AQCluster Telecons 8Aug08

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