Aquarius Ground System Staffing and Responsibilities
NASA Management - Gene Feldman: Oversight of the overall effort, communication/coordination with other NASA organizations and centers and CONAE; oversight of science support, algorithm integration, QC, validation and in situ data support.
Contractor Management - Fred Patt: Oversight of contract support staff, including hiring, tasking, review of deliverables and schedules; ADPS interface definition and product format specification.
Mission Operations- Susie Kennison: Technical lead for instrument operations and commanding support; interface to instrument engineers and CONAE mission operations.
Instrument and Algorithm Analysis - Liang Hong: Working with the Instrument and Science Teams, develop methodologies, tools, procedures and reports for instrument operations and monitoring; specify data and develop algorithms and tools for data and science algorithm validation.
Instrument Operations - Alicia Scott: Instrument operations, planning and monitoring and ACCS documentation.
Systems Engineering and Interface Definition- John Wilding: Technical lead for the data system effort; overall system design, implementation schedule, interface definition, data format specification, reviews and presentations.
Software Engineering - Joel Gales: Technical lead for the level conversion / product generation software, including development of the Level 0-to-1 software and integration/packaging of the science (Level 2 and 3) processing software to be provided by the algorithm developers.
Systems Administration - Paul Smith: Specify and acquire new processing and data storage hardware, integrate into existing data processing facility, verify/upgrade network capability for external data transfers.
In Situ Data Support - Jeremy Werdell: Work closely with the Aquarius Validation Data System (AVDS) to develop methods and tools for data analysis and quality control, building upon the existing SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS).
Archive and Distribution - Norman Kuring: Incorporate Aquarius product browse, search, order and distribution into existing web-based Ocean Color capability and work with JPL PO.DAAC regarding “institutional” archive support requirements.
