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University of Delaware/ Department of Geography/ Global Climate Data Resources (Type II - research)
- Application excerpt:
- "Our main interest is in estimating and making available high-resolution climate fields over spatially extensive regions, primarily from historical (weather-station) records, to help us understand and document large-scale climate patterns and climatic change. Our gridded climate fields also have been used for initializing and verifying global climate models (GCMs), as well as for corroborating satellite-derived estimates of climate variables. Our in-situ-based climate fields are finding increasing use in the educational arena as well. In addition, we are working to improve our spatial interpolation algorithms, as well as statistical approaches to accuracy assessment. Most of the gridded climate fields that we have produced are available through our Web site."
Website: http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/
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[[::Media:UD ESIP partnership application 09.doc ]]
Northrop Grumman Information Systems (Type III - applications)
- Application Excerpt:
- "Northrop Grumman Information Systems (NGIS) has a successful heritage in a number of relevant areas:
- Systems engineering approaches and proven production methodologies to geospatial data production, using off-the-shelf technologies and standards to develop effective solutions while integrating quality assurance/quality control throughout the information flow.
- System design, modeling, implementation, and operation to provide critical actionable information for decision support systems.
- Extensive capabilities in airborne remote sensing for focused high-resolution earth observation data collection, data processing and data analysis.
As a systems integrator, NGIS offers solutions that are vendor neutral and therefore can adapt to, and integrate with a wide range of user requirements, applications and domains. As a provider of geospatial applications, architectures and enterprise-wide solutions, NGIS uses open, standards-based commercial and open-source software for geographic analysis, visualization, and information dissemination. We build on common web-services architectures based on geospatial industry and community standards that promote system and data interoperability.
Website: http://www.is.northropgrumman.com
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[[::Media:NGC_ESIP_Application_v9.doc ]]
Sonoma Technology, Inc. (STI) (Type III – applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "Founded in 1982, Sonoma Technology, Inc. (STI) provides scientific and operational services for air quality,meteorology, climate, and fire science research and applications. In addition, our services include geographic information systems, custom instrumentation, software and system development, training and education, and public outreach. Our recent work includes major studies across the United States as well as projects in Canada, Mexico, Egypt, China, Qatar, and Antarctica. STI is an employee-owned company based in Petaluma,California. STI's staff includes scientists with expertise in meteorology, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, policy analysis,and computer science. Our senior scientists serve as members of university faculty, government advisory committees, and journal editorial boards. STI scientists regularly publish in scientific journals; act as peer reviewers for journals, associations, and government agencies; and actively participate in public education programs.
- Website:
- Full Application:
[[::media:ESIP_partnership-application_March2010_Sonoma_Tech-1-.pdf]]
Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) (Type I Data Center)
- Application excerpt:
- "The Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET), a Department of Energy project and world-class source for climate modeling data, is building a multi-institutional cyberinfrastructure to advance a federated system of “science gateways and portals”. In order to meet the growing global demand for climate resources, ESG-CET aims to provide tens of petabytes of data, information, models, analysis, visualization, and computational capabilities needed by a variety of stakeholders including scientists, policy-makers, and the general public. Since its production beginnings, in 2004, the ESG has housed and distributed notable data collections for well-known science endeavors such as the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
The ESG-CET is a collaboration of seven U.S. research laboratories and a university working together to identify and implement key computational and informational technologies for advancing climate change science. In addition, ESG-CET is working with other universities in areas of data management and mining, visualization, and workflow analysis.
The ESG-CET project’s goals are (1) to make data more useful to climate researchers by advancing Grid technology that enhances data usability; (2) to meet specific needs of national and international climate projects for distributed database, data access, and data movement; (3) to provide secure web-based data access portals to broad-based multi-model data collections; and (4) to provide a wide-range of Grid-enabled climate data analysis tools and diagnostic methods to international climate centers and U.S. government agencies."
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NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) (Type I Data Center)
- Application excerpt:
- "The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA space missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Its purpose is to ensure the long-term usability of NASA data and to stimulate advanced research."
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Satellite Educators Association(Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "Our vision is to be the world’s finest educators supporting science, technology, engineering, and math learning for pre-kindergarten to post-graduate students using real-world applications from satellites and satellite data. Our mission is to enhance the education environment to excite students about science, technology, engineering, and math through space-based technology – satellites and satellite data. We accomplish this through our website with monthly newsletters, our annual Satellites & Education Conference that brings together NOAA, NASA, the aerospace industry and teachers to provide information, training and resources to improve STEM education in K-16 thus promoting careers that use satellites and satellite data, and our M.Y. S.P.A.C.E. Program which trains and facilitates global research by local schools, their teachers and students. The conference has been supported by NOAA for over 20 years and by NASA for more than 15 years."
- Website:
- www.SatED.org
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ISCIENCES, L.L.C. (Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "ISciences conducts research to improve our customers' understanding of sustainable development, human security and the environment. We are also the creators of the TerraViva! family of data visualization software about Earth and its people.
We are experts in: • Remote Sensing - spectral phenomenology; systems analysis; algorithm development; environmental applications. • Sustainability Science - global systems and environmental change; early indications and warnings of stress; integrated assessment methods. • Information Systems - geographic information systems (GIS); scientific and statistical databases (SSDB); integrated software information products. Our projects include: assessing vulnerability to flooding; developing sub-national models of the onset of food crises; designing a strategic warning system for fragile nation states susceptible to conflict; identifying corporate indicators to promote socially responsible investment; assessing exposure to water shortages for multi-national corporations; developing models to predict basic optical parameters of materials; and, developing algorithms for understanding and using hyperspectral data." .
- Website:
- www.isciences.com
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Chapman University, Schmid College of Science (Type II Research)
- Application excerpt:
- "We are building a computational modeling and remote sensing data lab for near real-time space observations of regional hazards. At the Center of Excellence in Earth Observing, we are emphasizing hazards research, regional impacts and interdisciplinary approaches to climate change. We are also emphasizing data integration systems."
- Website:
- www.chapman.edu/cs
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CLASS (Type I Data Center)
- Application excerpt:
- "CLASS supports NOAA Archives by providing long-term, secure storage of and access to high-volume, environmental data, primarily those data collected by or derived from satellite-based observations. CLASS is a web-based data access and distribution system for NOAA’s environmental data as well as the IT infrastructure for an enterprise solution for long-term, secure storage of and common access to NOAA Archive maintained environmental data and information."
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James Madison University Geographic Science Program (Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "CyberForSPACE is a new umbrella effort that is intended to focus multiple endeavors on developing and utilizing sustainable technical solutions and data streams to empower communities (scientists, decision makers, and citizens) to address sustainability issues in their communities. One effort under development is the Vertically Integrating Cyberinfrastructure for Sustainability (VertICeS) Project, which strives to integrate local, regional, state, and federal Internet-based GIS applications for regional use."
- Website:
- Under Development
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Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Type III Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- "The Massachusetts Maritime Academy is the first New England state college to install the largest 660KW wind turbine. We have taken steps to be more environmentally responsible state facility by utilizing renewable energies in the form of wind, tidal, solar, biofuel, and fuelcell. The Academy’s wind turbine has become a model campus for other state facilities to follow. We offer our practical and successful experience and any data from current and/or future projects. Our current projects include performing feasible studies for a tidal turbine and improving our marina facility. Climate data such as wind, waves, and tidal need to be analyzed and predicted prior to any implementation. We are actively seeking technologies and data partner for these purposes. "
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute / Research and Development / Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative (Type II Research)
- Application excerpt:
- "The MMI goal is to promote collaborative research in the marine science domain, by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI hopes to encourage scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project, by providing the best advice and resources for data management."
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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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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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Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma (Type II - Research)
- Application excerpt:
- The mission of the EOMF is to monitor and forecast the dynamics of the terrestrial biosphere. Our approaches are primarily (1) to integrate in-situ, airborne and space-borne observations and advanced models; and (2) engage citizen scientists for community remote sensing. The EOMF actively pursues and promotes community remote sensing through establishing cyberinfrastructure that enables science communities and citizens to participate in geo-referenced field photo data collection, archive, data exploration, visualization and analysis. We have used global satellite image data (e.g., MODIS, Landsat, and PALSAR) to map and track agriculture (e.g., cropping intensity, crop calendar, and irrigation), forests (e.g., forest area, deforestation, and degradation), and gross and net primary production. The EOMF currently has a data center of 500 terabytes and we are in the process to expand it into a Peta-scale data center for Earth observation and Modeling at OU.
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City of Chicago (Type III - Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- The Chicago Climate Action Plan establishes mitigation goals and adaptation strategies. Dozens of partners have contributed to the development of the strategies, and the City of Chicago has been implementing changes and adaptations under a no regrets policy to improve our resiliency, flexibility and quality of life. We have completed a risk analysis due to climate change, downscaled GCM models to Chicago region, and aggressively pursuing many adaptation changes from ordinances to infrastructure, behavior to built environment.
Website:
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DataONE (University of New Mexico) (Type I - Data Center)
- Application Excerpt:
- DataONE is designed to be the foundation of new innovative environmental research that addresses questions of relevance to science and society. DataONE will ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national data. Operationally, DataONE encompasses a distributed global network of Member Nodes (i.e., data repositories) that provide open and persistent access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. In addition, a smaller number of Coordinating Nodes (i.e., metadata repositories and service centers) support network-wide services such as data replication and access to an array of enabling tools.
Website:
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Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) (Type II – Research)
- Application excerpt:
- The ITSC performs research and development in the areas of distributed information systems, next generation internet, data mining and knowledge discovery, information system interoperability, image processing and data security. The ITSC has worked with researchers at Marshall Space Flight Center, other NASA centers, state and federal agencies and industry for over 30 years. We provide stewardship of Earth science data and information for numerous missions including NASA’s Earth science missions and field campaigns. ITSC researchers team with scientists to develop new technologies and applications that promote the broad use of Earth science data.
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- Full Application:
- ITSC
National Earth Science Teachers Association(NESTA) (Type III - Applications)
- Application excerpt:
- The National Earth Science Teachers Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization, founded in 1985, whose mission is to facilitate and advance excellence in Earth and Space Science education. NESTA's purpose is the advancement, stimulation, extension, improvement, and coordination of Earth Science education at all educational levels. NESTA is an organization made up of and governed by classroom teachers, and extends its influence through association with other professional societies and organizations. Recently, NESTA has become the home of the Windows to the Universe website, providing a powerful platform for ESS education and outreach supporting teachers, students, and the general public (15 million users annually).
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National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (Type I - Data Center)
- Application excerpt:
- The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), or the Observatory, is a NSF funded national investment in physical and information infrastructure. NEON, Inc. is a 501c(3) corporation charged with building and operating the Observatory. The Observatory’s goal is to enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing physical and information infrastructure to support research, education and environmental management in these areas. NEON provides data and information to scientists, educators, decision makers and the general public on how land use, climate change and invasive species affect biodiversity, disease ecology, and ecosystem processes. NEON is a continental scale system that will collect consistent, calibrated data from 60 sites in the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico over 30 years. The Observatory will produce basic calibrated data and synthetic products. NEON data products will be freely and openly available to scientists, educators, students, decision makers, and the public. The NEON infrastructure is a means to enable transformational science and to promote broad ecological literacy.
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USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) (Type II - Research)
- Application excerpt:
- The USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) monitors the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, and landscapes. Phenology is the study of seasonal life cycle events in plants and animals. The USA-NPN monitors phenology by encouraging people to observe phenological events like leaf out, flowering, migrations, and egg laying, and by providing a place for people to enter, store, and share their observations. We also work with researchers to develop tools and techniques to use these observations to support a wide range of decisions made routinely by citizens, managers, scientists and others, including decisions related to allergies, wildfires, water, and conservation.
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