Partnership Applications
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The following seven applications are open for review. Please send comments to ghburrows@comcast.net or carol.meyer@earthsciencefoundation.org
CLEANER (Type II Research)
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- "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."
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GeoLogics Corporation (Type II Research)
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- "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."
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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."
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Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (Type II Research)
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- "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."
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Southeastern University Research Association (SURA) Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) (Type II Research)
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- "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. "
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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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Center for Research on Environment and Water (CREW) (Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "CREW's mission is to quantify and predict water cycle and environmental consequences of earth system variability and change through focused research investments in observation, modeling, and application.
CREW aims to quantify and predict the energy sources and sinks that feed baroclinic weather systems, the general circulation of the atmosphere, global water transport, rainfall, and the renewal of fresh water resources. The Center: CREW integrates research across traditional disciplines in an end-to-end program that transitions theoretical research to academic/public education and real-world application, through partnerships with universities, government, and international agencies. The center goal of improved and applicable predictions of the water and energy cycles will require decisive progression from observations to improved understanding and modeling, and eventually to better prediction and application. The center can not possibly hope to achieve this objective alone, but rather conducts focused activities aimed at improving existing partner capabilities."
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