Add landing page for CIRES Rendezvous 2025 poster

Author: trey-stafford

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+      - href: cires_rendezvous_poster.md
+        text: "CIRES Rendezvous 2025 poster"
 
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+# NASA NSIDC DAAC's Data Access Tool: reflections, improvements, and evolution to support NASA Earthdata
+
+This is a landing page for the
+[CIRES Rendezvous](https://ciresevents.colorado.edu/rendezvous/) 2025 poster.
+More content will be added here shortly!
+
+## Abstract
+
+The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)'s Data Access Tool (DAT)
+is a web-based Javascript application that provides an interface for users to
+find, filter, and download data files associated with NSIDC DAAC datasets.
+Originally released in late 2018, The DAT currently serves 739 datasets,
+supporting 28% of total users and 17% of total data volume downloaded from the
+NSIDC DAAC. In April 2025, NSIDC DAAC updated the DAT to support datasets
+available from the NASA Earthdata Cloud and provide a new download option for
+users via NASA's Earthdata Download application. In the future, NSIDC DAAC plans
+to collaborate with teams across the NASA Earth Science Data Systems program to
+scale the DAT into an enterprise tool, with the goal of serving all NASA
+Earthdata datasets as an integrated application within the NASA Earthdata
+website. This integration will make it easier for data users to search, discover
+and download the data they want without leaving the data landing page, improving
+the overall accessibility of NASA Earthdata.
+
+This poster highlights the primary features of the DAT, reflects on usage over
+the years, and previews the DAT's future as an enterprise NASA tool. The poster
+also provides information about the open source software that defines and powers
+the DAT, opening the possibility for collaboration with the open source
+community.
+
+## Try out the Data Access Tool
+
+Below are some example links to dataset-specific instances of the Data Access
+Tool:
+
+- [ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data, Version 6 (ATL03)](https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/ATL03/versions/6)
+- [Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 2 (NSIDC-0051)](https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/NSIDC-0051/versions/2)
+- [MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 61 (MOD10A1)](https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/MOD10A1/versions/61)
+- [High Mountain Asia 8-meter DEM Mosaics Derived from Optical Imagery, Version 1 (HMA_DEM8m_MOS)](https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/HMA_DEM8m_MOS/versions/1)
+- [SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Global and Polar Grid Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 6 (SPL3SMP_E)](https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/SPL3SMP_E/versions/6)