eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO The EarthScope Data Portal Charles Meertens 3, Chaitan Baru 1, Tim Ahern 2, Adrian Borsa 3, Kurt Behrends 4, Robert Casey 2, Ben Hoyt 3, Linus Kamb 2, Kai Lin 1, Ashraf Memon 1, Joanna Muench 2, Christopher Stolte 3, Bruce Weertman 2, Charles Weiland San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego 2 - IRIS DMC, Seattle, WA 3 - UNAVCO, Boulder, CO 4 - GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany 5 - Stanford University, CA

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO A nationwide program to ….. Explore the structure and evolution of the North American continent Understand processes that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions What is EarthScope? Drillhole across San Andreas Fault 875 GPS Instruments 175 Borehole Strainmeters 5 Long-Baseline Laser Strainmeters 400 Seismometers at 2,000 sites 100 Permanent Seismometers

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Objective Provide a central search and data access capability for distributed USArray, PBO, and SAFOD data and data products –Data are distributed at IRIS (USArray), UNAVCO (PBO), ICDP (SAFOD) Distributed implementation –A central Web service invokes Web services at each location (WSDL/SOAP/XML), which search the local catalogs Distributed development –Software design and development by a distributed team of developers, at SDSC, UNAVCO, IRIS, and ICDP –Leverage portal work already done for GEON Production portal to be ready by September 2008

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Request Format Client can issue requests to –Get Station information –Get Data Request structure can specify: –TimeRange –DataClass –SpatialBounds –StationIdentifierFilter Schema of the EarthScope Data Portal request available at – Portal will provide ability to add datasets to a “data cart” and request download of data

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Architecture Portal Composite Service IRIS Web Service IRIS Web Service UNAVCO Web Service UNAVCO Web Service ICDP Web Service ICDP Web Service

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO ES Data Portal-With all stations displayed

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Stations for a specific query

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Sample response to a data discovery query

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Milestones and Next Steps Successful milestones –Setup of portal environment at SDSC –Design of the API for station request –Testing of connectivity of the central portal site to all the component sites (Station query used as an example) –Implementation of the GUI for station query –Design of the data discovery query Next steps –Implementation of the data discovery in progress –UI design and implementation for results of data discovery in progress –Identify early “friendly” users * In progress! –Beta release –Production release in September 2008

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO UNAVCO New Initiatives Focus on Africa Africa Geodetic Reference Frame Africa Array AFREF: Building local geodetic capability in Africa – UNAVCO technology transfer, training, and workshops. Africa Array: Building seismic and other geophysical instrumentation and research capability to meet scientific, economic and societal needs.

eGY Workshop 2008, Boulder, CO Magma-Tectonic Processes in an Active Transitional Rift from Seismic, GPS, and Modelling Studies in Afar C. Ebinger, University of Rochester, New Jersey E. Calais, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana R. Buck, Lamont-Doherty Observatory, NY Collaboration: E. Lewi, L. Asfaw (Geophysical Institute, Addis Ababa) Ethiopian Mapping Agency, Addis Ababa T. Wright (Univ. Leeds, UK)