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DLESE as a Portal to Major
Research Equipment
Presented at AGU meeting
December, 2000
Outline
• Major Research Equipment
(MRE)
• Transforming Geosciences
• DLESE as a portal to observational
discovery
• DLESE as an integrator
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Emerging Observational
Paradigms
• MRE Candidates
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HIAPER
Earthscope
Ocean Observations
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SuomiNET
UNAVCO
Unidata
GPS Met / COSMIC
• New concepts in observational “networks”
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MRE Projects That Will Transform
Understanding of the Earth System
HIAPER
Earthscope
• Weather
• Climate
• Atm. Chemistry
• Other Observations
Ocean Observations
• Role of Ocean in Climate
• Fluids & Life in the Ocean Crust
• Dynamics of Oceanic Lithosphere
& Imaging Earth’s Interior
• Coastal Ocean Perturbation &
Processes
• Turbulent Mixing &
Biophysical Interactions
• Ecosystem Dynamic & Biodiversity
• USArray
• San Andreas Fault
Observatory
• Plate Boundary
Observatory,
•InSAR
NEON
• Provide a national user
facility for field biology
• Common distributed
instrumentation
connected as an enterprise
• Facilitate predictive
modeling through data
sharing and synthesis
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Emerging Observational Paradigms
New concepts in observational “networks”
MoreIDD
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180 sites
Distribution
ofregistered
GPS
Sites
Sources
& Daily
Volumes
• SuomiNET
• UNAVCO
• Unidata
• GPS Met/
COSMIC
COSMIC Soundings
in a Day
(~5000)
NOAAport
600 MB
NWS &
WMO data
U WI
SUNYA
FSL
300 MB
GOES
images
10 MB
lightning
40 MB
profiler
Internet Data Distribution (IDD)
delivering >200 GB (aggregate) to ~150 sites, in near-real time
NCEP hi-res model
fields
5,000 MB
via Goddard
NIDS images
3,000 MB
(all radars)
via WSI
Full-res
Hi-res
88D
100 88D
MB
400
MB
(per
radar)
Hi-res 88D
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(1WA
radar)
400 MB
U OK
(1 radar)
Red dots are current radiosonde sites. Green dots future
are COSMIC
...
soundings
in a day.
International
opportunity
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Transforming Geosciences
Every great advance in science has issued from a
new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
• Emerging and planned observational systems will
profoundly change our view of the Earth System
• A simultaneous transformation of the “education
process” will be necessary
• Harnessing IT
• New approaches to teach complexity of the Earth System
• Emphasis on not only the observations, but the
observational system
• Integration of Education and Research -- an
inevitable outcome
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DLESE as a portal to
observational discovery – Now
• Immediate Objectives – DAtaset Working Group
(DAWG)
• to explore incorporating datasets into a digital library with an
educational mission.
• How can DLESE
• Facilitate discovery across distributed data archives
• Provide tools to help instructors and learners parse, process, and
visualize datasets
• Facilitate the integration of seemingly disparate datasets, and
• Facilitate the development and dissemination of educational
content that utilizes datasets and datastreams.
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DLESE as an Integrator – Future
• How can DLESE serve as valuable portal for
• scientists and educators to demonstrate discovery
through observation and
• a context for integrating the contributions from
discipline-oriented major research facilities to a
holistic view of the Earth System
• As a portal to the Earth System, DLESE will help
define “integrating research and education” for
the Geosciences
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Concluding Remarks
"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social
• DLESE
will beAllmore
than
innovative
progress
and reform.
reforms
whichan
rest
simply upon the
law, or
the threatening
of certain penalties, or upon changes in
educational
tool
mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and
• DLESE will serve as a portal for the
futile.... But through education society can formulate its own
integrating
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comprising
purposes,
can organize
own means and
resources, and thus
shapeGeosciences
itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in
which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the
•
DLESE will be the Geosciences’ model of
most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable
howexperience."
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--John
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