Partnership Applications

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The following six applications are open for review. Please send comments to tpy@jpl.nasa.gov or carol.meyer@earthsciencefoundation.org

Baron AMS (Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"In this project, an outstanding team of scientists and engineers led by PI John McHenry—who has

pioneered operational-commercial air quality forecasting in the US (McHenry et al., 2004; McHenry and Dabberdt, 2005)—will infuse NASA Earth-Sun System research results from the AURA and MODIS platforms into an extant air quality forecast decision-support system (AQF-DSS). The AQF-DSS runs operationally at Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems (BAMS) high-performance computing facility, colocated with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC. The core modeling system includes MM5 (with WRF coming online), SMOKE, CMAQ, and MAQSIP-RT."

Website:

http://www.baronams.com/projects/nasa/esip (not yet active)

Full Application:

Baron AMS Partnership Application

Global Systems Science (GSS)(Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"Global Systems Science (GSS) is an integrated science program for the first year of high school on the topic of global environmental change. The course emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand problems of global impact. The “big ideas” of science are stressed, such as the concept of an interacting system, the co-evolution of the atmosphere and life, the goal of a sustainable world, and the important role that individuals play in both impacting and protecting our global environment."

Website:

http://lhs.Berkeley.edu/gss

Full Application:

GSS Partnership Application

The HDF Group (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"The HDF Group (THG) is a not-for-profit “spin-off” company from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The THG staff are the same group that created the “Hierarchical Data Format” or HDF, in 1988. Two HDF formats exist, and both are among the premier scientific data formats in the world, and serve as the standard for many large projects and organizations."

Website:

http://hdfgroup.org

Full Application:

HDF Group Partnership Application

NASA Earth Observations (NEO) (Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"NASA Earth Observations (NEO) dramatically simplifies public access to georeferenced imagery of NASA remote sensing data. NEO targets the unsophisticated, non-traditional data users who are currently underserved by the existing data ordering systems. These users include formal and informal educators, museum and science center personnel, professional communicators, and citizen scientists and amateur Earth observers."

Website:

http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Full Application:

NEO Partnership Application

The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) (Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) works to improve undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education through projects that support educators. An office

Carleton College, our work is funded primarily through National Science Foundation grants. The office special expertise in effective pedagogies, geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries, website development and program and website evaluation."

Website:

http://serc.carleton.edu/

Full Application:

SERC Partnership Application

Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"The overall goal of our projects and activities is to integrate a balance of data/model holdings, portals and client software, and a semantically rich, ontology-enabled framework that provides an environment that researchers can use without undue effort as if all the materials were available on their local computers. Our work includes the conception, design, development and deployment of production data frameworks built on semantic web technologies and methodologies. We focus on user-centric data search, query, access and use with the goal of enabling data integration virtual data product generation, data fusion, analysis and visualization. In conjunction with our collaborators, we develop and deploy inter-disciplinary Virtual Observatories. We also develop and deploy high performance data access and transport mechanisms (OPeNDAP). We actively participate in community outreach activities, working groups and international professional associations, and standards organizations."

Website:

http://vsto.hao.ucar.edu and edu/ and http://vsto.hao.ucar.edu

Full Application:

VSTO Partnership Application