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Tuesday 8:30 - 4:30

Topic Who Time Duration
Registration Heather Henkel
and Heather Mounts
8:00-8:30 30 mins
Welcome

Introductions and housekeeping; Steering committee introductions and participants introductions

(St. Pete folks
along with Jeff Eidenshink)
8:30 10 mins
lntroduction Lisa Robbins 8:40 10 mins
Gulf of Mexico Focus Area: Mangement Perspective/Report on other G-o-M Activities Virginia Burkett/Lisa 8:50 10 mins
Gulf of Mexico Estuaries Integrated Science - Tampa Bay Pilot Study Kim Yates 9:00 15 mins
Eastern Region Science Priorities Tom Armstrong 9:15 10 mins
Message from Eastern Regional Office Gary Brewer 9:25 5 mins
Charge to Data Management Workshop Virginia/Lisa 9:30 15 mins
<Break> 9:45 15 mins
The Geospatial Enterprise Bob Pierce 10:00 30 mins
Mid-Continent Mapping Center Cartographic Data Jim Flaherty 10:30 15 mins
Gateway to the Earth Ken Lanfear 10:45 30 mins
NBII Clearinghouse and Network Activities
Jennifer Gaines
11:15 30 mins
<Lunch on own> 11:45
-1:15
1:30 mins
Technology Assessment
  • A Not-So-High Tech Approach to Data Management
Rob Wertz 1:15 20 mins
  • Tools for data access and delivery
    • Search engines - A Look Under the Hood
Tim Boozer 1:35 10 mins
    • The USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program Website
Trent Faust 1:45 10 mins
<Break> 1:55 15 mins
    • Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB)
Fausto Marincioni 2:10 20 mins
    • CORDLink
Heather Mounts 2:30 10 mins
    • South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) Database
Roy Sonenshein 2:40 15 mins
    • Web mapping using ArcIMS and ArcSDE
Greg Ferrara and
Heather Mounts
2:55 30 mins
<Break, plus time for posters> 3:25 20 mins
Web-Based Map Services Jeff Eidenshink 3:45 15 mins
 usSEABED: Mining Seafloor Data for More than Textual Information Jane Reid 4:00 15 mins
Wrap-up and preview of second day 4:15 15 mins
<Adjourn at 4:30>

Wednesday 9:00-4:30

Topic Who Time Duration
Registration Heather Henkel and Heather Mounts 8:30-9:00 30 mins
A Discussion of Data Standards (FGDC and NBII)
  • Who Needs Metadata?
  • FGDC: Biological Data Profile
Jo Anne Stapleton, Gaines 9:00 30 mins
National Atlas and NWIS Web: Access to USGS Water Resource Data Lanfear/Sonenshein 9:30 30 mins
Case studies and lessons learned Various Divisions (including: Lynn Wingard, Kathy Scanlon, and Gary Brewer) 10:00 60 mins
Breakout Session Planning (including
overview of data inventories - format, volume, media, etc.)
everyone 11:00 60 mins
<Lunch on own> 12:00 90 mins
Breakout Sessions (cont.)

Gulf-wide science information system - concepts and considerations (this is where we hammer out "The Plan")

everyone 1:30 1 hr
45 mins
<Break> 3:15 15 mins
Session to identify potential partners/participants everyone 3:30 30 mins
Wrap-up and discussion on future directions everyone 4:00 30 mins


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Last updated: 11 October, 2002 @ 09:45 PM (HSH)