AQCluster Telecons 7Aug09

August 7, 2009 Telecon

1:30pm EDT
Phone: 866-489-0573;
Meeting Code: *2279431*
Topics (feel free to add an item to the agenda):

• Proposed next step: Writing up a AQ Community Near Term Opportunity document, as discussed in Santa Barbara. A few years back EPA (Scheffe) and NOAA (Steve Fine?) produced an NTO for USGEO. We could update this document or write something new. Such a document, for ourselves, would be useful for explaining to others the purpose of this community, and so that we can see if we are making progress.
  • Could we write a draft of an NTO early this fall so we could present it in November to work on with a fuller version of an AQ Community of Practice?
• Semantic telecon update on Machine tags use for AQ Metadata
• ESIP booth at GEO Plenary in November?
  • Showcase AIP-2 progress?
  • others?

• AQ Twitter Project
  • ESIP AQ WG Twitter Feed on Air Quality | ESIP AQ WG #AirQuality time series
  • AQ Twitter Workplan

(Feel free to add new stuff here. Remaining items are recycled from last call because they still seem germane, but I don't want to fill up the agenda if there is other work to discuss)

• Follow-up from ESIP Summer meeting AQ sessions.
  • Add your notes or comments from the meeting
  • First draft Candidate Focus Areas that we identified during the workshop are posted. We need to get these in better shape.
  • Participation in NASA Air Quality Team Meeting (October?)
  • Tackling pieces of the NOx Use Case?
  • Defining implementation conventions for interoperability standards for air quality
  • Ways for us to help connect EPA and NASA efforts (in other words, can we define next steps that simultaneously address EPA and NASA interests?)

• Need to profile AQ related projects, programs and efforts (laying out the AQ community landscape)
  • Following the initial effort for the EPA Data Summit
  • Will help us define next steps (aka 'low hanging fruit') in advancing the AQ community infrastructure

Participants:

• Carol Meyer
• Rob Raskin
• Howard Burroughs
• Greg Leptoukh
• Ana Prados
• Erin Robinson
• David McCabe
• Chris Lynnes
• Berry Herchenrodder
• Rudy Husar
• Terry Keating
• John McHenry

Notes:

• How to bring concrete items from ad-hoc forums and exchanges?
  • what could ESIP recommend for next steps
  • coordination across GEO tasks?