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 (011508)

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
8:40am Inventory of Data Systems (8min. ea.) - Dimmick/Keating

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

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 - Lindsay
• Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG) - Paulsen
• Environmental GeoWeb - Walter
• Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS)-DSS - Schichtel/Moore
• DataFed and Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) - Husar/Falke

• Group Discussion

12:00pm Range of Users/Clients & Discussion

12:15pm Lunch

1:15pm Breakout Sessions 1: see Scheffe: Breakout Sessions: Objectives & Questions

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

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Report out from each group (20min. ea.)

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

4:50pm Group Discussion

5:15pm Adjourn

NOTE: Breakout Sessions 1 & 2 can be reversed with minor changes to times.

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

The instruction to the Breakout Sessions should identify common themes to be covered across all three sessions, such as:

• The interoperability between the Information System components.
• Tools and methods (for data access, processing, visualization)
• Security barriers and solutions
• Enabling user feedback for Data validation/renewal

10:15am Break

10:30am Report out from each group (20min. ea.)

• Group A2
• Group B2
• Group C2

11:30am Group Discussion

12:00pm Lunch

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

• (public access / tech support / budgets)

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