Fwd: NCDS Webinar features NOAA Big Data Project

About the Talk:Â

NOAA generates vast amounts of data every day from satellites, radars, in situ sensors, numerical models, and other sources. These constitute ÃÂÂBig DataÃÂÂ in terms of volume, velocity, and other attributes. Most of the data are publicly discoverable through the NOAA Data Catalog and are accessible in some fashion or other but may be difficult to obtain and use, especially when the volumes are large.

The NOAA Big Data Project is working with several Cloud infrastructure providers on a research and development basis to determine whether making it possible to easily compute directly on NOAA data in the Cloud will stimulate additional use cases for NOAA data and the development of new value-added products, services, or lines of business.

About the Speaker:

Jeff de La Beaujardiere has been the NOAA Data Management Architect since May 2011 and the Chair of the Environmental Data Management Committee since 2012. Jeff also serves on inter-agency and international groups aimed at enhancing data sharing and interoperability, including the international Group on Earth Observations Data Management Principles Task Force, the US Group on Earth Observations Data Management Working Group, and the Open Geospatial Consortium. In these roles, he works toward the unique vision that NOAAÃÂÂs rich and unique data holdings shall be discoverable, well-documented, compatible, and preserved for future use.

Previously, Jeff was Senior Systems Architect for the US Integrated Ocean Observing System Program Office at NOAA, where he guided the implementation of interoperability standards by IOOS partners for data access and discovery. Prior to joining NOAA, Jeff spent 13 years at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in such roles as Geospatial One-Stop Portal Manager; web services developer for the Modeling, Analysis and Prediction 2005 project, the GLOBE Program, and the Public Use of Remote Sensing Data Program; and NASAÃÂÂs representative to OGC and to the Unidata Policy Committee. He participated in the first OGC Web Mapping Testbed in 1998, implemented the first Web Map Server at NASA, and was editor of the WMS specification for OGC and the International Organization for Standardization.

Jeff holds a BA in Physics (1985) from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in Astrophysics (1990) from the University of Colorado at Boulder.