Agenda
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) |