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Opportunities for NCSA in the Sustainability Arena

Opportunities for NCSA in the Sustainability Arena. Barbara S. Minsker Associate Provost Fellow for Sustainability and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. What Is Sustainability?.

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Opportunities for NCSA in the Sustainability Arena

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  1. Opportunities for NCSA in the Sustainability Arena Barbara S. Minsker Associate Provost Fellow for Sustainability and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  2. What Is Sustainability? • Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. From Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (“the Brundtland Commission report”)

  3. Greenland ice Melting 1992, 2002, and 2005 Global Sustainability Problems: Climate Change 1992 2002 2005 In 1992 scientists measured this amount of melting in Greenland as indicated by red areas on the map Ten years later, in 2002, the melting was much worse And in 2005, it accelerated dramatically yet again Source: Second Nature Source: ACIA, 2004 and CIRES, 2005

  4. Integrated, Information-Based Decision Making Human, Physical, Virtual Sensors Information-Based Decisions Archives Bots, Actors Automated Provenance Multimodal Modeling Visualization Dashboard Data Fusion …Seamless Computing… Calibration Imaginations unbound Sources include: Heidelberg Collaboratory, Minsker, GMES

  5. IACAT Virtual Environmental Observatory (VEO) for Intensively Managed Environmental Systems (IMES) • Objective: Explore the benefits of real-time adaptive sensing and modeling for improving sustainability Nitrogen Nanosensor Imaginations unbound

  6. IACAT VEO Data & Model Flow Diagram Imaginations unbound

  7. IACAT Virtual Environmental Observatory Web Services Standards-based Cloud Service Infrastructure Web 2.0 Clients Data Access, Modeling and Analysis, Dynamic Visual Analysis, Community Education and Outreach Search and Discovery Services Desktop, Web, & Stereo Display Clients HIS Central, Geospatial One-Stop, … National Curation and Preservation Services NSF DataNet Partnership Web Service Web Service HPC Compute Services National Data Discovery and Long-term Preservation Services Project Observational and Derived Data Services Derived Data QA & QC Services Virtual Sensors Visualizations Desktop Applications Workflow ArcView HydroDesktop Excel Data Management Geospatial Data Streams Metadata Provenance Documents External Data Sources EPA, NOAA USGS, University Other… Modeling and Analysis Model Execution Ensemble Modeling Statistical Analysis and Optimization 3D Stereo Visualizations Use of Flows, Patterns, realistic rendering, etc. to improve comprehension Web Service

  8. Proposed Sustainability Collaborative • Ultimately, a global network of partnering universities/colleges and their communities • Initially, the Illinois campus and its: • Watersheds/aquifer • Foodsheds • Energysheds Including their interconnecting social-, economic-, and eco-systems

  9. Illinois Collaborative Focus Food Water Robust & Diverse Ecosystems High Quality of Life for All People Role of Land Grant Institutions Technology Energy

  10. Source: Energy Biosciences Institute

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