Partnership Applications

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The following six applications are open for review. Please send comments to [Burrows] and [B. Meyer]

CLEANER (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has received an NSF grant of $2 million to lead a two-year intensive effort with a coalition of 13 institutions to develop a roadmap for CLEANER, the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research."

Website:

http://cleaner.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Full Application:

CLEANER Application

GeoLogics Corporation (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"GeoLogics Corporation produces mission critical solutions and provides technical support in the areas of research and development, engineering, communications, software, and systems development for the aerospace, defense, and telecommunications industries."

Website:

http://www.geologics.com

Full Application:

Geologics Application

GEON: Geosciences Network (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"GEON is an NSF-funded Information Technology Research (ITR) project. The goal of GEON is to advance the field of geoinformatics to prepare and train current and future generations of geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals. Geoinformatics will foster new interdisciplinary research, for example, the gravity modeling of 3D geological features, such as plutons; study of active tectonics by integrating LiDAR data and geodynamics models; and, study of lithospheric structure and properties across diverse tectonic environments."

Website:

http://www.geongrid.org

Full Application:

GEON Application

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"The IAI is an international institution dedicated to promote scientific research in global change phenomena. The primary product of our institution are the scientific results produced within our projects. Some other pertinent results: Integration between different groups in the Americas, Training courses in Global Change Matters, Articles and books produced by the IAI researchers, etc."

Website:

http://www.iai.int

Full Application:

IAI Application

Southeastern University Research Association (SURA) Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"The Southeastern University Research Association (SURA) is leading an initiative called the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) program. This multi-institution collaboration, funded by ONR and NOAA, brings together a diverse group of scientists with expertise in coastal and computer sciences. The SURA Coastal & IT Committees are leveraging SURA strengths in coastal and computer-science research, and SURA experience with IT infrastructure projects (SURAnet, NLR, etc). The SCOOP vision is to provide a community infrastructure that will advance the science of environmental prediction and hazard planning for our nation’s coasts. The system involves a service-oriented architecture for predicting and visualizing coastal response to extreme atmospheric events, including the damaging and catastrophic effects of storm surge, inundation, and wind waves. "

Website:

http://www.OpenIOOS.org

Full Application:

SCOOP Application

Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) (Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"We provide knowledge management support for Earth system science data. We encourage the use of machine-readable metadata, which will support automated search, acquisition, and utilization of data. We are an information service provider. Data providers can associate rich metadata descriptions to their data products by pointing (via XML tags) to concepts in the SWEET ontologies (where they are defined). This annotation supports semantic interoperability."

Website:

http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov

Full Application:

SWEET Application