Summer 2011 Meeting

Santa Fe, NM - July 12-15, 2011

Venue

The Meeting will utilize the following adjacent hotels in the heart of Santa Fe:

• Hotel La Fonda (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)

• Meeting Space Capacity Chart

• Inn and Spa at Loretto (Google Maps) (driving route from Albuquerque Airport)

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at these hotels at the rate of $100/night.

Transportation

Two airports serve the Santa Fe vicinity:

• The Albuquerque airport (ABQ) is 65 miles from Santa Fe and is served by most major airlines. Shuttle service from ABQ to the Meeting hotels is available via Sandia Shuttle.
• The Santa Fe airport (SAF) is served by American Eagle airlines with a limited number of daily flights (from Dallas and LA). Taxi service is available from SAF to the hotels.

Theme

Data and Information Quality

Agenda by Day

• Tues July 12 (Teacher Workshop & Technical Workshops)
• Wed July 13 (Teacher Workshop, Technical Workshops, Plenary, Poster Session)
• Thurs July 14 (Open Meeting Day, Breakout Sessions)
• Fri July 15 (Committee/Cluster Meetings, FundingFriday, Breakouts)

Breakout sessions

6 contracted breakout rooms are available, plus other, less formal, areas for discussion.

• IQ cluster (terminology, standardization, IQ framework, IQ4EO white paper preparation)
• Semantic web cluster (to discuss data quality ontology)
• Air quality cluster
• Proposed updates to the Federation Bylaws
• Preservation and Stewardship Cluster
• Visualization Working Group
• Teacher Workshop
• Climate Education Working Group (discuss priorities and direction)
• Climate Education Working Group (Ongoing session - to review CLEAN educational resources)

NOTE: Best practices for Technical Workshops are here: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Technical_Workshop_Best_Practices

Meeting Documents

• Summer Meeting Submission form for poster abstracts, open meeting day sessions, breakout sessions and workshops.

Off-Site Activities

Possible field trip to Valles Caldera National Preserve