2009 Air Quality Workgroup Report

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