Earth Science Information Partners

Selected Type 2 ESIPs and their titles are:

• "The Distributed Oceanographic Data System: A Framework for Access to Scientific Data in the EOS Federation," led by Peter Cornillon, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI.

• "The Earth System Science Workbench: A Scaleable Infrastructure for ESIPs," led by James Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

• "Seasonal to Interannual Earth Science Information Partner (SIESIP)," led by Menas Kafatos, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

• "Progressive Mining of Remotely Sensed Data for Environmental and Public Health Applications," led by Chung-Sheng Li, International Business Machines, Yorktown Heights, NY.

• "A Web-Based System for Terrestrial Environmental Research," led by Berrien Moore, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

• "ESP2Net: Earth Science Partners' Private Network," led by Richard Muntz, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

• "Evolution of Snow Pack in the Southwestern United States: Spatial and Temporal Variability from a Remotely Sensed and In Situ Data Set," led by James J. Simpson, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA.

• "Tropical Rainforest Information Center," led by David L. Skole, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

• "An On-Demand Data Processing and Delivery System for Climate Studies Using Passive Microwave Data Sets," led by Roy W. Spencer, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.

• "A Landcover Earth Science Information Partnership," led by John R. G. Townshend, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

• "GPS Environmental & Earth Science Information System: GENESIS," led by Thomas P. Yunck, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.

• "Improved Ocean Radar Altimeter and Scatterometer Data and Atmosphere-Ocean Model Simulation for Coastal and Global Change Studies," led by Victor Zlotnicki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.

Selected Type 3 ESIPs and their titles are:

• "Institutionalizing MTPE Data for Land and Environmental Management," led by Thomas Burk, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.

• "California Land Science Information Partnership," led by Gary Darling, California Resources Agency, Sacramento, CA.

• "Performing a Regional Assessment and Prototyping Internet Accessible MTPE Products for the Upper Rio Grande Basin," led by Stanley Morain, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

• "Integrating Environmental and Legal Information Systems," led by Konstantinos Kalpakis, University Space Research Association (USRA), Greenbelt, MD.

• "A Public Access Resource Center (PARC) Empowering the General Public to Use EOSDIS Phase III Operations," led by George Seielstad, Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.

• "WeatheRoute," led by Kevin Meagher, Reading Information Technology, Inc., Reading, PA.

• "MTPE Education Series," led by Catherine Gautier, Planet Earth Science, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA.

• "Integration and Application of MTPE Data and Information to the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Region," led by David Etter, Bay Area Shared Information Consortium (BASIC), Mountain View, CA.

• "Museums Teaching Planet Earth," led by Patricia Reiff, Rice University, Houston, TX.

• "Terrain Intelligence Products from EOS Sensor Data," led by Douglas Kliman, MRJ Associates, Tucson, AZ.

• "NBC News and Information: Extending MTPE Data to the World," led by David Jones, WRC-TV4, Washington, DC.

• "MTPE-Derived Data Products for the Fisheries," led by Patrick Simpson, Scientific Fishery Systems, Inc., Anchorage, AK.