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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speakers and Participants." National Research Council. 2003. Government Data Centers: Meeting Increasing Demands. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10664.
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Appendix C
Workshop Speakers and Participants

Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

Tom Barclay, Microsoft Corporation, San Francisco, California

Bruce Barkstrom, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia

John Bates, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, Asheville, North Carolina

David Clark, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado

Eugene Clothiaux, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

James Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara

Vanessa Griffin, Earth Science Data and Information Systems Project, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland

Robert Grossman, University of Illinois, Chicago

Sydney Levitus, World Data Center for Oceanography, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland

Martha Maiden, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Robert Mairs, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, Maryland

Richard McGinnis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Basem Nayfeh, digiMine, Inc., Bellevue, Washington

Connie Nelin, IBM, Austin, Texas

Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, Orono

Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, Nevada

Joel Saltz, Ohio State University, Columbus

Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, College Park

August Shumbera, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, Asheville, North Carolina

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Environmental data centers have been successfully acquiring, disseminating, and archiving data for decades. However, the increasing volume and number of data sets, coupled with greater demands from more diverse users, are making it difficult for data centers to maintain the record of environmental change. This workshop report focuses on technological approaches that could enhance the ability of environmental data centers to deal with these challenges, and improve the ability of users to find and use information held in data centers. Among the major findings are that data centers should rely more on off-the-shelf technology -- including software and commonly available hardware -- and should shift from tape to disk as the primary storage medium. Such technological improvements will help solve many data management problems, although data centers and their host agencies will have to continue to invest in the scientific and human elements of data center operations.

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