nsf and environmental cyberinfrastructure
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NSF and Environmental Cyberinfrastructure. Margaret Leinen Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, NCAR 2002. A brief history of “cyberinfrastructure” at NSF. 2000 : Community and NSF concern about the asymmetrical development of computer power and tools to use the power - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
NSF and EnvironmentalCyberinfrastructure
Margaret LeinenEnvironmental Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, NCAR 2002
A brief history of “cyberinfrastructure” at NSF
• 2000:
– Community and NSF concern about the asymmetrical development of computer power and tools to use the power
– CISE funds a number of large scale infrastructure proposals as part of the Information Technology Research priority area
• Late 2000CISE proposes a “cyberinfrastructure”
component to the ITR
Cyberinfrastructure
cycles
networking
data mgt training
software
data manipulation
• Early 2001
– NSF establishes a “Blue Ribbon” panel to provide advice in developing cyberinfrastructure
– Kelvin Droeggemeier a member of panel
– Environmental community discussion of cyberinfrastructure needs
Special challenges of Special challenges of environmental researchenvironmental research
• Global scope• Geospatial reference• Complexity of systems• Disciplinary integration• Volume of data • Need for long-term data collection
and simulations• Value of historical data• Predictive power for decision-
making in uncertainty
Changes in Environmental Changes in Environmental EducationEducation
• New demands for curricular materials
– Connect data on Earth’s physical and biotic components
– Include recent research data and results
• Discovery-based learning
– Hands-on activities– Consideration of social
implications in decision-making exercises
Needs in Environmental Needs in Environmental EducationEducation
• Digital Libraries for data collections and images
• Tools for manipulation of data and discovery activities
• Communications networks for access and collaborations
• Support services for contributors, teachers, and students
Challenges: Synthesis of Needs of Various
Environmental Communities
• Management of distributed observing systems• Standards for data integrity and accuracy• Capacity to archive large data sets• Rapid access to databases and computational
power through high bandwidth networks• Common modeling frameworks• Computing power for modeling, visualization,
and prediction• Long-term maintenance, operations, and data
management• Need for skilled workforce
Other ChallengesOther Challenges
• Challenges that have not been identified because they are beyond the n
– Combining spatial images and digital data– Modeling frameworks that integrate earth,
atmospheric and ocean systems– Modeling frameworks that integrate physical
systems with biological and engineering systems
– Knowledge or decision-support systems that combine geospatial information with demographic, economic and other data for land use and disaster management
– Intellectual property issues– Security and privacy issues
Discipline research
Discipline cyberinfrastructure
Computer and computational cyberinfrastructure
Computer and computational research
Where does cyberinfrastructure stop and
research begin?
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure
Compute cycles
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure
Compute cycles
Networks, software, data manipulation,
data management, training
CISE cyberinfrastructure:
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure
Compute cycles
Networks, software, data manipulation,
data management, training
Cyberinfrastructure for discipline science
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure
Spatial data challenges: e.g.Merging digital imagery with
digital data
Compute cycles
Networks, software, data manipulation,
data management, training
Cyberinfrastructure for discipline science
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