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## NASA HQ IT TAGUPNovember 13, 2023

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**DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT**
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## Critical Infrastructure Tickets

Current

Previous

Comments/Updates			

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## Notable Exceptions w/User Impact

**Notable Exceptions w/User Impact**
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**Comments/Updates**

## Outages

Planned/Proposed

01/08	0600-1200 HQPS1 upgrade to WIN2003.

01/15	0600-1200 Move print queues off HQPS2 and retire server.  HQCAD server will be upgraded to WIN2003

01/22	0600-1200 HQCSR1 upgraded to WIN2003

01/29-30	0700 (Sat) to 1600 (Sun) Upgrade HQDATA1/2/3 to WIN2000

TBD	Polaris -- Update the I-Planet software Web server to version 6.0 SP9 to mitigate a security vulnerability in SSL.

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Comments/Updates

**Planned/Proposed**
**01/08****	****0600-1200 HQPS1 upgrade to WIN2003.**
**01/15****	****0600-1200 Move print queues off HQPS2 and retire server.  HQCAD server will be upgraded to WIN2003**
**01/22****	****0600-1200 HQCSR1 upgraded to WIN2003**
**01/29-30****	****0700 (Sat) to 1600 (Sun) Upgrade HQDATA1/2/3 to WIN2000**
**TBD****	****Polaris -- Update the I-Planet software Web server to version 6.0 SP9 to mitigate a security vulnerability in SSL.**
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**Comments/Updates**
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## Special Projects Status

Tuesday Only

1800 M Street, NW			            	 	Valerie Nixon
I-Planet Migration 					Tony Hsu
Headquarters Enterprise Messaging Initiative		Karen Thomas
HQ Building-Wide Wireless Upgrade			John Gavan
Space Operations Events Calendar			Stephen Zdravecky
HQ Equipment Re-Tagging 				John Vollbrecht
ODIN Refresh					Cliff Smith
Integrated Master Schedule				Don Metcalf

_**Tuesday Only**_
**1800 M Street, NW****	****	****	****            ****	**** ****	****Valerie Nixon**
**I-Planet Migration ****	****	****	****	****	****Tony Hsu**
**Headquarters Enterprise Messaging Initiative****	****	****Karen Thomas**
**HQ Building-Wide Wireless Upgrade****	****	****	****John Gavan**
**Space Operations Events Calendar****	****	****	****Stephen Zdravecky**
**HQ Equipment Re-Tagging ****	****	****	****	****John Vollbrecht**
**ODIN Refresh****	****	****	****	****	****Cliff Smith**
**Integrated Master Schedule****	****	****	****	****Don Metcalf**
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**EX**

**WP**

**1800**

**SO**

**RT**

**MS**

## Program Management Comments

COTR
DOCOTR
Program Managers      

Comments/Updates

**COTR**
**DOCOTR**
**Program Managers**
**Comments/Updates**

## Notable Major Activities

**Notable Major Activities**
**Executive Council Retreat****	****	****	****	****	****01/13-14 **
**ODIN In-Depth****	****	****	****	****	****	****01/21**
**ISEM In-Depth****	****	****	****	****	****	****01/27**
**Comments/Updates**

## Other Issues

**	**
**	****	****	****	****Action Item Recap**
**Final Comments/Updates**
- Events Calendar
- SR Review
- Action Item Review – Monday
- Events Calendar – Monday
- Special Projects – Tuesday
- Delinquencies – Thursday

## Outages

Comments/Updates

**Comments/Updates**
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## Outside the caBIG Box 

**PAR07-214**

## New Paradigm in Research

**Translational Research**
- Translational research transforms scientific discoveries arising from laboratory, clinical, or population studies into clinical applications to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality.

## Phases of Translational Research

**Feasibility**

**Efficacy**

**Standardization**

**Clinical Studies & Trials**

**FDA Submission**

**Possibly 10 to 15 years, or more**

**Research**

**Development**

**Clinical**

**Concept &**
** ****Design**

## PAR07-214

- Leveraging of Resources:
- U54, R01, and other funding sources
- Later, hope to establish PPP.
- Clinical Goals: Early cancer detection, diagnosis, IGI, and therapy response.

## PAR07-214

**Optimization of new or existing imaging systems**
**Image processing and/or CAD**
**Data fusion and integration**
**IT tools**
**Display methods**
**Etc.**
**Integration of imaging and interventional systems**
**Tools for reliable image-guidance and quantification**

## PAR07-214

- PAR Review: Three application receipt dates
- CSR SEP: Review criteria: focus on translation research not innovation.
- Reviewers from academia and industry.
- Special review criteria.

## Invitation

**Submissions from imaging workspace can help to answer some of the scientific questions just asked by Carl Jaffe.**
**Dual track in funding to extend the imaging workspace.**
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## Automatic Tuning of Collectives 	

- By Rajesh Nishtala, Kushal Chakrabarti, Kaushal Sanghavi, and Neil Patel
- Advisors: Katherine A. Yelick and James W. Demmel
- University of California at Berkeley,
- Computer Science Division

**Notes:**
Main Title Slide

## Outline

- Motivation
- Description of Optimized Collectives
- Preliminary results are for MPI collectives using MPI point-to-point operation
- Extension of work by Dongarra et al.
- Description of Optimizations
- Automatic Tuning
- Conclusions
- Future Work

## Motivation

- No single optimal implementation for collectives
- Best algorithm varies across number of nodes, cluster architecture, and message size.

## Optimizations (Tree Structure)	

- Used 4 Tree Structures

- Binary Tree

- Chain Tree

- Sequential Tree

- Binomial Tree

## Optimizations (Pipelining)

- Pipeline the messages too improve the throughput

- Segment Size

- 0

- 1

- 2

- 4

- 3

## Selection of Segment Choice

- Performance is sensitive to segment size choice

## Automatic Tuning

- Use a probabilistic algorithm selection system (PASS) to choose the algorithms we run
- Based on history, faster implementations are chosen more frequently with the ability to search

## Conclusions

- Offline tuning clearly pays off
-  Also important to be able to tune applications during runtime
- Search space for automatic tuning increases with GASNet and UPC

## Future Work and References

- Analyze more collectives such as all-to-all
- Refine automatic tuning system
-  reduce the penalty of search
- Experiment on more interconnects and novel cluster architectures
- References and detailed summary of work:
- http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rajeshn/mpi_opt.pdf
- Questions?
- email: rajeshn@eecs.berkeley.edu
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## Hygiene Water PrefilterUmpqua, Houston, TX

- Innovation
-    Apparatus developed for use in zero gravity Shower and Laundry
-     Systems includes particulate filters, laundry cleansing agents, phase
-     separators, soap dispensers and foam removers.

- Accomplishments
-    Simple and  reliable means of removing particulate matter from shower and
-     laundry waste waters.
-    Simple and reliable means of dispensing soap and removing foam from
-     space shower and laundry waste waters.
-    Advancement in space laundry cleansing agent  and laundry phase
-     separation technology.
-    Products; Shower Sock Prefilter, Laundry Phase Separator, Shower Soap
-     Dispenser and Mechanical Foam Remover.
-    $60K support from Life Systems Inc.. prior to reconfiguration of Space
-     Station.
-   Contact with Boeing, Life Systems, ILC, A.D. Little and other potential
-     contractors for Space Station Life Support Systems is ongoing.

- Commercialization
- Funding for life support and housekeeping hardware related to long term
-      manned space habitation will dictate the rate of commercialization
-      NASA represents the immediate market.
- Support for Space Shower and Laundry system is anticipated during Phase
-      C/D of Space Station Life Support Development.

- Government/Science Applications
-    Space Station requirements for personal hygiene waste
-      water redemption.
-    Application is specifically directed to resolve shower
-     and  laundry problems associated with zero gravity.

- Points of Contact:
-   -  Jane I Fox, 281-483-4815
-   -  Umpqua, umpqua.hq@fpioneer-net.com
-   1987 SBIR Phase I; NAS 9-17953 SS # 09-17

- Johnson Space Center
- August 12, 1999
- SS# 9-018

- Hygiene Water Prefilter
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## 9th Annual USDA/NITC Information Technology ExpoWednesday, Nov 5, 2003

- Beacon Building         6501 Beacon Drive Kansas City, MO
- Show Hours:
- 	9:30am - 1:30pm
- FREE and Open to all Government, DoD and Contractor Personnel
- For more information on attending or exhibiting call:  Federal Direct Access  877-332-3976

- See it all from 40 leading vendors including:
- 	3M Visual Systems * ACS  Belarc * BMC Software   CDW-G * CI Select   Computer Associates  Compuware * Gateway    GMR * Hewlett Packard  iGov.com * NEC/Mitsubishi  Oracle * Panasonic    Qualstar * Staples             Sun Microsystems       Veritas Software            World Wide Technology  Wrightline * Xerox - Printers
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## Slide 1

## “Meet me in St. Louis Santiago!”

- Liza will be coming into Dallas on
- American Airlines
- Flight 1488
- Leaving San Jose, CA  at 12:04
- Arriving Dallas at 5:38
- Meet at departing gate for flight 945 to Santiago

## “Phone Home ....”

- Check out _[www.skype.com](http://www.skype.com/)_
- Free international telephone calls via the internet; need microphone
- International phone card
- Cingular wireless will work from Antofagasta - must sign up for international roaming
- IP phone, Sat phone at station for emergency purposes

## “To bring, or not to bring...”

- Laptops (it’s dusty out there!)
- Your primary writing task will be doing your journal - if you’re more comfortable on your computer then bring it - if you just want to write in a notebook, bring that
- Plan on doing field notes in a small notebook
- Email connectivity:
- Worst case: you will be able to use one of the station computers to read/send email
- Best case: you will be able to connect your own computer to the network
- As of this point, we don’t know if the best case will be possible

## Journaling

- VERY, VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!
- Plan on doing a lot of it
- Hopefully you’ve been writing already
- Pre-trip
- Expectations, what you look forward to, what you’re worried about, what do you think you’re going to get out of the trip
- During trip - journal components
- Science field notes
- Exploration field notes
- Classroom leveraging notes
- Personal learning and experiences

## Electricity

- Station has U.S. power (100 v 60Hz)
- Station uses both U.S. and Chile plugs (2 round prongs)
- Anyplace else will use Chile plugs
- Plug adapter kit available at Radio Shack
- Most computers, hair dryers have power conversion

## “Forget-Me-Nots”

- Do you have your international driver’s license yet?
- Hat, sunscreen, water bottle, backpack
- Comfortable shoes
- Something to show from your home town
- A small gift for your Chilean partner teacher(s)
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## BLIZZARD

*HA*

**On January 31, 1951, the costliest ice storm on record devastated an area of more than 100 miles wide from Louisiana to West Virginia. Twenty-five people lost their lives and approximately 500 more were injured in storm-related accidents. The U.S. Weather Bureau estimated the total storm damage to be 100 million dollars.**

**The “glaze storm” left approximately 100,000 people without power nation-wide. Crews worked in frigid conditions to restore power and communication lines as quickly as possible. However, the freezing temperatures and the weight of the ice on the trees caused more lines to fall. Telephones, radios, furnaces and electric stove tops became useless. Those with new, electric-only homes were forced to take refuge with friends and family. Many had to resort to more primitive ways of cooking and heating.**

**"Then, boom, all of a sudden on Wednesday night, January 31, 1951, one ice blizzard put our magic fairyland of electricity out of business for over a week." --Willie Mine Midgett**

**"Never before in recorded history did winter hit this area with such devastating force to paralyze the everyday life of the community... Never before were so many faced with hardship and suffering in what was once the security of home,..." --H.B. Tetter, Nashville Tennessean**

**A strong, polar cold front moved slowly into the Southeast and left up to 2 inches of ice on trees and wires and up to two inches of sleet and snow on the ground. As the cold front pushed southward, it interacted with a tropical low developing in the Gulf of Mexico. On January 31, the Gulf low began to move northeastward spreading sleet, freezing rain, and snow to much of the southeast.** **As an upper level cold front interacted with the surface front, a line of strong thunderstorms developed from southwest Louisiana to central Mississippi and into northern Alabama.** **This unusual**

**combination of high wind** **and “ice glaze”** **caused an extensive amount of damage to trees and power lines. By February 1, up to three inches of dry snow had fallen on four to five inches of water-soaked sleet. It wasn’t until temperatures began to fall that the sleet froze into a four inch thick, solid piece of ice. After continual daytime melting of the snow layer and nighttime re-freezing, a semitransparent layer of solid ice covered the ground for the next ten days. **

**Photo courtesy of Historic Nashville.com**

**Perfect sledding terrain and a well-packed ice covering attracted scores of youngsters to Kendall Hill in East Nashville. Courtesy of Historic Nashville.com**
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## <date/time>

## Session 44

***OPEN FORUM ON COMMON ORIGINATION AND DISBURSEMENT***
***Presenter:  Mary Haldane***

- Session 44 -

## SFA Modernization Blueprint

- Initiatives
- Common Origination and Disbursement
- School Portal
- ETC
- Process
- IPT

- Session 44 -

## COD: Where we are now

***COD: Where we are now***

**NSLDS**

- Session 44 -

## COD: Where we are going

**Common Process**

**X**

- common...
-  data definitions
-  edits
-  business rules

**Common Record**

- Session 44 -

## COD Objectives

**Common Process across all programs**
**Shared data definitions**
**Common edits, where applicable**
**Common business rules, where applicable**
**Streamlined process**
**Reduced costs**
**Integrated customer service**

- Session 44 -

## COD Objectives..continued

**Minimize required changes to schools’ internal processes**
**Real-time, single source sharing of data**
**Full access to student historical data for those with the right to know**

- Session 44 -

## Along the way...

***Along the way...***

**RFMS**

**LOS**

**CBS**

**School**

_***2) COD System***_

***Middleware***

**COD**

***Common***
***Record***

***RFMS***
***Record***

***Current***
***FISAP***

***DLOS***
***Record***

**School**

**COD**

***Common***
***Record***

_***3) Common Process (COD System With Schools Sending Common Record)***_

_***1) Current Process***_

- Session 44 -

**Notes:**
Middleware (“wrapper technology”)  will accept current record layouts and convert them into COD format, allowing schools to migrate to common record as they are ready.

Regardless of the solution chosen, Schools will need to transition gradually to the new common process.
Using middleware can ease this transition.  Schools will transition to the common process supported by
the COD System by moving from step 1) Current Process where schools send separate records/reports to
RFMS, LOS, and CBS, to step 2) COD System where middleware is used to support the acceptance of
both new and old record formats.  This will allow ED/SFA to retire the legacy systems and transition to
supporting only one system while allowing schools more time to transition their business processes, which
lead to step 3) Common Process where they request payment using one common record layout.

## Schedule

- Session 44 -

## WHAT CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS OR STRATEGIES DO YOU SEE?

- Session 44 -

## Benefits to the Financial Aid Administrator

- Common Process means:
- One record layout to support
- Fewer edits, fewer rejects
- Student’s access to aid information
- Professional mobility

- Session 44 -

**Notes:**
Shared data definitions across programs
Common edits across programs
Internet based student access to aid – aid profile

## Community Input

-   User Steering Committee
-   Open sessions at conferences and....

- Session 44 -

**Notes:**
How to transform or integrate 3 separate processes into 1

## COD Point of Contact

- MARY HALDANE
- SCHOOLS CHANNEL LEAD FOR COD
- SFA, U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION
- Mary_Haldane@ed.gov
- 202-260-6675

- Session 44 -
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## E-1-4

- NPOESS Program and Spacecraft

## NPOESS Spacecraft Status

- NPOESS supports the 1330 and 1730 orbit planes
- Spacecraft working to A-DCS/spacecraft ICD IF31-0033 (see section E-3-2)
- Technical interchange meeting with CNES planned for July 9-11, 2008
- Spacecraft subsystem reviews – Dec 2008/Jan 2009
- Spacecraft Critical Design Audit – February 2009

## Launch dates

- Initial order for two satellites,
- 		- option for additional two to be exercised in 2010
- Planned launch dates:	C1	31 Jan 2013  	1330 orbit
- 		C2	31 Dec 2015	1730 orbit
- 		C3	31 Jan 2018	1330 orbit
- 		C4	31 Jan 2020	1730 orbit
- Program runs through 2026 (provide data through 2026)

## Review/Delivery Status

- NGST spacecraft design reviews in the December 2008-February 2009 time frame
- CNES instrument PDR scheduled for February 2009
- CNES review of interfaces October 2009
- Since instrument reviews come later than the spacecraft review, will be important to keep in close contact to ensure information exchange is kept up-to-date
- “need dates” vs “availability dates” for A-DCS instrument being worked between NGST/IPO and CNES as part of giver-receiver list discussion
- Currently a 2 week disconnect between instrument delivery and latest (no impact) spacecraft need date

## NPOESS Contacts – June 2008

- IPO Payload lead  Jim Morris *   _[James.W.Morris@noaa.gov](mailto:James.W.Morris@noaa.gov)_
- IPO A-DCS instrument   Mike Cummings
- 					  _[Michael.Cummings@noaa.gov](mailto:Michael.Cummings@noaa.gov)_
- NGST A-DCS Wes Steele   _[wes.steele@ngc.com](mailto:wes.steele@ngc.com)_
- (NGST) SI**Stephanie Moore  _[smmoore@raytheon.com](mailto:smmoore@raytheon.com)_
- *   Jim Morris replaced Hal Bloom in this capacity
- ** SI=Systems Integration (responsible for ground interface 	control documents). Stephanie Moore replaced Tim Gresham in this capacity

## Ground Interfaces

- Ground-to-ground ICD exists and has been signed by all parties.
- Document D34652 NPOESS to Advanced Data Collection System Interface Control document
- Dated August 11, 2006  (revision A)
- Will be revised by NGST (and re-sent for signature) to account for any A-DCS 4 specific differences

## Spacecraft Interfaces 

- March 2007, Technical Interface Meeting held at IPO among CNES, NGST and IPO to discuss A-DCS-4 details
- Initial draft of A-DCS-4 ICD created by CNES and discussed at that TIM
- IF31-0033 ICD for the Advanced Data Collection and Location System (A-DCS) released and signed by all parties
- IF31-0033 currently at revision B, dated January 28, 2008
- ICD will be revised periodically for missing/incomplete information, as the information becomes available
***Technical interface meeting among CNES, IPO and NGST planned for July 9-11, 2008***
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## Biological and Environmental Sciences

- Climate Research, Life Sciences
- Vince Wayland

## Contributions from:

- Brian Hingerty		Life Sciences

## Climate Modeling

## Climate Modeling

- Current State
- One Year Requirements
- Two Year and Beyond Requirements

## Current State

- On going PCM runs, 4 cases concurrently, either 64 or 32 cpus
- 5 100 year CCSM 3.0 IPCC runs in progress, or starting REAL SOON NOW
- Continuing additional CCSM3.0 runs

## Current CCSM3.0 IPCC Tuning, Seaborg Capabilities

- T85 Atmospheric Resolution
- Tot CPUs   ATM cpus	Syr/day  Syr/cpu
-        112		   80		  0.97	.0084
-        128		   80		  1.11	.0087
-        208		 160		  1.57	.0076
-        608		 512		  2.57	.0043
- Data courtesy G.W. Carr, Jr.

## One Year into Future

- Want to double resolution of ATM portion of CCSM3.0 (T85 to T170)
- Horizontal resolution only, not vertical
- >4 times atm computation
- Gridpoints
- Computation
- Additional coupler load for interpolation and remapping in both directions to other components

## One Year into Future, contd.

- >4 times data transmission, storage, and post processing and Grid utilization
- Looking at 320 ATM cpus, and 384(?) total, just to keep current simulation rate
- Possible increases in ATM code efficiency:
- Separate physics and dynamics time steps
- Reduced grid (fewer polar points)

## Two years and beyond

- Would like to quadruple CCSM3.0 ATM resolution to T340
- WHY????
- Desire to study regional climate
- There are small-scale phenomena that affect regional climate that can only be represented by this resolution

## Two Years and Beyond,cont’d.

- But, use current model for estimation purposes
- Even though possible with current ATM, probably will require different model including previous optimizations and (probably) new dynamical core.  FV?

## Two Years and Beyond,cont’d.

- Therefore, need ~20 (4.5 x 4.5) times current performance for similar number of cpus – or trade offs using more cpus
- AND, additionally, similar bump in:
- Data Pipes (width and transfer rate)
- Storage Capacity
- Interconnects/switches

## Life Sciences

## Life Sciences

- Brian provided a very nice set of science slides for cancer research using the DUPLEX Molecular Mechanics Program, but no quantitative computing resource requirements.
- Can display on request, if time allows.
- My bad for not having requested quantitative data in time.

## The End
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## Use of XML

- Robert Bunge
- OCIO
- _[Robert.bunge@noaa.gov](mailto:Robert.bunge@noaa.gov)_
- 301-713-1381 x140

## NDFD and XML

- Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) to disseminate NDFD data was first considered in 2003;
- Seemed to be an ideal way to query for a small slice of NDFD data over the ‘Net;
- Low cost of entry with wide adoption of XML across all sectors;
- Done in parallel with XML services for Watch/warnings/current Obs

## NDFD and XML

- Initial choice of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) based on trends in industry and potential automated integration into some development environments;
- Digital Weather Markup Language (DWML) schema developed at NWS by MDL;

## NDFD-XML

- Experimental NDFD-XML SOAP service first made available in 2004;
- Demonstration pages also provided plain HTTP “GET” interface;
- Service extended to provide a 12/24 hour daily summarization that include icon links and “character of the day” information

## NDFD-XML

- 2005: use of the service had grown enough to impact HQ web farm server performance;
- Redesigns of internal systems;
- Availability of NDFD-XML via degrib
- 2006: SOAP service running from 30-40 million request per month (about 10/sec);

## NDFD-XML

- Where to:
- DWML from degrib
- Development of application using SOAP/HTTP service
- If application grows, partner now has the option of using degrib directly, giving them more control over, speed, number of queries, etc
- NDFDwfs – providing NDFD data in GIS formats using Geography Markup Language;

## NDFD-XML

- RSS – Real Simple Syndication
- We’ve had many requests for this
- Likely combine words with icons and links to related NWS radar displays, etc
- What else?

## Bob Bunge
Robert.bunge@noaa.gov
301-713-1381 x140

- _[Robert.bunge@noaa.gov](mailto:Robert.bunge@noaa.gov)_
- 301-713-1381 x140
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## PFD Wear & New Technology and  PFD Approval Process

- Samuel Wehr
- Lifesaving & Fire Safety Standards
- USCG, HQ, MSE-4

## The Perfect PFD!

- Always protects the airway -- _E_ffective
- Always ready to work -- _R_eliable
- Always “on” -- Worn or _W_earable
- (E x R x W = 1)
- Does the perfect PFD exist? -- NO
- Can it exist? – Probably Not
- So, now what? – Work on weak links . . .

## The Weakest Link --

- Without doubt Wearability is the weak link!
- Overwhelming evidence that wearing PFDs will dramatically reduce boating fatalities.
- Are there any credible arguments to the contrary?

## New Technology & PFD Wear

- Inflatable PFDs “to the rescue”?
- Latest technology
- Cooler (less body coverage) & less bulky
- High maintenance – ~20% unarmed in studies
- USCG slow to approve for reliability concerns
- Indicating inflators should help readiness
- But are they more Wearable?

## Making “Wearable” PFDs

- Wearability is very personal --
- Style -- color, cut, . . .
- “Comfort” . . .
- Warmth, coolness, . . .
- Body coverage, . . .
- Functionally . . .
- Perceived need . . .
- “Desirability” . . .

## USCG Studies of Inflatables 

- Two studies – 1979-81 & 1990-92
- Reliability:
- Modern inflatables are rather durable
- ~20% of inflatables unarmed
- Wearability – very complex:
- Increased comfort does not result in increased wear

## New Technology = Solution to Wear?

- Will new technology solve the problem?
- 		Not likely,	“Wearability” too complex
- Have we gone as far as we can?
- 		Probably not, but --
- 			 “Wearability” can’t instill desire
- Is lack of “comfort” a valid excuse?
- 		 Not likely.
- Conclusion:  Don’t count on new technology alone to significantly increase wear rate.

## PFD Approval Process

- The major steps:
- (Pre-approval review)
- Testing to USCG regulations & Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards at USCG Recognized Laboratory, UL;
- USCG review; then
- USCG certification & UL “Listing”,  “Labeling”, & follow-up

## PFD Approval Process (cont’d)

- Factors in approval speed and success --
- Cost - $5,000 to 25,000
- Time – 3 months to 1 year
- Comprehensive standards
- Understanding of requirements:
- Need to meet all the minimums
- Difficulty of going outside standards
- Limits on ability to make trade-offs
- Need for minimum Reliability & Effectiveness

## PFD Approval/Standards Process

- Changing standards or regulations takes time and adequate justification
- Consensus process with large number of interests – producers, users, general public
- Equivalence option
- Requires robust analysis accepted by USCG
- USCG restricted approval & outside scope of UL standard.

## PFD Approval Boundaries

- USCG must maintain/be aware of:
- Public confidence in devices (Reliability & Effectiveness)
- Consistent application of the standards and process
- Effect of non-compliance
- Boater awareness of serviceability

## Equivalence in Approval 

- Equivalency informally based on lifesaving potential (risk-based approval)
- Minimum Effectiveness & Reliability limits
- Long-term effort to formalize this process into a risk-based standard
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## The Parallel CORS Data Facility

**CORS West****Boulder, CO**

## Purpose

- Provide uninterrupted operation of essential National CORS activities
- Handle these activities during a disaster or temporary outage at the Silver Spring CORS facility

**Silver Spring, MD**

**Boulder, CO**

**OUT OF SERVICE**

**Notes:**
Outages could be planned or unplanned, small scale power outage, large scale disaster

If CORS East in Silver Spring is down, CORSWest in Boulder will become the main source of CORS services to the public

## What must CORS West be able to handle?

- Collect and Process CORS data
- Distribute CORS data to the public
- Share work load with primary CORS facility in Silver Spring

**Notes:**
Example: Sharing work load in collecting USCG data

Allowing public to retrieve their data from CORSWest will share the load with silver spring

## Current Capabilities in Boulder

- CORS Data Archive **(1994-present)**
- Replicated NGS Database
- Data Collection and Processing of 300 sites
- Data Distribution via Anonymous FTP **(ftp://wwwest.ngs.noaa.gov)**
- Archive Backups of all CORS data (NGDC)

**Notes:**
All data from the Silver Spring CORS archive have been copied to the Boulder data archive

Every change to the database in Silver Spring will be seen in the Boulder database

## Data Collection

**We Are Currently Collecting from 300 sites at the CORS West facility in Boulder, CO**
- FAA WAAS
- USCG NDGPS (secondary sites)
- Public Internet
- Data Collection Scripts
- Internet Data Collector

## CORS Data Backup Archive (NGDC)

- Long term data storage
- 30 Second Decimated RINEX2 Format files
- Raw data files for USCG and FAA sites
- Backup data collected at both the Silver Spring and Boulder Facilities
- Primary and Secondary USCG Site data

## Data Management and Monitoring

- Monitor data collection status at CORS West from CORS East, and vice versa
- See the actual CORS data holdings as data come in
- Manually recover data between facilities in the event of an outage

## Data Management and Monitoring

- Data Management tools in development will ensure the quality of the data being served to the public:
- Find and correct problems in the CORS Data Archive
- Allows for controlled updates of older data to the CORS Archive
- Coordinate updates between CORS East and CORS West
- Automatically apply changes to the CORS Archive Backup maintained by NGDC

## In The Future...

- CORS Data Replication
- Computational Services - OPUS
- Web Services – UFCORS
- Automatic Fail-over system
# Presentation: 176367

## Summary of meeting between

**ANL-FNAL meeting,  May 18, 2007**

**Argonne–Fermilab-UChicago**

**Argonne - Fermilab - UChicago**

- on detector R&D and future collaboration

- Location and time:

**UChicago**
**Tuesday May 15, 2007**

## All info on WEB at:

**ANL-FNAL meeting,  May 18, 2007**

**Argonne–Fermilab-UChicago**

**All info on WEB at:**

**http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/ANL-FNAL-Collaboration/DetectorRD.html**

## Good presentations, very good and frank discussion....  ( past experiences, expectations)

**Willingness & eagerness to collaborate**

- * CMS, ATLAS, ILC detector R&D:        *group leaders - Marcel Demarteau, Jim Pilcher, CMS TBD and Harry Weerts*
- * HEP Pixel Detector technology for Photon Science:        *group leaders - Ray Yarema and Patricia Fernandez*
- * TES/bolometers for CMB and other applications (APS++):        *group leaders - Karen Byrum, Steve M./John C., Dan Bauer*
- * SiPM as small, high gain photon collection devices:        *group leaders - Bob Wagner, Erik Ramberg *
- * Fast Timing:        *group leaders – Henry Frisch, Karen Byrum, Erik Ramberg** *
- * Cosmological Computing:        *group leaders - Scott Dodelson and Karen Byrum*

- Formed small working groups around topics of common interest/synergy:

**H. Weerts**

**ANL-FNAL meeting,  May 18, 2007**

- Some specific discussions already started

- Next meeting with progress reports:  September 2007

**Argonne–Fermilab-UChicago**

**Example: ASICS design**
# Presentation: 811115

## Week in Review: 03/17/03 -03/23/03

**  ****Ron Moore – FNAL**

- Store Summary
- Schedule for Week

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Store Summary

| Store | Initial
Lumi (E30) | CDF Deliv’d
Lumi | Termination | Duration
(hr) | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2321 | 34.3 | 1383 | Intentional | 18.3 | High CDF losses; some collimators aligned during store |
| 2323 | 37.4 | 1081 | Abort | 11.5 | CDF losses better; 
E2 wet engine tripped; E2 lead failure |
| 2326 | 34.1 | 1280 | Abort | 16.9 | E2 wet engine tripped; E2 lead failure |
| 2328 | 40.7 | 1715 | Intentional | 21.5 | 2 hrs end-of-store studies |
| 2341 | 22.1 | 750 | Intentional | 14.2 | Shot from 85 mA stack after problematic couple of days... |

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Summary of Stores that Weren’t

- Friday 3/21 – proton stability problems
- Unplugged cabled in Tev transverse damper system?!
- Dampers OK – coupling on proton helix required orbit smoothing
- Collimator problems caused quenches in 2 stores
- Secondary collimators went into beam
- Offsets between LVDT reading and actual stepper motor position?
- May have a viable theory...
- Quench during proton injection
- LLRF problem caused beam to be injected onto circulating beam
- MI-52 kicker “problem” held up shot for 6 hours
- Voltage for 120 GeV operation, not 8 GeV for injection into MI
- Subtle issue with a beam permit being disabled

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Proton stability/orbit problems

- 2 stores lost during scraping
- 1 quench loading protons
- MI52 kicker confusion

- E2 lead failures

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Slide 5

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Slide 6

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Weekly Schedule

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Tev Collimator Issues

- After Jan shutdown, CDF proton losses OK
- After A14 spool replacement, CDF losses very bad

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Schedule

- Pbar pulsed magnet replacement underway (12 hrs)
- Access Tev for 2 hours to replace dead turbo cart, fix 2 broken BPMs
- Begin  1.5 – 2 shifts of  Tev maintenace  (orbits, tunes, collimators)
- No dedicated studies this week
- Next HEP shot Tuesday late morning / early afternoon
- May depend on how pbar stacking recovers
- Linac down 2-4 hours tomorrow PM to replace LRF3 switching tubes
- Investigate ORBMP regulation problems concurrently

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03

## Summary

- Excellent HEP stores early in week
- Record initial, delivered luminosities
- End of the week was rocky
- Several independent problems happened sequentially
- Remain optimistic!  Problems understood.
- Delivered over 6 pb-1 for the the week
- Best week since January shutdown
- After Tev maintenance shifts, resume “Stack & Store”

- R. Moore - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 24 Mar 03
# Presentation: 672194

## ChlamydiaSexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2002

- Division of STD Prevention

## Chlamydia — Number of states that require reporting of Chlamydia trachomatis infections: United States, 1987–2002

## Chlamydia — Rates: United States, 1984–2002

## Chlamydia — Rates by state: United States and outlying areas, 2002

- Note: The total rate of chlamydia for the United States and outlying areas (Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands) was 293.6 per 100,000 population.

## Chlamydia — Rates by county: United States, 2002

## Chlamydia — Rates by region: United States, 1984–2002

## Chlamydia — Rates by sex: United States, 1984–2002

## Chlamydia — Age- and sex-specific rates: United States, 2002

## Chlamydia — Positivity among 15-24 year old women tested in family planning clinics by state: United States and outlying areas, 2002

- Note: States reported chlamydia positivity data on at least 500 women aged 15-24 years screened during 2002, except for New York State Project Area which submitted chlamydia positivity data for January - July 2002 only.
- SOURCE: Regional Infertility Prevention Projects; Office of Population Affairs; Local and State STD Control Programs; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

## Chlamydia — Trends in positivity among 15-44 year old women tested in family planning clinics by HHS regions, 1988–2002

- Note: Trends adjusted for changes in laboratory test method and associated increases in test sensitivity. No data on laboratory test method available for Region VII in 1995 and Regions IV and V in 1996.
- SOURCE: Regional Infertility Prevention Projects; Office of Population Affairs; Local and State STD Control Programs; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
# Presentation: 337056

## Palliative Care Issues

- Marianne Matzo, Ph.D., APRN, BC, FAAN
- Professor, Palliative Care Nursing
- University of Oklahoma College of Nursing

## Palliative care is care provided by an interdisciplinary team
Focused on the relief of suffering
Support for the best possible quality of life

- Palliative care is care provided by an interdisciplinary team
- Focused on the relief of suffering
- Support for the best possible quality of life

## Catastrophic Mass Casualty Palliative Care

- Palliative Care is:
- Evidence-based medical treatment
- Vigorous care of pain and symptoms throughout illness
- Care that patientswant

- Palliative Care is not:
- Abandonment
- The same as hospice
- Euthanasia
- Hastening death

## Good palliative care occurs wherever the patient is.
The community should be prepared about the principles of palliative care in a disaster situation. 

- Good palliative care occurs wherever the patient is.
- The community should be prepared about the principles of palliative care in a disaster situation.

## The minimum goal: die pain and symptom free. 

Effective pain and symptom management is a basic minimum of service. 

- The minimum goal: die pain and symptom free.
- Effective pain and symptom management is a basic minimum of service.

## Adequate and aggressive palliative care services should be available to everyone.
Palliative care under circumstances of a mass casualty event is aggressive symptom management.

- Adequate and aggressive palliative care services should be available to everyone.
- Palliative care under circumstances of a mass casualty event is aggressive symptom management.

## Catastrophic MCE 

**Catastrophic MCE **

- Triage + 1st response

- The too well

- The optimal for treatment

- The too sick to survive

- Existing hospice and PC patients

**Prevailing circumstances**

- Receiving disease modifying treatment

## Catastrophic MCE and Large Volume

**The too sick to survive ***

- Transport

- Other than active  treatment site

- Initially left in place

- Then:

- *
- Those exposed who will die over the course of weeks
- Already existing palliative care population
- Vulnerable population who become palliative care due to scarcity

- Catastrophic MCE and Large Volume

## Clinical Services After Triage

- Resources:
- Personnel
- Coordination
- Supplies

## Clinical Process Issues

- Symptom management, including sedation near death
- Spirituality/meaningfulness
- Family and provider support – mental health
- Family and provider grief and bereavement
- Event-driven protocols and clinical pathways

## Preparation For The Future

- “Many of us discussed the need to evaluate what happened and learn how to be better prepared for the future.”
- “You’re expected to know how to do mass casualty.... You must train for the worst and hope for the best.”
# Presentation: 035230

## Using Epidemiological Profiles to Describe Your Perinatal HIV Epidemic

## Why Develop a Perinatal Epi Profile?

**Provides a document that describes the status of the perinatal epidemic in your area.**
**Useful for prevention planning and evaluation**
**Useful in asking for more resources**
**Benchmark from which to measures progress toward maximal reduction of perinatal HIV**
**Provides broad, integrated response to inquires**

## Questions to Consider

- What groups and individuals would benefit from having a written description of the perinatal HIV epidemic in your area?
- How could such a document be used within the surveillance program?  Within the Prevention Program?

## Where Do I Get The Data ?

- Routine and enhanced perinatal surveillance
- Birth Certificates
- PRAMS - Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- Survey of Childbearing Women
- PSD - Pediatric Spectrum of Disease Project

## Where Do I Get The Data ?

- MIRIAD - Mother-Infant Rapid Interventin at Delivery
- Emerging Infections Program – audit of birth records
- BRFSS - Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System
-  SHAS – Supplement to HIV/AIDS System
- MCH, HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing, STD Programs
- Etcetera ....
# Presentation: 757198

## Magnetron sputtering for low temperature deposition of CdTe-based PV

**Alvin D. Compaan, Univ. of Toledo**
**Work supported by NREL TFPPP & HiPerfPV**

**Some recent results on sputtered films and cells**
**Magnetron sputtering--**
**	****	****some plasma physics, some materials science**
**Reactive  sputtering (CdS:O; ZnTe:N)**
**Alloys for possible tandem cells**
**Cells with thin CdTe absorbers**

**OUTLINE**

- excerpted from ADC presentation: Symp B, MRS-spr-03, presentation B3.7;
- see early data in: Gupta, et al, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 668, H6.4.1 (2001)

## Can thin CdTe work as a top cell? 

**Can thin CdTe work as a top cell? **

**Transmission through ****Tec-15 glassCdS/CdTe structure**

- excerpted from ADC presentation: Symp B, MRS-spr-03, presentation B3.7;
- see early data in: Gupta, et al, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 668, H6.4.1 (2001)

## Quantum efficiency vs. CdTe thickness

-  blue collection doesn’t change with CdTe thickness
-  only thinnest cell shows noticeable drop in the red (deep penetration loss)
-  gradual drop overall indicates poorer quality junction
-  (might be improved by optimizing CdCl2 process and back contact structure/process)

- excerpted from ADC presentation: Symp B, MRS-spr-03, presentation B3.7;
- see earlier data in: Gupta, et al, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 668, H6.4.1 (2001)

- Notes:
- all cells w/ sputtered CdS (130 nm) and sputtered CdTe on Tec-7 glass
- all cells received the same vapor CdCl2 processing
- all cells received the same Cu/Au back contact and diffusion
- (no independent optimization)

**Conclusions:**
# Presentation: 323601

## Teragrid Applications

**Roy Williams**
**Caltech**
**roy@caltech.edu**

**What do the Applications Want From Teragrid?**

## They Say They Want......

- Big MPI Machine
- Fast messaging
- Threads, cache management etc
- Processor Farm
- Parameter sweep, Monte Carlo, etc
- Data and I/O
- Terabyte store
- Terabyte cache/stage
- File transfer
- Database access

## Implemented By......

- Security and Single Sign-on
- Secure rsh
- Secure ftp
- Scheduling
- Co-schedule
- Backfill
- (near) Real-time
- Code Management
- Binary compatibility, CVS, ....?
- Data
- Grid-Database portal
- Reliable transfer

## Annis: Clusters in Sloan

**Sloan **
**DBMS**

**Domain decomp. on sky**

** ****How can TG provide Sloan DBMS?**

## Berriman: Astronomical Image Mosaic

**> 10 TB**

** ****Prototype is already on titan.ncsa**

**2MASS/DPOSS**
**@ SDSC**

**webport**

**replica**

**Image**
**mosaics**

## Bode/Ostriker: Cosmological N-body

** ****Computing is the bottleneck**

## Bordner/Norman: Enzo for Cosmology

** ****I/O  is the bottleneck**

**TB**

## Bourne: Protein Structure

** ****Pipeline of different programs**

## Djorgovski: Quest @ Palomar

** ****Near-real-time constraint: day..hour..minutes**

**Events!**

**Palomar**
**Telescope**

**TB**

**50 GB/night**

## Gor: Biological Cell Growth

** ****Monte-Carlo sweeps**

## Greenberg: Quantum Chemistry

** ****Parameter sweeps**
** ****Different codes**

**MPI / Linda / TCGMSG**

## Karniadakis: Turbulent CFD

** ****Code is both threaded and MPI**
**I/O is the bottleneck**

**TB**

## Klimeck: Nanoscale Electronics

** ****Parameter sweeps**

## Lazzarini: LIGO Pulsar Search

** ****Complex software infrastructure**
** ****Users already involved in LIGO-Grid**

**backfill**

**Domain decomp on**
**Search template**

## McCammon/Baker: Ribosome Structure

** ****Computing is the bottleneck**

## McKoy: Electron-Molecule Collision

** ****Computing is the bottleneck**
**TB scratch space**

## Phillips: NAMD for Molecular Dynamics

** ****Computing is the bottleneck**
**Haptic steering....**

## Seidel: Cactus for Numerical Relativity

** ****Metacomputing (Distributed MPI)**

## Singh/Litvine: ORCA for CMS Reconstruction

**CMS **
**DBMS**

** ****Complex software infrastructure**
** ****How can TG provide CMS objectivity DBMS?**

**events**

## Singh/Litvine: CMSIM for CMS Simulation

** ****Monte Carlo sweeps**

**TB**

## Stockwell: Global Location Data

**?**

## Stoica: Genetic Algorithms for VLSI

** ****Sweep over Genetic Configurations**

## Sugar: Quantum Chromodynamics

** ****Code MPI, threaded, cache optimized**
**Very tightly coupled**
**Distributed massive store**

**TB**

## Woodward: Turbulent CFD in Stars

** ****Code MPI, threaded, Myrinet optimized**
** ****Very tightly coupled**
** ****MPI Metacomputing**

**TB**

## Criteria

- Science output – NSF nuggets
- Is Teragrid “essential” for this project?
- Functioning human chain
# Presentation: 352931

## Utility MACT Workgroup

**Sub Categorization Mini Workgroup**
- J. Michael Geers, Cinergy Corp.
- Sandra Schubert, Earthjustice
- David Schanbacher, ECOS/TNRCC
- Claudia O’Brien, Latham and Watkins

## Mini Work Group Activities

- Worked very hard on this issue
- Two full day meetings
- Follow-up conference call
- Group members had very different perspectives
- The perspectives lead to very detailed discussions
- Ultimately decided it would be best to present the entire workgroup with each of the different perspectives

## Presentation Order

- Michael Geers & Claudia O’Brien
- Sandra Schubert
- David Schanbacher
# Presentation: 827272

##   Welcome to the 

-   Welcome to the

- New Orleans, LA
- June 19 - 28, 2007

- ESF #2 Communications
-  Spring Conference

## Administrative Remarks

-  **Team Assignments**
** ****Start Time – 0800 hrs / Breaks**
** ****No Food & Drinks in Auditorium; Drinks OK in Other Rooms**
** ****Meals**
** ****Pan Am Building & Hotel Meeting Rooms (see handout)**
** ****Restrooms**
** ****Smoking Areas**
** ****Emergency Exits**
** ****Pagers and Cell Phones (Silent)**
** ****Banquet Menu Selection**

**2**

## Administrative Remarks

**Select Airport Bus for June 28 (1200 or 1330)**
**All Briefings Available on HSIN (ESF #2) and NCS Web Site**
**Emergency Phone Number: 504-200-5741**
**TDY Voucher**
**“****Authorization for Actual Costs” must be indicated on your travel orders in order to claim the $107 conference rate**
**Do not check any blocks or say that meals were provided in order to receive the full per diem for meals ($59)**
**Daily Critique Sheets**
**Late Check-out and Baggage Storage**

**3**

## Agenda Key Points

-  **Welcome Remarks**
** ****No-Host Social**
** ****Breakfast Buffet (0630-0745)**
** ****Sit Down Plated Lunch (Refer to Schedule)**
** ****Dinner (On Your Own)**
** ****Training Sessions, Site Visits & Exercise Play**
** ****Banquet**
** ****June 28 Hot Wash/Check-out**
** ****Bus Departures – 1200 & 1330 hrs**

**4**

## Welcome Remarks

**Mr. Gregory Garcia**
**Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity & Communications (CS&C)**

**5**

## New Orleans Welcome

**6**

**Mr. J. Stephen Perry **
**President & CEO**
**New Orleans Metropolitan Convention**
** ****and Visitors Bureau**

## Personal Safety Briefing

**7**

**Sgt. Michael A. LeVasseur**
**Commander, Crime Prevention Section**
**New Orleans Police Department**
# Presentation: 084964

## Semicrystalline Polymers under Confinement as Thin FilmsPeggy Cebe, Tufts University, DMR-0100646

- Polymers that contain crystals are used in advanced applications including the automotive, aerospace and electronic industries. The total amount of the crystals depends upon the temperature at which the crystals are grown.  Examination by infrared analysis shows several absorption peaks, as shown for example in the accompanying figure by the peaks marked 981cm-1 and 1026 cm-1. Results are shown for isotactic polystyrene polymer, for a non-crystalline sample (nc) and for four samples grown at different temperatures from 150C to 165C.  By measuring the height of the 981 peak compared to the 1026 peak, we determine how many crystals have grown at different temperatures.  This approach is especially useful when examining very thin films.

- The figure above is based on work published by
- Hui Xu and Peggy Cebe,  “Transitions from Solid to Liquid in Isotactic Polystyrene Studied by Thermal Analysis and X-ray Scattering ” *Polymer, Special Issue  *doi:10:1016/j.polymer.2005.01.105

## Semicrystalline Polymers under Confinement as Thin FilmsPeggy Cebe, Tufts University, DMR-0100646

- Semicrystalline Polymers under Confinement as Thin FilmsPeggy Cebe, Tufts University, DMR-0100646

**Education and Outreach to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing**

- a

- b

- c

- Prof. Cebe and student interns participated in the Undergraduate Research Symposium of the American Chemical Society’s Northeast Regional Meeting in Oct. 2004.  Intern Jingjing Pan (Fig. a), a chemistry major from Rochester Institute of Technology, gives her presentation in American Sign Language.   Prof. Cebe visited Gallaudet University (Fig. b,c) the nation’s only liberal arts university for the deaf.  At Gallaudet, Prof. Cebe met with past and present interns (Fig. b, left to right) Jennifer Berrigan (2003), Niesha Washington (2004) and Debeshu Amare (2005).  Prof. Cebe, on behalf of the ACS, presents a certificate

- to Niesha, a biology major, acknowledging her co-authorship of the 2005 interns’ poster at the San Diego ACS meeting.  They are joined by Ann Powell, chair of the biology department (left).

**a**

**b**

**c**