5.4Closing Remarks

Mary KiczaNESDIS

What a GREAT Week...

Key stats:

600+ attendees

175+ posters

70+ presentations

25 exhibits

Plus panels, weather/center briefs, tours, User Feedback Sessions, and additional

Workshops

AND nearly perfect WEATHER (until today at least)

Again...

Importance of Partnerships!

“Combining these different conferences

comingles scientific, engineering, and user

communities, enabling a powerful cross-fertilization of

ideas and experiences. Partnerships have always been

key to NOAA’s success, and they are especially

important now with the pioneering GOES-R and JPSS

systems coming closer to reality.” Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, April 8th, 2013

Importance of User Feedback!

Decommissioning of NOAA-17…

Significant milestone for ongoing cooperation with EUMETSAT- NOAA now relying exclusively on EUMETSAT in the mid-morning orbit

NOAA-17 retired after 11 years of service, one of NOAA's longest operating spacecraft

NOAA will continue to operate NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, and Suomi-NPP

Expected Outcomes...1. Enhanced interaction, coordination, and communication between and

among environmental satellite programs.

2. Improved user access, reception and readiness for data, technology and

applications from current and future polar-orbiting and geostationary

environmental satellite constellations.

3. Improved use of environmental satellite data by leveraging science

advances, data fusion, blended products, decision aids, advanced

visualization, training, instrument and product calibration and validation,

and new data assimilation techniques.

4. Recognition as the premier environmental satellite users’ event in the

Western Hemisphere.

5. Reduced costs of participation, travel and logistics by combining the

Satellite Direct Readout, GOES and POES/JPSS communities in one

conference.

QUESTION --- Did we accomplish these???

Please...

Complete the Post-Conference Survey at your earliest opportunity: http://satelliteconferences.noaa.gov/2013/

(YOUR INPUT WILL HELP US DECIDE WHEN/IF/HOW WE DO THIS AGAIN)

THANK YOU...

Interpreters!

On-site catering: Kloud Kafe!

Mobile caterer: Smoking Swine

Conference Hotel...and Shuttle Drivers

Sponsors! Exhibitors! Presenters! Co-Chairs!

Facilities/Engineering/Janitorial...and Security

NCWCP Tenant Board

Volunteers!

and most importantly...

EVERYONE who ATTENDED!

And the Organizing Committee!Co-Chairs: Ken Carey, John Furgerson, Steve Goodman,

Jim Gurka, Eric Madsen, Mitch Goldberg, Scott Rogerson, Fuzhong Weng

GOES-R: Chris Daughtrey, Marilyn Mix, Kathryn Mozer, Michelle Smith, Janel Thomas

JPSS: Gary McWilliams, Bill SjobergNESDIS: Leesha SaundersNWS: Mike Johnson, Jennifer Lewis, Jim YoeOSPO: Denise Buckmon, Jason Dong, Natalia Donoho,

Kay Metcalf, Matt Miglin, David Ngo, Jess Pejsa, Marlin Perkins, Letecia Reeves, Tom Renkevens, Matt Seybold, Paul Seymour, Clint Sherwood

STAR: Lin Lin, Tim Schmit, Danette Warren, Fangfang YuInternational: Kathy-Ann Caesar