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

Integrati ve, multi -scale Multi -disciplinary

collaborati ons to address complexity Individuals, groups,

teams, communiti es Sea of Data

Age of Observati on 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)

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Anal

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Tool

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Com

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Com

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Expe

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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 1M

ore

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