Minutes from the April 16, 2008 Teleconference

Discussion

• Josh Jones from UAS will continue working on the snow melt model for the Lemon Creek glacier, maybe extending the model to cover the Mendenhall Glacier as well. Also, if anyone is depending on the the data service that provides access to UAS sensor web data, it should be up and stable.
• Matt is looking into NASA's EO-1 Satellite Program as an area for research. There may be opportunities for coordinating sensor webs and imaging of transient events such as the emptying of the Lemon Creek glacier lakes.
• The Sensor Information Framework paper has been accepted for the PDPTA Conference on Las Vegas. There was discussion about who would be able to give the paper at the conference - MarySue is looking into it.

Students at NOAA ESRL This Summer

The students visiting Boulder this summer include:

• Will Wright from NCAT. He will be working on his masters thesis this summer when visiting NOAA. His thesis involves investigating multi-agent Web services, and his work may interface with the workflow services that Cheickna and Kawana will be developing.
• Cheickna Baber from NCAT. He will work on his masters thesis as well. He's looking into ways of getting Web services to work together by creating composite services. Composite and component Web services were discussed: component services are what's commonly found on the Web today; a composite service provides a way to find alternative component services if a particular component service is unavailable.
• Kawana Fuller from NCAT. She will work with Cheickna.

The NCAT students are planning to send brief descriptions to GSD of the work they propose to do at NOAA so that the folks at NOAA can develop an integrated project for them to work on during their visit.

Another student from NCAT, Sentel Allen, would also like to work with the group this summer but will be located in North Carolina. This will provide some experience in working on teams where people are in different locations.

Next Meeting

The next teleconference will be Wed., April 30 at 9:00 AM MST.