CMG Collaborations in Mathematical Geoscience

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CI Management Workshop Panel 7/29/03
Steve Meacham Directorate for Geosciences National
Science Foundation
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Measures of success

• Objectives for an NSF-wide CI activity
• to enhance research and education across science
  and engineering
• to continue research on cyberinfrastructure
  itself
• Successful, as a Foundation-wide activity, if
• CI has a significant impact across the research
  and education portfolio
• New developments in CI are adopted by and have a
  significant impact on society at large

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Management Challenges

• The diversity of the research and education
  portfolio
• Developing community awareness of CI
  opportunities
• Coordination to avoid unnecessary duplication or
  the repetition of mistakes
• Encouraging the formation of partnerships
• Enhancing communication
• Strengthening the management of large projects
• Similarities with the challenges faced by the
  environmental
• research and education communities. Interesting
  internal
• and external mechanisms there may have something
  to offer

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Complexity through interacting processes
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Interacting scales

• Simulations of ocean circulation from meters to
  global scale carried out using the MIT general
  circulation model. Courtesy of Alistair Adcroft,
  Chris Hill, and John Marshall, Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology.
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Erupting Prominence in Ha

• Erupting prominence returns
• B-pressure beaten by B-tension and gravity
• No CME!

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In silico experimentation

• Model of solar convection Brun Toomre, 2002

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CI
Ocean Observatories Initiative
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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.
• Community models and model-data fusion systems

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Cyber-infrastructure
The opportunity to combine many different types
of data and to seek a deeper understanding of
complex systems

• Ex from fault rupture to ground shaking
• SCEC-CME

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For Geosciences

• Aim Enhancing research and education by seizing
  the opportunities offered by cyberinfrastructure.
• Motivations Research educ going in new
  directions
• Addressing more complex systems
• Working with new data-gathering systems
• Working with larger and more diverse data streams
• In silico experimentation and automated analysis
  (cyber-science)
• Data-model fusion
• Increasingly effective EOT tools
• Needs
• Data management, data analysis tools, new
  statistical approaches
• On-demand computing (real-time data, real-time
  cycles)
• High-performance computing and computational
  tools
• Enhanced support for collaborative research

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Collaborations

• Between domain scientists, computer scientists
  and mathematical scientists
• Between researchers from different disciplines
• E.g. earth system science atmospheric, oceanic,
  hyrological, ecological, geological, social
  science researchers
• Between theorists, experimentalists numerical
  modelers

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Workshop examples

• Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research
  and Education.
• Oct 30 Nov 1, 2002, Boulder, Colorado.
• (2) GeoInformatics System A Workshop on Planning
  and Coordinating Environmental Cyberinfrastructure
  Activities in the Earth Sciences
• May 14 - 15, 2003, SDSC, La Jolla, CA
• (3) Ocean Sciences Cyberinfrastructure Workshop
• May 21-23, 2003, Skamania Lodge, Washington

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A great opportunity!

• CI can
• Broaden access to education tools, data
  resources, experimental and observation
  facilities, computational facilities, research
  results etc. for a broad spectrum of researchers
  and educators
• Create opportunities for new directions in
  research through cyber-science and
  cyber-engineering