GHRC DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC) and Operations Manager Helen Conover (UAH) attended the DAAC Managers Technical Interchange Meeting, hosted by PO.DAAC at JPL January 27-28. Dr. Ramachandran made presentations in the Cloud Computing and Virtual Collections sessions.

GHRC has published the annual update to the suite of LIS/OTD Lightning Climatology datasets. These ten datasets offer full, annual, monthly and diurnal climatologies of lightning observed from space from May 1995 through December 2014, including both Optical Transient Detector and TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor, at 0.5 and 0.25 degree resolutions.

GHRC was represented by DAAC Manager Rahul Ramachandran (NASA/MSFC) Operations Manager Helen Conover (UAH) and UAH GHRC PI Sara Graves (UAH) at the ESIP Federation Winter meeting, held January 6-8 in Washington, DC. Affiliated researchers Ken Keiser and Kaylin Bugbee (both UAH) also attended. The group presented posters on student research using GHRC data, plans for the HS3 Data System, Event-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Technologies Supporting The Disaster Lifecycle, the Science on Drupal ACCESS project, and work with the ESDIS Standards Office.