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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

CHRONOS (Type II Research)

Application excerpt:

"CHRONOS gives access to paleobiological and stratigraphic data from over 2.5 million mainly marine samples. Data are stored in six federated and two hosted databases accessible through common interfaces

Website: http://portal.chronos.org/

Full Application:

CHRONOS Partnership Application

Missouri Spatial Data Information Service ICREST (Type III Applications)

Application excerpt:

"The Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS) is a spatial data retrieval and archival system. MSDIS operates under the guidance of the Missouri Geographic Information System Advisory Committee (MGISAC). MSDIS is responsible for data storage and access, standardization of both digital and tabular data, creation of the data dictionary, compilation of metadata, and statewide GIS user information networks. "

Website:

http://msdisweb.missouri.edu

Full Application:

ICREST 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