1. CSIG 09 Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists August 10-14, 2009 San Diego 1

2. Welcome and Introductions Chaitan Baru SDSC 2

3. Institute Format Day 1 –Introduction to geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure, Earth Science research, and education Days 2, 3, 4 –AM: Plenary talks on science and related technologies Different theme each day—EarthScope, OpenTopography, Data Integration and Viz Framework –PM: Build and Education Tracks Day 5 –Round-table discussions, planning for collaborations, etc. 3

4. Schedule 4

5. Acknowledgements CSIG 09 Faculty Dr. Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith, ASU Dr. Yehuda Bock, SIO Ryan Clark, AZ Geologic Survey John Graham, San Diego State U. Dr. Deborah Kilb, SIO Karen Kirk Dr. Chris Miller, Purdue Dr. Susan Eriksson, UNAVCO Dr. Fabian Walter, SIO SDSC Ilkay Altintas Chris Crosby Dr. Sriram Krishnan Dr. Kai Lin John Moreland Dr. David Nadeau Viswanath Nandigam Margaret Smeekens 5

6. Acknowledgements GEON Team Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith Sandeep Chandra, SDSC Chris Crosby Prof. Ann Gates, UTEP Prof. Randy Keller, Oklahoma Kai Lin John Moreland David Nadeau Charles Meertens, UNAVCO Viswanath Nandigam Margaret Smeekens Brad Wallet, Oklahoma Choonhan Youn, SDSC 6

7. 7 Acknowledgements National Science Foundation CSIG has been funded each year as a supplement to GEON, since 2004 GEON is funded by the NSF under grant #0722449

8. LOGISTICS Breakout groups Facilities Lunch Presentations will be put online CSIG Dinner, Thursday, Dec 13th, Great Hall 8

9. 9 Introductions

10. Cyberinfrastructure The “cyberinfrastructure” initiative is an attempt to provide explicit investments in IT for science & engineering research and education From NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf, July 20, 2006 www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf –“The comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology has been termed cyberinfrastructure.” –“…integrates hardware for computing, data and networks, digitally-enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities…: –“…an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools...” –Investments in interdisciplinary teams and cyberinfrastructure professionals with expertise in algorithm development, system operations, and applications development are also essential…” –“In 1999, the PITAC released the seminal report ITR-Investing in our Future, prompting new and complementary NSF investments in CI projects, such as the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) and international Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL) and the Geosciences Network, known as GEON.” 10

11. Geoinformatics A vision for Geoinformatics, from the NSF Workshop on Envisioning a National Geoinformatics System for the United States Denver, March 2007 –“…a future in which someone can sit at a terminal and have easy access to vast stores of data of almost any kind, with the easy ability to visualize, analyze and model those data.” 11

12. 12 Geoinformatics From David Lambert, NSF EAR/GEO Presentation at GEON Annual Meeting, 2005

13. A Use Case for GEON 13 A user request of the form: “For a given region (i.e. lat/long extent, plus depth), return a 3D structural model with accompanying physical parameters of density, seismic velocities, geochemistry, and geologic ages, using a cell size of 10km”

14. GEON Objectives Make data, tools, applications …and communities… easily accessible online Provide an integration environment for 3D and 4D data integration 14

15. Portal-based Science Environments Support for resource sharing and collaborations

16. EarthScope Data Portal - SDSC San Diego - IRIS Seattle - UNAVCO Boulder - ICDP Potsdam portal.earthscope.org

17. CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System, HIS (cuahsi.org/his) –Data Discovery, Data Access, Data Publication 17

18. GEON Portal portal.geongrid.org Generic Capabilities: –Search –Workbench –Dynamic map services, map integration Applications: –Paleo database integration –LiDAR data access and data processing –SYNSEIS: Online access to computational modeling system –Gravity and Magnetic database for US 18

19. A Tour of GEON and OpenTopography Portals 19

20. Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System Source: Dr. Deborah Crawford, Chair, NSF CI Working Committee 20 Hardware Middleware Services Development Tools & Libraries Application Domains Geosciences, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Astronomy, Archaeology, Neurosciences, Biomedicine, … Domain-specific Cybertools (software) Shared Cybertools (software) Distributed Resources (computation, storage, communication, etc.) Education and Training Discovery & Innovation

21. Friendly Work-Facilitating Portals Authentication - Authorization – Auditing - Resource Discovery - Workflows - Visualization - Analysis 21 Community Cyberinfrastructure Projects Middleware Services Development Tools & Libraries Distributed Computing, Instruments and Data Resources Biomedical Informatics (BIRN) High Enegy Physics (GriPhyN) Geosciences (GEON) Ecological Observatories (NEON) Earthquake Engineering (NEES) Ocean Observing (ORION) Hardware Source: Prof. Mark Ellisman, UC San Diego Shared Tools ScienceDomains Your Specific Tools & User Apps.

22. GEON Background Initiated in 2002 as a 5-year NSF ITR (IT Research) project Collaboration among 12 PI institutions and number of other organizations Distributed network of GEON “nodes” –Provides a standardized software platform –Provides a machine outside the local environment (for hosting data, software tools, and applications for remote access –Can be centrally administered Funded now under the NSF Earth Sciences (EAR) Geoinformatics program 22

23. GEON as a Virtual Organization (VO) Multiple participants Distributed sites Participants are from different “administrative domains” Policies, rules, systems of the VO may be different than those of the participating organizations  requires agreement on some basics to enable data sharing 23