2016 Conference Program

19th Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
New Orleans, LA January 13-14, 2016
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“Earth System Science in Service to Society”

Abstracts, handouts and recorded presentations are available from the conference program at the AMS website

Wednesday, January 13, 2016
ASLI program and dinner
Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00am On site Registration
8:30am Welcome Address and Introductions
Chris Sherratt, Chair, Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI), MIT Libraries
9:00am Keynote:
Resources to Help Scientists Communicate Climate Science

Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Univ. Of California
10:00am Break
10:30am Session 1: Outreach & Communication: Facilitating & Promoting Access to Resources, Collections, and Services
Moderator: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

1.1: Communicating Science Across Organizations
Jean Phillips and Margaret Mooney, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

10:45am 1.2: An Embedded Librarian Working in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Stephen Pomes, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, New Orleans, LA
11:00am 1.3: Public Access to Scientific Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
Michelle A. Mittrach, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
11:15am 1.4: Public Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research: Building Communities of Collaboration
Janice Young, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN
11:30am 1.5: As Clear as Mud: Librarian as Facilitator during a Sedimentology Outreach Event for Young Girls
Raquel Horlick, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
11:45am Questions & Discussion
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Session 2: New Roles for Researchers and Librarians: Scholarly Profiles, Cited References, and Bibliometrics
Moderator:  Gloria Aversano, NOAA Miami Regional Library

2.1: Evolving Services for Scholars
Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

1:45pm 2.2: Measuring Impact at NCAR: Bibliometrics and Beyond
Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ramey and K. Maull
2:15pm 2.3: Understanding the Needs of the Modern Research Scientist
Courtney Kearney, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2:30pm Break and Formal Poster Viewing
3:30pm Session 3: ASLI Choice Book Awards
4:15pm Session 4: Historical Data Rescue
Moderator: Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University

4.1: ACRE and Data Rescue: Bringing Yesterday’s Climatic Data into the Present and Future (Invited Presentation)
Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado/NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO

4:45pm Session 5: Tech Tips and Tools: An ASLI favorite!
Moderator: Brian Voss, NOAA Seattle Regional Library

5.1: NTRL, the National Technical Reports Library
Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

5:00pm 5.2: 3D Scanning – the Next Horizon for Libraries?
Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
5:15pm 5.3: Browsing Journals on the Go: BrowZine
Gene Major, Program Manager,Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library, Greenbelt, MD
5:30pm 5.4: Searching & Using Collections in HathiTrust
Amy Butros, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
7:00pm Annual ASLI Dinner

Thursday, January 14, 2016
ASLI Program, Data Stewardship Joint Session, Vendor Updates
340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00am One day on-site Registration
8:30am Session 6: Vendor Updates – Part 1
Moderator: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

6.1: AMS Publications: Year in Review and 2016 Update
Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Director of Publications, Boston, MA; and S. J. Shangraw

9:00am 6.2: Springer Publications News
Robert Doe, Springer, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Dordrecht, Netherlands
9:15am Session 7: Historical Glimpses and Perspectives – Part 1
Moderator: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

7.1: Online at Last! A Description of the BAMS Legacy Scanning Project
Jinny Nathans, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA

9:30am 7.1: Access to Legacy Information from the Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)
Rich Hummel, Sr. Project Manager, SciTech, Ann Arbor, MI
11:00am Session 8: Vendor Updates – Part 2
Moderator: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

8.1: ProQuest Atmospheric Science Collection & the Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts Database
Rich Hummel, Sr. Project Manager, SciTech, Ann Arbor, MI

9:45am Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
11:00am Session 9: The National Centers for Environmental Information Climate Portal
Moderator: Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30am Session 10: Librarians and Research Data Curation & Management Programs and Initiatives
Moderator: Gene Major, Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library

10.1: Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation: Building Blocks for Data Curation
Elizabeth Fish, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and T. Norris

11:45am 10.2: The Library Research Data Curation Program – Building Buzz at UC San Diego
Reid Otsuji, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Joint Session 7: Data Stewardship
Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; and the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies)
Co-Chair: Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR

J7.1: Repository Cross-Linking for Open Archiving and Sharing of Scientific Data and Articles
Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Phillips, D. Middleton, and E. Nienhouse

1:45pm J7.2: Parameterisation of Flows and Pollutant Transport over Idealised Urban Roughness
Chun-Ho Liu, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; and Y. K. Ho and C. T. Ng
2:00pm J7.3: New Information Systems for Data Stewardship at NCEI
Nancy A. Ritchey, National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI), Asheville, NC; and P. Jones and K. S. Casey
2:15pm J7.4: Transforming NOAA’s Data Stewardship: Formation of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Scott A. Hausman, NOAA/NESDIS, Asheville, NC
2:30pm J7.5: Publishers’ Policies for Data Citation: Do they Ease Data Discovery and Use?
Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and C. Malinowski
2:45pm J7.6: But I Don’t Have Access to Your Server, and My Grad Student Left Last Month: Meeting the Challenges of Data Transfer and Metadata Gathering
Juliane Schneider, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Session 11: Historical Glimpses and Perspectives Part 2
Moderator: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

11.1: The Early History of Space Weather: Observations that Connected Solar Activity and its Influence on the Earth
Gene Major, NASA/GSFC Library, Greenbelt, MD

4:15pm Session 12: ASLI Business Meeting
5:00pm 96th AMS Annual Meeting adjourns

Friday, January 15, 2016
Annual ASLI Field Trip

8:30am-4:00pm Annual ASLI Field Trip