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## Cybercommunity growth in Geoscience

**Cybercommunity growth in Geoscience**
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## The coalescence of a cybercommunity

- White papers and academy reports
- Strategic plans
- Community groups
- Workshops
- Advisory Committee
- Town meetings
- Funded prototypes

## Community Planning Guidance Examples from Geosciences

**Community Planning Guidance Examples from Geosciences**

***Consultation with  environmental community leaders***
***NSF - Nov. 19, 2001***

##      Information Technology

-      **Information Technology**
**Infrastructure Plan**
**     ****to Advance Ocean Sciences**

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## GEOINFORMATICS

***COORDINATION & MANAGEMENT***

**STRATIGRAPHIC & ANCIENT LIFE SYSTEMS**

**SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS & ACTIVE TECTONICS**

**CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE & EVOLUTION**

**EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES & HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES**

**INDUSTRY & AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS**

**EDUCATION & OUTREACH**

**COMPUTATIONAL FACILITIES**
**Information, visualization & analytical technologies**

**EarthScope**

**IRIS**

**SCEC**

**PaleoBiology Database**

**CHRONOS**

**CSM**

**NCED**

**CUAHSI**

**SAHRA**

**GEON - Science**

**GERM**

**NAVADAT**

**Computational**** ****Geodynamics**

** ****GEON-SDSC**
**NCSA**
**CACR**
**SDC-NCAR**

**Geo-Vision**

**EGI Global Database**

**GEOINFORMATICS**

## Ocean CI

- Tom (Zack) Powell, UC Berkeley (biophysical ocean experimentalist and modeler)
- Mark Abbott, OSU, (remote sensing, large data sets)
- Marjy Friedrichs, ODU (ecosystem modeler)
- Doug Crawford, RSMAS (genomics and bioinformatics)
- Scott Doney, WHOI (tracers and biogeochemical cycles)
- Ray Najjar, PSU (biogeochemistry in coastal and open ocean)
- Dale Haidvogel, Rutgers (model builder, coastal and ecosystem modeling, coastal observatories)
- John Orcutt, SIO (geophysics, seafloor observatories, communications)
- Nick Pisais OSU (paleo, ocean drilling)
- Larry Mayer, UCSC (marine geology and geophysics)
- Regan Moore, SDSC (large scale distributed databases)
- Carl Kesselmann, USC (computer science, GRID middleware, KRR)
- Rob Pennington, NCSA (large scale computing and databases)

- Community Steering Committee

## Ocean CI-SC

- Most recent meeting:  May, 2003
- Presentations from computer scientists, IT industry, and geoscientists
- Pilot projects for Ocean-CI
- Coordination, disciplinary and interdisciplinary

## Atmospheric CI

- Dave Bader, DoE
- Eric Barron, PSU
- Joe Bredekamp, NASA
- Cecilia DeLuca, NCAR
- Kelvin Droegemeier, U Oklahoma
- Tamas Gombosi, U Mich
- Jim Hansen, MIT
- John Holt, Haystack Observatory
- Jim Kinter, COLA (Chair)
- Mary Marlino, UCAR/DLESE
- Bill Matthaeus, U Del
- Martha Meehl, NCAR
- Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR/Unidata
- Bob Wilhelmson, UIUC

- Community Steering Committee

## Atmospheric CI-SC

- Most recent meeting: April, 2003.
- Discussed
- Draft outline of community report on CI
- Planned outreach efforts to ATM community, including regional focus groups

## Earth Science CI

- Lee Allison, KU/KGS
- Tom Jordan, USC/SCEC
- Chaitan Baru, UCSD/SDSC
- Tim Ahern, IRIS
- Dave Furbish, FSU
- Randy Keller, UTEP
- David Maidment, UT Austin
- Charles Meertens, UNAVCO
- Sharon Mosher, UT Austin
- James Ogg, Purdue
- Peter Olson, JHU
- Lisa Tauxe, SIO
- Douglas Walker, KU
- Bruce Wardlaw, USGS
- Richard Carlson, Carnegie Inst

- Geoinformatics Task Group

## Earth science CI-SC

- Most recent meeting:  May 2003
- Main focus: how to coordinate Geoinformatics activities

## Geoinformatics workshop

**GeoInformatics System: A Workshop on Planning and Coordinating Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Activities in the Earth Sciences**
- San Diego Supercomputer Center,University of California, La Jolla, CaliforniaMay 14 and 15, 2003

## Workshops

**GeoInformatics System: A Workshop on Planning and Coordinating Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Activities in the Earth Sciences**
- San Diego Supercomputer Center,University of California, La Jolla, CaliforniaMay 14 and 15, 2003

## ECI Workshop

- Web-site:- _[http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/cyber](http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/cyber)_
- Participants:
- approx 75 from research community (comp sci, geography, env engineering, terrestrial and marine ecology, hydrology, atmospheric sc, ocean sci, earth sci, mathematical sciences,...)
- approx 20 feds
- Meeting products
- Two-volume report
- Synthesis
- Full meeting report
- Networking
- Directions for future ECI planning

- Halloween Workshop (10/30/02-11/1/02) in Boulder

## ECI Workshop

- _Cyberinfrastructure in the Next Decade - Dan Atkins, Michigan _
- _CI for Environmental Research and Education - David Skole, Michigan State _
- _The Semantic Web - Deborah McGuinness, Stanford _
- _NEESgrid: Where Infrastructure Meets Cyberinfrastructure - Kyran Mish, Oklahoma _
- _OPeNDAP: Accessing Data in a Distributed, Heterogeneous Environment - Peter Cornillon, URI _
- _Data Mining - Steve Tanner, UAH _
- _Southern Cal Earthquake Center - Tom Jordan, USC _
- _Global Biodiversity Information Facility - Meredith Lane, GBIF_

- Plenary talks

## ECI Workshop

- Collecting Data and Making It Available
- Using Data: Data Assimilation, Analysis, and Modeling
- Collaboration tools and strategies
- Creating a New Kind of Environmental Scientist
- Atmosphere/Meteorology/Climate
- Biology/Ecology
- Earth science/Geology/Geography/Hydrology
- Education/Training
- Oceans

- Discussion topics

## ECI Workshop

- Characteristics of environmental science challenges
- Integration and analysis of many kinds of data
- Vast range of space and time scales
- High data volume
- Interdisciplinary
- Mix of geo-referenced and non-geo referenced data
- Data model synthesis in near real-time
- Expectations of ECI
- Accelerate discovery
- Foster new types of interdisciplinary and disciplinary science
- Create new fields
- Increase science productivity and educational effectiveness
- Enable new connections between science and society

## ECI Workshop

- ECI will consist of
- Collaboratory tools
- Analysis tools
- Modeling and data workbenches
- Knowledge management tools based on comprehensive ontologies
- Location-independent access to all env-sci related datasets
- Network bandwidth (impact of M2M not well understood)
- Computational power
- Collections of well documented model components
- ECI will be
- Ubiquitous, mostly invisible, reliable, user friendly

## ECI Workshop

- Priorities and recommendations (data)
- Improved, interoperable methods for representing data, metadata, QC, documentation
- Data interface standardization, data set availability, long-term preservation
- Review and credentialing of data and educational materials
- Increased coordination of present and future data-CI efforts
- Enhanced collaboration between computer scientists and environmental scientists
- ERE-CI portals
- Reference ontologies
- Common data models
- Coordinated data distribution network with near real-time capability
- New CI rewards system and metrics
- Enhance interoperability of data systems
- Develop environmental science data grids and federate all classes of databases
- Integrate environmental research centers into the TeraGrid
- Expand Access Grid
- Integrate of digital library efforts
- Develop production collaboratories
- Organize series of ECI workshops – knowledge dissemination, community building, CI organization, identification of CI for Grand Challenge tasks

## ECI Workshop

- Other issues (data)
- Quality of Service to those not on high bandwidth networks
- Time until Grid delivers
- Dealing with the inhomogeneity of sequence data
- Automatic generation of metadata
- Procedures for data rescue and data archaeology
- Transfer of analog data to digital form
- Capabilities for translation between ontologies
- Development and use of smart agents

## ECI Workshop

- Other issues (data)
- Avoiding duplication of effort, waste of resources, missed opportunities
- Inter-agency coordination (esp. as CII develops), e.g. on long-term data management
- How to manage transition to sustained system
- Which data should be preserved
- Establish an ERE-CI federation focused on increasing interoperability
- Start production collaboratories
- Intellectual property issues

## Advisory Committee

- Apr, 2002:
- Presentation on the Atkins Committee report by Kelvin Droegemeier
- Nov, 2002:
- Working Group Discussion on Cyberinfrastructure
- Apr, 2003
- Cyberinfrastructure review and panel discussion (panel members were members of community groups looking at cyberinfastructure issues in Earth, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences)
- Formation of AC sub-committee for Cyberinfrastructure

## ERE-Advisory Committee

- Oct, 2002:
- Panel on cyberinfrastructure:
-      Peter Freeman, Assistant Director, Computer Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, NSF
-      Dan Atkins, University of Michigan, “Blue Ribbon” Panel Chair
-      Mark Abbott, Oregon State University
-      Mark Schildhauer, University of California-Santa Barbara, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
-      Lee Allison, University of Kansas
-      Tim Killeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Apr, 2003
- Drafted Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Paper

## Town meetings

- American Geophysical Union semi-annual meetings: Spring and Fall 2002
- American Meteorological Society annual meeting: Feb, 2003.

## Prototype projects

- SCEC-CME (Southern California Earthquake Center – Community Modeling Experiment)
- GEON (Geosciences Network)
- DLESE (Digital Library for Earth Science Education)
- Unidata
- IRIS
- NVODS/OpenDAP
- Various data management systems for disciplines and projects.