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2022 NOAA ENVIRONMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

Envisioning the Future of the NOAA Data Enterprise

September 12-16, 2022

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Thank you for your interest in the 2022 NOAA EDMW. The Workshop is over, but we’re excited to announce that the session recordings are available! Just click on a session, then under the Description section click on the "Session Recording Here" link. Be patient, it can take up to 20-30 seconds for the video to display.

The Workshop featured a diverse group of sessions and presentations that cover NOAA’s strategic goals. In addition, ‘Workshop Wednesday’ provided multiple opportunities to learn about techniques, tools, and experiences that help us achieve our data and strategic goals.

We would like to especially thank everyone who submitted sessions and abstracts! This workshop wouldn’t be possible without the great submissions from our colleagues!



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Monday, September 12
 

10:30am EDT

Help Desk
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Need help finding your way around? Not sure about sharing your presentation? Drop by the help desk for assistance! Someone from ESIP (conference organizer) or the workshop planning team will be available to answer questions.


Monday September 12, 2022 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Virtual

11:00am EDT

New To NOAA Social Event
Are you new to NOAA and just finding your way around the organization? Have you been with NOAA for a while and would like to meet and guide our newest team members? Join us for a casual virtual meetup and do some team-building!

Check back later for virtual meeting details.

Resources:
1) NOAA Employee Resource Groups: https://www.noaa.gov/organization/inclusion-and-civil-rights/special-emphasis-programs

2) NOAA has a new Employee Resource Group (ERG) on the block! The Professional Early-career Engagement Roundtable (PEER) will begin welcoming members in October. Alexis Wolfe and Leslie Kinnas, both at NESDIS, started PEER in March 2020 to provide monthly lunchtime sessions for employees and affiliates, covering topics pertaining to career development, managing up, advocating for yourself during performance reviews, effectively working with multi-generations in the workplace, and much more! Now that PEER is a NOAA ERG, these types of sessions and discussions are open to you! You might be thinking “I don’t view myself as an early-career individual.” Well, the best part about PEER is that it’s not limited to those that just finished school and are starting their careers. If you’re new to working in the federal government, new to NOAA, had a career change, want to brush up on some skills, or just want to meet people across the agency, PEER is for you! If you’re interested in learning more about PEER, consider attending their information session scheduled for October 19, 2022, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST. To be added to this virtual meeting, or if you would like to be added to their email list, please complete this interest form.

Monday September 12, 2022 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

1A: To flag or not to flag. New Approaches to data quality control
Session Recording Here

The quality assessment of observations from NOAA observing platforms is an essential element in the data lifecycle. The various stages of data quality control is a complex endeavor from statistical, data workflow or process perspectives. As data volume increases and data are delivered from a more diverse range of observing platforms, new approaches to quality control are needed to address this wave of data.

This session invites presentations on new approaches in data quality control. With the emphasis on new approaches to quality control of data, presentations on novel implementations of data analysis, data workflows that integrate quality control, or the hosting of quality control services are invited.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. A Neural Network Approach to Automated Quality Control in Near-Real-Time
- Joshua Osborne
2. A robust web-based monitoring tool for data availability and quality implemented at NOAA CoastWatch
- Sathyadev Ramachandran, Julie Werner
3. Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Distributed System for Cloud-Based Data Quality Control Services
- Eugene Burger, Emily Osborne, Madison Soden, Claudia Schmid

Moderators
avatar for Eugene Burger

Eugene Burger

PI - PMEL Data Integration Group, OAR/PMEL

Speakers


Monday September 12, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

1B: Building AI-Ready NOAA: Early Success, AI-ready Data, and Workforce Development
Session Recording Here

Artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates scientific discovery in Earth and environmental sciences. In 2020, NOAA Science Council released the NOAA AI Strategy to guide the adoption of AI in every mission area by improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and coordination of AI development and usage. To bridge efforts across the agency, NOAA Center for AI (NCAI) strives to coordinate research and development (R&D) efforts to increase AI adoption across NOAA mission areas. NCAI is actively working with different NOAA Line Offices and external partners to advance strategic goals outlined by NOAA AI Strategy. This session has two main goals: 1) showcase current AI projects across LOs to expand NOAA AI Community of Practice and highlight synergistic opportunities around AI R&D in NOAA, and 2) discuss NCAI initiatives on AI-ready data and workforce development and collect feedback from the broad NOAA community on the needs and challenges in AI R&D.

Session Agenda (all time listed in Eastern Daylight Time):

12:00 – 12:05: Welcome and session purpose
12:05 – 12:20: Rob Redmon (NCAI Lead) & Jebb Stewart (NOAA AI Exective Committee Co-chair, OAR/GSL) - "Progress Toward an AI-Ready Agency"
12:20 – 12:50: Lightning Talks: AI early success (8 mins each + 2 mins Q&A).         
- Erin Moreland (NMFS/AFSC) - "Pushing Ice Seal Surveys to the Edge: Automated Detection in the Arctic"       
- Greg Dusek (NOS/CO-OPS) - "Operationalizing a ML-Based Probabilistic National Rip Current Model       
- Monte Flora (OU/CIWRO) - "Probabilistic Prediction of Thunderstorm Hazards using the NOAA Warn-on-Forecast System and Machine Learning"
12:50 – 13:00: Chris Slocum (NESIDS/STAR) - "NCAI Training Initiative"
13:00 – 13:10: Stacie Robinson (NMFS/PIFSC) - "NCAI AI-Ready Data initiative"
13:10 – 13:25 Q&A (All speakers)
13:25 – 13:30 Wrap up and how to stay engaged with NCAI


Moderators
avatar for Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

Research Scientist, CISESS/NCICS/NCSU
I am currently a Research Scientist at North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, affiliated with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. My current research at NCICS focuses on generating a blended near-surface air temperature dataset by integrating in situ measurements... Read More →
avatar for Rob Redmon

Rob Redmon

Scientist, NOAA Center for AI
Dr. Rob Redmon is a senior scientist with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He is the Lead for NOAA's Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI, noaa.gov/ai), and the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Science Center.

Speakers
avatar for Jebb Q. Stewart

Jebb Q. Stewart

Acting Division Chief Advanced Technologies Division, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory
Jebb Q. Stewart is the acting lead of the Advanced Technology Division with NOAA's Global System Laboratory in Boulder Colorado and Co-Chair of NOAA's Artificial Intelligence Executive Committee.  With a unique background in both Meteorology and Computer Science, he has over 20 years... Read More →
avatar for Monte Flora

Monte Flora

Research Scientist I, CIWRO/NSSL
My work is largely based on the NOAA-funded Warn-on-Forecast project; an effort to provide rapidly updating probabilistic severe weather hazard guidance for human forecasters. I am the lead developer of the WoFS-ML-Severe products, which provide storm-based probabilistic guidance... Read More →
avatar for Greg Dusek

Greg Dusek

Senior Scientist, NOAA/National Ocean Services
avatar for Erin Moreland

Erin Moreland

Research Zoologist, NOAA Fisheries
I work with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Marine Mammal Lab and lead multispectral aerial surveys for seals and polar bears in the Arctic. Our surveys apply deep learning algorithms (YOLO) to multispectral aerial imagery in real time to improve the accuracy and efficiency... Read More →
avatar for Christopher Slocum

Christopher Slocum

Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR


Monday September 12, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

1:30pm EDT

BREAK
Monday September 12, 2022 1:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

Opening Plenary
Session Recording Here

1. Welcome and Logistics: Karen Sender and Tim Haverland, EDMW 2022 Co-Chairs
2. Kickoff and Charge: Tony LaVoi, DGC Chair and NOAA Chief Data Officer
3. Opening Remarks: Dr. Sarah Kapnick, NOAA Chief Scientist
4. Keynote: Kristen Koch, NOAA Fisheries Acting Chief Science Advisor and
    Evan Howell, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology, Director
5. Q&A
6. Icebreaker Activity

Speakers
avatar for Karen Sender

Karen Sender

Information Architect, NOAA
Karen Sender is the Information Architect for NOAA Fisheries and leads the Fisheries Enterprise Data Management Program which is currently focused on data governance and information management modernization. Karen is the Fisheries representative to the NOAA Data Governance Committee... Read More →
avatar for Tim Haverland

Tim Haverland

GIS Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
I'm the GIS lead for Fisheries so do lots of map work, specializing in web-based mapping. As part of NOAA's Cetaceans and Sound (CetSound) project, I've been working on maps of ocean sound scapes, which has also led me to an interest in passive acoustic data, and how to manage these... Read More →
avatar for Tony Lavoi

Tony Lavoi

Chief Data Officer, NOAA
Tony LaVoi serves as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Data Officer (CDO). As the NOAA CDO, he is responsible for NOAA’s Data Strategy and all aspects of its implementation. The purpose of the NOAA Data Strategy is to dramatically accelerate the use... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Sarah Kapnick

Dr. Sarah Kapnick

Chief Scientist, NOAA
Sarah Kapnick, Ph.D., is chief scientist for NOAA. In this role, Dr. Kapnick will be responsible for advancing policy and program direction for NOAA’s science and technology priorities.Dr. Kapnick has extensive experience at the intersection of climate science and economics. Most... Read More →
avatar for Kristen C. Koch

Kristen C. Koch

Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor (Acting), NOAA Fisheries
As Acting Chief Science Advisor, Kristen leads NOAA Fisheries' efforts to provide the science needed to support sustainable fisheries and ecosystems and to continue our nation's progress in ending overfishing, rebuilding fish populations, saving critical species, supporting sustainable... Read More →
avatar for Evan Howell

Evan Howell

Director, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
Evan Howell is the Director of NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology. Most recently, he served as the deputy director for the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, where he led research to better understand critical habitat and possible climate effects on highly migratory... Read More →


Monday September 12, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

3:15pm EDT

BREAK
Monday September 12, 2022 3:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

1E: Diving into Climate-Ready Nation Partnerships: DOT-NOAA Collaboration & Transportation Data Needs
Session Recording Here

This session will discuss specific data and service needs related to implementing and delivering on NOAA’s Climate Ready Nation vision, which is “a thriving Nation whose prosperity, health, security, and continued growth benefit from and depend upon a shared understanding of, and collective action to reduce, the impacts of climate change.”

The session will highlight the Climate Smart Transportation partnership between NOAA and the US Department of Transportation as an example of implementing the Climate Ready Nation vision.  Through the partnership, the two agencies are working together to make sure transportation practitioners have the climate data they need to plan, design, and build transportation infrastructure to be resilient to climate change impacts.

NOAA Senior Climate Advisor Ko Barrett will kick off the session.  After that, Tina Hodges of NOAA’s OAR will provide an overview of the NOAA-DOT partnership.  Next we will hear from Trevor Meckley of NOAA NCCOS about joint research with DOT on nature-based solutions to adapt roads to climate change.  Then Heather Holsinger from the Office of the Secretary of Transportation will discuss what climate data transportation agencies need to wisely invest the $567 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) transportation funding.  Then Matt Lauffer of the North Carolina Department of Transportation will showcase how his state has been using climate data in transportation decision-making.  LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA Affiliate, will demonstrate current NOAA climate data visualization tools and discuss ones that are under development, especially Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA), which is designed to help applicants for IIJA grants screen their projects for climate change impacts.

Primed from these insightful presentations, participants will break into two discussion groups.  One will discuss how NOAA’s climate data visualization tools (especially CMRA) can best serve the needs of transportation agencies.  The other will focus on data needs for designing nature-based solutions for compound coastal and riverine flooding.

Both groups will try to answer these questions: 1) What would be helpful to state and local transportation agencies in making decisions on planning, designing, building, and maintaining roads, rail, ports, etc? 2) What are the modeling, prediction, and data needs? 3) What do NOAA and partners have that could fill these needs?

Presentations:
  1. Introduction - Ko Barrett, NOAA Senior Climate Advisor; Overview of NOAA-DOT Partnership - Tina Hodges, NOAA OAR
  2. Nature-based Solutions to adapt roads to climate change - Effects of Sea Level Rise Grant Program - Trevor Meckley, NOAA NCCOS
  3. What climate data do transportation agencies need for Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) investments? - Heather Holsinger, US Department of Transportation 
  4. North Carolina DOT Data for Resilience - Matt Lauffer, North Carolina Department of Transportation
  5. NOAA Climate Data Visualization Tools (Climate Explorer, READI/CMRA, CRIS) - LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA Affiliate OAR


Moderators
Speakers
HH

Heather Holsinger

US Dept of Transportation
ML

Matt Lauffer

North Carolina Department of Transportation
avatar for LuAnn Dahlman

LuAnn Dahlman

User Advocate, NOAA Climate Program Office
Editor, U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. User Advocate for Climate Explorer and Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation. Ask me about how Cooperative, Collaborative Community Science could enhance NOAA efforts with on-the-ground mapping of flooding.


Monday September 12, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

1F: New Blue Economy: Empowering Ocean Data
Session Recording Here

The vision for the New Blue Economy is an economy that includes equitable, transparent, high-tech, data-based tools and services to empower, ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes decision-making that advances safety, security, prosperity, and a healthy and sustainable marine environment. To foster the transition to a more sustainable and knowledge-based blue economy, NOAA will provide data, information, and services that will catalyze American competitiveness, accelerate growth of ocean industries and science, and facilitate technology advancements for coastal and marine solutions to climate challenges.

This session will host discussions of NOAA’s future in ocean and coastal data and services, as well as highlight partnerships with other government organizations (Federal, State, Local, and Tribal), academia, non-profits, and the private sector that feature the use of NOAA’s ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes data to sustainably create equitable opportunity, accelerate economic growth, and find solutions to pressing societal needs through improved data and data access.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
Introduction: New Blue Economy: Empowering Ocean Data
-Carl Gouldman, Director, US Integrated Ocean Observing System
1. Oceanographic Data Services to Drive the Blue Economy
- Armin Pruessner, Chris DiVeglio, Jia Wessen
2. Coast Survey Data Licensing: Executing the NOAA Data Strategy
- Matthew Wilson, Donald Collins, Tyanne Faulkes, Derek Hanson, Kim Valentine
3. Blue Economy Accounting and Valuation - Methods and NOAA Products
- Kate Quigley
4. Leveraging NOAA Data to Support the Marine Economy and Natural Capital Accounting
- Jennifer Zhuang, Jeffrey Wielgus, Monica Grasso, Joseph Conran, Tadesse Wodajo
5. The Gulf Blue Navigator: Regional Innovation for the New Blue Economy
- Sharon Mesick, Hailey Bathurst, Philip Hoffman

Moderators
MZ

Melissa Zweng

DMAC Coordinator, NOAA/NOS/IOOS

Speakers
avatar for Sharon Mesick

Sharon Mesick

Director, Southern Regional Climate Service, NESDIS
NCEI’s Regional Climate Services Directors (RCSDs) regularly engage with stakeholders about climate information needs, and help build and strengthen active partner networks with public and private constituents. They help to connect and integrate NOAA’s work with partner organizations... Read More →


Monday September 12, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

1G: EBFM and the data enterprise
Session Recording Here

Ecosystem based fisheries management is a science and management framework that NOAA has begun to implement nationwide. One of the greatest challenges of the EBFM approach is the need to integrate data from many disciplines and of multiple temporal and spatial scales, and to make those data available to collaborators in an open and usable manner. This session will explore the tools that are currently in use to provide storage, access, analyses, visualization, and documentation of the data that are critical to EBFM.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. NOAA CoastWatch addressing the satellite data needs of EBFM: recognizing gaps and successes
- Michael Soracco, Kimberly Hyde, Melanie Abecassis, Dale Robinson, Kalei Shotwell
2. NMFS Usages and Needs for Satellite Data
- Cara Wilson
3. Environmental Data Summary (EDS): an advanced environmental data summary tool
- Kisei R. Tanaka, Thomas A. Oliver
4. Developing a web-based application to streamline data processing for Ecosystem and Socioeconomic Profiles in support of next generation stock assessments
- Kalei Shotwell
6. DisMAP: Species Distribution Mapping from Distributed Data
- Tim Haverland, Melissa Karp

Moderators
avatar for Tim Haverland

Tim Haverland

GIS Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
I'm the GIS lead for Fisheries so do lots of map work, specializing in web-based mapping. As part of NOAA's Cetaceans and Sound (CetSound) project, I've been working on maps of ocean sound scapes, which has also led me to an interest in passive acoustic data, and how to manage these... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Michael Soracco

Michael Soracco

Systems Analyst, RIVA for NOAA CoastWatch
avatar for Cara Wilson

Cara Wilson

Research Oceanographer, NOAA CoastWatch West Coast Node and NOAA PolarWatch


Monday September 12, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

5:00pm EDT

Early Career Happy Hour
Is NOAA one of your first stops in your early career? Please stop by our Happy Hour and share your experiences with other early career team members and meet some of our more "seasoned" colleagues.

Cheers!

Check back later for virtual meeting details.

Resources:
Resources:
1) NOAA Employee Resource Groups: https://www.noaa.gov/organization/inclusion-and-civil-rights/special-emphasis-programs

2) NOAA has a new Employee Resource Group (ERG) on the block! The Professional Early-career Engagement Roundtable (PEER) will begin welcoming members in October. Alexis Wolfe and Leslie Kinnas, both at NESDIS, started PEER in March 2020 to provide monthly lunchtime sessions for employees and affiliates, covering topics pertaining to career development, managing up, advocating for yourself during performance reviews, effectively working with multi-generations in the workplace, and much more! Now that PEER is a NOAA ERG, these types of sessions and discussions are open to you! You might be thinking “I don’t view myself as an early-career individual.” Well, the best part about PEER is that it’s not limited to those that just finished school and are starting their careers. If you’re new to working in the federal government, new to NOAA, had a career change, want to brush up on some skills, or just want to meet people across the agency, PEER is for you! If you’re interested in learning more about PEER, consider attending their information session scheduled for October 19, 2022, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST. To be added to this virtual meeting, or if you would like to be added to their email list, please complete this interest form.

Monday September 12, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Virtual
 
Tuesday, September 13
 

11:30am EDT

Helpdesk
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=f666ae0e-ce63-4eef-b19d-4454dbdb0614

Need help finding your way around? Not sure about sharing your presentation? Drop by the help desk for assistance! Someone from ESIP (conference organizer) or the workshop planning team will be available to answer questions.

Tuesday September 13, 2022 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

2A: AIS Vessel Tracking Data for the Enterprise
Session Recording Here

AIS Vessel Tracking data is in use across NOAA and is a fundamental resource for our mission. In the last year a few significant NOAA and federal government programs have moved forward with capabilities that can open up access and analytical capabilities to the enterprise. We'll highlight the platforms, data licensing and access mechanisms used by these programs, and spend a healthy amount of time discussing how different parts of NOAA can work together to efficiently acquire, add value to, deliver, and analyze AIS data.

Presenters:
Jeff Adams, NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
Jesse Brass, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Steve Lewis, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office
Christopher Hickey, US Navy, Naval Center for Space Technology
Elton Edinborough, NOAA Fisheries Office of the Assistant CIO; Terry Boone, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement

Moderators
avatar for Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams

Marine Resources Management Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
I'm a Marine Resources Management Specialist with the Office of Protected Resources' Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation division. I provide a variety of services to the division, including GIS support and AIS data management and analysis.
avatar for Tim Haverland

Tim Haverland

GIS Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
I'm the GIS lead for Fisheries so do lots of map work, specializing in web-based mapping. As part of NOAA's Cetaceans and Sound (CetSound) project, I've been working on maps of ocean sound scapes, which has also led me to an interest in passive acoustic data, and how to manage these... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Jesse Brass

Jesse Brass

Geospatial Analyst (Contractor), NOS Office for Coastal Management
Jesse is a contractor working as a geospatial analyst on the MarineCadastre.gov project at the Office for Coastal Management. He has served in this role for 12 years and is largely responsible for acquiring and publishing AIS data on Marine Cadastre.
avatar for Steve Lewis

Steve Lewis

Spatial Data Architect, NOAA
Welcome! I design, manage, and support large spatial databases and web applications at the NMFS Alaska Region. I do not consider myself a developer but I do development and work closely with developers to update and enhance applications to meet our needs. There's nothing better... Read More →
avatar for Christopher Hickey

Christopher Hickey

Senior Systems Engineer, USN Naval Research Center
With over 30 years of experience in all-source intelligence collection & analysis operations, maritime domain awareness, information/intelligence sharing, state & local intelligence fusion center operations, counter/anti-terrorism analysis, and open source intelligence, Hickey is... Read More →


Tuesday September 13, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

2B: Maximizing the Value of NOAA Data with User Engagement (Part 1)
Session Recording Here

The value of NOAA data is realized when it is used by people to make decisions. Knowing what data exists within NOAA, who are the data users, and what decisions are made based on the data can help us to better understand what roles NOAA data play in the decision making process. It also helps to maximize the value of NOAA's data by ensuring that the data are easily accessible and provided in the right format at the right time. Lessons learned by engaging users should play a role in guiding research and development efforts to improve NOAA data products. This session will highlight NOAA's efforts to better understand and engage the users of the data and information that NOAA produces. It will also present the benefits and outcomes that these users derive from the use of NOAA data and information.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Practicing NOAA's Service Delivery Model Using Sectoral Communities of Practice
- Ellen Mecray, Tina Hodges
2. Highlights from Multi-Sector Listening Sessions
- Jeremy Poplawski, Alexandria Smith, Josh Okrend, Jenny Dissen, Deke Arndt, Mike Brewer
3. NWS Weather.gov Visitor Experience Survey
- Noel "Shad" Keene, Tyra Brown Harris, Ph.D., Brian Miretzky
4. Service Delivery Model Implementation in Regional Climate Services
- Sharon Mesick, Ellen Mecray
5. To Publish or Not to Publish? The Importance of Social Science Data and Instrument Publishing for NOAA’s Weather Program Office
- Jonathon Mote, Gina Eosco, Castle Williams

Moderators
avatar for Mia Infante

Mia Infante

Oceanographer, NESDIS/NCEI

Speakers
avatar for Merrie Beth Neely

Merrie Beth Neely

NOAA Satellites and Information Service Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR)
Phytoplankton Ecology in the Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division at NESDIS/STAR.  Program Manager for Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Coastal Observations Applications Services and Tools (CEOS COAST) and AquaWatch - the Water Quality Initiative for the Group... Read More →
avatar for Sharon Mesick

Sharon Mesick

Director, Southern Regional Climate Service, NESDIS
NCEI’s Regional Climate Services Directors (RCSDs) regularly engage with stakeholders about climate information needs, and help build and strengthen active partner networks with public and private constituents. They help to connect and integrate NOAA’s work with partner organizations... Read More →
avatar for Ellen Mecray

Ellen Mecray

Ellen Mecray is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Regional ClimateServices Director for the Eastern Region. She focuses on the delivery and interpretation of informationusing networks across several critical economic sectors including health, transportation... Read More →


Tuesday September 13, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

2C: How NOAA's Social, Behavioral, Economic, and Management Data Affect the Agency's Data Governance and Capacity to Understand Complex Systems (Part 1)
Session Recording Here

NOAA is expanding its data governance practices and policies to encompass the agency’s data enterprise beyond environmental data. To do so, NOAA is reconsidering and developing new policies for data of many more kinds traditionally collected and used in managerial operations and in social, behavioral, and economic disciplines. These policies will help NOAA comply with more general federal policies for data management, and importantly they will help NOAA and those who use its resources to understand and intervene on increasingly complex systems in which natural phenomena interact with human and social behavior. As with environmental data; social, behavioral, economic, and management (SBEM) data are collected in many different formats, are about many different kinds of phenomena, and can be used and reused for many different purposes. And like environmental data, no single set of metadata standards and governance practices will work for all SBEM data.

This session invites abstracts for presentations from across NOAA about work with different kinds of SBEM data. Presenters may be those who collect data from people in the field, analyze economic indicators, handle documents that are both federal records and potential datasets, and conduct bibliometric or portfolio analyses, to name a few. Presenters may discuss, among other related topics, the kinds of data they work with, the purposes for which they use them, and issues for data management that arise. As a group, their insights provide comparative insights for conducting data governance for the range of SBEM data, databases, and uses within NOAA.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. (Most) Anything Can Be Data
- Steve Elliott, Gina Eosco, Joseph Conran, Laura Newcomb
2. NOAA Voices Oral History Archive: Scaling up qualitative data and diversifying NOAA”s data portfolio
- Patricia Pinto da Silva, Molly Graham, Avi Litwack
3. Agency level approach for planning and evaluating Federally funded programs
- Nancy Ritchey, Barbara Downs (DOC Census) and Oliver Wise (DOC CDO)




Tuesday September 13, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

1:30pm EDT

BREAK
Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

2E: Charting an Ocean (of Data Management Planning): Best Practices, Success Stories, and Lessons Learned
Session Recording Here

Data management planning is an integral initial step in the scientific process that has historically received secondary attention, leading to unprepared data providers, uninformed archives, and ultimately neglected data archival. The tide is turning across NOAA towards recognizing data planning to achieve enhanced, long-term data stewardship. This session is aimed for data practitioners across the spectrum of NOAA’s data holdings to highlight their success stories and lessons learned during the data planning process. This session also aims to demonstrate data planning best practices which facilitate meaningful metadata generation and archiving for future use. Case studies from both the NOAA Program Offices and project levels are encouraged.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. The data planning journey that (hopefully) arrives at Data Packages and Metadata generation
- Ben Shorr, Robb Wright
2. Tools for Automation of Data Delivery, Integrity Checking And Visualization
- Roland Schweitzer, Joshua Osborne, Eugene Burger
3. Arctic Research Program (ARP) Data Landscape Assessment
- Cynthia Garcia-Eidell, Kelley Uhlig, David Allen, Sara Morris
4. Does NOAA Coral Cover Data Meet the “I” for Interoperability in FAIR guiding principles?
- Sarah O'Connor, Erica Towle
5. Migrating the Surface Underway Marine Database to AWS Cloud: Challenges and Lessons Learned
- Matt Grossi, Zhankun Wang, Yee Lau, Adedoja Adeyeye, Jennifer Bowers
6. End to End - Success Stories of Making Grant Funded Data More Accessible
- Adrienne Copeland, Anna Lienesch and Mashkoor Malik
7. The N2N ship-to-shore pathway for public access of NOAA OMAO datasets: Planning and Challenges
- Andrew J. Frambach, Joseph Gum, Toby Martin, Solomon Tadele

Moderators
avatar for Caitlin Ruby

Caitlin Ruby

Environmental Video & Geospatial Data Manager, University of Colorado - Boulder / NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Ocean Exploration DataUnderwater VideoGIS / ArcGIS OnlineData Management

Speakers
avatar for Ben Shorr

Ben Shorr

Physical Scientist, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
Data visualization; data warehouse; query applications; contaminant data; ERDDAP; Don't duck metadata!
RS

Roland Schweitzer

Programmer, OAR/PMEL/SDIG


Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

2F: Maximizing the Value of NOAA Data with User Engagement (Part 2)
Session Recording Here

The value of NOAA data is realized when it is used by people to make decisions. Knowing what data exists within NOAA, who are the data users, and what decisions are made based on the data can help us to better understand what roles NOAA data play in the decision making process. It also helps to maximize the value of NOAA's data by ensuring that the data are easily accessible and provided in the right format at the right time. Lessons learned by engaging users should play a role in guiding research and development efforts to improve NOAA data products. This session will highlight NOAA's efforts to better understand and engage the users of the data and information that NOAA produces. It will also present the benefits and outcomes that these users derive from the use of NOAA data and information.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
6. User Co-Design as a Centerpiece of NOAA’s Contribution to CEOS COAST Products and Tools in Chesapeake Bay, USA.
- Merrie Beth Neely, Paul M. DiGiacomo, Nicole Bartlett, Prasanjit Dash, Guangming Zheng, Emily Smail, Rachel Lazzaro, Nikolay Nezlin, Richard Stumpf
7. The Collaborative Mesoanalysis Tool, a Web-Application - Created for Meteorologists, By Meteorologists
- Hector Crespo, Laurel McCoy, Brendan Schaper
8. Development of an Interactive Shiny App for Alaska Harbor Seal Abundance
- Stacie Hardy, Allison James
9. Guidance for Integrating GIS Analyses into the ESA Section 7 Federal Consultations
- Peter Johnsen, Vanessa Mahan, Peter Johnsen, Talya ten Brink

Moderators
avatar for Mia Infante

Mia Infante

Oceanographer, NESDIS/NCEI

Speakers
SH

Stacie Hardy

Data Scientist, NOAA/NMFS/AFSC/MML
PJ

Peter Johnsen

Fisheries Biologist, NOAA Fisheries
I have over 15 years of working with the Endangered Species Act as an employee with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries. Currently working at NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO) in Gloucester. My special interest is how to analyze vessel... Read More →
avatar for Vanessa Mahan

Vanessa Mahan

Ecological Modeling, PhD student, University of Maine


Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

2G: How NOAA's Social, Behavioral, Economic, and Management Data Affect the Agency's Data Governance and Capacity to Understand Complex Systems (Part 2)
Session Recording Here

NOAA is expanding its data governance practices and policies to encompass the agency’s data enterprise beyond environmental data. To do so, NOAA is reconsidering and developing new policies for data of many more kinds traditionally collected and used in managerial operations and in social, behavioral, and economic disciplines. These policies will help NOAA comply with more general federal policies for data management, and importantly they will help NOAA and those who use its resources to understand and intervene on increasingly complex systems in which natural phenomena interact with human and social behavior. As with environmental data; social, behavioral, economic, and management (SBEM) data are collected in many different formats, are about many different kinds of phenomena, and can be used and reused for many different purposes. And like environmental data, no single set of metadata standards and governance practices will work for all SBEM data.

This session invites abstracts for presentations from across NOAA about work with different kinds of SBEM data. Presenters may be those who collect data from people in the field, analyze economic indicators, handle documents that are both federal records and potential datasets, and conduct bibliometric or portfolio analyses, to name a few. Presenters may discuss, among other related topics, the kinds of data they work with, the purposes for which they use them, and issues for data management that arise. As a group, their insights provide comparative insights for conducting data governance for the range of SBEM data, databases, and uses within NOAA.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
4. Setting Our Sights on Infrastructure for Social Science Data: Sharing the Vision for the Societal Data Insights Initiative
- Gina Eosco, Alison Krepp
5. Exploring NOAA-wide Challenges and Solution to Enable SBE and Management Data Analysis
- Joseph Conran, Matthew Austin, Steve Elliott
6. A Stepwise Process for Developing Virtual Machines/Data Enclaves for Secure Data Analysis and Institutional Evaluation
- Steve Elliott, Joseph Conran, Gina Eosco, Laura Newcomb

Moderators
Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

3:15pm EDT

BREAK
Tuesday September 13, 2022 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Virtual

3:45pm EDT

Strategy Plenary
Session Recording Here

1. KEYNOTE: Tony LaVoi, DGC Chair and NOAA Chief Data Officer
2. KEYNOTE: Oliver Wise, DOC Chief Data Officer
3. Q&A

Speakers
avatar for Tony Lavoi

Tony Lavoi

Chief Data Officer, NOAA
Tony LaVoi serves as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Data Officer (CDO). As the NOAA CDO, he is responsible for NOAA’s Data Strategy and all aspects of its implementation. The purpose of the NOAA Data Strategy is to dramatically accelerate the use... Read More →
avatar for Oliver Wise

Oliver Wise

Chief Data Officer, Dept. of Commerce
Chief Data OfficerOffice of the Under Secretary for Economic AffairsOliver Wise is Chief Data Officer at the Department of Commerce. In this position, Wise is responsible for leading the Commerce Department's data strategy, advancing capacity for evidence-based decision-making by... Read More →


Tuesday September 13, 2022 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual
 
Wednesday, September 14
 

9:30am EDT

Helpdesk
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=f666ae0e-ce63-4eef-b19d-4454dbdb0614

Need help finding your way around? Not sure about sharing your presentation? Drop by the help desk for assistance! Someone from ESIP (conference organizer) or the workshop planning team will be available to answer questions.

Wednesday September 14, 2022 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Virtual

10:00am EDT

Market Research 101 for future procurements
Session Recording Here

The Government Accountability Office indicated that not documenting basic elements of the market research potentially limits the ability of agency acquisition personnel to use market research to inform future procurements, a goal identified in agency guidance (www.gao.gov/assets/gao-15-8). Market research is the process of collecting and analyzing information about capabilities within the market to satisfy agency needs in accordance to the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 2 (https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-10). Market research is a continuous process of gathering data on business and industry trends, characteristics of products and services, suppliers’ capabilities, and related business practices (https://www.dau.edu/). This workshop will (1) learn how to navigate use the General Service Administration to find similar performance work contract and labor categories; (2) learn how to develop the market research in Google sheet template; and (3) how to forecast the market research for a three years contract.

Speakers

Wednesday September 14, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Virtual

10:00am EDT

NWS Expands Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Dissemination Capabilities on the Public Cloud; The NOAA High Tide Flooding Outlook Goes GeoSpatial
Session Recording Here

The NWS Dissemination Office has spent the last 18 months migrating a majority of it’s Geographic Information System (GIS) portfolio to the public cloud. Included in these efforts were mirroring our Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web services to the public cloud, following the NWS 10-102 directive for experimental to operational status for the NWS National GIS Map Viewer, “the Viewer.” and implementing in a secure hosting environment. The Viewer is an interactive tool for communicating data visually for decision support which NWS partnered with the National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration (NOS ORR) to leverage code developed for the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMAⓇ) and to collaborate on future enhancements to these cloud hosted applications. NWS also migrated Damage Assessment Toolkit from USGS AWS cloud to NOAA managed AWS cloud. Attendees of this session will see examples of the NWS suite of public cloud hosted GIS capabilities for communicating weather impacts and potential impacts with our partners as well as hearing lessons learned from creating a secure public facing cloud based GIS environment.
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"Each year, NOAA’s National Ocean Service provides a State of High Tide Flooding Outlook to inform the Nation of the potential for high tide flooding (HTF) expected at the coast. This annual assessment predicts when tides will breach the HTF threshold of 1.75 to 2 feet above the daily average high tide. As sea level rise continues, damaging floods that decades ago happened only during a storm, now happen more regularly, particularly during a full-moon tide and with a change in prevailing winds or currents. High tide flooding affects coastal infrastructure and natural systems alike, making the Outlook an invaluable decision support tool for mitigating the impacts of high tide flooding.

To make the science behind each projection more tangible and its data more accessible, the High Tide Flooding Outlook is being enhanced. What was once a static PDF will now be an interactive geospatial dashboard with regional map projections, coastal inundation thresholds, animated data visualizations through time, and a summary of key regional statistics. It’s further enhanced by integrating a new predictive algorithm from the 2022 interagency Sea Level Rise Technical Report. Each improvement creates more accurate projections; bringing us even closer to a detailed understanding of sea level rise, and in turn, better prepared for the impacts of climate change. "

Speakers
avatar for Kari Sheets

Kari Sheets

Weather Information Distribution Services Branch Chief, Acting, NOAA National Weather Service
Kari Sheets has worked for NOAA for 20 years mostly focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Kari started her career in the National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Lab as a Model Output Statistics (MOS) developer where she developed GIS techniques to help... Read More →
avatar for Analise Keeney

Analise Keeney

Coastal Hazards Oceanographer, NOS - CO-OPS
I am a coastal hazards oceanographer with NOAA’s National Ocean Service. My work centers around creating GIS-based tools and products to mitigate the impacts of coastal flooding due to sea level rise and climate change. I bring a passion for developing operational products that... Read More →


Wednesday September 14, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Virtual

10:00am EDT

Towards analysis-ready data with data access APIs (Part 1)
Session Recording Here

The session will focus on data access application programming interfaces (APIs) in use around NOAA. A panel of invited speakers will present technical details and development status of APIs that provide flexible access to various data types of interest to NOAA. Functionality may include efficient trimming/slicing of multidimensional data, data subsetting, time series extraction, re-gridding, re-projecting, and data visualization. The panel presentations will lead into a discussion of the direction that NOAA should take toward coordinating our use of APIs to provide seamless and harmonized access to data across the agency. Thoughtful implementation of APIs can be a big step towards interoperable, FAIR, and analysis-ready data.

Panelists:

  • Bob Simons 
  • Shane Mill
  • Jian Su
  • Roland Schweitzer
  • Michael Soracco
  • Steve Olson
  • Hailey Johnson
  • Tara Drwenski
  • Chad Whitney
  • Rich Baldwin

Moderators
avatar for Tyler Christensen

Tyler Christensen

Data Management Architect, NOAA / NESDIS
avatar for Steve Olson

Steve Olson

NOAA
I work for the National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL).  MDL conducts applied research and development for the improvement of diagnostic and prognostic weather information; data depiction and utilization; warning and forecast product preparation... Read More →

Speakers
RS

Roland Schweitzer

Programmer, OAR/PMEL/SDIG
avatar for Rich Baldwin

Rich Baldwin

Data Access Chief, NCEI
Enterprise Data Management Agile FrameworksWorkflow & Process
avatar for Michael Soracco

Michael Soracco

Systems Analyst, RIVA for NOAA CoastWatch
avatar for Shane Mill

Shane Mill

Senior Web Developer, NOAA
Shane Mill has been an Application Developer within the Weather Information and Applications Division of the Meteorological Development Lab of the National Weather Service since September of 2018. Since joining MDL, Shane has prototyped ways that existing standards can enhance operational... Read More →
avatar for Jay Su

Jay Su

IT Specialist, NOAA/NESDIS
Working at NOAA/NESDIS bridging science and engineering.


Wednesday September 14, 2022 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Virtual

11:30am EDT

BREAK
Wednesday September 14, 2022 11:30am - 11:45am EDT
Virtual

11:45am EDT

Cloud-based Drought Monitoring using Climate Engine and Google Earth Engine
Session Recording Here

NOAA has partnered with the Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and UC Merced to develop Climate Engine, a cloud computing web application in which programmers and non-programmers alike can quickly and easily process and visualize satellite and climate data in an interactive User Interface (UI) and Application Programming Interface (API). Data storage, access, and on-demand processing and storage is accomplished using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and the massively parallel cloud computing platform Google Earth Engine. Common climatic operations, along with multiple modern drought indices, have been coded into Google Earth Engine and made available in the Climate Engine UI and API. Users can adjust several settings within these drought algorithms, facilitating unprecedented near-instantaneous intercomparison between types of parameter fittings, evapotranspiration estimate types, temperature and precipitation datasets and periods of record.

Drought.gov is standing up an operational instance of Climate Engine within the NOAA-Google Cloud Contract, and obtaining licensing for Google Earth Engine. This new technology will allow Drought.gov to produce new high resolution daily gridded products not currently feasible with on-premises infrastructure. Climate Engine will pair these processing capabilities with the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) program to facilitate free and open access to foundational NOAA datasets and the dissemination of derived products.


Wednesday September 14, 2022 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Virtual

11:45am EDT

Development of the Information Technology Services Cost Model: Service Delivery Division Business Case
Session Recording Here

The Service Delivery Division develops Information Technology (IT) Services cost models to improve the transparency, accountability, and efficiency of the resources (www.gep.com). A cost model is a method or framework for determining the total value invested to deliver a product or service (www.isixsigma.com). The Service Delivery Division develops cost model methodologies using as a baseline the IT Service Contract Line Item Numbers (CLIN). The implementation of a cost model will enable a quick remanufacturing of the cost estimation so that the economic benefit can be analyses by the Customers and the Service Delivery Division (www.sciencedirect.com). The Service Delivery Division uses cost models to discuss customers’ needs in face-to-face interviews.

In this workshop, the participant will (1) start with a basic understanding of the IT Services CLINs, (2) assess the customer’s needs, relating to purpose, capacity, and sustainability of the IT Services contracts (www.sciencedirect.com); and (3) have a hand-on experience on how to develop a cost model using CLINs.

Speakers

Wednesday September 14, 2022 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Virtual

11:45am EDT

Towards analysis-ready data with data access APIs (Part 2)
Session Recording Here

The session will focus on data access application programming interfaces (APIs) in use around NOAA. A panel of invited speakers will present technical details and development status of APIs that provide flexible access to various data types of interest to NOAA. Functionality may include efficient trimming/slicing of multidimensional data, data subsetting, time series extraction, re-gridding, re-projecting, and data visualization. The panel presentations will lead into a discussion of the direction that NOAA should take toward coordinating our use of APIs to provide seamless and harmonized access to data across the agency. Thoughtful implementation of APIs can be a big step towards interoperable, FAIR, and analysis-ready data.

Panelists:
  • Bob Simons 
  • Shane Mill
  • Jian Su
  • Roland Schweitzer
  • Michael Soracco
  • Steve Olson
  • Hailey Johnson
  • Tara Drwenski
  • Chad Whitney
  • Rich Baldwin


Moderators
avatar for Tyler Christensen

Tyler Christensen

Data Management Architect, NOAA / NESDIS
avatar for Steve Olson

Steve Olson

NOAA
I work for the National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL).  MDL conducts applied research and development for the improvement of diagnostic and prognostic weather information; data depiction and utilization; warning and forecast product preparation... Read More →

Speakers
RS

Roland Schweitzer

Programmer, OAR/PMEL/SDIG
avatar for Rich Baldwin

Rich Baldwin

Data Access Chief, NCEI
Enterprise Data Management Agile FrameworksWorkflow & Process
avatar for Michael Soracco

Michael Soracco

Systems Analyst, RIVA for NOAA CoastWatch
avatar for Shane Mill

Shane Mill

Senior Web Developer, NOAA
Shane Mill has been an Application Developer within the Weather Information and Applications Division of the Meteorological Development Lab of the National Weather Service since September of 2018. Since joining MDL, Shane has prototyped ways that existing standards can enhance operational... Read More →
avatar for Jay Su

Jay Su

IT Specialist, NOAA/NESDIS
Working at NOAA/NESDIS bridging science and engineering.


Wednesday September 14, 2022 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Virtual

11:45am EDT

Tutorial: Write ArcGIS metadata for 100% InPort score
Session Recording Here

InPort is a metadata authoring and cataloguing application that's used by multiple line offices. ArcGIS Pro is a common desktop GIS system. We'll go through an example of writing a complete ArcGIS metadata file (using a handy guide in Google sheets) that can then be loaded into the InPort metadata application, with the goal of getting an InPort 100% Rubric score. You can follow along as we go through the example, or join us to try it yourself if you have ArcGIS Pro and an InPort account with an author role (we can work with attendees before the tutorial to get an account set up).

Speakers
avatar for John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

GIS Specialist, NMFS/S&T -- Caelum Research Corp.
I'm a GIS Specialist for Fisheries HQ. I provide GIS data science and management support for Fisheries projects. The most recent project I've been involved with is the NOAA Fisheries Distribution Mapping and Analysis Portal (DisMAP).
avatar for Tim Haverland

Tim Haverland

GIS Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
I'm the GIS lead for Fisheries so do lots of map work, specializing in web-based mapping. As part of NOAA's Cetaceans and Sound (CetSound) project, I've been working on maps of ocean sound scapes, which has also led me to an interest in passive acoustic data, and how to manage these... Read More →



Wednesday September 14, 2022 11:45am - 1:15pm EDT
Virtual

1:15pm EDT

BREAK
Wednesday September 14, 2022 1:15pm - 1:45pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

BACK ON!: Service Level Agreement in ServiceNow: Business Case
Session Recording Here

The Service Delivery Division develops Information Technology (IT) Services cost models to improve the transparency, accountability, and efficiency of the resources (www.gep.com). The Service Delivery Division is automating the Service Level Agreements (SLA) to manage commitments of the IT Services between service providers and customers for optimal experiences (www.servicenow.com). The automation of the SLA will improve boost customer satisfaction, increase the transparency and transferring of the funds, enhance organizational performance, and improve the service provider-business partnership within the agency (www.servicenow.com). In this workshop, the Service Delivery Division staff will demonstrate the integration of roles and responsibilities from services providers, technical staff, liaison, and approval officers in the automation of the SLA in ServiceNOW.


Wednesday September 14, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

Hands-on NetCDF and ERDDAP workshop (Part 1)
Session Recording Here

The session will familiarize participants with accessing data from ERDDAP and working with netCDF formatted data using R. Examples will focus on ocean satellite data distributed by CoastWatch but are applicable to NetCDF files in general and to other types of data accessed through ERDDAP servers. It will be a mix of demos, group discussions and off-line self-paced work.


AGENDA and SOFTWARE INSTRUCTIONS:

https://umd.instructure.com/courses/1336361

Please make sure you install the required R packages ahead of time.

Moderators
avatar for Melanie Abecassis

Melanie Abecassis

OceanWatch Operations Manager, NOAA CoastWatch

Speakers
avatar for Cara Wilson

Cara Wilson

Research Oceanographer, NOAA CoastWatch West Coast Node and NOAA PolarWatch


Wednesday September 14, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

The Power of Collection Manager: ISO Metadata Management Using APIs
Session Recording Here

Abstract
NCEI’s commitment to the FAIR data principles extends into the development of our updated suite of metadata management tools called Collection Manager. This workshop will provide an overview of the tools included within Collection Manager including the Collection Metadata Editing Tool (CoMET), Metaserver (record services), and Docucomp (reusable metadata components manager), as well as a demonstration of the powerful APIs built around them. The intended audience for this workshop are data managers, metadata specialists, or anyone with an interest in data management toolsets. Attendees will leave with a basic understanding of how CoMET, Metaserver, and Docucomp assist data managers with managing their metadata, how to publish their records to the OneStop search and discovery portal, and how they can leverage the abilities of the API to easily manage large quantities of metadata records.

Agenda
  5 min - Introduction - Paul Lemieux
20 min - CoMET Overview - Lori Hager
10 min - Docucomp Overview - Becky Bickett
  5 min - Metaserver Overview - Becky Bickett
10 min - Break - Paul Lemieux
30 min - API Usage and Examples - Jerri Reeves
10 min - Q & A - All (Slido.com #CoMET)
Relevant Links
CoMET - https://data.noaa.gov/cedit/ 
Docucomp - https://data.noaa.gov/docucomp/
Metaserver - https://data.noaa.gov/metaserver/
OpenAPI Docs - https://data.noaa.gov/cedit/openApiDoc.html



Speakers
avatar for Paul Lemieux III

Paul Lemieux III

Data Officer, NOAA/NCEI
Paul received his B.A. in Geography and M.S. in Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2014 and 2016 respectively. He currently works as a Physical Scientist for the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi... Read More →
avatar for Lori Hager

Lori Hager

Metadata Specialist, NCEI
Lori received her B.A. in Economics from Florida Atlantic University in 1996.  She is the former Microsoft Program Manager for a DVD manufacturing facility.  After the facility closed, she returned to college and received an A.A.S. in Software & Web Development from A-B Tech Community... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Bickett - NOAA Affiliate

Rebecca Bickett - NOAA Affiliate

Stewardship Help Desk, NOAA NCEI/ GDIT
Becky received her B.S. in Geography from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2006. She has been a part of projects working for the US Army Corp. of Engineers, Naval Oceanographic Office, US Army, and NOAA, along with others. The majority of her work has been done in a GIS capacity... Read More →


Wednesday September 14, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

3:15pm EDT

BREAK
Wednesday September 14, 2022 3:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

Data Policy Listening Session
Session Recording Here

The Data Governance Committee’s Environmental Data Policy Task Team is hosting a listening session to raise awareness on the NOAA Data Strategy and to gather feedback regarding our task to update the Agency’s environmental data Procedural Directives. We will facilitate a group discussion regarding what is working well, what is not; what directives are easy/ clear to implement vs what directives are unclear.

Speakers
avatar for Monica Youngman

Monica Youngman

Data Stewardship Division Chief, NOAA/NCEI
MJ

Michele Jacobi

Spatial Data Branch Chief, NOAA/ NOS/ ORR


Wednesday September 14, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

Fishery-independent Survey System (FINSS)
Session Recording Here

NOAA Fishery (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's marine living resources and their habitat. Fishery-independent surveys, the scientific data collection activities on ocean-going sampling platforms (e.g. NOAA or chartered vessels and aircrafts) play a critical role in support of fisheries stock assessments and management decisions. The Fishery-independent Survey System (FINSS), a public web application managed by NMFS Office of Science and Technology, provides a robust process to track and report survey capacities from planning to execution across NMFS Science Centers. FINSS enables NMFS to analyze historic and current platform utilization, at-sea data collection efforts, and assess core survey requirements and funding needs to meet the agency’s mission. This presentation will demonstrate FINSS functionalities, provide training to navigate the system, and showcase its interaction with other NOAA database products to facilitate data collection and reporting.

Speakers

Wednesday September 14, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

Hands-on NetCDF and ERDDAP workshop (Part 2)
Session Recording Here

The session will familiarize participants with accessing data from ERDDAP and working with netCDF formatted data using R. Examples will focus on ocean satellite data distributed by CoastWatch but are applicable to NetCDF files in general and to other types of data accessed through ERDDAP servers. It will be a mix of demos, group discussions and off-line self-paced work.


AGENDA and SOFTWARE INSTRUCTIONS:

https://umd.instructure.com/courses/1336361

Please make sure you install the required R packages ahead of time.




Moderators
avatar for Melanie Abecassis

Melanie Abecassis

OceanWatch Operations Manager, NOAA CoastWatch

Speakers
avatar for Cara Wilson

Cara Wilson

Research Oceanographer, NOAA CoastWatch West Coast Node and NOAA PolarWatch


Wednesday September 14, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

XML Editor Training Refresh
Session Recording Here

Are you interested in learning some “tips and tricks” for using schema-aware XML editors to create and edit metadata in the ISO 19115 XML “dialect”?

If so, please complete this XML Editor Training Needs form for interest, proposed content, and preferred times.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or tips you would like to share with others, please contact Kathy Martinolich at Kathy.Martinolich@noaa.gov.

Speakers
KM

Kathy Martinolich

Metadata Specialist/Research Associate, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI - NGI Northern Gulf Institute


Wednesday September 14, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual
 
Thursday, September 15
 

11:30am EDT

Helpdesk
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=f666ae0e-ce63-4eef-b19d-4454dbdb0614

Need help finding your way around? Not sure about sharing your presentation? Drop by the help desk for assistance! Someone from ESIP (conference organizer) or the workshop planning team will be available to answer questions.

Thursday September 15, 2022 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

4A: ERDDAP - Making Data More Easily Accessible
Session Recording Here

ERDDAP is an open-source data server that is widely used within NOAA and at more than 95 institutions around the world. ERDDAP's goal is to make data more easily accessible. This session will include a brief introduction to ERDDAP, a description of new features added in the last year, and talks by ERDDAP administrators highlighting interesting uses of ERDDAP.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Use 4DVD technology to visually deliver NOAA climate data to classrooms
- Samuel S. Shen, Julien Pierret, and Thomas M. Smith
2. Using ERDDAP to facilitate open science.
- Mathew Biddle
3.ERDDAP at EMODnet
- Marco Alba
4. CoastWatch’s ShipWatch Service - using ERDDAP to provide near-real time satellite data to NOAA’s ship fleet
- Cara Wilson, Melanie Abecassis, Michael Soracco, Dale Robinson, Emily Rose
5. Implementing a FAIR Data Strategy for the Global Ocean Observing Networks
- Kevin O'Brien
6. New Features in ERDDAP
- Bob Simons

Moderators
Speakers
avatar for Mathew Biddle

Mathew Biddle

Physical Scientist, NOAA/IOOS
avatar for Cara Wilson

Cara Wilson

Research Oceanographer, NOAA CoastWatch West Coast Node and NOAA PolarWatch


Thursday September 15, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

4B: Why Analysis-Ready-Cloud-Optimized (ARCO) Data for Scalable Cloud Computing and Data Analytics to Support Open Science?
Session Recording Here

Cloud computing is changing the way we traditionally do computing. Large volumes of data temporally or spatially that are diverse and complex pose challenges in how it is stored, accessed, managed, shared, visualized, and fused for answering many analytical questions.

Improving efficiency with the Infrastructure that are demand driven and automated systems of systems that enable the improved access, interoperability and portability of the systems and solutions (Infrastructure-as-Code) that are function driven and cloud optimized, are warranted. The optimized data format that is cloud ready and improves the access and interoperability with robust data structure and metadata will pave the path forward that will be centered abound the Data equity and the People/ users’ encouraging the Open Science.

For robust deployment and stable service, developing such an open framework that allows us to interoperate within systems of systems, scale using cloud computing or high-end computing, and accelerate analyses facilitated by data-proximate computing, that are reusable and collaboration agnostic is highly recommended. This scalable framework that capitalize Analysis-Ready-Cloud-Optimized (ARCO) Data driven by FAIR Data principles that supports efficient data-driven approaches such as geospatial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI) including several other domains of Science to extract valuable information out of large volumes of data and developing information products that reaches large group of users with enhanced customer experience (CX) and also supports the decision making process that impacts lives of the people.

This session will focus on use cases on the ARCO, Infrastructure and migration, Analytics and visualization, Dissemination of data and information products in the cloud that will improve the Interoperability, Access and usage of NOAA Data that supports Open Science leading to Innovation . Specifically, this session will explore: (Lightning talk and panel discussion):

- the critical components of scalable cloud computing infrastructure as a service and Infrastructure as code, Open Science use case within NOAA and beyond
- the current cloud deployment practices, native cloud formats and current cloud optimized formats and optimized chunking of data formats such as Zarr.
- facilitate discussion on cloud computing and ARCO and how those are facilitated through FAIR Data Principles (Use case, discussions)
- the critical components of of cloud computing and applications including data ingest, archive, storage, visualization, distribution, modeling and analysis ready data

Presenters/panelist:

1. Community-driven cloud initiatives leveraging FAIR principles
- Aparna Radhakrishnan NOAA, GFDL (AR5 data), Data and Analytics Lead

2. VEDA: Open, Scalable, and Interactive System for Science Data
- Manil Maskey, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Marshall and NASA HeadQuarters

3. What is Analytics-Ready Cloud-Optimized Data and why does it matter?
- Aimee Barciauskas and Alexandra Kirk, DevelopmentSeed

4. The Open Science Challenge of Distributed Big Data
- Ilene Carpenter, Earth Sciences Segment Manager Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NOAA SAB Member



Moderators
avatar for Sudhir Shrestha

Sudhir Shrestha

Technical Director Web and Data Service, NOAA Office of Water Prediction

Speakers

Thursday September 15, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

4C: Cooperative, Collaborative, and Community Science Data Management Best Practices
Session Recording Here

Cooperative, Collaborative, and Community Science projects are increasingly becoming a valuable source of data for use in the management of living marine resources. These types of projects are providing unprecedented view of the ocean by filling in observational gaps that occur due to timing and cost of more traditional research cruises and academic fieldwork. However, with this opportunity to acquire critical data, a host of challenges need to be considered. For example, ownership of the data, QA/QC protocols, standardized metadata creation, distribution, and privacy concerns due to fishing locations. This session welcomes talks focused on projects that have solved these issues, are in the problem solving phase, or are in the initial planning phase.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Tracking Data on NOAA Citizen Science Projects and Their Outputs
- John McLaughlin
2. Making Remotely Operated Vehicle video data more accessible through annotations
- Ashley Marranzino, Katharine Egan, Matt Dornback, Megan Cromwell, Adrienne Copeland
3. Fishing for data on the west Florida shelf
- Brendan Turley
4. Crowdsourced Bathymetry Data - Addressing National Skepticism to Help Map the World’s Seafloor
- Jennifer Jencks, Georgianna Zelenak, Payton Cain, Chris Slater, Jesse Varner

Moderators
Speakers
avatar for Jennifer Jencks

Jennifer Jencks

NOAA/IHO DCDB
I'm a Physical Scientist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Boulder, Colorado. For the last several years, I have served as the Director of the co-located IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry and chair of the IHO Crowdsourced Bathymetry Working Group... Read More →


Thursday September 15, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

1:30pm EDT

BREAK
Thursday September 15, 2022 1:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

Stakeholder and Partner Plenary
Session Recording Here

1. Stakeholder Panel: Katie Latanich, NGO and Stakeholders

Building partnerships for data progress

Successful digital products are a combination of technical and people skills. They require data infrastructure as well as ways to incorporate the needs and perspectives of end users, legal and policy staff, and other external stakeholders and partners. As NOAA advances its internal efforts to advance data innovations, expand data governance, and deploy next-generation ocean information tools, the public is raising their expectations for modern, user-friendly products and data transparency. If we need more voices at the table, and more awareness of the benefits of investments in modern data services, public-private partnerships can offer a way to move forward.

Panelists:
  • Kate Wing, Net Gains Alliance, Founding Member
  • Jess Morten, California Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Marine Resource Protection Program Director
  • Eric Torgerson, Chordata, LLC, Founder
  • Dr. Roxanne Carini, NANOOS, Research Associate

2. Q&A
3. Remarks: NOAA's International Partnerships through the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development - Hernan Garcia, Oceanographer, NCEI

Moderators
avatar for Kate Wing

Kate Wing

Founding Member, Net Gains Alliance
Kate Wing is a founding member of the Net Gains Alliance, a coalition supporting data modernization in U.S. fisheries. Through her nonprofit Intertidal Agency, she supports projects at the intersection of conservation, technology, and strategy, including a 2021 NSF Convergence Accelerator award to improve ocean data governance. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Data Coordination Group for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustaina... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Jess Morten

Jess Morten

Marine Resource Protection Program Director, California Marine Sanctuary Foundation
Jessica (Jess) Morten serves as the Marine Resource Protection Program Director at the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation (CMSF) and works to coordinate and oversee the marine resource protection projects that CMSF manages, including the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Vessel... Read More →
avatar for Eric Torgerson

Eric Torgerson

Founder, Chordata, LLC
Eric Torgerson is the founder of Chordata, LLC. He has provided technical leadership on a wide range of IT projects relating to the commercial fisheries of the North Pacific. He was also the primary developer of an open source EM software platform that is now in use in fisheries in... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Roxanne Carini

Dr. Roxanne Carini

Research Associate, NANOOS
Roxanne Carini is a Research Associate with NANOOS, the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems, working to provide Pacific Northwest stakeholders with high-quality ocean and coastal data, tools, and information they need to make responsive and responsible decisions... Read More →
avatar for Katie Latanich

Katie Latanich

Net Gains Alliance
I work as a consultant with the Net Gains Alliance, an initiative to accelerate the modernization of fishery information systems. We are interested in how innovation by stakeholders and businesses in the fisheries sector can create support for investing in modern data services and... Read More →
avatar for Hernan Garcia

Hernan Garcia

Oceanographer, NOAA NESDIS NCEI
Hernan is an oceanographer with NOAA's NESDIS National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He is interested in synthesis of ocean chemical variability using NOAA’s World Ocean Database. He is the Director of the World Data Service for Oceanography hosted at NCEI. Hernan... Read More →


Thursday September 15, 2022 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:00pm EDT

BREAK
Thursday September 15, 2022 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

4D: Metadata: NOAA's Present Needs and Progressing Toward the Future
Session Recording Here

New tools are being developed to make metadata authoring simple. Metadata must change and update with the new policies and practices to keep NOAA agile and future oriented. We entertain abstracts that present metadata processes and tools to update and modernize existing metadata to get it ready for the cloud and AI while considering existing metadata standards.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1.Constructing a Graph Metadatabase
- Myranda Uselton Shirk
2. Is NOAA “Stuck” on ISO 19115-2?
- Kathy Martinolich, Jason Weick
3. Current Status and Future Directions of the NCEI Metadata Template
- Jasonl Weick, Kathy Martinolich
4.Transformers for Semantic Dataset Search at NCEI
- Myranda Uselton Shirk
5. Merged Observatory Data Files (MODFs)
- Sara Morris, Taneil Uttal, Leslie Hartten, Elena Akish, Michael Gallagher, Jareth Holt
6. Quantum Rubric
- Dave Fischman

Moderators
avatar for Nazila Merati

Nazila Merati

Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
Data whisperer, CCO and firm believer in data night

Speakers
avatar for Myranda Uselton Shirk

Myranda Uselton Shirk

Data Scientist, NOAA NCEI
KM

Kathy Martinolich

Metadata Specialist/Research Associate, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI - NGI Northern Gulf Institute
avatar for Dave Fischman

Dave Fischman

Intrapreneur, NOAA
Dave Fischman started his NOAA career as a survey technician on the NOAA ships Rainier and Ka`imimoana.  He then transitioned to NOAA Corps and served as the Operations Officer on the NOAA Ship Ka`imimoana.  Following his sea assignment, he served as the NOS hydrographic data manager... Read More →


Thursday September 15, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

4E: NODD Advances Interoperability of NOAA Data in the Cloud
Session Recording Here

In March 2022, the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act included language supporting NOAA Open Data Dissemination, formerly the Big Data Program, “to improve public access to climate change data and to transition NOAA data to the cloud.” Since 2019, NODD has been providing operational support for free egress to the public on NOAA data via three cloud partners Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. The benefits are multifold, including cost avoidance to NOAA, increased computational capability with the data already in the cloud, and democratization of NOAA data. The ease of cloud-based access to big environmental data, often the only source of the access to some real-time data, reduces users’ effort in data aggregation, allowing users to innovate their data analytics and technical engineering via cloud based tools.
Leveraging scalability of cloud solutions and tools enhances data discovery and identifies connections for technical innovation.  NODD’s recent activities have been focused on enhancing interoperability, creating cloud-based metrics and user engagement by working with partners and end users. This session provides perspectives on these recent efforts, with speakers from a NOAA Cloud Pathfinder Project, NOAA cloud partner, and end users on benefits of access to NOAA data via the cloud.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Supports Line Offices
- Adrienne Simoson, Patrick Keown, Kate Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock, Jenny Dissen, Denis Willett
2. Bathymetry Data in the Cloud
- John Cartwright, Jennifer Jencks, Georgianna Zelenak
3. NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Enables Cost-Efficient, Bandwidth-Responsible Post-Processing System for Realtime GOES-R Imagery Streaming in WSV3 Commercial Weather Graphics Software
- Paul Maravelias, Gene Pache, Samm Elliot, Jan Ising, Cristian Tanasescu, Allen Huang
4. Leveraging the Cloud & Microservices for NOAA Weather Satellite Operations
- Isaac Passmore, Theresa Cauble, Ryan Alberts, Allen Choi, Manuel Iribarren, Vadim Korotkikh
5. Key Considerations for Storing Data on the Cloud
- Tom Augspurger

Moderators
avatar for Jenny Dissen

Jenny Dissen

NODD Engagement, NOAA CISESS
avatar for Adrienne Simonson

Adrienne Simonson

Director, NOAA Open Data Dissemination, OCIO
avatar for Katelyn Szura

Katelyn Szura

Strategic Communications Lead, OCIO
I am the Communications Lead for the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program and the Office of the Chief Data Officer within NOAA’s OCIO. I recently rejoined NODD in 2022 after previously serving as the Communications Lead for the program during my time as the OCIO’s first... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for John Cartwright

John Cartwright

Geospatial Systems Architect, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder
John Cartwright is a geospatial systems architect at CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder where he designs and builds data discovery and access systems in support of NCEI's mission.  He was formerly the GIS team lead at NCEI where he was responsible for the development and operation... Read More →
avatar for Paul Maravelias

Paul Maravelias

VP, Visualization and SaaS, TempoQuest, Inc.
Paul Maravelias has over fifteen years of experience in native Windows software development, ten of which focused on perfecting weather data visualization using low-level GPU graphics. He started his own company in 2008 and developed the WSV3 PC software, a popular solution for interactive... Read More →
avatar for Isaac Passmore

Isaac Passmore

Principal Systems Engineer, ASRC Federal Data Network Technology, LLC
I am the team lead of an A.I. product development team creating MOA - the Mission Operations Assistant tool being designed to help operate modern satellite & complex ground system infrastructures. I have worked as a satellite & ground system engineer for 8+ years and helped launch... Read More →
avatar for Tom Augspurger

Tom Augspurger

Microsoft
Tom is a software engineer working at Microsoft on the Planetary Computer and is a member of the Pangeo Steering Council. Tom helps maintain several open-source libraries in the scientific Python ecosystem, including pandas and Dask.


Thursday September 15, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

4F: How Diversity and Equity Intersect with NOAA Data Governance and Why It Matters
Session Recording Here

NOAA increasingly addresses issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice (DEIAJ), both in internal strategic documents and by following direction from the Executive Branch. While many of these topics relate to workforce diversity, DEIAJ also relates to NOAA data and data governance for service equity. For instance, which stakeholders can access NOAA data and downstream products and services, and is access equitable across, for example, tribal governments and minority serving institutions in higher education? Furthermore, is NOAA collecting or funding the collection of data about issues relevant to those from underserved and historically marginalized groups? What rights do people have to data collected about them or their property? And for workforce, how can NOAA’s data governance community reflect the demography and interests of all Americans?

This session invites abstracts for presentations about intersections between DEIAJ and NOAA data governance. In addition to the questions above and many other topics, abstracts might discuss ongoing projects related to building partnerships with a diverse array of stakeholders, collecting and storing data that can be disaggregated along intersectional categories, DEIAJ overlaps with data governance principle, or developing informational portals, analysis tools, and services that are equitable.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Data Governance for Service Equity Requires More than the FAIR Principles
- Steve Elliott, Beckett Sterner, Gina Eosco, Joseph Conran, Laura Newcomb
2. Addressing Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Current US-Global Efforts and Best Practices
- James Rattling Leaf, Sr., Crystal J. Stiles, Justyna Nicinska
3. NOAA and Demographic Data Collection
- Danika Kleiber




Thursday September 15, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual

5:00pm EDT

Local and Online Meetups
Let's get together! We encourage local meet-ups depending on COVID status, and we'll have an online meet-up for those who want to get together virtually.

Local meetups scheduled for:
  • Silver Spring, MD
    • 6-7pm EDT
    • Koiner Farm, 737 Easley St., Silver Spring, MD 20910
    • Contact: tim.haverland@noaa.gov, 240-43
    • Timber Pizza food truck on site
  • Pass Christian, MS
    • 5-7pm CDT
    • Shaggy's Pass Harbor, 120 South Hiern Avenue, Pass Christian, MS, 39571
    • Contact: paul.lemieux@noaa.gov
    • Most likely out on the 2nd floor patio, otherwise will be on the ground floor under the patio.

Please see the list of in-person socials!

We'll also have an online social at our wonder.me space at 5pm hosted by Billy Brooks.

Thursday September 15, 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Virtual
 
Friday, September 16
 

11:30am EDT

Helpdesk
https://www.wonder.me/r?id=f666ae0e-ce63-4eef-b19d-4454dbdb0614

Need help finding your way around? Not sure about sharing your presentation? Drop by the help desk for assistance! Someone from ESIP (conference organizer) or the workshop planning team will be available to answer questions.

Friday September 16, 2022 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

5A: Open Science and Open Science Infrastructure
Session Recording Here

Driving innovation requires the open and easy access to the data, information and open infrastructure that is centered around the “People”. This panel discussion will explore the current effort to support Open Science and Open Science Infrastructure and how it supports the scientific community in sharing the data, software, research and publications.
Discussions will be focused around the use cases and existing efforts in the sector of open data and software, Open access to research and publications and data and information silos. Promoting and improving the community engagement to reduce the digital, technological and knowledge gap following the FAIR data principle.

Presenters/panelist:


1. What’s New for Open and FAIR Data in Policy and Practice?
- Christopher Steven Marcum (Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)


2. Transforming to Open Science 
- Chelle Gentemann (NASA HeadQuarter, Transform to Open Science Program Scientist)


3. A path to enabling Open Data and Open Science
- Joseph Mani (NOAA NESDIS, Acting Chief Technology Officer) 


4. Building infrastructure for open science publications:  from silos to integrations
- Deirdre Clarkin (NOAA, Director, NOAA Central and Regional Libraries)


Moderators
avatar for Tyler Christensen

Tyler Christensen

Data Management Architect, NOAA / NESDIS
avatar for Rich Signell

Rich Signell

Research Oceanographer, USGS

Speakers
avatar for Chelle Gentemann

Chelle Gentemann

Program Scientist, NASA HQ
As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, I have worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives. More recently, I am focused on NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission and the 2023 Year of Open Science... Read More →
avatar for Deirdre Clarkin

Deirdre Clarkin

Director, NOAA Central Library, NOAA/OAR
Talk to me about the NOAA Institutional Repository!


Friday September 16, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

5B: Development of the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) Archive and Access Workflow
Session Recording Here

NESDIS is developing the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) as a common framework to support the future NESDIS Ground Enterprise (NGE) by consolidating data and science algorithms. There is a significant and increasing demand for data management and archive services. NCEI and OSGS are working together closely to develop a scalable, automated, and flexible archive and access workflow within the NCCF to meet this growing demand in volume and diversity of data and improving service delivery, leveraging leading edge concepts such as knowledge graphs and serverless technologies stacks that lower the overall cost of ownership and increase code reuse. In this panel we will describe the overall vision for NCCF archive and access capabilities, the workflows in development to automate and improve services, and next steps in implementation. We’ll describe how the solution will allow us to meet the increasing demands for data from an increasingly diverse user community, improve data discovery, access, and interoperability, and enable broad innovation with AI/ML. The panel will also describe how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is being leveraged to continuously provide stakeholder feedback and how data managers from across NOAA can engage.

Presentations (Abstracts available here):
1. Overall NCCF Introduction
- Chris O'Connors
2. Visions and Schedule for the Cloud Archive and Access
- Ken Casey
3. Fundamentals of the New Cloud Archive
- John LaRocque, Ryan Berkheimer
4. Cloud Access Development and Future Work
- Rich Baldwin
5. Transition of Existing Archives to the Cloud
- Nancy Ritchey, Brent Hefner
6. Linking NCCF Product Generation to Data
- Walter Wolf

Moderators
avatar for Monica Youngman

Monica Youngman

Data Stewardship Division Chief, NOAA/NCEI

Speakers
CO

Chris O'Connors

Satellite Products and Services Dep Division Chief, NESDIS/SPSD
avatar for Ken Casey

Ken Casey

Deputy Chief, Data Stewardship Division, NOAA/NCEI
I serve as the Deputy Chief of the Data Stewardship Division at NCEI and am working on a variety of efforts, from accelerating the ingest of data to the archive to supporting our migration to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). I am also honored to serve as the ESIP President... Read More →
avatar for Ryan Berkheimer

Ryan Berkheimer

Physical Scientist, NOAA NCEI
avatar for Rich Baldwin

Rich Baldwin

Data Access Chief, NCEI
Enterprise Data Management Agile FrameworksWorkflow & Process
avatar for Nancy Ritchey

Nancy Ritchey

Archive Branch Chief, NOAA/NCEI


Friday September 16, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

12:00pm EDT

5C: Persistent Identifiers: New Horizons at NOAA
Session Recording Here

Digital persistent identifiers (DPI) are key to disambiguating, managing, and determining the impact of data and publications. There is an increased need for data digital object identifiers (DOIs) throughout NOAA in order to support discovery and usage measurement. Scientific journals are increasingly requiring data DOI inclusion. However, the existing NOAA DOI infrastructure is only meeting a subset of user requirements, despite NOAA's response to the 2013 OSTP memo on Public access to Research Results (PARR) policy's emphasis on the need for an wide-encompassing solution to data DOI provision. To illustrate the intersection of data, publication, and researcher identifiers, this session will include an update from the Data Governance Committee Data DOI Task Team regarding recommendations and initial actions for a broader DOI approach for datasets and a briefing regarding NOAA’s implementation of Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCIDs) through the U.S. Federal ORCID consortium and how these efforts can help in ensuring appropriate attribution of all work products.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Data Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs): recommendations for an expanded approach in NOAA
- Eugene Burger, Lacey Mason, Don Collins
2. Implementing and linking Digital Persistent Identifiers (DPIs) through Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID)
- Jennifer Fagan-Fry
3. The NOAA posture of Software DOIs.
- Kevin Garrett
4. Event DOIs - Linking datasets across disparate systems
- Chris Paver

Moderators
avatar for Eugene Burger

Eugene Burger

PI - PMEL Data Integration Group, OAR/PMEL
JF

Jennifer Fagan-Fry

Institutional Repository Manager, NOAA Central Library
Jennifer Fagan-Fry is the NOAA Institutional Repository Manager with the NOAA Central & Regional Libraries. In addition to her duties as repository manager, Jenn also serves as the head of the Library’s Technical Services Department. She regularly presents on topics such as publishing... Read More →

Speakers

Friday September 16, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Virtual

1:30pm EDT

BREAK
Friday September 16, 2022 1:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Virtual

1:45pm EDT

Closing Plenary
Session Recording Here

1. Awards Ceremony: Karen Sender and Tim Haverland, EDMW 2022 Co-Chairs
2. Remarks: Dr. Michael Morgan, NOAA Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction
2. KEYNOTE: Mary Erickson, Deputy Director, NWS
3. Remarks: Kari Sheets, Weather Information Distribution Systems Branch Chief, Acting, NWS
4. Q&A: Dr. Stephen Bieda, Science and Operations Officer, NWS
5. Wrap up: Dr. Stephen Bieda
6. Closing Remarks: Karen Sender and Tim Haverland, EDMW 2022 Co-Chairs

Speakers
avatar for Karen Sender

Karen Sender

Information Architect, NOAA
Karen Sender is the Information Architect for NOAA Fisheries and leads the Fisheries Enterprise Data Management Program which is currently focused on data governance and information management modernization. Karen is the Fisheries representative to the NOAA Data Governance Committee... Read More →
avatar for Tim Haverland

Tim Haverland

GIS Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
I'm the GIS lead for Fisheries so do lots of map work, specializing in web-based mapping. As part of NOAA's Cetaceans and Sound (CetSound) project, I've been working on maps of ocean sound scapes, which has also led me to an interest in passive acoustic data, and how to manage these... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Stephen Bieda

Dr. Stephen Bieda

National Science and Operations Officer, NOAA National Weather Service
Dr. Stephen W. Bieda III is the National Science & Operations Officer (SOO)/National Development & Operations Hydrologist (DOH) for the National Weather Service, a role he has filled since August 2021.  His primary responsibilities include serving as subject matter expert for meteorology... Read More →
avatar for Kari Sheets

Kari Sheets

Weather Information Distribution Services Branch Chief, Acting, NOAA National Weather Service
Kari Sheets has worked for NOAA for 20 years mostly focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Kari started her career in the National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Lab as a Model Output Statistics (MOS) developer where she developed GIS techniques to help... Read More →
avatar for Mary Erickson

Mary Erickson

Deputy Director, NOAA National Weather Service
Deputy Director of NOAA’s National Weather ServiceMary C. Erickson is the deputy director of the National Weather Service, a role she has filledsince January 2017. Her primary responsibilities include leading the agency’s major changeinitiatives, ensuring accurate and timely service... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Michael C. Morgan

Dr. Michael C. Morgan

NOAA, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction
Michael C. Morgan, Ph.D. is the assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction. In this role, Dr. Morgan is responsible for providing agency-wide direction with regard to weather, water, climate, and ocean observations, including in situ instruments and... Read More →


Friday September 16, 2022 1:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

3:15pm EDT

BREAK
Friday September 16, 2022 3:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
Virtual

3:30pm EDT

5F: If NOAA has ALL its data in a data lake with a rich full complete metadata catalog and a fully functional API, what would you do with it?
Session Recording Here

The session is designed give a platform for communicating innovative ideas about the potential opportunities in the data which will meet every one of the workshop themes.

Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. Utilizing Google Data Studio to develop & Visualize NOAA OER Exploration Metrics
- Sinan Abood
2. Improving Coordinated Access to NOAA’s Benthic Data - Next Generation BioMapper
- Ken Buja, Mark Finkbeiner, Erica Towle, Clint Edrington
3. Expanding the Watershed: Adding a Social Science Inlet to the Data Lake
- Jonathon Mote, Gina Eosco, Wayne MacKenzie
4. Data for everyone: Why we should build an expanded NOAA data dashboard
- Marissa Jones

Moderators
avatar for Dave Fischman

Dave Fischman

Intrapreneur, NOAA
Dave Fischman started his NOAA career as a survey technician on the NOAA ships Rainier and Ka`imimoana.  He then transitioned to NOAA Corps and served as the Operations Officer on the NOAA Ship Ka`imimoana.  Following his sea assignment, he served as the NOS hydrographic data manager... Read More →
avatar for Jebb Q. Stewart

Jebb Q. Stewart

Acting Division Chief Advanced Technologies Division, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory
Jebb Q. Stewart is the acting lead of the Advanced Technology Division with NOAA's Global System Laboratory in Boulder Colorado and Co-Chair of NOAA's Artificial Intelligence Executive Committee.  With a unique background in both Meteorology and Computer Science, he has over 20 years... Read More →

Speakers
KB

Ken Buja

IT Specialist, NOS/NCCOS
avatar for Marissa Jones

Marissa Jones

Communication Coordinator, NOAA Office of Education
My interests include data visualizations, science communication, storytelling, plain language, and user experience. I co-chair the NOAA Style and Design Working Group. I'm excited to learn about environmental data management and how it connects to my work in communication, education... Read More →


Friday September 16, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Virtual
 
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