Nan Galbraith, Upper Ocean Processes Group

Curriculum Vitae Nan Galbraith, Upper Ocean Processes Group

Specialization: Develop Information Systems for data acquisition, analysis and interoperability; implement strategies to improve and promote dissemination of oceanographic data; automated real-time data collection from telemetring observation systems. Programming expertise in Matlab, shell, Python, C, Perl, HTML, XML(?), Java; Web scripting and development.

Education: B.A., Swarthmore College Undergraduate Courses, UMass/Lowell at Woods Hole: Technical Communications, Data Structures in C, C Program Design, Shell Script Programming, UNIX System Administration, Network System Administration, Java Programming Short courses at WHOI: Python, Drupal, MySQL, CSS, XML, HTML

Affiliations:  OceanSITES Data Management team OceanSITES is an international collaboration of researchers deploying ocean reference stations; long term, deep-ocean moorings capable of making high quality measurements suitable for climate studies. As a member of the Data Management Team, I was a primary author of the data specification. Working with team members from IFREMER, PMEL, SIO, MBARI, and other organizations, we have developed a NetCDF specification that is used to share data from Ocean Reference Stations around the world. We are in the process of developing a SensorML metadata specification and a data delivery and archive system.

 Marine Metadata Interoperability Project MMI is an international collaborative project designed to promote the exchange, integration and use of marine data. As a member of the MMI Technical Team, I work with many ocean informatics specialists on projects in support of the MMI goals. I have contributed extensively to the development of the MMI web site and have collaborated on several AGU presentations for this project. I’m a working member of the Device Ontology team, developing a data model for the accurate identification of instruments and sensors.

 IOOS DMAC Metadata and Data Discovery Expert Team The IOOS Metadata Expert Team is charged with providing guidance on metadata standards to the IOOS program. Our activities include compiling information about existing content standards, reviewing proposed standards, tools, and vocabularies, and helping define best practices for IOOS data providers. My background in the management of research-oriented data is an asset to this group, which includes members from federal agencies and the commercial sector. The diversity of expertise and viewpoints on this team makes this an especially rewarding activity.

 Climate and Forecast Standard Names Committee The Climate and Forecast (CF) project is an international collaborative effort to develop and maintain a community-supported specification for data collection and storage using the NetCDF system. Because of the success of the CF standard, there are continual requests for extensions to accommodate new types of data. In order to ensure that these requests were dealt with consistently, the leaders decided to form a group dedicated to maintaining the standard names in 2006. As one of the few team members who work with observational data, I’m able to provide a different perspective from those working with models and remote sensing products, and as more users from the observational community adopt CF, this has become more important to the team.

Select Publications, Web Sites, and Presentations:

The MMI Device Ontology: Enabling Sensor Integration, Rueda, C., Galbraith, N., et al., Abstract IN44B-08, 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.

OceanSITES Data Management and Community Standards, Galbraith et al., 2010, IMDIS2010_oral3_12_Galbraith.pdf

MMI: A Model for Community Collaboration; presented at the National Geoinformatics Community project workshop September 23-24, 2010.

The MMI Guides: Navigating the World of Marine Metadata, Stocks, K.I., Neiswender, C., Isenor, A.W., Graybeal, J., Galbraith, N., Montgomery, E.T., Alexander, P., Watson, S., Bermudez, L., Gale, A., Hogrefe, K., 2009. http://marinemetadata.org/guides.

Upper Ocean Processes Group Web site, Galbraith et al., http://uop.whoi.edu

Marine Metadata Interoperability Web site, Graybeal et al., http://marinemetadata.org

OceanSITES Users Manual http://www.oceansites.org/documents/index.html , 2010. Stratus 10: Tenth setting of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station: cruise RB-10- 01, January 2 - January 30, 2010 Charleston, South Carolina - Valparaiso, Chile. Bigorre, et al., (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2010)

Inductive telemetry for UOP Ocean Reference Station Moorings, NOAA OCO poster, Plueddemann et al., 2008.

MMI: Increasing Community Collaboration, Eos Trans. AGU Abstract IN53A- 0951, Galbraith et al., 2007.

MMI Website 2.0, MMI Strategic Planning Meeting presentation, Galbraith et al., 2007.

Marine Metadata Interoperability Workshop: Advancing Domain Vocabularies; Workshop Report , Graybeal et al., 2006.

Engaging a community towards marine cyberinfrastructure: Lessons Learned from the Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative. Galbraith et al., AGU Presentation, 2005.

Inching Towards Interoperability, UOP Data on the Web, Buoy Lunch presentation, 2005.

Near-real time telemetry of surface meteorology from Ocean Reference Stations, Galbraith et al., International Argos Users Conference, Annapolis, MD, 2005.

Upper Ocean Mooring Data Archive. http://uop.whoi.edu/uopdata, N. Galbraith, 2000.

Coastal Mixing and Optics Experiment, Moored Array Data Report. WHOI-99-15, Galbraith et al., 1997.

CGI Programming in Perl, UNIX Users Group presentation, 1997.

Meteorological and Oceanographic Data during the ASREX III Field Experiment:Cruise and Data Report. WHOI Technical Report 96-10, Gnanadesikan, et al. 1996.

Surface Buoy Data on the WWW. UOP Technote 95-09, N. Galbraith, 1995.

A Processing System for Argos Meteorological Data. WHOI Technical Report 95-06, N. Galbraith, 1995.