Transcript EarthCube and the community

Update on EarthCube
Unidata Policy Committee
May 2012
Status
Activities
Charrette
EarthCube
and the
Community
Awards
7 Concepts
Community Groups
15 active
all working on roadmaps
6 Community
1 Workshop
1 Stakeholder study
Activities
Website
>900 members
Frequent updates
NSF EarthCube Staff
Participation
5 GEO
3 OCI
2 CISE
~10 POs
Charrette
Dates: June 12-14
Place: Rosslyn
Attendance: 150 on-site & ~ 100 virtual (est.)
Objectives: Integrate the efforts
Outcome: Roadmaps
Enhancements: Early Career scientists & observers and provocateurs
Approach: Flexible agenda
Partnership, Stakeholder Alignment and Community Engagement
EarthCube and the community
Context & Partnership
For
• GEO is increasing “born- • CyberInfrastructure
st Century (CIF21)
the
21
digital”
– Builds national infrastructure for S&E
Arctic Sea Ice
Oceans
– Leverages common methods,
approaches, and applications – focus
on interoperability
EarthScope
Observatory
– Catalyzes other CI investments across
NSF
The Science Context
•
Water
• Provides focus and is a vehicle for
coordinating efforts and
programs
Earth System
Modeling
Satellites
– Based upon a shared governance
model involving every directorate and
office
The Dynamic
Earth
Water:
Changing
Perspective
The Changing
Climate
GEO CI
•
GeosphereBiosphere
Connection
s
Earth and
Life
– Managed as a coherent program by
OCI
• EarthCube is GEO contribution to
CIF21
The EarthCube Vision
CUASHI
Unidata
An alternative approach
to respond to daunting
science and CI challenges
OOI
IRIS
IEDA
NCAR
EarthCube is an outcome
and a process
EarthCube will
require broad
community
participation
EarthCube Goal and Outcomes
Goal
Outcomes
To transform the
conduct of research
in geosciences by
supporting the
development of
community-guided
cyberinfrastructure
to integrate data
and information for
knowledge
management across
the Geosciences.
Transform practices within the geosciences community
spanning over the next decade
Provide unprecedented new capabilities to researchers
and educators
Vastly improve the productivity of community
Accelerate research on the Earth system
Provide a knowledge management framework for the
geosciences
Strategic Convergence Using “Spiral Development”
Strong but uneven engagement of the geosciences
and cyberinfrastructure communities
Recent Activities
Social Network Site
http://earthcube.ning.com/
~940 members to
the EarthCube
website
113 white paper
submission;185
respondents to user
survey
~70 expression of
interest emails
12 Community
Groups
Unknown number of
hours of pro bono
contributions by the
community
Unprecedented view
of the pulse of the
geosciences
community
Significant International Engagement
Timeline
 Accelerating the Community Dialog
 Defining the initial scope of EarthCube
 New starting point for collaboration
Social
Network
Site
First DCL
June 2011
July 2011
Webex
Community
Outreach
Aug 2011
EAGER
Phase
Nov 2011
First
Charrette
Dec 2011- present
Timeline
Mar – May, 2012
June, 2012
Chapeau
Solicitation
~Sept 2012
Chapeau
Amendment 1
Sept -Nov 2012
More
EAGER
Awards?
2012 -2013
Chapeau
Amendment 2
Working Groups
WG Rules of
Engagement, e.g.
Guiding principles
Function
Participation
Output
Timeline, etc.
Concept
Prototyping X
Concept
Prototyping Y
Concept
Prototyping Z
Feasibility of
Prototyping
Outcomes to date
•Roadmap through
FY 14 with
milestones
•Community
engagement, etc.
Gap
Analysis
Community Event
Charrette 2
Data
Discovery/Mining
/Access
Semantics and
Ontologies
Data
Brokering
X-Domain
Interop.
Workflow
Service
Based
Integration
Governance
Layered
Architecture
Earth System
Modeling
Working Groups
Spring 2015
Early EC??
CommunityM
eeting
Working Groups
Spring 2014
Prototypes
Community
Meeting
Working Groups
Late 2012-2013
Concept Prototyping
Charrette 2
Roadmaps & Design
Jun. 2012
Community
Groups
Mar. 2012
Charrette 1
Requirements Analysis
Nov. 2011
Capability
Projects
Early Results from Survey
357 responses
By Campaign
• 55 EarthCube community
• 302 Communities associated with facility or service
By Discipline:
• 245:
• 22:
• 61:
• 29:
geo
cyber
both
other
Sample Questions
• This is the first I have heard of EarthCube. 183
( 51.3% )
• I am aware of EarthCube but I have no direct experience --- 93
• I have visited EarthCube's web site but I am not currently participating --- 41
• I have participated in EarthCube discussions, but I am not part of any
EarthCube communities --- 20
• I am actively involved with one or more EarthCube communities --- 18
• I am assuming leadership roles within one or more EarthCube communities --- 2
Workforce?
Workflow
Security?
Earth System
Modeling
Data
Brokering
Semantics and
Ontologies
X-Domain
Interop.
Service
Based
Integration
Layered
Architecture
Data
Discovery/Mining
/Access
Governance
SHINE
Tectonics
Petrology
& Geochen
Solar
Terrestial
GEM
EarthScope
Aeronomy
Phy. & Dyn
Met.
Magnetospheric
Phys.
EAR Ed.
CEDAR
Geophysics
Continenta
l Dyn.
Sediment
Geology
and
Paleobio
Palio-Clm
Clm &
Large Scale
Dyn
Geobio &
Low Temp
Geochem
Geomomor
phology &
land use
dyn
NCAR
Atm.
Chemistry
EarthCube CI
Biological
Infrastruct
ure
Envir.
Biology
Phys
Ocean
Atm.
Chemistry
Emerging
Frontiers
(BIO)
Hydrology
Marine
Geology &
Geo-phys
Ocean
Drilling
OCE ED
XSEDE
Biological
Ocean
CIF 21
OCI
Program 1
OCI
Program 2
Chem
Ocean
EarthCube Lose Ends
(What Keeps Up At Night)
• What portfolio of activities are the necessary to
engage the scientific community in the
development/use of EarthCube?
• How can we effectively engage our sister agencies
and international partners in the dialog?
• How can NSF be a more effective facilitator of
collaborative dialogs among the geosciences?
• How do you change the community culture?