AQ & GEOSS Session during ISRSE May 2009
Session Overview
On 6 May 2009, the 33rd ISRSE Symposium held as session on Air Quality & GEOSS. In addition to four talks, posted below, a significant amount of time was held for discussion amongst the presenters, and especially from the audience. This page attempts to capture some of that discussion.
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Presentations:
- John White, EPA, USA: AIRNow-International: The future of the US real-time air quality reporting and forecasting program and GEOSS participation
- Bill Hudspeth, University of New Mexico, USA: Delivery of Forecasted Atmospheric Atmospheric Ozone & Dust for a Public Health Decision-Support System
- David McCabe, EPA, USA: The GEO Air Quality Community of Practice: From Observations to Decision Support
- McCabe et al. paper submitted to ISRSE: On the AQ Community of Practice
- Erin Robinson, Washington Univ., USA: Enhancing Data Discovery, Understanding and Usage through an Air Quality Metadata System
Discussion:
Lawrence Friedl of NASA Co-chaired the session with Rudy Husar of Washington University. Lawrence moderated the discussion.
Topics discussed:
- AIRNow is a good example of decision support. Gary Foley of EPA suggested that AIRNow push further, for example by creating applications for cell phones that provide users with real-time real-location AQ information.
- Many initiatives and programs are underway in Europe. Are these folks communicating with one another? Enabling this communication is a central motivation for activating an Air Quality Community of Practice for GEOSS.
- What should such a CoP do? Ideas:
- Use social networking. Robin Smith, from JRC, Italy, suggested a Facebook Group.
- Produce a newsletter.
