Michael Piasecki

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Michael Piasecki Assoc. Prof. for Water
resources Drexel University Dept of Civil,
Architectural and Environmental
Engineering Philadelphia, PA Email
Michael.Piasecki_at_drexel.edu WEB
www.pages.drexel.edu/mp29 Research
Interests Hydroinformatics and Information
Systems for the Hydrologic/Environm.
Sciences metadata knowledge representation
using ontologies interoperability and semantic
heterogeneities Modeling of large scale aquatic
systems transport of environmental stressors and
sediment processes hydrodynamics and turbulence
representations web-based modeling environments
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• Involved in
• Metadata profile development for CUAHSI
• as part of the CUAHSI Hydrologic
• Information System group that is funded
• through NSF Geosciences
• development of Ontologies for the
• hydrologic sciences for a conceptual
  representation of processes and also semantics
  that are machine interpreted
• interoperability problems between different
  communities and their resolution through the
  use of ontology representations of controlled
  vocabularies
• development of smart search engines like
  Hydroogle that pre-defines focused
• queries based on an interpretation of
  hydrologic terms and processes (ontology
  representation)
• member of CLEANER CI advisory comm. member of
  LTER CI advisory comm. NSF ENG CI workshop
  organization participation in numerous CI
  workshops for Env Obs Systems

Drexel University, College of Engineering