EarthCube National Data Infrastructure for Earth
System Science
Presentation to the Faster Administration of Science and Technology Education and Research (FASTER)
Presentation by Clifford Jacobs for the EarthCube team June 19, 2012 Arlington, VA
LeadershipTim Killeen, Assistant Director for Geosciences
Alan Blatecky, Head of Office of Cyberinfrastructure
EarthCube TeamEva Zanzerkia (GEO) Mark Suskin (OCI) Dane Skow (OCI)Barbara Ransom (GEO) Irene Lombardo (OCI) Robert Chadduck (OCI)Jennifer Schopf (GEO) Almadena Chtchelkanova (CISE)Rosalind Douglas (GEO) Melissa Lane (GEO)
Outline
EarthCube --- context
The Vision --- transformational
A year’s worth of effort --- discovery and exceeded expectations
Much work to be done --- things we worry about
EARTHCUBEContext ---- Science and Cyberinfrastructure
SCIENCE CONTEXT
“Fostering a sustainable future through a better understanding of our complex and changing planet.”NSF’s GEO Vision report, 2009
Science foundations for EarthCube
PURPOSE: “To understand more deeply the planet and its interactions will require the geosciences to take an increasingly holistic approach, exploring knowledge coming from all scientific and engineering disciplines.”
CALL TO ACTION: “Over the next decade, the geosciences community commits to developing a framework to understand and predict responses of the Earth as a system—from the space-atmosphere boundary to the core, including the influences of humans and ecosystems.”
NSF’s GEO Vision report
Arctic Sea Ice
Research Vessel Sikuliaq
Oceans
Water Satellites Earth System Modeling
Era of Observation and Simulation
EarthScope Observatory Network
Crossroad Challenges of GEOvision
GEO CI
The Dynamic Earth
The Changing Climate
Earth and LifeGeosphere-Biosphere
Connections
Water:Changing
Perspective
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CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE CONTEXT
“… a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research, pushed by continuing progress in computing, information, and communication technology, and pulled by the expanding complexity, scope, and scale of today's challenges. The capacity of this technology has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive “cyberinfrastructure” on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy.”Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure:Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, 2003
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Science and Society Transformed by Data Modern geoscience
Data- and compute-intensive
Integrative, multi-scale Multi-disciplinary
collaborations to address complexity Individuals, groups,
teams, communities Sea of Data
Age of Observation Distributed, central
repositories, sensor- driven, diverse, etc
DiscoveryCollaboration
Education
Maintainability, sustainability, and extensibility
Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Medical Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities
Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and operations Cyberscience
Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and experimental networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity
Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Modeling, Visualization Compute services Data Centers
Data Databases, Data repositories Collections and Libraries Data Access; storage, navigation management, mining tools, curation, privacy
Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, environment, weather, buildings, climate. etc
Software Applications, middleware Software development and supportCybersecurity: access, authorization, authentication
Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem (CIF21)
Softw
are
Anal
ytic
Tool
s
Com
pute
,M
odel
ing
Com
mun
ities
Expe
rtise
, re
sear
ch
Net
wor
ks
Sea of Data
CIF21
Grand Challenge
Multi-disciplinary & multi-scale integration
Transforming Earth Science
EarthCube
THE VISIONTransformational
Vision=EarthCube Goal and Outcomes
Provide a framework for a knowledge environment for the Earth system
Accelerate research on the Earth system
Vastly improve the productivity of community
Provide unprecedented new capabilities to researchers and educators
Transform practices within the geosciences community over the next decade
OutcomesGoal
To transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information across the Geosciences.
An alternative approach to respond to daunting
science and CI challenges
EarthCube is an outcome and a process
EarthCube will require broad
community participation
Obtaining the Vision
Unidata
IRIS IEDA NCAR
OOI
CUASHI
The unlabeled dots represent the “long-tail” of science which is graphically under represented in this diagram. Also, the large dots under represent all the community-guided activities in support of geosciences.
Strategic Convergence Using “Spiral Development”
10 Years
Given: almost all the technologies used today to provide cyberinfrastructure to the geosciences will be refreshed in the next decade.
A YEAR LONG EFFORTA process of discovery about the process
Timeline
First DCL
WebEx Community Outreach
SocialNetworkSite
FirstCharrette
June 2011 July 2011 Aug 2011 Nov 2011
EAGER/WKSHOP Phase
Accelerating the Community Dialog Defining the initial scope of EarthCube New starting point for collaboration
Unprecedented collaborations Focused efforts to gather & share knowledge Growing interest in EarthCube
Dec 2011- present
Timeline
First
Awards
Chapeau
Solic
itation
Mar – May, 2012 June, 2012 ~Sept 2012 Sept -Nov 2012 2012 -2013
Charrette 2
End-user
engage
ment
events
Chapeau
Amendment 1More
EAGER
Awards? Chapeau
Amendment 2
Social Network Site
>1100 members to the EarthCube
website
113 white paper submission;185
respondents to user survey
~70 expression of interest emails
17 Community Groups
Unknown number of hours of pro bono
contributions by thecommunity
Unprecedented view of the pulse of the
geosciences community
Significant International Engagement
http://earthcube.ning.com/
Awards5+2 Concepts4 Community1 Workshop
1 Stakeholder study
Community Groups17 active
9 working on roadmaps1 special interest groups
(several more pending approval)
Website>1100 members
Frequent updates
NSF EarthCube Staff Participation (not all full time)
5 GEO3 OCI 2 CISE
~10 POs (partial involvement)
Activities
Data Brokering
X-Domain Interop.
Service Based Integration
Earth System Modeling
Layered Architecture
Community EventCharrette 2
Semantics and Ontologies Workflow Governance
Data Discovery/Mining/
Access
Data GeoDataHydrosheric Model (OHMF)
Collaboratively produced framework to
form an integrated & synergistic path forward
CHARRETTEA dynamic three days --- Facilitator was essential to success
Charrette Participants
Total
Cadres
Participants
• On-site ~200• Virtual ~50• Organizations ~85
• Observer• Federal agencies• Early career/Students• International participants
• Community awards • Concept awards• New members
Charrette Participants
MUCH WORK TO BE DONEWhat we worry about
Seven Modes of FailureUnrealistic or misaligned expectations among people presently involved in EarthCube
“Build it and they will come” mindset – users don’t show up, data is not shared, etc.
Not valuing what presently exists – current cyber/geo science efforts and initiatives that represent parts of the EarthCube vision
Not advancing the frontier in transformative ways relative to what presently exists – only automating the current state
Not engaging the 14,000+ geoscience and cyber stakeholders not presently involved in EarthCube
Not anticipating the needs of the next generation of geoscience and cyber stakeholders (todays doctoral students and post docs, as well as the generation behind them)
“Unk Unk” – additional unknown unknowns including transformational changes in the technology, catastrophic shifts in the policy arena, etc.
Aeronomy
GEM
CEDAR
Solar Terrestial
Petrology & Geochen
TectonicsSHINE
EarthScope
Continental Dyn.
Biological Ocean
Geomomorphology &
land use dyn
ChemOcean
XSEDE
Emerging Frontiers
(BIO) CIF 21
OCI Program 2
OCI Program 1
EarthCube CI
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?
ANT Astro &
Geospace
ANT Earth Sciences
ANT Glaciology
ANT Integrated
Sys. Sci.
ANT Ocean & Atm. Sci.
ANT Organisms & Ecosys.
ARC Natural
Sciences
ARC Obs. Network
(AON)
ARC Social Sciences
ARC Sys Science (ARCSS)
NCAR
Biological Infrastruct
ure
Envir. Biology
Atm. Chemistry
Clm & Large Scale
Dyn
Palio-Clm
Phy. & Dyn Met. Magneto-
spheric Phys.
HydrologySediment Geology
and Paleobio
EAR Ed.
Geophysics
Geobio & Low Temp Geochem
Phys Ocean
OceanDrilling
OCE ED
Atm. Chemistry
Marine Geology & Geo-phys
QuestionsHow do we take advantage of the opportunities generated to date factoring in the human dynamics?
What portfolio of activities are the necessary to engage the scientific community in the development/use of EarthCube?
How can we effectively engage our sister agencies and international partners in the dialog?
How can NSF be a more effective facilitator of collaborative dialogs among the geosciences?
How do you change the community culture?
Questions and/or Comments