Draft ExCom Minutes 2

ESIP Federation Executive Committee, November 8, 2012

Participants: Carol Meyer, Curt Tilmes, Erin Robinson, Annette Schloss, John Scialdone, Emily Law, Chris Mattman, Roberta Johnson, Brian Wee, Matt Austin, Steve Berrick

Meeting called to order at 2:04 by Annette Schloss

1. Welcome and Introductions - Welcome to new members, Brian, Emily, Roberta and Chris
2. Approval of November minutes -Brian made a motion to adopt the minutes as drafted. The motion was seconded by Chris Mattman. Without discussion, the minutes were approved by acclamation.
   
3. ESIP Meetings
   • Winter Recap (Meeting Survey Results) - Carol recapped the Winter Meeting. The attendance was above our expectations given the budget restrictions. The program was well-received - feedback like too many things I wanted to attend at the same time. Thank you to all that helped plan the sessions. Feedback on the plenary sessions both day. The theme on the Climate Assessment was well-timed. The second day interagency panel was a catalyst for an OSTP interagency project on EarthData, more details will come in March.
   • Summer Planning (Planning Page) - Call for sessions will go out on the 1st of March. The meeting will be in Chapel Hill, NC. We have the opportunity to take over the museum on Day 2 of the meeting. It has a few spaces available - immersive theater, 3 story Daily planet - relevance of data to natural disasters, also a visualization lab for training. The theme for the meeting Building the Value Chain for Earth Science Data and Information in Disaster Planning, Response, Management and Awareness. The rest of the meeting will be at the Friday Center, continuing ed facilities there. John Scialdone - NC State Meteorologist, state climatologist? Carol has connections and will follow-up on that. Emily suggested reaching out to geospatial cluster and connections have been made. There will also be a teacher workshop at this meeting led by Margaret Mooney.
4. Committee Round Robin
   • Chris Mattmann - P&S Vision - help ESIP facilitate member projects and their use of computing and storage resources; bring forth collaborations with external open source foundations including Apache; and to make best use of Earth science information products and services within that scope, and with modern big data technologies.
   • Matt Austin - Reminder that there is an IT&I call at 3pm w/David Maidment, UT-Austin
   • Roberta Johnson - First committee call next week, this time. A number of big issues around education that ESIP can help with - (1) next gen science standards coming out shortly and unclear how implemented in K-12 classrooms. (2) NESTA - ESIP leverage the connection and network of teachers that are members of NESTA to learn about what ESIP has to offer. Looking at Summer conference - NESTA teachers will be engaged.
   • John Scialdone - Class of 4 applications so far.
   • Brian Wee - On task force to evaluate nation's environmental observation systems wants to carry the conversation with OSTP SBAs and GEOSS SBAs - what extent has he extended analysis to encompass data centers that make those observation available? Matt - NESDIS has done analysis on behalf of OSTP in the PALMA tool created by MIDAR. Would also like to extend to information systems - are accessible through services and standards?
5. Raskin Scholarship Launch
6. Other Business

Steve Berrick made a motion to adjourn the meeting with a second by Ken Keiser. The meeting adjourned at 2:53.