• Participated in the planning and development of the 5-year ITR proposal submitted to the NSF, titled Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD), a collaborative proposal "for use in accessing, preparing, assimilating, predicting, managing, mining, and displaying a broad array of meteorological and related information, independent of format and physical location."
• Attended a luncheon for John Lumsden, Chief Executive, Meteorological Service of New Zealand, Limited. (MetService)
  
• Planning underway for the AMS Annual Meeting, 9-13 February 2003 in Long Beach, CA. for two sessions:
  • AMS-IIPS Internet Applications and Web Portals, co-chair with Nancy Soreide, Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory
    • Community announcement was sent 13 May 2002.
  • Working with Rajul Pandya to coordinate an Education-IIPS Joint Session on Digital Libraries
• Coordinated with PI, and Unidata technical and Admin staff to organize a 2-1/2 day THREDDS Technical Task Force (T3) workshop for THREDDS partners, 6-8 May 2002.
• Continued meetings on MeteoForum with an eye toward populating the MeteoForum Web site with important information from the collaborators..

• Yuan Ho continues to divide his time between the Case Studies and DODS support.
• Ethan Davis is dividing his time between DODS and THREDDS.
• Jeff Weber is dividing his work schedule between Case Studies and IDD-LDM support (including SuomiNet). Jeff is also representing Unidata in GIS-related activities.
• Additional information is provided in the status reports on DODS and Case Studies.

Data Access and Distribution

• Worked with Richard Hogue, Canadian Meteorological Center, for Global Environmental Multiscale Model (GEM) point-to-point data distribution. A community announcement was sent on 22 April and currently there are four northern sites receiving the data.
• Continued efforts on CRAFT Level II (base) data access and distribution. There are currently 38 radars sending data (via LDM) to NCDC's mass store.
• Continued tracking of GIS activities within UCAR/NCAR and the community.
• CONDUIT update