AQ Data Summit Agenda

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Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Conference Room C113
February 12 – 13, 2008

Draft Agenda (013008)

Day 1
(Guidance on the scope and depth of overview talks for this session is needed) see Agenda Design
8:00am Welcome - Wayland
8:10am Introduction of Participants - All
8:20am Goals and organization - Scheffe

1. Review summit purpose and objectives
2. Review summit goals. By the end of the summit participants will have:
   1. Learned about the universe of air quality (AQ) data systems and data processing centers.
   2. Worked in small groups to articulate and document the key non-technical challenges and aspirations in using AQ data for public health & ecological assessments; AQ forecasting and reanalysis for assessment; model/emissions evaluation; and AQ characterization for trends and accountability.
   3. Used the known key non-technical challenges and aspirations to identify broad attributes and functions of the desired system.
   4. Worked to identify potential solutions for technical implementation of the desired system.
   5. Identified a community-wide strategy to continue dialogue and work towards the desired system.

8:30am Inventory of Data Systems (10min. ea.) - Dimmick/Keating

• Air Quality System (AQS) - Miller
• CASTNET - Lear
• AIRNow - Dye
• NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) - Ritchey/Closs
• NEI & EMF - Houyoux
• Air Quality Modeling Data - Possiel
• Data provider perspectives - Felton

Session Objective: Each Presenter Will Address:

1. Summary description of Data System and Usage
   1. Data types and spatial, temporal and compositional attributes
   2. Primary User and/or supplier groups
   3. Connections to other Systems
   4. Primary Storage
2. Planned enhancements/data system trajectory
3. Data System Gaps

9:45am Group Discussion and Q & A - All

10:00am Break

10:20am Inventory of Data Processing Centers (10 min. ea) - Lorang

• AirQuest / Air Explorer - Dickerson/Mintz

• 3D-AQS - Engel-Cox
• HEI Air Quality Data Base - Pun
• NCAR Unidata IDD/LDM System - Domenico
• NASA Giovanni - Leptoukh
• Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG) - Plessel
• Environmental GeoWeb - Walter
• Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS)-DSS - McClure/Schichtel
• DataFed and Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) - Husar/Falke

Session Objective: Each Presenter Will Address:

1. Summary description of Data System and Usage
   1. Data types and spatial, temporal and compositional attributes
   2. Primary User and/or supplier groups
   3. Connections to other Systems
   4. Primary Storage
2. Planned enhancements/data system trajectory
3. Data System Gaps

11:50am Group Discussion and Q & A - All

12:00pm Range of Users/Clients & Discussion - Dye

12:15pm Lunch

1:15pm Application Area Breakout Sessions 1: (reconvene before breakouts for insturctions) see Scheffe: Breakout Sessions: Objectives & Questions

• Group A1 – Public Health - Hassett-Sipple/Pun/Hubble
• Group B1 – Air Quality Forecasting and Reanalysis for Assessment - Dye/Gilroy
• Group C1 – Model/Emissions Evaluation - Keating/Fox/Gilliland
• Group D1 – Air Quality and Deposition Characterization for Trends and Accountability - Poirot/Lear/Frank

• Session Objective and Output: Each breakout group will work to articulate and document key non-technical challenges and aspirations for each application area. What would an optimistic vision of “success” look like in the mid-term for this business area?

• Session Input: Generic Data Value Chain Model (Used to frame discussion)

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Report out from each group (15min. ea.) - All

• Group A1
• Group B1
• Group C1
• Group D1

4:30pm Group Discussion

• Session Objective and Output: Summarized articulation of the broad attributes and functions/capabilities needed to meet the user objectives/aspirations from the application area break out sessions.

5:15pm Adjourn

Day 2
8:00am Review of Breakout Session 1 and logistics for 2nd breakout session - Sweeny

8:15am Breakout Sessions 2 (with facilitators): see Scheffe: Breakout Sessions: Objectives & Questions, Scheffe: End to End AQ Data and Decision Support Chart

• Group A2 - Enabling Data Access - Willis
• Group B2 - Data Processing and Integration - Sweeny
• Group C2 - Visualization / Analysis - Engel-Cox

• Session Objective and Output: Document(ed) technical issues, challenges and potential solutions for meeting the aspirations of the application areas described the day before for each of the three functional areas. Special emphasis on interfaces/interactions between these areas.

• Session Inputs:

1. List and description of previously identified technical issues and which group they will be discussed in , e.g., data synchronization, data security.
2. Summary of the Day 1 breakout sessions, specifically: the target attributes/functionality needed.

10:15am Break

10:30am Report out from each group (15min. ea.)

• Group A2
• Group B2
• Group C2

11:15am Group Discussion

• Objective: What is needed to take this discussion to the next level…what question/issues need resolution?

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Sustainability - Group Discussion - Gilroy/Keating/Lamason

• (public access / tech support / budgets)

• Session Objective: Discuss strategies and actions to continue dialogue, make progress, and sustain the energy and goodwill of the conference.

1:30pm Group Discussion - Sweeny

• Tying pieces together
  • (Raw data -> Processing Centers <- Enhanced/additional processing)
• Group recommendations
• Role of GEOSS and EPA OEI

3:00pm Next Steps - Wayland/Scheffe

3:15pm Meeting Adjourn