Engaging Communities of Researchers: Experience from the PRP Camille Crittenden, PhD Deputy Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

PRP Science Engagement: What have we done so far? Established a multi-campus network: Bi-weekly phone calls of science engagement leaders Held in-person workshops across CA for domain experts and network engineers Created student teams (UCB) for training and developing local support

CITRIS & the Banatao Institute: A Governor Gray Davis Institute for Science and Innovation ANNUAL RESEARCH INCOME leveraged from ~$4M in university funds 4 UC CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Merced Santa Cruz $90 million 60+ 80+ CORE FACULTY members (300+ affiliates) START-UP companies Describe 4 Institutes for Science and Innovation. Model for tech development + transfer in life sciences and engineering. Launched with significant state funding.

Science Engagement Workshops

Invitation-Only PRP Workshop held in Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute on October 14-16, 2015 130 Attendees From 40 organizations Ten UC Campuses, as well as UC Office of the President, plus 11 additional U.S. universities Four international organizations (from Amsterdam, Canada, Korea, and Japan) Five representatives of Industry and NSF

PRP Workshop Held in Collaboration with CENIC at UC Davis on March 23, 2016 45 Attendees Four UC Campuses Presentations from Prof. Brad Smith, Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Prof. Jason Nielsen, Institute for Particle Physics, UC Santa Cruz Jon Kuroda, Network Systems Group, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

PRP Workshop Held in Collaboration with UC-Wide Research IT at UC Berkeley on May 1, 2016 45 Attendees Ten UC Campuses Presentations from Prof. Mike Norman, Dept. of Physics, UC San Diego Dr. Frank McKenna, Chief Information Officer, PEER, UC Berkeley Prof. Ben Porter, Acting Director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

PRP Workshop at UC Merced held on September 9, 2016 30 Attendees Four UC Campuses Presentations from Prof. Nicola Lercari, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced Prof. Marcelo Kallmann, School of Engineering, UC Merced Prof. Thomas Levy, Anthropology, UC San Diego Prof. YangQuan Chen, MESA Lab, UC Merced Laurin Herr, Co-Founder, CineGrid and Jeffrey Weekley, Director of CyberInfrastructure & Research Computing, UC Merced

PRP Science Engagement Workshop held in collaboration with CENIC at UC San Diego on March 22, 2017 30 attendees UC San Diego, UC Berkeley and CENIC participants Presentations from Prof. Frank Vernon, Research & Geophysicist & Lecturer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Dr. Michael Cianfrocco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reck-Peterson Lab, UC San Diego Prof. Elizabeth Villa, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego

Student Engagement

Engaging Student Researchers In spring 2017, ran a project in the UCB Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), allowing students to earn credit while working as research assistants 75% of students have continued as paid undergraduate research associates Led by Dan Gillette, Sr. Research Scientist, CITRIS 8 undergraduates Majors and minors: CS, eng., applied mathematics, psychology, business, and history 50/50 gender split Students are involved in shaping appropriate projects and given ownership of the outcomes

URAP Project: Hearst CAVE Led by Chris Hoffman, Program Director, Research Data Management & Informatics Services, UCB Supporting a team of anthropology researchers in the 3D scanning of artifacts for rendering on 3D displays being installed on multiple campuses connected by the PRP

URAP Project: Hearst CAVE: Outcomes A better understanding of how researchers can collaborate at a distance while analyzing historical artifacts Customization of 3D visualization tools to better suite anthropological research A case study of the science engagement process in supporting this project Suggestions for extending the use, and access to, the generated 3D content by others, possibly through making new connections to museums, libraries, and classrooms

URAP Project: Create Methods and Tools for Tracking Local Network Performance as it Relates to the PRP Led by Dan Gillette, in collaboration with Mark Yashar, CITRIS Research Specialist, and Maurice Manning, Cyberinfrastructure Engineer, UCB Project Goals: Create an easy-to-use, inexpensive instrument that can be added to research lab Ethernet networks to measure the performance of local Internet connections over time, in relation to PRP performance, and create an online dashboard that allows researchers and IT support staff to monitor the network both historically and in real time Current Activity: Reviewing previous work by PRP researchers and surveying software tools (e.g., PerfSONAR, MaDDash, and Globus) to create a draft specification for further testing and development; improving documentation of open source tools Current Tasks and Goals: Members of the PRP team are working with the student team to build network monitoring tools and expertise. Recently, the students were able to successfully install the perfSONAR toolkit on a Mac laptop computer and are currently testing it. They will be using perfSONAR to monitor and measure network traffic within campus and between labs on campus (e.g., how the data packets are moving through different routers, instruments and systems on campus; identifying the different hops and paths taken by the data packets; measurement and evaluation of roundtrip times of the data packets; evaluation of latency and packet loss, etc.), produce corresponding visualizations of network traffic (e.g. throughput as a function of time, as well as integration and utilization of the MaDDash dashboard), and utilize, test, and experiment with on- and off-campus FIONette and FIONA boxes. In the future they may seek to monitor and measure network traffic between campuses.

Challenges

Importance of empathy, responsiveness. Noted: importance of “throughput” not just “bandwidth” (!)

Challenges Creating an emerging field of science/research engagement Network engineers have well-established…network. More difficult to bridge the gap between domain scientists and cyberinfrastructure teams. Competitive market for hiring, especially in the SF Bay Area Moving to a National Research Platform, need to create method to scale “people infrastructure” for multi-campus/multi-institutional science Scaling People infrastructure to maintain and extend. Credit to Jason Zurawski, Esnet, for weekly webinar series.

“If science engagement wasn’t hard, we wouldn’t get to do it.” Solutions Work with campus Research IT, ESnet and related groups Attend conferences and meetings to expand science/research engagement network, share best practices Grow our own: leverage student capacity, use as opportunity for training and workforce development “If science engagement wasn’t hard, we wouldn’t get to do it.” –Tom DeFanti

What’s next? Continue working with students, postdocs, research staff Increase collaboration with CI engineers, research teams on participating campuses Improve outreach to faculty and lab staff Write up case studies (e.g., visualization environments for digital archaeology) Upcoming workshops, implementations: Cryo-EM Earthquake Early Warning YOUR NAME/PROJECT HERE BIDS: Berkeley Institute for Data Science (postdocs) Case studies: Digital archaeology: UCB, UCM, UCLA PerfSonar implementation on-campus

Questions, Suggestions welcome! Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute ccrittenden@citris-uc.org http://citris-uc.org http://pacificresearchplatform.org @CamCritt