2011

• Virtual Learning Environment Meeting, OuluU, Finland, ILTER Supplement (Baker, Vanderbilt, Pennington, Karasti)
• LTER IMC Governance Working Group Terms of Reference (Baker) IMC/NISAC
• IM Recharge Facility at SIO given go-ahead
• NISAC Meeting with IMExec Albuquerque (Baker)
• Programmer/analyst resign (Kortz, to attend law school)
• Information Manager retire (Baker, to attend graduate school)
• PAL Information Manager (J. Conners)
• IMC Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA

2010

• Plans to replace server iSurf (orig iocean purchased in 2004)
• Programmer/analyst resign (Yarmey, position as Stanford science librarian)
• Design Studio study (K. Baker, J. Donovan)
• Ocean Informatics summer reading group
• DataZoo middleware design launched, Generation 3 system
• Post ASM LTER grant funded - Unit Registry (Baker, Kortz)
• LTER IM product oriented support - Personnel Directory web service (Baker, Kortz)
• Web services LTER IM buy-out support - Web Services (Kortz)
• IMC Meeting at Kellogg Biological Station (Baker, Kortz, Conners)
• Research associate end (Kelley, CalCOFI OPC project ended)
• Migration to server vSurf completed

2009

• Design visits to Ocean Institute, Dana Point (Kortz, Conners, Dovel)
• Summer students: RPetersen (Gazetteer, HistoryDB); SWiley (Logger), JHayes (LTER IM)
• Zooplankton Data management Workshop at SIO PACOOS/NOAA
• DataZoo service-oriented architecture initiated
• Education/Outreach supervision transfer Baker to Ohman (Simmons)
• Ocean Informatics summer reading group
• Yarmey half-time fellowship for Masters UIllinois
• LTER All Scientists Meeting Estes Park, CO (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Millerand, Karasti, Ribes, Jackson)
• IMC Meeting with Unit Registry Demo (Baker, Kortz, Conners)
• CalCOFI Ocean Sites collaboration begin
• RA begin with marine mammal data (Kelley, 1 da/week)

2008

• Robert Thombley depart CalCOFI
• Ocean Protection Council Grant CalCOFI (Koslow/Baker; 2008-2010-2011)
• IOD Computational Infrastructure Support CIS Recharge Facility begins (IOD-CIS)
• Charles Baker begin with IOD
• DataZoo developed as resource-based architecture
• DataZoo management interface shift from EML to XML
• Ichthyoplankton project for database migration begins
• IMC Meeting in Albuquerque, NM (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Yarmey)
• Programmer/Analyst transfer to Ohman (Jensen)
• Personnel hire closed (unsuccessful)

2007

• IOD admin meeting to discuss new OI funding structure
• New CalCOFI director begin (Tony Koslow)
• HICSS paper on Information Systems and on Articulation Work
• Baker lab move to Design Studio
• San Jose and Ann Arbor CIP meetings and Infrastructure Roundtable
• Prog/Analyst starts full time (Conners)
• Developed EML & Metacat harvesting
• DataZoo launch (PAL, CCE), Generation 2 system under SVN
• IMC Meeting in San Jose, CA (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Yarmey)
• Systems reconfiguration (iSurf, iOcean)
• Programmer/Analyst hire (DJensen begin, Matlab MVP)
• Beth Simmons move to East Coast, VA

2006

• DataZoo Information System design begin
• IOD/SIO meeting to discuss computational infrastructure funding
• Science Studies summer student (Lindseth, eventlogger)
• Expansion to second server iSurf
• IM Team begin (Haber; Kortz, Conners)
• IMC Meeting & ASM in Estes Park, CO (Baker, Kortz, Wanetick, Yarmey)
• Data Meetings with SWFSC/NOAA begin

2005

• Spring/Summer Ocean Informatics Reading Group
• DataCat data system begin, Generation 1 system
• Collaborative Metadata Initiative Support (L.Yarmey)
• Web/Database Programmer hire w/SysAdmin (M.Kortz)
• Palmer Data and Website ported from UCSB to new infrastructure UCSD/SIO/IOD/LTER
• LTER IM Meeting in Montreal (Baker, Millerand, Yarmey, Wanetick)
• Marine Metadata Meeting in Denver (Haber, Wanetick)
• PAL lead Unit Registry Working Group (K.Baker, L.Yarmey, S.Haber)
• PAL lead Community Process Working Group (K.Baker, F.Millerand)
• Databits co-authored article: EML Lessons Learned
  Term "enactment" introduced in software development lifecycle
• PAL Webpage relaunched (http://pallter.sio.ucsd.edu)
• Palmer LTER site review at Palmer Station

2004

• LTER IM Meeting in Portland (Karen, Lynn)
• Ocean Informatics Infrastructure launched
• UCSD/SIO/IOD iOcean installed for web&collaborative services platform
• Disk Storage shared services expanded LTER/IOD (J.Wanetick)
• PAL Database Programmer hire (S.Haber)
• LTER CCE added as new site with synergistic IM
• Marine Partnership SIO with NOAA/CalCOFI/SCCOOS
• Ocean Informatics project (K. Baker) NSF/OPP/SBE
  (2004-2005) Organizational Informatics: Interdisciplinary Infrastructuring and Agents of Change
  Project Website

2003

• Ocean Informatics Exchange Events begin
• LTER IM Meeting in Seattle, WA
• LTER All Scientists Meeting, Seattle (Karen Beth)
• Ocean Informatics concept study (K.Baker, J.Wanetick, S.Jackson)
  Project Website
• REU Database programmer
• Sociotechnical study (G. Bowker, K. Baker, F. Millerand, D. Ribes) NSF/SBE
  (2003-2009) Comparative Interoperability Strategies: GEON, LTER, and Ocean Informatics
  Project Website

2002

• LTER IM Metadata Meeting at ASU Phoenix
• LTER IM Exec meeting at SDSC (Feb)
• LTER EML Metadata first meeting at Phoenix (Feb)
• LTER EML Metadata second meeting at Phoenix (Jun)
• PAL photo galley web interface
• LTER IM meeting at Orlando
• PAL pc database server installation within infrastructure
• PAL web page redesign and launched on new platform
• PAL IM and Participatory Design study (G. Bowker, K. Baker, H. Karasti) NSF/BDEF
  (2002-2003) BioDiversity and Ecosystem Informatics
  Project Website
• PAL collaborative work on digital collections, SDSC & UCSD Library
• PAL CoChair SCI2002 LTER 2 Sessions/Papers Orlando
• PAL JCDL Digital Library Meeting (Portland/Jul)
• PAL CERN Workshop at UCSD/SIO (San Diego/Aug)

2001

• PAL Lead PI transition (R.Smith to H.Ducklow)
• PAL Logistics Coordinator transition (H.Quinby, VIMS)
• PAL Relational Database Programmer hire part-time (Kevin Wu)
• LTER IM Exec Meeting at Phoenix (April)
• LTER IM Meeting Madison (August)
• OPP policy change: Raytheon support for CTD technician
• Disk Storage server upgrade
• Disk Storage 70GB online
• PAL webserver upgrade
  (Digital Unix2.0 alpha kern -> Sun Solaris5.7 solaris guardian)
• International Zone Etilier-LTER Workshop France (K.Baker)
• PAL LTER Site Description Directory Meeting at LNO
• Digital Library collaboration w/SDSC, UCSD LIbrary and CERN
• Digital Library for Earth Science Education Meeting (K.Baker)

2000

• LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird
• LTER IM Exec Meeting at Albuquerque (Feb)
• LTER IM Meeting SnowBird (August)
• LTER LNO IM Fellowship (2 month) for project SiteDB
• PAL CDROM produced for ice cruise LTERJUN99
• PAL IM-EDU Partner in TEA Internship at SIO/UCSB (Swanson-Baker)
• LTER Schoolyard Meeting hosted by PAL IM-EDU at SDSC (December)

1999

• Palmer LTER site review at UCSB
• LTER IM Exec Meeting at NCEAS
• LTER IM Meeting Spokane
• PAL Education Forum at NCEAS with IM dimension
• PAL IM Fellowship 1 month at Network Office
• PAL Relational Database Programmer hire part-time (Weimin Li)
• Disk Storage 18GB online
• Optical disk archive transitioned

1998

• LTER DM Exec meeting at AND with partner NACSE
• LTER DM meeting Baltimore
• Web Gopher turned off
• First REU data management summer student
• PAL Infrastructure benefits from ICESS NSF Center of Excellence award
• PAL Elected member of DataManager DataTask Committee (K.Baker)
• PAL Field Communications satellite LES9 replacement discussions
• PAL Support Cross Site Climate Change Synthesis Web Page
• PAL Support Cross Site Ice Collaboration
• PAL Support Cross Site Education Web Page from Network Office
• PAL EASY oceanographic GIS software discussions

1997

• PAL LTER second cycle NSF funding begins (96-02)
• LTER All Scientists Symposium, Albuquerque
• ESA/LTER/OBFS Information Workshop speaker
• LTER DM meeting Univ of New Mexico
• PAL Member of DM Climate Committee
• CLIMSTAT/CLIMDB workshop participant
• LTER Climate Data Harvest URL provided
• LTER Data Catalog Harvest URL provided
• LTER Data Catalog incorporates weather data
• PAL web structure broadened to include gopher
• Web forms developed for CC meeting

1996

• LTER DM Meeting Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid
• AWS Hugo Isldo temp probe installation
• PAL Data policy change: OPP/NSF data criteria
• first Palmer synthesis poster produced (1993-1996)
• First Data Catalog using dynamic web page (cgi scripts)
• ECOINFORMA PAL with BAS Representative (PAL IM, Tools papers)
• Disk Storage 9GB online
• Field storage media ZIP disk drives used in the field
• Field data transfer via satellite LES9 weekly
• OPP/ASA Palmer Working Group on weather (K.Baker)

1995

• LTER Televideo Technology for CC Meeting
• LTER DM meeting Snowbird, Utah STRATEGIC VISION, NIS
• Electronic Field Notebook/Files online, in field
• Cross-site PAL/MCM GIS in Limnology and Oceanography, Reno with ASLO
• PAL lead PI rotation to Raymond Smith

1994

• LTER DM Meeting Seattle
• PAL Online Data Table Assessment created
• AWS Hugo Island weather station installed
• Logistics Coordinator appointed (C.Johnson, SIO)
• OPP McMurdo User Working Group Member 1994-1997
• Web capability (1990 WWW began; 1992 mosaic; 1994 netscape)
• PAL Web Homepage (http://pal.icess.ucsb.edu)
• Disk storage 2GB
• Historical documentation focus initiated
• Palmer Station Eventlog initiated

1993

• LTER All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park
• LTER DM Meeting Madison with ESA
• Environmental Information Management & Analysis Symposium
• Data Manager designated coPI
• Online Browse created using gopher
• LTER Data Policy drafted
• Field documentation facilitation with electronic forms
• Field Data Transfer via satellite explored

1992

• LTER DM Meeting Honolulu with ESA
• LTER DM Outreach China
• AWS Bonaparte Point weather station installed
• Data Manager designated (K.Baker)
• Data Forms developed
• Metadata online browse deployed
• Networking Mac IP Tunnel at UCSB

1991

• LTER DM Meeting, San Antonio with ESA (K.Baker)
• LTER GIS Working Group Report
• PAL Cruise/annual: PAL grid established
• PAL Bibliography initiated
• PAL Historical files initiated (weather)
• PAL Cruise Eventlog initiated
• PAL Information Manager (K. Baker)

1990

• Second all scientists meeting, Estes Park, CO
• New site added (PAL)
• PAL LTER first cycle NSF funding begins (90-96)(Robin Ross Lead PI)
• PAL Information Management Representative (J. Frew)

1989

• Network Office established on Univ. of Washington Campus
• DM Meeting, Canada
• DM Databits electronic newsletter (J.Porter)

1988

• Minimum Standard Installation (MSI) developed

1987

• LTER Network News, first issue

1982

• First Data Management Symposium in Illinois

1979

• First LTER set of six sites funded (NTL,AND,CWT,KNZ,NIN,NWT)