Development Page--Not for Official Use

This is the new home page for a joint Mexico-Texas project entitled "Red de Observaciones y Predicciones de Variables Oceanicas (ROPVO) en las Costas y Puertos del Golfo de Mexico (Mexico-Texas) (#39382-U).

Tentative plan for the visit (to be modified/optimized as the visit approaches)

Monday June 23rd in the evening

• Arrival of Dr. Eustorgio (Toyo) Meza Conde, and maybe Alejandro

Tuesday June 24th:

• Breakfast
• Morning:
  • ~ 8:45 AM welcome and introductions
  • Visit with university officials
    • 9:15 brief meeting with Dean Marinez
  • 10:00 AM Rapid general introductions of DNR/TCOON and ROPVO and review of the week's program (~ 30 minutes general presentations from Pat and Toyo)
• Adjourn the morning session around 11:30 AM and leave for lunch and afternoon visits
• Afternoon visits of local stations:
  • Bob Hall Pier station (fully instrumented, open coast)
  • Port Aransas tide station (ship channel, water levels and winds)
  • Port Aransas RTNS station (cube system)
  • brief visit at Rockport (similar config as Bob Hall Pier, but different)
• Evening dinner at the Boiling Pot in Rockport

Wednesday June 25th:

• Series of detailed presentations and question/answer sessions for a describtion of TCOON/DNR Hardware and Software from sensors to web including the following topics (the order still needs to be optimized):
  • Overview of hardware used at DNR stations with description of instruments and maintenance issues
    • Procedures for maintenance, emergency repairs
    • Tide station Datums/Leveling
      • benchmarks
      • datum computation
      • relating computed datums to other known datums (NAVD88^?, NGVD, etc.)
      • publishing datums
  • Presentation of the instruments presently used at the stations that are to be part of ROPVO and discussion of hardware compatibility
  • Discussion of future instruments procurement for both DNR and ROPVO
  • Overview of overall DNR/TCOON data processing model (Pm)
  • Overview of overall ROPVO data processing model
  • Cube
    • building cubes (BH)
    • Communication between instrumentation and cube (BH)
    • data storage on cube (BH)
  • Data retrieval methods used by DNR (BH-brief)
    • phone
    • radio
    • satellite
  • Data storage at DNR
    • MySQL^?
    • flat files
  • Data dissemination from DNR
    • Web
    • Quality Control of the data
    • Automated voice phone system
    • publications
  • Current research at DNR

• A tentative plan could be for a series of one hour segments with ~ 1/2 hour presentations with another ~ 20 minutes for discussion and a short break before the next segment. (This might be difficult as the topics will likely require different length of times)

Thursday June 26th:

• Morning
  • Continuation of Wednesday's presentations
• Afternoon
  • Discussion of licensing issues centered on the possible use of the GNU General Public License.
  • Discussion of how a broader group based on DNR technologies could function.
  • Produce a short document with a list of license requirements and guidelines for groups to join the joint network (requirement on procedures, QA/QC?)

• Evening: dinner at location to be determined

Friday June 27th:

• Morning: Regular 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM DNR meeting
  • Brief review of the week's work
  • Scientific talks from Dr. Alexei Sadovski, Dr. Steven Dannelly?, Dr. Meza Conde?. (Possibly Invite other faculty and local scientists from the National Weather Service, the coast guard, emergency management, etc.)
• Afternoon:
  • Discussion of future plans for the extension of the measurement network and of future joint modeling efforts
  • Plan and schedule for the next steps of development
  • Adjournment of the visit

Friday June 27th evening or Saturday June 28th morning: departure for Mexico