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The following three applications are open for review (posted June 2007). 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
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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. "
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Thetus Coroporation (Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "Thetus Corporation designs, develops, and delivers enterprise-class semantic knowledge modeling and discovery software. Thetus enables organizations to derive maximum value from complex, highly-evolving data sources ranging from raw signal data collected from satellites, sensors and other devices to structured, semi-structured and unstructured data."
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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)
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Global Systems Science (GSS)(Type III Research)
- 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."
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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."
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NASA Earth Observations (NEO) (Type III Research)
- 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."
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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."
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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."
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