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GHRC represented at 2015 ESIP Federation Winter Meeting
Ken speaking with a colleague about the Science on Drupal poster (not pictured)

GHRC was represented by DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC) Operations Manager Helen Conover (UAH) and UAH GHRC PI Sara Graves (UAH) at the ESIP Federation Winter meeting, held January 6-8 in Washington, DC. Affiliated researchers Ken Keiser and Kaylin Bugbee (both UAH) also attended. The group presented posters on student research using GHRC data, plans for the HS3 Data System, Event-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Technologies Supporting The Disaster Lifecycle, the Science on Drupal ACCESS project, and work with the ESDIS Standards Office.

GHRC presents at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting
AGU 2014 Fall Meeting

GHRC DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC), PI Sara Graves, and developer Manil Maskey (both UAH) attended the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 15-19. GHRC Operations Manager Helen Conover (UAH) helped organize a poster session on Airborne Data Management (IN13B), at which Maskey presented a poster entitled “Data System for HS3 Airborne Field Campaign.” Dr. Graves co-chaired a session entitled "Integration of Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data for Interdisciplinary Research and Applications" (PA34A) with SEDAC Manager Bob Chen. Dr. Ramachandran co-chaired "Leveraging Enabling Technologies and Architectures to Enable Data Intensive Science" (IN23E, IN21A) GHRC team members also presented a variety of GHRC-related research:

Integrating a Collaborative Infrastructure with a Big Data Technology to Boost Data-analysis Productivity – Poster. Kwo-Sen Kuo, Thomas Clune, Rahul Ramachandran, John Rushing, Manil Maskey, Gyorgy Fekete, Amidu Oloso, Khoa Doan

Event-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Technologies Supporting the Disaster Life Cycle – Poster. Sara Graves, Manil Maskey, Ken Keiser

Data System for HS3 Airborne Field Campaign – Poster. Manil Maskey, Michael McEniry, Todd Berendes, Kaylin Bugbee, Helen Conover, Rahul Ramachandran

Design of Scalable and Effective Earth Science Collaboration Tool – Presentation. Manil Maskey, Rahul Ramachandran, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Christopher Lynnes, Noppasin Niamsuwan, Chocka Chidambaram

Aggregation Tool to Create Curated Data Albums to Support Disaster Recovery and Response – Presentation. Rahul Ramachandran, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Manil Maskey, Xiang Li, Shannon Flynn

Cloud-Hosted Real-time Data Services for the Geosciences (CHORDS) – Presentation. Sara Graves, Frank Vernon, Branko Kerkez, Chandrasekar Chandra, Ken Keiser, Charlie Martin

Progress Report on the ASCII for Science Data, Airborne and Geospatial Working Groups of the 2014 ESDSWG for MEaSUREs – Presentation. Keith Evans, Nickolay Krotkov, Chris Mattman, Maziyar Boustani, Emily Law, Helen Conover, Gao Chen, Stephen Olding, Jeff Walter

Enhancements to NASA’s Land Atmosphere Near Real-Time Capability for Eos (LANCE) – Poster. Diane Davies, Kevin Murphy, Jeffrey Schmaltz, Ryan Boller, Matthew Cechini, Edward Masuoka, Gang Ye, Helen Conover, Kathryn Regner, Sherry Harrison

Data-Intensive Science Meets Inquiry-Driven Pedagogy: Interactive Big Data Exploration, Threshold Concepts, and Liminality - invited. Rahul Ramachandran, Udaysankar Nair, Andrea Word.

 

GHRC announces RASI; Datasets published
RASI website screenshot

GHRC has published a set of Regional Air Sea Interactions (RASI) climatology datasets containing coastal mountain gap wind events and resulting sea surface temperature changes due to ocean upwelling. These datasets were created using an automated intelligent algorithm, which identified gap wind and coastal ocean upwelling events using two satellite-based microwave datasets. The Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) ocean surface wind data product was used for wind data while the Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Temperatures (OISST) data product provided by Remote Sensing Systems was used for sea surface temperatures. Data is available from 1998-2011 for three regions in Central America: Tehuantepec, Papagayo, and Panama. Users can explore these climatologies via the interactive online RASI application. The RASI algorithm, datasets and application were developed by RSS and the University of Alabama in Huntsville for the DISCOVER project, funded by the NASA MEaSUREs program.

 

GHRC represented at DAAC System Engineering Technical Interchange Meeting
Goddard Space Flight Center

GHRC DAAC Operations Manager Helen Conover, Systems Engineer Michael McEniry, and Software Engineer Manil Maskey, all UAH, attended the DAAC System Engineering Technical Interchange Meeting held at NASA GSFC, November 18-20. Maskey helped organize the Web Usability and Workflow session, at which Conover presented lessons learned from GHRC’s ongoing web site overhaul. Maskey also presented Data Albums at the Visualization Swap Meet session. Data Albums is an ACCESS-funded technology developed by UAH and slated for incorporation into the GHRC. Conover contributed to the DAAC Browse Issues session chaired by Chris Torbert of LP DAAC.

Data Albums presented at ESDIS Webinar Series
Data Albums

GHRC Software Engineer Ajinkya Kulkarni (UAH) presented Data Albums at the ESDIS Webinar Series on November 19. Data Albums is an ACCESS-funded technology developed by UAH and slated for incorporation into the GHRC. A video recording of the webinar will be posted on the ESDIS Earthdata Webinar channel soon.

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