EarthCube Update IS-GEO Meeting

Eva Zanzerkia GEO/EAR 3/26/2015

What is EarthCube A future state of geosciences cyberinfrastructure that serves the entire academic geosciences community

facilitates science on the Earth System simple and easy access to data and information seamless connection to tools and services flexible and community-driven development

Partnership between CISE/ACI and GEO: NSF 13-529

EarthCube Motivations To transform geosciences research by supporting community-driven cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information.

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Dynamic Earth: GEO Imperatives & Frontiers 2015-2020 CI Framework for the 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) OSTP Open Access Memo, 2/22/2013

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es Diversity of the

geosciences Interdisciplinary Science Questions Big, Heterogeneous Data issues Communities that are poorly served/have no community resources

Organizational Studies of Information

History & Theory of Infrastructure: lessons for New Scientific CI, Paul Edwards, 2007

People, routines, forms, and classification systems are as integral to information handling as computers, Ethernet cables, and Web protocols. The boundary between technological and organizational means of information processing is mobile. It can be shifted in either direction, and technological mechanisms can only substitute for human and organizational ones when the latter are prepared to support the substitution.

Building Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratively

ACADEMIC GEOSCIENTISTS GEO FACILITIES CI/CS SCIENTISTS AGENCIES AND PARTNERS

NSF AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

4-Stage EarthCube Development

• Build on existing resources: different geosciences communities have different needs • Build CI responsive to community input and assessment in regular intervals • Develop the organizational structure to represent the community and inform NSF • Solicitation 13-529 can be amended to respond to the community

Climate Modeling

EarthScope

‘Omics

Sedimentology

Discrete; Samples; Desktop

Streaming; HPC

Real-Time Data

Geochemistry

Rock Physics

Deep Sea

Hydrology

Community Modeling

Structural Geology

Critical Zone

Ensemble Forecasts

River/BioGeo

Unstructured data is collected

Knowledge of resources lacking

Principle Investigators work in isolation

Difficulty discovering and vetting dark/legacy data

Scaling algorithms for Big Data

Lack of training in CI

Ingesting heterogeneous data

Quantifying uncertainty/quality

Colocation of data and computation

On-demand computing Interoperable streaming protocols

Questions of ownership, credit, provenance

Data integration and visualization

Collaboration with computer scientists

Lack of community standards

Hard to discover and use data outside discipline

Current Awards

FY13-14 Test Governance 6 Research Coordination Networks 15 Building Blocks 3 Conceptual Design FY15 Integrative Activities, RCNs

http://earthcube.org/document/earthcube-past-present-future

EarthCube Participation

http://earthcube.org

Volunteers from the Community; LC voice of EarthCube; Office supports operations

EarthCube All-Hands Meeting 5/27-29 NSF 13-529 Amendments

EarthCube Timeline

2014 • Governance Organization

Framework created

• Community-driven meeting

• Awardee status and first assessment of gaps/priorities

2015 • Conceptual Design Reports

• Building Block demos

• RCN output

• (All Hands Meeting) Community Assessment-> Priorities

2016 • Gaps/ Missing Pieces

• Pilots/Prototypes

• Decisions about Enterprise Governance

• Continued Community-driven Assessment->Priorities

Testing Stage (FY14-15)

Implementation (FY16-17)