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Active Ocean Acoustic Data Archive Kickoff Meeting [December 31, 2012]
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) is hosting an initial archive meeting of the National Marine Fisheries (NMFS) acoustic technical group. NMFS's technicians will meet with NGDC archive and sonar data services staff on January 9 and 10, 2013 in Boulder, CO. Research vessels worldwide collect large volumes of acoustic data that result in valuable science and management products nationally and internationally. The NMFS Science Board decided in 2012 to establish a NMFS active acoustic data archive partnership with NGDC. The partnership will address requirements for archiving, integrating, and delivering for re-use the ever increasing volumes of acoustic data supporting NMFS research and fisheries management decisions. NGDC has a long-established NOAA, national, and international archive for sonars used to map the seafloor. The purpose of the January meeting is threefold: 1) an opportunity for NMFS and NGDC staff to meet face-to-face, 2) establish a shared understanding of NMFS ME70 ingest, archive, and standard metadata requirements, 3) review the progress-to-date made in the Alaska Fisheries Science Center pilot project as a template for identifying data services and requirements for further partnerships. This new initiative to manage multibeam sonars that are used to map the water column, detecting everything from fish populations to gas seeps, grew in part out of the need to archive water column sonar data collected as a result of the May 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As was shown with the NOAA Okeanos Explorer surveys in the Gulf of Mexico, the new sonars can map gas seeps and fish populations with very high fidelity.
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National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Participation at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting [December 31, 2012]
William Denig and William Rowland will represent the NGDC at the upcoming AMS meeting in Austin, Texas, January 6-10, 2013. Denig and Rowland will coordinate the presentation of a series of talks by the NGDC team discussing various aspects of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Series R (GOES-R), Space Weather monitoring mission. These talks, title and lead author indicated, are: 1) Improved Space Weather Monitoring for GOES-R (Denig), 2) Development of a Proxy Data Set for the Energetic Heavy Ion Sensor in the GOES-R Space Environment In-situ Suite (Bharath), 3) GOES-R Solar Extreme-Ultraviolet Irradiance: Requirements, Observations and Products (Machol), 4) The GOES-R Sudden Impulse Detection Algorithm (Rowland), and Automatic Analysis of Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Features Using Solar Imagery for the GOES-R Solar Ultraviolet Imager (Darnel).
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Generalized Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Scholars Visit the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) [December 26, 2012]
Six international scholars will visit NOAA's NGDC January 3-4 as part of an on-going collaboration to strengthen and improve international exchange of ocean mapping data. The students are participating in the GEBCO/NIPPON Foundation Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry training program at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). NGDC provides a two day introduction to scientific data management. Topics covered include open archival information standards, international metadata standards, spatially-enabled databases supporting standards-based web services, and digital elevation model development. Scholars spend time with NGDC staff managing NOAA's hydrographic and other ocean mapping data. With less than 10% of the world's oceans mapped to modern standards, NOAA relies on access to other nations data and benefits by improved data quality, standards, and stewardship. This effort directly supports the National Ocean Policy milestone to engage internationally to exchange information, expertise, and knowledge. Up to three students can return for 3-5 weeks of more intensive collaborations on the above-mentioned topics during the summer. This is the fourth year NGDC has collaborated with UNH in the training program.
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