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Geoscience Collaboration and the Geosciences Network (GEON). Sponsored by: GEON: The Geosciences Network The National Science Foundation (USA) BeSTGrid, New Zealand School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, U. Auckland. Day 1: e-Science Collaboration.
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Geoscience Collaboration and the Geosciences Network (GEON) Sponsored by: GEON: The Geosciences Network The National Science Foundation (USA) BeSTGrid, New Zealand School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, U. Auckland
Day 1: e-Science Collaboration 09:40 : General Introduction to the workshop and e-science : Mark Gahegan 10:15 : Cyberinfrastructure and e-science at the San Diego Supercomputer Center : Chaitan Baru 11:00 : Coffee break 11:30 : AuScope - An overview & future plans : Rob Woodcock 12:00 : The NZ Geospatial scene - Government Geospatial Office perspective : Brendon Whiteman 12:30 : Lunch 13:30 : An overview of BeSTGRID : Tim Chaffe 13:45 : An overview of SCENZ-GRID : Robert Gibb 14:00 : Challenges for collaboration : panel discussion with Chaitan Baru, Mark Gahegan, Rob Woodcock, Robert Gibb 14:45 : Discussion forum on collaboration & breakout groups 15:30 : Coffee 16:00 : Summaries presented 16:30 : Adjourn for welcome drinks from School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Day 2: GEON 09:00 : Coffee & mingling 09:30 : Introduction to GEON and i-GEON : Chaitan Baru 10:00 : Geoscience needs and challenges : Dogan Seber 10:30 : Knowledge-based data integration (+web portal demo?) : GEON Team 11:00 : Coffee 11:30 : Geon Architecture, Systems & Development : Sandeep Chandra 12:30 : Lunch 13:30 : Presentations by local researchers • Peter Leary Institute of Earth Science Engineering, University of Auckland • David Park Geospatial Research Centre • Robert Gibb and Paul Grimwood Landcare Research and GNS 15:30 : Coffee & mingling, adjourn when finished e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Day 3: More GEON 09:00 : Coffee & mingling 09:30 : Science applications of GEON : Dogan Seber • Synthetic Seismogram • Lidar Workflows • PaleoIntegration 10:15 : Capturing, representing and sharing meaning : Mark Gahegan 11:00 : Coffee Break 11:30 : Exploration, discussion and confirmation of specific strategies for follow-up and collaboration. Themes may include • Emerging e-science and e-education • Geoscience standards • Workflow, analysis and visualization tools Formal close of workshop just before lunch 12:30 : Lunch 13:30 : Informal discussions and meetings (with each other, with the GEON team) e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
e-Science: Collaborative science, enabled by computational systems Mark Gahegan Professor of Geography, Affiliate Professor of Information Science and Technology GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography The Pennsylvania State University, USA
e-Science (from Wikipedia) The term e-Science (or eScience) is used to describe computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require specialized (grid) computing; …the term sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed collaboration, such as the Access Grid Examples of e-Science include: • social simulations, • particle physics, • earth sciences and • bio-informatics. e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Goals of e-Science • Helping communities of researchers and educators to do better science by sharing their resources: • data, tools, models, protocols, results • Making specialized and expensive equipment and computers available to distributed users • Providing fast networks and distributed data stores for data intensive computing • Litmus tests: • Contributing to e-Science becomes an integral part of the way scientists/educators work • The ‘three pillars of science’: communication, repeatability, refutability • Can we ourselves remember what we did? Will future generations of scientists be able to follow our work? e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Four sample e-science projects The Fungal Plant Pathogen Database http://fppd.cbio.psu.edu/index.html Human Environment Regional Observatories (HERO): www.hero.psu.edu Learning Activities in Digital Libraries: www.dialogplus.org ArchaeoInformatics: http://archaeoinformatics.org/index.html e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Fungal Plant Pathogen Database Genetic sequencing, comparing and tracking different pathogen strains
A cyber-infrastructure for plant pathogen research: Motivations • Plant pathogen culture collections are essential resources in our fight against plant disease • Yet available infrastructure in support of culture collections is in serious need of improvement, and we continually face the risk of losing many of these collections due to the lack of support. • Genetic sequencing and alignment is computationally intensive • Need for timely identification and monitoring of novel and reemerging plant pathogens that threaten agriculture • Archiving is essential for rapid assessment of potential risk and can help track the change and movement of pathogens. e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Plant pathogen application examples e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
part of a phylogenetic tree representing sequences from the Actin marker of the fungal species Lettuce Drop (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) 0.084 0.113 0.027 0.085 0.143 0.118 0.117 0.004 0.120 0.015 0.001 0.002 0.012 4 3 6 5 7 n = 1 W. Canada 8 n = 1 Norway 2 1 n = 1 Norway n = 7 SE, USA N. Zealand n = 2 E. Canada n = 5 SE, USA N. Zealand n = 69 SE, USA NE, USA W. Canada Norway N.Zealand n = 2 Norway e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
GeoGenetics: Geographical mapping of isolates A linked map and taxonomic tool (called Taxa, from Napier U. Scotland). Users can study how far apart in the genetic tree different isolates are and how far apart they are geographically. e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
0.084 0.113 0.027 0.085 0.143 0.118 0.117 0.004 0.120 0.015 0.001 0.002 0.012 4 3 6 5 7 n = 1 W. Canada 8 n = 1 Norway 2 1 n = 1 Norway n = 7 SE, USA N. Zealand n = 2 E. Canada n = 5 SE, USA N. Zealand n = 69 SE, USA NE, USA W. Canada Norway N.Zealand n = 2 Norway Isolates related to regional climate of their geographical location • Climate graph: Isolates are grouped according to region: • New Zealand (pink squares), • SE United States (green triangles), • NE United States (red circle), • Norway (purple asterisks), • W Canada (blue diamonds). e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Human-Environment Regional Observatories Likely impacts of global climate change on local places
Facilitating the development of aclimate change vulnerability index e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
HERO Concept emergence (day 1…) e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
(…day 7…) e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
(…day 28) e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Researcher convergence??? Day 1 Day 28 e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Semantic distance between participants e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
DialogPLUS: e-Science meets e-Education Sharing learning activities between institutions
…Semantic metadata describes content and pedagogy Chris Bailey (Soton, UK): DialogPLUS e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Learning Activity Designing a learning activity: connecting pedagogy, domain concepts and resources Learning Approach Subject (GPS) Outcomes Interactions Tasks e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
ArchaeoInformatics Working with the archaeological community
New project—funded by the Mellon Foundation e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Need for data integration Need for search / query tools Mapping, GIS, visualization Large-scale simulations & shared computing? Data must be remain at local sites Obfuscating sensitive data Custodianship is contested No data standards and controlled vocabularies Is archaeology different? e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
SUMMARY: Added value for e-science researchers • Access to remote equipment, computing power and in-silico experiments • Collaborative tools & workspaces • Access to large collections of data & results (international?) • Integration & translation of data between formats • Curation of data into the long term • How is the effort sustained? • More efficient science? e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
Many challenges • Technical… • Conceptual… • Sociological…What needs to change? • Ongoing funding for e-Science? • Participation and adoption by science communities (risk, resistance)? • Recognition that contributing to e-Science is a valid and worthwhile outcome (just like publishing papers)? e-science, Auckland GEON Workshop, 2007
End Questions?