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Contributions to professional and technical conferences and societies

• Cray User Group (CUG) participation: President, Visualization Chair, Programming Environments Group Chair, Newsletter Editor, Advisory Council Secretary

• Parallel Tools Consortium (Ptools) participation: Annual meeting host, SC97 and SC98 Ptools Research Exhibit coordination, Steering Committee representation

• Supercomputing Executive Committee participation: SC97 Research Exhibits Chair, SC98 Tutorials Committee

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) participation: Conference Chair for annual meeting in Denver

• NCO Taskforce on System Software Requirements participation: working group member

• Multiple memberships in IEEE and ACM

• CSS staff co-sponsored the Workshop on Climate, Ocean, and Weather Modeling Benchmarks at the NCAR Mesa Lab, September 22-23, 1998.

Exhibits at professional conferences

American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference: TSD staff coordinated and staffed the UCAR/NCAR/SCD exhibit at the 1998 spring AGU meeting in Boston. The exhibit included the Visualization Theater and the NCAR Graphics materials. At eFY1998, they are planning the exhibit for the 1999 spring AGU meeting in Boston.

American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting in Phoenix: TSD staff coordinated and staffed the UCAR/NCAR/SCD exhibit at the 78th Annual AMS Meeting in Phoenix. The exhibit included the Visualization Theater and the NCAR Graphics materials. In addition, the lab visualization also participated in the conference's Electronic Theater, providing a "digital IMAX" presentation to an audience of 500 or so enthusiastic attendees and one additional presentation on staff developments in Vis5D. At eFY1998, they are planning the exhibit for the 79th Annual AMS Meeting in Dallas.

The "Next Generation Internet" is the high-bandwidth network that connects a host of government agencies, including the NFS' vBNS. In March 1998, the Visualization Lab was invited to represent the NSF at the NGI demonstrations at the Highway2 facility on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The effort was funded by the NSF. The demonstration was entitled "The Earth System Web," and it took viewers on a virtual tour of the Earth System using an amalgam of advanced visualization and web technology operating over the vBNS.

Internet2 is the high-bandwidth consortium of the academic community of which UCAR is a member. SCD's Visualization Laboratory was invited to show their research and scientific work.

Summit of the Americas: A representative from the International Development Bank noticed the Visualization Lab staff's NGI demonstration in Washington and subsequently contacted Cisco Systems, the premiere network supplier, who in turn funded Visualization Lab staff to join them in demonstrating at the technology exhibition associated with the Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile in April. Among the many attendees to visit the exhibit, was Secretary Daley of the Department of Commerce, for whom a special 15-minute presentation was provided. This presentation focused on our Clear Air Turbulence work, a joint effort with NOAA (under the DOC).

Scientific and technical presentations