"Confessions of a (Data) User"

Plenary Speaker
Oral Presentation

Prepared by S. Meiburg
Wake Forest University, Sustainability Graduate Programs, PO Box 7306, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109, United States


Contact Information: msus@wfu.edu; 336.758.6032


ABSTRACT

For many years, NELAC has been a leader in promoting the generation of valid, quality-assured data.  The result has been a great expansion in the amount of detailed, reliable information we have about conditions in the environment.

But what does all this look like for the users of such information?  This talk will look at this transformation from the perspective of a long-time data user, and consider some of the strengths, and challenges, of these developments