site below provides a side by side comparison of the presidential candidates positions on the most important science questions of the day:  http://www.sciencedebate.org/debate12/ From the site: ScienceDebate.org invited thousands of scientists, engineers and concerned citizens to submit what they felt ...

final program has been released. http://sea.ucar.edu/conference/2012/program

Here are ESSIrelated activies planned for the upcoming AGU meeting, as well as presentations and events by BESSIG members.  Please add your presentation or any other relevant events to this list, and/or correct any misinformation.  Thank you! Related web ...

Just discovered this http://www.springerlink.com/content/18650473/ Earth Science Informatics . ==Leonard

Regarding the October meeting, would someone from Unidata be willing to cover the Standards and Interoperability topic in the (mentioned) List? It would be nice to have a bigpicture talk on informatics for one meeting.  Has that been done?  Someone in the area an ...

Posted on behalf of Rob Wilson\ I found the Harper Collins map story a fascinating example of lack of peerreviewed/cited data in public domain... and the story and ramifications are still unfolding.  May I suggest someone more knowledgeable than ...

requested at this evening's meeting (21Sep2011), I've attached to this page my slides from the BESSIG launch on 20Apr2011. Mine was the second in a twopart presentation with the following abstract: The Role of Standards for Data and Metadata Ted Habermann and Dave Fulker ...

Great discussion tonight.  I think the panel format is great for BESSIG. I was thinking that, like scholarly publications, data files are bare, static entities.  Both should be encapsulated in more intelligence.  In the Object Oriented paradigm ...

Anne You do understand my question :) There are a couple of tricky aspects. We do aggregate files into longer files. This makes access much easier for the user and at the same time we provide a different format. But, it is the same data (ignoring products ...

Suggested topics that the panel on international standards might address: How Standards Come to Be (and how you can get involved) What Determines a Successful Standard? (community uptake

Perhaps not surprisingly, it seems as if we do not yet have sufficient cohesion to discuss speakers and meeting topics via our web site, as there have been no comments on the subject beyond my own. In order to use our time well next ...

Dear BESSIG folks: I'm looking for tools to organize the data processing for an atmospheric research instrument: perhaps a "batch queue manager", "resource manager" or "scientific workflow system." One recommendation has been: the Maui scheduler, which runs ...

Sure, I see what you mean

launch meeting I presented these slides, Anne's BESSIG Launch slides launch.pdf Anne's BESSIG Launch slides, and proposed these questions: What should this group be?  What should this group do?  What goals should we pursue ...

discussion page where members can post articles relevant to discussion topics and comments on those articles. Here are a couple of articles about code and data publication: Nature article on Scientific Programming: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467775a.html Nature Climate ...

I think it would be great to have speakers organized.  There's a lot of expertise around the Boulder area, so it would be good to tap into that for speakers. I think lunches are of limited use.  They tend to be social rather than technical. &nbsp ...