2008 AccessData Workshop
Portland, Oregon
Embassy Suites, Downtown

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Time	Event
5:00 - 9:00 pm	Workshop Registration Open, Fireside Room
6:00 - 9:00 pm	Demo Session and Share Fair, Fireside Room
6:00 - 7:30 pm	Dinner Buffet and hosted bar, Fireside Room

Thursday, May 1, 2008

7:00 - 8:30 am	Workshop Registration Open, Queen Marie Ballroom Foyer Turn in Data Use Questionnaires-yellow by 8:30 am
6:45 - 8:30	Breakfast available in the Arcadian Garden Dining Room
8:30 am	Workshop Begins, Queen Marie Ballroom
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome, Review of Logistics - Ben Domenico, Tina Campbell
8:45 - 8:55	Overview of AccessData Workshop Goals (PowerPoint 6.6MB May5 08) - Tamara Ledley
8:55 - 9:40	Keynote Presentation #1 Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Bit to Display Jeff Weber, Unidata Program Center, Boulder, Colorado
9:40 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 12:00	Team Breakout - Session 1 Meet your team members, Learn about the data, tools, and expertise represented on your team TEAM ROOMS: Alaska SAR - Room 113 CREW - Room 112 EO Time Series - Room 503 GeoBrain - Room 110 GLOBE - Watershed Dynamics - Room 111 NCDC - Room 104 NEO - Queen Marie Ballroom NODC - Room 432 Unidata/COMET - Room 403 UW-Madison - Room 105
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch Buffet in Arcadian Garden Dining Room
1:00 - 2:30	ToolTime Session 1 Featured Tools and Rooms: Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) - Roy Yates Room GeoBrain - Marshall Joffre Room My World GIS - Chief Poker Jim Room See Tool Time descriptions for information about each session and links to download tools and/or data.
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 4:20	Team Breakout - Session 2
4:20—4:30	Day 1 Evaluation Survey - Complete and submit in breakout rooms
5:00-7:00	Manager's Reception (complimentary drinks and snacks) in Arcadian Garden Dining Room
7:00	Dinner on your own.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Time	Event
6:45 - 8:30	Breakfast Buffet available in Arcadian Garden Dining Room
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome, Daily Logistics Overview - Tamara Ledley, Queen Marie Ballroom
8:45 - 9:30	Keynote Presentation #2 From satellites to end users: Real world applications of remote sensing in a rapidly changing climate Anupma Prakash, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:30 - 9:45	Break
9:45 - 10:50	Team Breakout - Session 3 Brainstorm possible storylines for educational activities
10:50 - 11:00	Break as needed
11:00 - 12:00	Team Breakout - Session 4 Evaluate suggested storylines and perform proof-of-concept checks, select one workable data-use scenario for development
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch Buffet, Arcadian Garden Dining Room
1:00 - 2:30	Tool Time Session 2 Featured Tools and Rooms: Google Earth - Roy Yates Room NEO - Marshall Joffre Room ESRI's ArcExplorer Java Edition for Educators - Chief Poker Jim Room See Tool Time descriptions for information about each session and links to download tools and/or data.
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:30	Team Breakout - Session 5 Develop the case study and outline procedures for data access and analysis.
3:30 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:20	Team Breakout - Session 6 Flesh out access and analysis procedures with info that will build users' knowledge about the data and tools; suggest ideas for going further.
4:20—4:30	Day 2 Evaluation Survey - Complete and submit in breakout rooms
5:00	Dinner on your own

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Time	Event
6:45 - 8:30	Breakfast Buffet in the Arcadian Garden Dining Room
8:30 - 8:50	Overview, Logistics, and Thank-yous (last time everyone is all together) - Tamara Ledley, Queen Marie Ballroom
8:50 - 9:35	Team Breakout - Session 7
9:35 - 9:50	Break
9:50 - 11:00	Final Team Breakout Session Finalize activity outline. Upload summary PowerPoint Slides and all documents to team wiki page.
11:00 - 11:15	Move to report out rooms, make certain team slides are available on projected computer. Group 1: Unitdata-Comet, UAF-SAR, GeoBrain - Queen Marie Ballroom Group 2: GLOBE, CREW, NODC - Roy Yates Room Group 3: NCDC, NEO, UW-Madison - Marshall Joffre Room
11:15 - 11:45	Team Report Out Sessions
11:45 - 12:00	Complete and submit Final Evaluation Survey-blue
12:00	Lunch Buffet in the Arcadian Garden Dining Room (box lunches will be available for those who need to leave right away)