1. www.geongrid.org Geosciences Network (GEON): Enabling Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Dogan Seber San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego

2. www.geongrid.org Outline Cyberinfrastructure and the Geosciences GEON Cyberinfrastructure GEON Resources and Access Mechanisms Impact on Science and Education Synthetic seismogram calculation LiDAR data processing 3D and 4D visualizations Discover Our Earth Future activities Open Earth Framework

3. www.geongrid.org Enabling Scientific Discoveries: Pathway to Discovery Access/ Collect ProcessAnalyzeInterpretDiscovery DataKnowledge How can cyberinfrastructure help?

4. www.geongrid.org What Geoscientists worry about … beyond science questions Exponential Increase in Data Volume Data Storage, Access and Preservation Data Integration (semantic and syntactic) Computational Challenges Advance Visualization (3D/4D) Archiving and publications of results with reusable components (reusability) Improving education and developing a strong workforce – the next generation of scientists

5. www.geongrid.org Cyberinfrastructure can help!

6. www.geongrid.org Hardware Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System Source: Dr. Deborah Crawford, Chair, NSF CI Working Committee Middleware Services Development Tools & Libraries Applications Geosciences Environmental Sciences Neurosciences High Energy Physics … Domain-specific Cybertools (software) Shared Cybertools (software) Distributed Resources (computation, storage, communication, etc.) Education and Training Discovery & Innovation

7. www.geongrid.org GEON’s Vision Enable new discoveries in the geosciences by developing an easy-to-use integration environment (i.e., GEON Cyberinfrastructure) built using state-of- the-art information technology resources. GEON’s Challenge It is an effort involving multi-disciplinary teams. A variety of Earth scientists representing various disciplines such as seismology, structural geology, paleontology, geochemistry, geology and general geophysics are working with computer scientists to realize the vision.

8. www.geongrid.org GEON Cyberinfrastructure Principles An equal partnership Geoscientists working with IT experts and Computer Scientists The “two-tier” approach Use best practices, including use of commercial tools and open standards, where applicable… …while developing advanced technology, and doing CS research Create shared “science infrastructure” Integrated online databases, with advanced search and query engines Online models, robust tools and applications Leverage from and work with other intersecting projects Much commonality in the technologies, regardless of science disciplines

9. www.geongrid.org GEON Infrastructure Mapping Services ArcIMS WMS WFS Logging Services Usage Stats Collection & Analysis Data Services DB2, Postgres mySQL OpenDAP SRB Data Registration Services Indexing Services Spatial Temporal Conceptual Data Integration Services Ontology Enabled Integration Computational & Modeling Services Modeling, Analysis Tools Metadata Services GEON Catalog Others RegistrationGEONsearch GEONworkbench workflow, visualization, HPC Web/Grid Services Interfaces Physical Grid RedHat Linux, ROCKS, OGSI, Internet, I2 Other Core Services GridFTP OGSA-DAI CSF GEON Portal MyGEON Hardware Software Access

10. www.geongrid.org Primary GEON Services Resource ( data, tools, files ) Registration => GEONcontribute Resource Discovery => GEONsearch Personalized Access => myGEON Data Integration => GEON Integration Cart Application Developments => GEONtools

11. www.geongrid.org GEONmiddleware myOntology.owl myDataset.foo metadata User Access (via Portal) Gazetteer, DLESE, … Geologic Age, Chronos, … external services GEONsearch Search condition(s) spatial temporal concept Log GEONworkbench GEON Workspace (user) User actions add delete manipulate GEON Catalog ResourceRegistration SRB Client Access (via Web Services) Other distributed apps Kepler, DLESE, …

12. www.geongrid.org Access -- GEON Web Site and the Portal

13. www.geongrid.org GEON Resource Registration System Hosted registration: Contributor provides a full copy of the resource to the GEON network, and the network maintains the resource and archives it Non-hosted registration: Users provide access to a resource, but GEON does not keep a copy, and accesses the resource remotely. (e.g., RDBMS). Full functionalities are available in the integration area. Public, private, and group registrations Register ontologies (domain knowledge) and ontology articulations Optionally register datasets to ontologies

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15. Resource Discovery in GEON A Search Engine for Users Metadata based search Spatial coverage based search Temporal coverage based search Concept based search

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18. MyGEON -- myWorkbench A personalized area to “save” resources of personal interest, integrate a variety of resources together, visualize data sets, archive/monitor computational results and share personal products with other selected individuals and groups.

19. www.geongrid.org Data integration in myWorkbech

20. www.geongrid.org myProjects

21. www.geongrid.org Building CI Tools Synthetic Seismogram Calculation Tool CPU intensive grid application LiDAR data Analysis Tool Very large databases, and on-demand processing Paleo Integration Project Adding the component of time IDV (Interactive Data Visualization) Volume visualization

22. www.geongrid.org A portal-based grid application in GEON - SYNSEIS SYNSEIS is a SYNthetic SEISmogram calculation tool built as part of the GEON system Uses E3D in the background Enables 2D and 3D seismic waveform simulations using a service-oriented architecture Utilizes both local as well as national computational platforms such as TeraGrid Integrated with GEON resources allowing utilization of archival and storage resources

23. www.geongrid.org IRIS Earthquakes Stations Waveform Digital Libraries/GEON Data Grid Earth model HPC Centers NCSASDSC SYNSEIS e3d SYNSEIS Components --

24. www.geongrid.org Web Services Earth Model Service Job Submission/Monitoring and File Service Data Archives Service HPC Resources Data Repository Job Database JDBCIIOP/CORBAGrid Services GEONGrid Portal Map Server IRIS DMC HTTP Grid FTP Synseis Portlet Macromedia Flash GUI MyGEON SYNSEIS Computations GEONTools SYNSEIS Architecture

25. www.geongrid.org SYNSEIS Portlet

26. www.geongrid.org Subsurface Model Earthquake parameters Seismic attenuation Etc. Observation Simulation Analyses and Integration GEON SYNSEIS INTEGRATION PLATFORM EarthScope data GEON portal and HPC Environment Scientific Discoveries

27. www.geongrid.org Capabilities Built into SYNSEIS Interactive User Interface Real-time access to IRIS DMC database –Event, station, waveform access based on a dynamic map interface. Event selection based on date and location Ability to define (both graphically or lat-long based) events and station locations Base map choices of topography, geology, tectonic boundaries, and urban area boundaries Ability to use sediment thickness and Moho depth data sets seamlessly Ability to use variable thickness flat-layer models Ability to build 2D models using an interactive model builder Run jobs remotely at TG and/or local resources Ability to obtain waveform propagation movies on the fly Job monitoring Job archival mechanisms and resubmissions with revised parameters Source parameter sweep for multiple simulations Download capabilities for observed as well as simulated records

28. www.geongrid.org LiDAR Data Analysis

29. www.geongrid.org D. Harding, NASA Point Cloud x, y, z, … Example: LiDAR Workflow Courtesy: Chris Crosby, ASU Survey Analyze / “Do Science” Interpolate / Grid

30. www.geongrid.org Example Outputs

31. www.geongrid.org PaleoIntegration

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33. 3D/4D Visualization - GEON IDV

34. www.geongrid.org Visualization - Integration Yellowstone (Smith and others) and the geodynamics of the mantle (McNamara)

35. www.geongrid.org 170 ma 90 ma 10 ma 4D Visualization Images from the GEON IDV Geodynamics- McNamara Paleomagnetics- Schettino, Scotese Paleogeography- Blakely

36. www.geongrid.org GEON Network: USA Nodes Partner Projects Chronos CUAHSI Partner services USGS Geological Survey of Canada ESRI PoP node 5-node cluster 4 Tb

37. www.geongrid.org GEON Software Stack Base OS Rocks: highly programmatic software configuration management Development Globus 4.0.2 Web Services (Jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28, axis-1.1, ant-1.6, jdk1.4.2) GridSphere 2.0.2 Portal Framework Database Postgres 8.0.3 PostGIS 1.0.2 (Geos, Proj) GIS/Mapping Grass 6.0.2, GMT Security Tripwire, chkrootkit System Monitoring INCA Testing and Monitoring framework (Teragrid) With GRASP benchmarks Network Weather Service (NWS) Ganglia Job Submission and Monitoring Condor, PBS GridSphere Portal GEONGrid Software Stack Version 1.0 Rocks 4.2.1 based on RedHat Enterprise Linux JDKAntTripwireSamba OGSA-DAIOGSAAxisNMI Globus Tomcat INCA/GRASPNWSCondorPBS PostgresPostGIS Geos Proj GRASS (GDAL, NetCDF, Tiff)GMT

38. www.geongrid.org Node Deployment Architecture Hardware Deployment Each site runs a PoP Optional cluster and data resources Users access resources through PoP PoP provides point of entry PoP provides access to global services in GEON Developers add services & data hosted on GEON resources Web services/Grid services

39. www.geongrid.org i-GEON: International GEON GEON nodes operational in Japan, China, and India. i-GEON workshops India, October 2005 China, July 2006 Russia, June 25-26, 2007 India, August 2007 (follow-up workshop) Australia??, (Dates to be determined)

40. www.geongrid.org GEON Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute Series The Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists series is designed to introduce geoscientists to commonly-used as well as emergent information technology (IT) tools. Topics covered include Data Modeling, Web Services, Geographic Information Systems, introduction to key concepts in Grid Computing, Parallel Programming, and Scientific Workflows. CSIG 2006, August 2006, San Diego, CA. CSIG 2005, July 2005, San Diego, CA. CSIG 2004, August 2004, San Diego, CA. Webcasts of Summer Institutes are available at http://www.geongrid.org/CSIG04/ http://www.geongrid.org/CSIG04/ http://www.geongrid.org/CSIG05/ http://www.geongrid.org/CSIG06/ 2007 Summer Institute is planned August 13-17, 2007

41. www.geongrid.org Cyberinfrastructure and Earth Science Education

42. www.geongrid.org Using Cyberinfrastructure to Improve the Quality of Education Discover Our Earth (DOE) Designed as a web-accessible resource for learning Includes a build-in evaluation component

43. www.geongrid.org DOE provides a couple of internet mapping applications and other software tools as well as supportive information that enable discovery-based learning. Students access the same data sets as scientists Using the web allows us to reach a large audience in a cost effective manner.

44. www.geongrid.org System Design & Development Access is provided through three gateways: Teacher’s guide Student pages Web tools. This allows users to access the website from multiple perspectives. Technology used: GIS, Java, Flash, HTML and VRML.

45. www.geongrid.org http://www.DiscoverOurEarth.org/

46. www.geongrid.org Teacher’s Guide Provide supportive material for teachers (Lesson Plans) Links to students pages, activities and web tools

47. www.geongrid.org Student Pages Provide supportive material for students. Include interactive, discovery-based activities for students.

48. www.geongrid.org Web Tools Interactive Mapping Tools Virtual Experiments 3D Graphics

49. www.geongrid.org Interactive Mapping Tools The Quick Use Earth Study Tool (QUEST) is an interactive web mapping tool designed for students.QUEST

50. www.geongrid.org Virtual Experiments Interactive experiments allow students to test their own ideas. Experiments: - Continental Drift - Isostasy - Viscosity.

51. www.geongrid.org Evaluation Undergraduates in introductory level geology classes used the QUEST tool in lab exercises. The current evaluation focus is middle and high school teachers and students. Usability evaluation for all learners.

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