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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. Science Engagement Workshops

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Student Engagement

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Challenges

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

17. 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.

18. “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

19. 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

20. Questions, Suggestions welcome!
Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute