘listens’ to tweets and identifies air quality events
- GEO Air Quality Community of Practice
- Facilitated formation of the new international Community of Practice
- GEO Plenary VI (November 2009)
- Helped organize an air quality meeting that included US and international participants and was instrumental in formation of GEO Air Quality Community of Practice
- Provided an air quality poster for the ESIP booth
FY09 Budget
- Total budget of $13K
- $10K used to assist in the contribution an air quality community service catalog and portal to the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot
- $3K used to offset some travel expenses for participants to the Santa Barbara ESIP Summer meeting and the associated air quality meeting
Work Plan for 2010
- Session at EPA National Air Quality Meeting (March 2010)
- Participation in GEOSS AIP-3 (kick-off expected in March)
- Conduct a virtual workshop to develop(?)test best practices on interoperability of data systems
Vision/Plan?? for 2010-2015
Call for participation in articulating a vision for AQWG activities 2010-2015. Have an idea, suggestion or vision for the ESIP AQWG? Add your thoughts here.
R. Husar on AQ WG 2015
- 2005-2010: Phase I - Formation of the network, activities mostly serendipitous, persistent tangible outcomes limited
- 'Social Networking' (within US), e.g. telcons, ESIP meetings, wiki
- Coordinate participation in larger programs, e.g. GEO AIP 1, 2, 3.
- Ad hoc sharing of tools, methods, resources, e.g. wiki, workspaces, 'namespaces',
- 2010-2015: Phase II - Stable network with legitimacy and governance, outcomes that are required and produced by community
- ESIP AQWG to be a node and a key contributor to a Global AQ Information Network a la GEOSS
- Tangible community-produced outcomes e.g. AQ Community Catalog, Portal, incl. tools
- Broad set of community-contributed shared resources along the data-knowledge continuum