GCOOS-RA DMAC Committee Report Board of Directors Meeting 5-Sept-2007 Matt Howard to the
Mar 19, 2016
GCOOS-RA DMAC
Committee Report
Board of Directors Meeting5-Sept-2007
Matt Howard
to the
GCOOS DMAC Committee
Ed Kearns (Chair) (S. Florida Nat. Resource.Center)Steve Anderson (Horizon Marine)Brenda Babin (LUMCON)Steve Beaudet (SAIC/NDBC)Bill Burnett (NDBC)Jennifer Colee (Mobile Dist, USACE)Scott Duff (TAMU Corpus Christi)Jay Ratcliff (New Orleans Dist. USACE)Robert Raye (Shell)Susan Stark (NCDDC)Vembu Subramanian (USF)Matthew Howard (TAMU)
DMAC Action Plan
1) Revise DMAC parts of GCOOS Business PlanDMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke
2) Implement National DMAC in GCOOS-RA (create implementation plan)DMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke
3) Establish data standards committeeBill Burnett, Scott Duff, Brenda Babin
4) Consider/Recommend DMAC-related pilot projectsSteve Beaudet, Ed Kearns
5) Build a GCOOS data portalVembu Subramanian, Brenda Babin, Scott Duff, Matt Howard
6) Demonstrate interoperability by pushing data & model output to OPENIOOS Vembu Subramanian, Ed Kearns, Matt Howard
7) Review the regional operations center concept
Bill Burnett, Steve Beaudet, Susan Starke
8) Identify potential new DMAC committee membersDMAC members provide information to the chair
1) Revise DMAC parts of GCOOS Business PlanDMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke
No action
Priority demoted. Waiting for certification criteria to be developed by Altalo and Ocean.US lawyers.
No progress since previous BOD meeting
2) Implement National DMAC in GCOOS-RA (create implementation plan)
DMAC members contribute edits to Matt Howard and Susan Starke
No formal action taken.
It’s premature to write a detailed plan.
Why premature?
National Guidelines not established
IOOS Workshop in October 2007 will help
IOOS DMAC Essentially DefunctNo Meeting in November 2006
Schnebel Retires 31-Aug-07Looking for Nov 07 Meeting money
3) Establish data standards committeeBill Burnett, Scott Duff, Brenda Babin
No Action
Planned to meet at QARTOD IV in Woods Hole in 2006 but were not able to get together.
No progress since previous BOD meeting
4 & 7) Consider/Recommend DMAC-related pilot projects
Steve Beaudet, Ed Kearns No pilot projects recommended
Two pilots reviewed and comments made
Modeling Activity
Regional Operations Center Concept
5) Build Portal Subramanian (lead) with Howard, Duff, Babin
Data Portal development FUNDED!!! $500K one year
Plan to transition Data Portal to Regional Operations Center
Data Portal/Regional Operation Center proposal for FY08 NOAA CSC opportunity
6) Demonstrate interoperability by pushing GCOOS data and model output
from GCOOS providers to OPENIOOS Vembu Subramanian, Ed Kearns, Matt Howard
USF demonstrated interoperability by serving fields to SEACOOS (and continuing)TAMU supplied fields to OPENIOOS and Texas Mesonet Sites
TGLO TABS DataTGLO Model Output
ROMS for OpenIOOS
8) Identify potential new DMAC committee members
DMAC members provide information to the chair
DMAC Chairs not able to devote time.
Scott Duff (TCOON) took another job
Jeff Davis (TCOON) suggested replacement
New DevelopmentsNOAA/CSC Registry - Implemented (Howard on SC)
NWS Adopts OGC WMS server approach
OOSTethys morphs into OGC Ocean Interoperability Experiment. (Sensor Web Enablement) TAMU Involved.
MMI to host metadata workshop - GOM likely to be location. (February 2008 - looking for IOOS support)
Beach Water Quality (Florida first) to be posted on web
~finis~