EarthCube Overview Vanessa Michelou Sasha Tozzi CMORE-CAFE January 2013

2 Framing the Challenge: Science and Society Transformed by Data Modern science Data- and compute-intensive Integrative, multiscale Multi-disciplinary collaborations to address complexity Individuals, groups, teams, communities Sea of Data Age of Observation Distributed, central repositories, sensor- driven, diverse, etc

What is EarthCube? Transform the conduct of data-enabled geoscience- related research. Create effective community- driven cyberinfrastructure. Allow global data discovery and knowledge management. Achieve interoperability and data integration across disciplines.

EarthCube is a Collaboration Among Earth, atmosphere, ocean, computer, information, and social scientists Jointly funded by the NSF GEO Directorate and Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

Why EarthCube? Nature does not recognize separate disciplines EarthCube will democratize access to data EarthCube will increase research time by reducing time needed to find, access, and analyze data EarthCube will enable more interdisciplinary research and the pursuit of new questions EarthCube will accelerate the pace of discovery EarthCube will give all scientists the same chance of making major contributions regardless of institution size or institutional endowment

Atmo- spheric Chemistry Climate & Large Scale Dynamics Paleo- Climate Paleo- Climate Meteor- ology Aeronomy Space Weather Magneto- spheric Physics Solar Terrestrial Igneous Petrology & Volcan- ology Structure & Tectonics Geo Ed & Workforce Training Geodesy NCAR Geophysi cs & Geody- namics Geobiology & Paleoen- tology Cryosphere & Ice Dynamics Critical Zone & Soil Science Chemical Ocean- ography Geomor- phology Hydrology Sediment -ology & Strati- graphy Marine Geophysics Physical Ocean- ography Marine Geology Biological Ocean- ography Biological Ocean- ography Ocean Education Ocean Drilling & Engineer- ing Software & Modeling Software & Modeling Bio- informatics Bio- informatics Ecosystems Biology High Perf Computing High Perf Computing Semantics & Ontologies Algorithm s & Data Mining Algorithm s & Data Mining EarthCube CI Solid and Aqueous Geochem -istry Who is EarthCube? EarthCube is YOU!

Who is EarthCube? EarthCube is YOU! Atmospheric or Space Weather scientists Oceanographers Geologists Geophysicists Hydrologists Critical zone scientists Climate scientists Biologist Geographers Anthropologists Economists Sociologists Data managers Psychologists Computing experts Software engineers IT user support personnel K-12 educators Designers/developers of geoscience instrumentation Environmental resource managers Policy makers Federal and State government representatives Private industry Academia And more!

EarthCube is…. …and much more!

You can shape EarthCube!

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshops ~25 workshops across Earth, atmosphere, ocean and related sciences – Several workshops have already occurred: Geochemistry Meetings of Young Researchers in Earth Science (MYRES) V: Sedimentary Record Early Career Structure and Tectonics EarthScope Experimental Stratigraphy Advances in Data Assimilation and Prediction

Upcoming Workshops Scheduled – Critical Zone Critical Zone – Envisioning a Digital Crust Envisioning a Digital Crust – Paleogeoscience Paleogeoscience Proposed – Education & Workforce Training – Marine Geophysics – Sensors and Real Time Data – Geochemistry & Igneous Petrology – Rivers & Biogeochemistry – Paleoclimate – Data Management Facilities – Geochronology – Community Modeling Facilities – Biological Oceanography – Geomicrobiology – Chemical & Physical Oceanography

Domain Workshops For additional information please see: – General description General description – Schedule Schedule – Executive Summaries Executive Summaries – Science Scenarios Science Scenarios – Workshop Prep Workshop Prep

Imagine a World…. With easy, unlimited access to scientific data from any field Where you can easily plot data of interest and display it any way you want Where you can easily model your results and explore any ideas you have These are goals of EarthCube – Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21 st century as built by the Geosciences

What science would you do? What discoveries would you make? BLUE SKYING THE EARTHCUBE FUTURE

What are the science-drivers, data utilities, user-interfaces, modeling software, tools, and other needs so that EarthCube can be designed to help US more easily do the science WE want and need to do. THEY NEED OUR FEEDBACK!

Get Involved! Explore the EarthCube websitewebsite Join the online forumforum Join one or more of the EarthCube groupsgroups Participate in upcoming events, including the domain end-user workshopsevents domain end-user workshops Participate in EarthCube events at professional conferences Follow EarthCube on YouTubeYouTube

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EarthCube Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop group October16-17, 2012 at Carnegie Institution for Sciences

Test Enterprise Governance and Research Coordination Networks The National Science Foundation' s Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure EarthCube: Developing a Community-Driven Data and Knowledge Environment for the Geosciences Solicitation and Amendment I The number of anticipated awards for this amendment is seven (7). Deadline for both the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance and EarthCube Research Coordination Networks is 5pm proposer's local time on March 26, 2013.

Applifying USGS Data challenge.gov concept The U.S. Geological Survey Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program deals with both the biogeographic layer of the Critical Zone and a developing capability in informatics and cyberinfrastructure. Innovative ideas on leveraging the various web services provided by some of our data systems in new and creative applications. Focus on the problems of data discovery and integration in the USGS and with our partners. Judged on their relevance to today’s scientific challenges, innovative use of the datasets, and overall ease of use of the application.

Applifying USGS Data challenge.gov concept The U.S. Geological Survey Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program deals with both the biogeographic layer of the Critical Zone and a developing capability in informatics and cyberinfrastructure. Innovative ideas on leveraging the various web services provided by some of our data systems in new and creative applications. Focus on the problems of data discovery and integration in the USGS and with our partners. Judged on their relevance to today’s scientific challenges, innovative use of the datasets, and overall ease of use of the application.

USGS datasets for the contest consist of a range of earth science data types, including: several million biological occurrence records (terrestrial and marine) thousands of metadata records related to research studies, ecosystems, and species vegetation and land cover data for the United States, including detailed vegetation maps for the National Parks authoritative taxonomic nomenclature for plants and animals of North America and the world. Collectively, these datasets are key to a better understanding of many scientific challenges we face globally. Identifying new, innovative ways to represent, apply, and make data available

Propose a Workshop! Do you not see a workshop in your field? Are you interested in organizing a workshop? Contact your NSF Program Officer or Barbara Ransom at