Speakers and poster presenters: Christophe Arviset is leading the ESA…

Speakers and poster presenters:

Christophe Arviset is leading the ESA Science Archives and Virtual Observatory Team at
 ESAC, Madrid, Spain. As such, he is responsible for the design, development,
 operations and maintenance of ESA Astronomy Archives (ISO, XMM-Newton,
 Integral, Herschel) and of ESA Planetary Science Archive (Giotto, Mars Express,
 Rosetta, Smart-1, Huygens). Furthermore, he is in charge of the ESA VO project,
 ensuring that all ESA Astronomy data at ESAC are also being published through the
 VO. In addition, he is the manager of the Computer Support Group which provides IT
 support to all ESA scientific missions at ESAC. In that context, he is coordinating all
 GRID activities at ESAC.

Dr. Bruce R. Barkstrom spent about twenty years leading the ERBE and CERES science
 teams involved in producing and analyzing Earth radiation budget data, using multiple
 instruments on multiple satellites. For this work, he received a NASA Exceptional
 Scientific Achievement Medal. In his last five years with NASA, Dr. Barkstrom was
 Head of the NASA Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (now the Atmospheric
 Sciences Data Center), conducting research in web interfaces, metadata, and data
 production engineering. He also received a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for
 contributions to the NASA EOSDIS effort. In March, 2006, he moved to the National
 Climatic Data Center as Project Manager for NOAA's Science Data Stewardship
 project, which is aimed at ensuring long-term access to much of the Earth's climate
 data.

Dr. Reta Beebe is the Program Scientist for the Planetary Data System and manager of
 the Planetary Atmospheres Node. She is a College Professor at New Mexico State
 University, holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics, and specializes in the atmospheres of giant
 planets. Dr. Beebe was a NASA Headquarters IPA in 1997-99 and has served on
 numerous committees at the national and international levels, including those of the
 National Academy of Science.

Jeanne Behnke serves as the Science Operations Manager at NASA's Earth Science Data
  and Information System. She has had several roles in the development of the EOSDIS
  system and presently manages the eight discipline science data centers in the EOSDIS
  program, also know as DAACS - Distributed Active Archive Centers. Prior to
  EOSDIS, Jeanne worked with the NSSDC and the HEASARC at GSFC.

Bruce Berriman holds a joint appointment with the Infrared Processing and Analysis
 Center (IPAC) and the Michelson Science Center (MSC). His scientific interest is in the
 discovery of brown dwarfs with archived source catalogs.
Dr. Kirk Borne has over 20 years experience in astrophysics research and in managing
 science data systems. He teaches graduate courses in scientific databases and data
 mining. He currently manages the Space Science Data Operations Office contract for
 Perot Systems Corporation at NASA-GSFC and is Associate Professor at George
 Mason University, where he supports the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and
 National Virtual Observatory projects.

Paul Butterworth was a planetary scientist till he realized he didn't like writing abstracts -
 - and giving presentations. Since then he has supported a range of projects at
 NASA/GSFC - notably NSSDC, Konus-Wind, GCN, and WMAP/LAMBDA.
 Recently he has discovered that what he enjoys most is teaching.

Dr. Robert S. Chen is the Director of CIESIN, a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia
 University and the World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment of
 the International Council for Science (ICSU). He manages the NASA Socioeconomic
 Data and Applications Center, an interdisciplinary data archive focused on human
 dimensions data, and is currently Secretary-General of the Committee for Data for
 Science and Technology (CODATA) of ICSU.

Daniel Crichton is the manager of the Planetary Data System Engineering Node. He is
 currently employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is a Program Manager
 and Principal Computer Scientist. He has worked on variety of data system projects and
 has a specific interest in architecting large-scale distributed data-intensive science
 information systems. He holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science

Dr. Andrew Davis is responsible for data processing, archiving, and data distribution for
 the nine science instruments aboard the ACE spacecraft. He is the technical lead for the
 SAMPEX Resident Archive and a co-investigator for the Virtual Heliospheric
 Observatory He also develops flight software and Level 1 data processing software for
 the Solar Energetic Particles sensor suite on the STEREO mission.

Ken Ebisawa: primarily studying X-ray astronomy. Worked on high energy satellite data
 archives at NASA/GSFC in 1992-2001 and at INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
 (Geneva) in 2001-2004. Current responsibility is to archive JAXA's solar, astronomical
 and solar-terrestrial physics satellite data (possibly moon and planetary data too, in
 future).
Dr. Vincent Génot is a researcher at CESR, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénees, Toulouse,
 France. His research topics includes magnetosheath dynamics and auroral acceleration
 using both numerical simulations and data analysis. At CDPP he is responsible for
 value-added services and, as such, participated into the design of AMDA. CDPP is a
 major actor in space physics data management at the French level with a 10-year
 experience in perennial data archiving (in collaboration with CNES). The CDPP has
 been implicated at the European level in CAA data description; CDPP is also engaged
 in worldwide collaborations: the CDPP is an active contributor to SPASE and is
 involved in the V(HO)2 proposal of NSSDC.

David Giaretta chaired the CCSDS panel under which the OAIS reference Model was
 produced and made significant contributions to that and several other ISO standards. He
 chairs the group whose work is described in this presentation. He is also the project
 director of CASPAR, a large EU funded, OAIS based, project which is working in the
 area of long-term preservation of scientific, cultural and artistic information, and is
 Associate Director for Development of the UK Digital Curation Centre.

Dr. Ed Grayzeck is the Head of the National Space Science Data Center (May 2004) and
 Program Manager for the Planetary Data System (April 2005). At NSSDC he has been
 involved in outlining possible scenarios for the heliophysics Resident Archive concept.
 While at the PDS Small Bodies Node, he was the local Archive Manager and worked
 closely with both US and ESA missions.

Dr. Edward Guinness is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Earth and
 Planetary Sciences at Washington University. His research interest is in studying Mars
 sedimentary processes. Dr. Guinness has worked with the PDS Geosciences Node for
 nearly 20 years

Dr. Ted Habermann works at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in
 Boulder Colorado. He has recently been working on a number of projects that integrate
 NOAA data using geospatial databases, metadata and Internet mapping.

Dr. Robert Hanisch is a senior scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in
 Baltimore, and is currently the project manager for the US National Virtual
 Observatory Project. At STScI he been involved in science software development,
 archive development, and management of computing and information technology
 systems. He led the development of MAST, the Multimission Archive at Space
 Telescope, which is the NASA optical-UV mission data center.

Dr. H. Kent Hills has been an Acquisition Scientist at NSSDC since 1978.Before that he
 had been a data provider to the archive. He is participating in the ongoing re-design of
 NSSDC's archival systems and practices.
David Hogg is Associate Professor at New York University and the main architect for
 "Astrometry.net," a system to automatically generate and record standards-compliant
 and consistent astrometric metadata.

Joe Hourcle is a Principal Software Engineer with RS Information Systems, currently
  working at the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
  His current projects include archival support for the STEREO Science Center and
  development and operations support for the Virtual Solar Observatory. He holds a
  Master's degree in Information Management from the University of Maryland's College
  of Information Studies.

J. Steven Hughes is a Principal Computer Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has
  extensive experience in architecting and implementing system architectures in complex,
  distributed, heterogeneous environments. He has over 30 years of systems architecture,
  data management, and software development experience. He has had numerous roles on
  the Planetary Data System and is an expert in the whereabouts of PDS skeletons.

Dr. Barry E. Jacobs is a Research Computer Scientist, National Space Science Data
 Center, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the developer of Electronic
 Handbooks (EHBs). Dr. Jacobs has applied EHBs to NASA's Small Business
 Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Earth Sciences Technology Office (ESTO)
 Program, Education Division Computer Aided Tracking System (EDCATS), and the
 NASA On-line Directives (Policies and Procedures) Information System (NODIS). Dr.
 Jacobs has also applied EHBs to the Department of Justice's Bulletproof Vests
 Partnership (BVP) Program, Department of Justice's Local Law Enforcement Block
 Grants (LLEBG) Program, Department of Health and Human Service's Health
 Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Emergency Management
 Administration's US Fire Administration (USFA) Firefighters Grant Program, Treasury
 Department's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Program,
 Department of Interior's Property Disposal, Department of Justice's Office of State and
 Local Domestic Preparedness Support (OSLDPS) Program, and the Federal Financial
 Assistance Management Improvement (FFAMI) project. His work on the Department
 of Justice's Bulletproof Vests Partnership (BVP) Program has earned him the
 Federation of Government Information Processing Council (FGIPC) Intergovernmental
 Open Systems Solutions (IOSS) Gold Award.

Nathan James is a Computer Scientist responsible for managing and coordinating World
 Wide Web activities at NASA/Goddard's National Space Science Data Center
 (NSSDC). He is the chair of the NSSDC Web Developers group, a forum for both
 novice and expert webmasters to exchange technical information, address common
 issues, and discuss how GSFC and NASA web policies impact the NSSDC web
 environment. Nathan is also the Education Resource Directory coordinator at GSFC
 for the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF), a partnership between
 Goddard and the University of California at Berkeley to facilitate the dissemination of
 Sun-Earth Connection science into the education and general communities.
Todd King has been actively involved in the Planetary Data System since its inception.
 He is the lead for the SPASE data model group which is a highly collaborative
 international effort. He is also the system engineer and manager for the Virtual
 Magnetospheric Observatory at UCLA.

Dan Kowal is the data administrator for NGDC. He has been in this position for nearly
 three years now and oversees logistics for archiving the heterogeneous nature of
 geophysical data flowing into the data center. Prior to his new administrative career,
 Dan was involved in educational web development projects such as GLOBE and was a
 former environmental science educator for 15 years.

Mike Martin is a currently a consultant to the PDS Project Manager on science data
 archiving and information systems technology. He was formerly the manager of the
 Data Distribution Lab which pioneered the use of CD and DVD media for NASA data
 distribution and produced award winning software and multi-media products. Mike was
 one of the chief designers of the Planetary Data System standards architecture during
 the 80's and 90's and was a longtime participant in CCSDS standardization efforts and a
 member of the OAIS Reference Model team.

Patrick McCaslin been active in system development since 1989. He currently leads the
 primary information systems development team at the NSSDC.

Robert H. McDonald (mcdonald@sdsc.edu) is the Chronopolis Project Manager at the
 San Diego Supercomputer Center. Chronopolis is the national-scale digital preservation
 environment that is being led by SDSC, the UCSD Libraries, the National Center for
 Atmospheric Research, and the University of Maryland. Previously McDonald was the
 Associate Director of Libraries for Technology and Research at Florida State
 University. He holds an MLIS from the University of South Carolina and an MMUS
 from the University of Georgia.

Thomas McGlynn is the Chief Archive Scientist for NASA's High Energy Astrophysics
 Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC). He developed and is the Principal
 Investigator for the SkyView Virtual Telescope which provides simple multi-
 wavelength access to astronomical surveys from all regimes from radio to gamma-rays.
 Dr. McGlynn has played a major role in the development of astronomy's National
 Virtual Observatory.

Reagan Moore is director of data and knowledge systems at the San Diego
 Supercomputer Center. He coordinates research efforts in development of data grids,
 digital libraries, and persistent archives, and is the principal investigator for the
 development of the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) data grid technology and the
 integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS). Persistent archives using the SRB
 technology include the NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype, the NSF
 National Science Digital Library persistent archive, and the California Digital Library -
 Digital Preservation Repository.
John Moses is currently working for the ESDIS Project as NASA's Ground System
  Engineer monitoring NASA's EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Centers, science
  data operations and interfaces with Science Investigator-led Processing Systems. He
  has over 30 years experience in US environmental satellite programs, including science
  operations management and staffing, scientific applications research, ground systems
  development and operations. He has knowledge and experience with the development
  and evolution of NASA data systems architectures since formation of the EOSDIS
  DAACs in the early 1990's. He coordinated NASA EOS data systems operations
  readiness reviews for Aqua, ICESat and Aura missions. He is familiar with NOAA and
  NASA spacecraft and ground system facilities and operations, as well as research into
  new applications of remotely sensed data.

Joey Mukherjee is a Group Leader at SwRI, specializing in data analysis and data
  archival needs for various space science projects, such as UARS, Cluster, Mars
  Express, and IMAGE. His primary focus has been on database management, data
  visualization and data automation.

Aaron Roberts has been doing heliospheric physics research at NASA's Goddard Space
 Flight Center for nearly 20 years. This work has required access to a wide variety of
 datasets, an need that has led to his involvement in the development of Virtual
 Observatories and related visualization tools. Recently he has been working at NASA
 HQ as the Heliophysics Data Environment Program Scientist, helping, among other
 things, to formulate a Heliophysics Data Policy.

Arnold Rots received his PhD from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and
 started his career as a radio astronomer. He was on the staff of the VLA for 10 years,
 then designed and implemented the RXTE archive, and currently is the archive
 astrophysicist for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. He is chair of the ADEC, the
 ADASS Program Organizing Committee, and the North American FITS committee;
 and he is active in Virtual Observatory standards and Smithsonian digitization efforts.

Donald Sawyer did his graduate work in Cosmic Ray physics and is the author of the AP-8
 Trapped Radiation Belt Proton Model. He has been active in the development of data
 standards since 1985, was a co-editor of the OAIS reference model, and he currently
 serves as the chair of the Data Archive Ingest Working Group within the Consultative
 Committee for Space Data Systems and ISO TC20, SC13. He is also leading a re-
 engineering of the National Space Science Data Center's archival systems and practices.

Dr. Mark Showalter is a Principal Investigator at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of
 Life in the Universe, part of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He has
 managed the Rings Node since the PDS began in 1990. His research accomplishments
 include the discovery of Jupiter's outer "gossamer" rings, Saturn's moon Pan, and two
 moons and two rings of Uranus.
Ani Thakar is a Research Scientist in the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at the Johns
 Hopkins University. Although an Astronomer by training, research in the last 10 years
 has focused on the challenges of archiving and mining very large scientific datasets.
 Involved in four large international projects at the moment - SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky
 Survey), the Virtual Observatory (VO), PAN-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope
 and Rapid Response System) and LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope).

Dr. James Thieman is a scientist/data systems manager who leads the international Space
 Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE)program. He also manages the continuing
 development and maintenance of the National Space Science Data Center's information
 systems. These systems provide access to NASA space science data for scientists and
 general public users around the world.

Raymond Walker is Professor in Residence, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
 Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science, UCLA and Research
 Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA. From 1973 to
 1977 he was on the research staff of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the
 University of Minnesota, after which time he joined the Institute of Geophysics and
 Planetary Physics at UCLA. He is now Professor in Residence in IGPP and the
 Department of Earth and Space Science. He has studied both particle and fields
 observations from the Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus and is a co-investigator for the
 magnetometer on the Galileo mission to Jupiter.           He also has worked on
 magnetohydrodynamic simulations of reconnection and has worked on global
 magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of the solar wind with planetary
 magnetospheres. Special emphasis in this work has been on the comparison of
 simulations and observations. He has worked on applying computer data management
 techniques to spacecraft and to simulation derived "data". He is author of over 100
 papers in professional journals. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the
 Planetary Plasma Interactions Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS) and served
 PDS as Project Scientist.

Joe Zender is chairperson of the International Planetary Data Alliance, and main architect
  for ESA's Planetary Science Archive (PSA). He has been a research scientist in the
  Solar System Science Operations Division of the European Space Research and
  Technology Centre (ESTEC), a facility of the European Space Agency (ESA), for the
  past 10 years, and co-authored with Ed Grayzeck the paper: "Lessons Learned from
  Planetary Science Archiving" in Advances in Space Research, vol 38, issue 9, 2006 (pg
  2013-2022).