1. Ocean Observatories Initiative: Cyberinfrastructure (OOI CI)
Duane R Edgington
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Moss Landing, California, USA
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2. Agenda today
Briefly describe a USA activity to define and construct an environmental (ocean) instrument interface and data management system:
Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
Network for Ocean Research, Interaction and Application (NORIA)

3. OOI CI
Start with experiences and systems developed for single ocean observatories (isolated Moored or cabled to shore).
Designing for:
Collaborative, web access
Utilizing Service Oriented Architecture
Incorporating Enterprise Service Bus technology
Grid enabled
Requirements:
Multiple, diverse platforms (cabled to shore, moored surface expressions, solar powered, diesel powered, associated autonomous mobile platforms)
Wide geographic distribution
Thousands of instruments
Distributed data
Interactive control
(near) real-time data acquisition
Event response

4. Example of a single cabled to shore observatory: Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS)

5. Example of Moored Observatory: Monterey Ocean Observing System
Benthic network
Optical/power cable
Instrument node
Surface expression with meteorological instruments and power generator
Cable to sub-surface instruments (temperature, currents, bio-optical, etc.)
Vertical profiler on cable
Benthic node with extension cables to instruments on bottom 

6. Ocean Observatories Initiative
USA National Science Foundation
next- generation, decadal-scale program. 10 year, 330M$ US
observing and interacting with the oceans.
The Initiative has four basic elements
Regional: cluster of experimental sites
Global: widely spaced, deep- ocean, full-ocean water-column moorings,
Coastal: focused on the variable, steep gradients of the near-shore
Cyberinfrastructure: an integrative data management system.

7. Regional Scale Node
The Regional Scale Nodes will enable new approaches to studies of Ocean and Earth processes that, for example: • regulate global climate • store anthropogenic carbon • form many mineral deposits • support major fish stocks • govern rainfall patterns on land • threaten coastlines with storms, tsunamis, harmful algal blooms, and oxygen depletion • deliver sediment and pollutants from land to the oceans • create and recycle Earth’s crust, and • harbor novel microbial life forms within subseafloor volcanic environments.

8. Global and Coastal nodes

9. Facilitating direct & immediate interaction with Ocean
Connecting & coordinating operations between Observatories and with Science & Education
Providing scientists with the capability to observe and respond to emergent conditions in the ocean
Couple the observation, modeling and mission control systems
By addressing the issues of
Observatory resource management,
Mission command and control,
Knowledge (data) management and distribution,
Meaningful collaboration across a wide range of disciplines

10. Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project
Funded by NSF. Administered by Consortium for Ocean Leadership
Initial award, $29 Million (US), 6 years, started end 2007 (preliminary design review)
Potential extension to $42M over 11 years

11. OOI CI Scenarios (Use Cases)
The project's architecture will be configured for certain basic scenarios, including:
Monitor and control a single observatory, or multiple observatories;
Detect and respond to an event;
Fuse data from an observatory with a pre-existing ocean model;
Design field experiments;
Create 'virtual' observatories by combining components distributed among multiple physical observatories.

12. OOI CI Architecture Features
Leverage the integrative principles of modern, service-oriented computer architecture
Adopt Enterprise Service Bus, to integrate sensors, storage, scientific laboratories and computing
Enable Grid Computing to integrate data with advanced ocean models and visualization
Reuse the same software over many scales -- coastal, regional and global

13. Federation of independent operating facilities
Adherence to a common governance model
Functional scope defined by portfolio of services
Aggregation of services provide by federation of facilities
Facility role and scale determined by service profile
Choose services to present and resources to commit
Facility has explicit ability to delegate
Authority, operations and capability of a resource to another facility
Machine-to-Machine interactions equal stature to Human-to-Machine
Common Operating Infrastructure

14. Ocean Observatory Schematic
TeraGrid
Open Science Grid

15. Rich Service Deployment – Detail View

16. Partners in the OOI Cyberinfrastructure project include
Univ California San Diego
o Scripps Institution of Oceanography o Calif Inst for Telecommunications and Information Tech (CalIt2)
o San Diego Supercomputer Center o National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research   Academic Partners o NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory o Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Center for Ocean Engineering o Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute o North Carolina State University, Dept. Computer Science o Rutgers University, Coastal Ocean Observatory Lab o University of Chicago, Globus (Ian Foster) o Univ Southen California, Information Sciences Institute o Univ Illinois UC, National Center for Supercomputing Applications o Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution   Corporate Partners o Raytheon o Triad Project Management

17. Questions?