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OVERVIEW

1) Best Practices in use of Unidata Applications and Data

These are to include undergraduate courses such as introductory courses, atmospheric physics, dynamics, global change, and topics such as radiative transfer, isentropic analysis, and balance of forces.

Presenters: Perry Samson, Mohan Ramamurthy, Steve Ackerman, John Nielson-Gammon

2) MetApps

Our goals here are to introduce VisAD and provide a peek at the future. This would include presentations in the morning and "hands-on" in the afternoon.

Presenters: Bill Hibbard, Charlie Murphy, (or Steve Ackerman and Tom Whittaker here instead of above), Pete Boysen (T.C. Loving would do the presentation for Pete)

3) Numerical Weather Prediction using model data &observation data (research and teaching)

The suggestion is to have interactions where the COMET facility would dovetail with Unidata facility as appropriate.

Presenters: Kelvin Droegemeier, James Steenburgh

4) Case Studies

The goal here is to introduce the CODIAC WWW resources and to also show good examples of "home brew" developments.

Presenters: Lynn McMurdie, Bill Gallus, Richard Clark, Paul Ruscher.

5) Special Speakers

Presenters: Lillian McDermott, Mike Mayhew, Cliff Jacobs, Mary Marlino ( There is a spot for Jenny if she can make it.)

In each case, the listed presenters are those we have in mind for the initial announcement, but we also want to ask for volunteers and recommendations from the community.   There should be enough flexibility in the program (Note the open speaker slots as well as some unspecified lab sessions.) to allow for these additions and changes as we get feedback from the attendees.  In the timeline for workshop planning, there are a number of milestones for interactions with those who have signed up that will enable us to assess their interests, so we can plan and allocate the afternoon lab sessions accordingly.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

COMMENTS

Yarger

This is a bit like managing a 4 ring circus when we don't know what the interests are. I think the presenters are also going to be the adapters to a large extent so I think we need to ask people what they want to do AFTER they have a chance to hear and see what is happening in the "best practices" section. Thus I suggest we have morning and afternoon blocks the first day where all of the "best practices" contributors get 10 minutes or so to give an overview. Then we can ask what they would like to accomplish during the rest of the workshop time. This will help us divide the groups between computer rooms.

Dempsey

If "the presenters are also going to be the adapters to a large extent", then there may be a significant risk that the ratio of plenary presentations to hands-on activities and discussions in the labs could get pretty high, creating a more passive experience for the participants. I'd urge that the workshop be structured to make it as active as possible, and that's easiest to achieve in the lab settings.

OTHER POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTORS

Some suggestions

• Pam Grabe, Jim Koermer, Paul Ruscher, Jim Byrne, and the original list of:
• Steve Ackerman, Intro
• Kelvin Droegemeier, NWP (NEXRAD), Regional Modeling
• Jon Martin, Vis5D
• Perry Samson, LDM data
• Steve Koch, Models
• Bill Hibbard, Future
• Tom Whittaker, Java applications
• Bill Prothero, Oceans
• Rich Clark, Case Studies
• Mohan Ramamurthy, Java
• John Horel
• John Nielsen-Gammon
• Bob Ross
• Jennie Moody, Atmospheric Chemistry
• Morris Weismann
• Mary Marlino, PAGE (Digital Libraries)
• Steve Chiswell, Gempak Graphical user interfaces (NMAP, GARP, NTRANS, NWX, NSHARP)
• Tom Yoksas, McIDAS

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