Action items from the meeting

Date

13 Apr 2023

Goals

• This page shows the action since the 09/28/2022 UWG meeting

Action items

The UWG made recommendations regarding the data, software, and services provided by OB.DAAC, and the UWG membership. Specific recommendations from the meeting include:

Data (Ocean color and SeaBASS in situ)

• Consider possibility of producing/distributing Landsat/Sentinel-2 products over coastal ocean. (this is complicated, need efforts to seek the possibilities)
• Look for ways to link to external repositories (e.g. NOAA Coastwatch (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_html/cwViewer.html), BCO-DMO (https://www.bco-dmo.org/), Go-ship (https://www.go-ship.org/DataDirect.html)) 
• Discussion about reaching and educating new audiences about availability and accessibility of data, including where to access data and how to use it. (Will be the next steps)

Website

• Make a beta version of the proposed website changes available for users to test drive and offer comments/suggestions 
• Update PACE simulated data page to link L2/L3 data
  • Documentation on PACE simulated data to inform new users on how to use and what you can do with the data.
• Make data browse tools more intuitive and enhance the visualization capabilities. (Working on it)
  • Add case studies in a tutorial / "new to ocean color" section (Will be the next steps)
  • Use case studies to teach people how to use all tools including how to process data.
• Add verbiage to explain why we have non-NASA data sets (MERIS, OLCI, VIIRS, GOCI, etc) - how offering these data benefits the community
• Should have a webpage that talks about data distribution especially for the data holding by multiple DAACS, such as SST by PODAAC, PACE atmosphere

SeaDAS

• Engage with ARSET (We have them on mail list to keep them posted about new release. They will work on posting a note under their past training about new version of SeaDAS)
  • Inform them of the changes to any interfaces / website navigation as it may impact training they do - or update videos/walkthroughs. (We are working on tutorials for SeaDAS, and there are upcoming SeaDAS trainings from our team as well)

UWG members

• Seek UWG representation from outside core ocean color research community, e.g. applied science; water quality managers (Will be the next steps)
  • In future UWG terms, recruit members from other science teams (not ocean color) that also use our website and data. (Need suggestions about such teams - ways to find and reach out to them)
• In person meeting should coincide with another community meeting to minimize travel burden, e.g.: (Based on the experiences we have this time, it complicated the whole procedure and cause conflicts. We will discuss and plan for the next one during the upcoming meeting)
  • Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem meeting
  • OCRT
• Investigate how to allow external Teams users access to the chat feature (Looking at it)