Given the magnitude and complexity of the issues, ocean research programs have much to gain by improving their ability to share ocean data, which almost always has spatial context. Not surprisingly, the oceans research community is aggressively implementing and using OGC standards to improve organizational, regional and global capabilities to access, process, integrate and apply ocean information, including real time sensor data.

The Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) research community is very fortunate this year, as the US National Science Foundation and the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate have several IIS-relevant funding opportunities (calls for proposals). This also means that we need to find many panelists and reviewers that would be able and willing to review these proposals.

The Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project was featured prominently in two presentations at the recent AAG meeting. Dawn Wright presented information on Trans-Atlantic partnerships, and participated in a panel on Distributed Geospatial Information Processing (see below for details). By providing tools and expertise, MMI facilitates data sharing, which can lead to scientifically sound and innovative projects. One such example is the Oregon Coastal Atlas.

The newly developed video demonstration of the OOSTethys architecture premiered at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the AGU. It will be folded in to other eGY demonstrations throughout 2008.

Download the video (21MB)!

The recently released workshop report of the QARTOD 4 workshop held in June, 2006 includes a synopsis of metadata discussions and recommendations.