Deborah Smith, GHRC DAAC Scientist, attended the American Meteorological Society Hurricane and Tropical Meteorology Conference held in Ponte Vedre, Florida from April 16 - 20, 2018. This conference included sessions on the latest hurricane research and findings. On Thursday evening, April 19th, a town hall was held on use of and access to airborne data by the hurricane research community that drew a crowd of more than 50 people. The panel contained data center representatives and data users, who each gave a brief presentation.

Helen Conover attended the NASA Science Investigator-led Processing Systems Workshop, held May 2-3 at NASA GSFC. She presented current status and plans for near-real time and standard processing of data from the AMSR and LIS instruments, managed jointly by UAH ITSC and NASA MSFC. Other important topics included current guidelines on data formats and standards, and NASA Earth Science cloud activities.