Partnership Applications Archive
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Back to Partnership
July 2013
Back to Partnership -- The following nine applications have been posted for review by the Partnership Committee
Community Modeling & Analysis (CMAS) Center at UNC - ESIP-II (primarily research center)
- Application excerpt:
- In partnership with EPA we shared the development of CMAQ and SMOKE models, These are state of the science air quailty and
emissions models.
- Website: http://cmascenter.org
- Full Application: CMAS Center at UNC
Discinnet Labs - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- Discinnet Labs provide a web 2. platform with collaborative processes letting earth science communities parameter, govern and
observe our their own communities shape, evolve and react to their own objects, with new scientific communication concepts
- Website: http://www.discinnet.org
- Application: Discinnet Labs
Geological Survey of Alabama - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- Key to the mission of both agencies is developing, maintaining, and providing access to information related to the above activities.
Currently, the agencies maintain online databases of oil and gas well records and forms, drilling and workover reports, production history, engineering records, and core catalog information. We have been working with the AASG Geothermal project to add to the National Geothermal database, including cataloging available bottomhole temperatures for oil and gas wells throughout the state. Additionally, we maintain a GIS database of oil and gas well locations (surface and bottomhole when available), well unit and field boundaries, and infrastructure, and provide an ArcGIS MapService that contains geologic data.
- Website: http://www.gsa.state.al.us
- Full Application: Geological Survey of Alabama
JPL Data Systems and Technology Group - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- We are constructing end to end data systems support for acquisition, delivery and end-user support for a snow and ice climatology,
as well as support for regional climate modeling and analysis of CORDEX data.
- Website: http://snow.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Full Application: Data Systems and Technology Group
Knowledge Motifs, LLC - ESIP-III (primarily applications and education)
- Application excerpt:
- Knowledge Motifs LLC acts as a liaison between digital library and cultural heritage archive organizations and science DAACs and
archives. In that capacity, we apply digital preservation and data management methodologies and techniques used for social science and cultural heritage resources to science data, and transfer to each community what knowledge is useful.
- Website: http://kmotifs.com/
- Full Application: Knowledge Motifs
NASA Capacity Building Program - ESIP-III (primarily applications and education)
- Application excerpt:
- The Capacity Building Program builds human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional and resource capacity of
governments and non-traditional partners within the United States and the developing world to use Earth observations, models, tools, and applications to support data-driven decisions. Science and technology capacity building activities include strengthening the ability to access Earth science data, tools, and applications and to use appropriate information technology to do so.
- Website: http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/
- Full Application: NASA Capacity Building Program
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- Since 1995, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, NCEAS, has been supporting synthetic, multidisciplinary
studies in the ecological and environmental sciences, primarily through funding of working groups and postdoctoral scientists. NCEAS researchers bring together existing earth systems data to uncover new insights into ecological and ecosystems processes in the terrestrial, ocean, and freshwater realms, with specific attention to issues that can help inform policy and decision-makers.
- Website: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu
- Full Application: NCEAS
OPeNDAP - ESIP II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- OPeNDAP has developed the Data Access Protocol, a SOA protocol for data and metadata access that leverages the existing web
infrastructure. We have also developed a data server that implements this protocol, client applications and application development toolkits that support it. In addition we have developed implementations of several of the OGC's specifications.
- Website: http://opendap.org
- Full Application: OPeNDAP
Vightel Corporation - ESIP II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- Working on standards development and software architecture in support of NASA's sensor web.
- Website: www.geobliki.com
- Full Application: Vightel Corporation (Updated June 21)
January 2013 Class
Mercury Consortium - ESIP-III (primarily applications and education)
- Application excerpt:
- Mercury consortium currently helps various Earth Science projects to create and manage their metadata, distribute to broader scientific community. Mercury is a open source based system that allows projects to prepare, distribute and discover their metadata records. Mercury is one of the early adapters of Solr/Lucene (in 2005), and has custom components for geospatial and facet searches. It also has a powerful parser for various metadata standards based records.
- Website: http://mercury.ornl.gov
- Full Application
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is dedicated to research and education to advance understanding of the ocean and its interaction with the Earth system, and to communicating this understanding for the benefit of society. The ocean is a defining feature of our planet and crucial to life on Earth, yet it remains one of the planet's last unexplored frontiers. For this reason, WHOI scientists and engineers are committed to understanding all facets of the ocean as well as its complex connections with Earth‚ atmosphere, land, ice, seafloor, and life‚ including humanity. This is essential not only to advance knowledge about our planet, but also to ensure society's long-term welfare and to help guide human stewardship of the environment. WHOI researchers are also dedicated to training future generations of ocean science leaders, to providing unbiased information that informs public policy and decision-making, and to expanding public awareness about the importance of the global ocean and its resources.There are a myriad of information-related technologies being developed at WHOI. Two current technologies that we are willing to share are (1) the experiences we have had and work we are doing with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation and other collaborators in the development of scalable semantic frameworks such as S2S for various aspects of scientific data handling and (2) techniques we are developing for the building strong ocean scientist - computer scientist partnerships -- right now in the area of data technology development for underwater ocean image informatics systems.
- Website: http://www.whoi.edu/
- Full Application
Colombian geological Survey - ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- We are a governmental institution in charge of the geological and geoharzads studies in Colombia, and also the evaluation of natural resources. We are part of the National System on Science and Technology and also of the national Systems for Disasters management. We are involved in different type of research projects and provide useful information for the colombian community.
- Website: www.ingeominas.gov.co
- Full Application
Consortium for Ocean Leadership ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international marine research program that explores Earth’s history and structure as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks, and monitors sub-seafloor environments. Through its ocean drilling programs, Ocean Leadership is responsible for overall program leadership in the U.S. The IODP principal science themes include the deep biosphere and the sub-seafloor ocean; environmental change, processes and effects; and solid earth cycles and geodynamics. Tools to manage physical sampels and relate them to data have been developed. Methods to work with deep time data and mediate between collection and sample based data are all areas we would enjoy sharing with the Federation.
- Website:http://www.oceanleadership.org/programs-and-partnerships/scientific-ocean-drilling/
- Full Application
Met European Research Observatory ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- The Met European Research Observatory (MetEROBS) is an accredited HyMex-GEWEX (Global Energy and Water cyle Experiment) supersite, which provides support to the Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Institute, and other international Institutes. For these collaborations, MetEROBS was awarded in 2011 by the Computer-World Honors Program (http://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/CWHONORS2011/35791). Geographical Infromation Systems and Geostatistics, Regression Models, Wawelet Power Spectrum
- Website: http://network.nature.com/profile/nazdiod
- Full Application
Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems (LSIS) - ESIP-III (primarily applications and education)
- Application excerpt:
- The Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group is making two main contributions: (i) the rasdaman ("raster data manager", see www.rasdaman.org) Array Database System, which enables storage and retrieval on massive multi-dimensional raster ("array") data sets, and (ii) leading the coverage standardization part in the Open Geospatial Consortium by chairing the WCS.SWG and having editorship on most of the WCS suite standards. Bidirectional communication on WCS and related OGC standards helps to better educate communities about the opportunities the WCS suite offers, and allows to gather new requirements and other feedback on the specifications. For our rasdaman system we hope to find new fans to broadn the user (and maybe even contributor) community.
- Website: http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis
- Full Application
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) - ESIP-I (primarily a data center/archive)
- Application excerpt:
- BCO-DMO staff members work closely with NSF OCE funded investigators to manage, curate and serve data from their respective research programs. All data are ultimately made freely available and documented sufficiently to support re-use by research colleagues. BCO-DMO, in collaboration with colleagues at RPI/TWC has developed an ontology to describe ocean data.
- Website: http://bco-dmo.org
- Full Application
IMOS ESIP-II (primarily a research center)
- Application excerpt:
- IMOS/AODN are primarily targetting the marine and climate science research community, but the data are free with open access so the wider community have access including the public. The Federation can help us improve our interoperability of the same data / different data from multiple sources, improve web delivery mechanisms, increase our awareness of other community activities.
- Website: www.imos.org.au
- Full Application
Mid-2012 Class
Oct. 2012
UNC-CH / Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center / DataNet Federation Consortium (DICE) (Type III)
- Application excerpt:
- The DICE Center at UNC-CH develops open source policy-based data management systems called the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. The iRODS data grid is used to support the MODIS data set at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, and is being considered as software middleware to improve access to holdings at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. The DataNet Federation Consortium is an NSF funded project to develop national data management infrastructure that supports research collaborations.
- Website: http://irods.diceresearch.org
- Full Application:
University of South Florida College of Marine Science (USFCMS) (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- The USF College of Marine Science owns and operates buoys, coastal stations, Slocum gliders, and other custom instruments which generate various datasets. Currently we store these datasets onsite in a variety of database engines (primarily Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite).
- Website: http://comps.marine.usf.edu/
- Full Application:
NASA Applied Sciences Program - Health and Air Quality Applications, NASA HQ (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- . In concert with the communities of practice, and the NASA HQ Applied Sciences Program Management, we develop applications plans for Earth Science missions that identify potential NASA satellite and air borne measurements have societal benefits. At the user end we organize applications communities of practice and facilitate physical or virtual interactions to imagine, articulate, and anticipate possible applications. As early as possible in the mission planning process, we identify, encourage and facilitate potential partnerships and collaborations.
- Website: http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/health-air.html
- Full Application:
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill / RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) / iRODS Development and Support (RENCI) (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is a research institute at UNC-CH whose primary mission is to advance the science of CyberInfrastructure through partnerships with researchers and application-driven groups. A main science driver for RENCI’s activities is within the Earth Sciences community, in particular coastal oceanography, with close ties to NOAA IOOS and regional association activities.
- Website: http://www.renci.org
- Full Application:
April 2012
Information International Associates, Inc (IIa) (Type III)
- Application excerpt:
- We provide scientific information management and technology tools to the Earth Science community. Our interest is to work with Earth scientists and assist with solving the data management challenges of the community.
- Website: http://www.iiaweb.com/
- Full Application:
LASP (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- LASP has been gathering measurements and studing space since the Mariner mission flew by Venus in 1967. LASP scientists study the sun, the atmosphere, space weather, and the planets in our solar system. It was recently announced that CU Boulder was chosen to host the National Solar Observatory headquarters. The PI for that project is a LASP scientist.
- Website: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mission-ops-data/
- Full Application:
NCAR (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- NCAR is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) devoted to research, service, and education in the atmospheric and related sciences. We conduct scientific research, operate observational and computational facilities for the science community, develop and transfer technology and information products to interested users, and provide opportunities for educational and professional development to post-secondary students and early career scientists
- Website: http://ncar.ucar.edu/
- Full Application:
USGS (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- The USGS is a leading science agency of the United States government within the Department of the Interior. The USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) incorporates the contributions of USGS employees and external partners into a community of practice focused on data integration issues
- Website: https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Home and http://usgs.gov
- Full Application:
GEIA (Type II)
- Application excerpt:
- Since 1990, GEIA (http://www.geiacenter.org/) has been bringing together people, data, and tools to create the highest quality information about emissions, the inputs to the atmosphere from human and natural activities. Accurate emissions information is critical to understanding and predicting air quality and climate. GEIA’s activities aim to improve access to emissions information, facilitate the development of better emissions datasets, and strengthen connections within the broad international community of developers and users of emissions knowledge. GEIA is a community-run organization made up of individuals affiliated with a variety of host institutions; its current co-chairs are Gregory Frost and Leonor Tarrasón.
- Website: http://www.geiacenter.org/
- Full Application:
IEDA (Type I)
- Application excerpt:
- IEDA (Integrated Earth Data Applications) is a data facility that is based on a partnership between the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS, www.marine-geo.org) and the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program (GfG, www.geoinfogeochem.org) and funded by the US National Science Foundation under a Cooperative Agreement to ensure access and preservation of observational data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences. IEDA’s goal is to maximize the return on research investments, while enabling verification of research results and contributing to new science initiatives.
- Website: http://www.iedadata.org
- Full Application:
In Situ Experience (Type III)
- Application excerpt:
- In Situ Experience creates data-driven interactive experiences and media products for formal and informal education and commercial end-users. Founded by two highly-accomplished producers and developers, ISE brings a wealth of experience to the table.
- Website:http://www.insituexperience.com/
- Full Application:
October 2011
The Data Conservancy (DC) (Type I - Data Center)
- Application excerpt:
- Complex interactions among the atmosphere, the ocean, the land, the biosphere, and human behavior pose daunting challenges in understanding the causes of observed phenomena such as climate change and its associated impact on biodiversity and urbanization. Through collection, preservation, and semantic integration of data that are now very difficult to assemble and analyze, the Data Conservancy will transform the ability of scientists to answer grand challenge questions that are important to the nation and the world.
- Website:
Full Application:
Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network (Type II - Research)
- Application excerpt:
- The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network was designed to address questions that are fundamental to understanding the dynamics of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being as they interact from local to global scales in the context of multiple changing drivers (e.g., climate change and land cover change). The TEAM Network is currently a partnership among Conservation International, The Missouri Botanical Garden, The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Smithsonian Institution. The TEAM Network monitors biodiversity and a set of ecosystem services using a relatively small suite of standardized protocols implemented at TEAM Sites. These protocols include: Climate, Carbon Stocks, Tree Species Diversity, Liana Species Diversity, Bird and Mammal Species Diversity and the Zone of Human Dynamics and Ecosystem Change (ZoHDEC). The protocols facilitate comparisons among sites and continents using metrics that quantify changes in climate, land use/land cover, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. The protocols were designed and vetted through a series of workshops involving more than 200 scientists from around the world and are freely available on the web. Multi-disciplinary data is collected from technician collected field measurements, mobile devices, ground based sensors and satellite sensors. As a result the TEAM Network has worked extensively to develop one of the first operational cyberinfrastructure that supports a global observatory network. Our main cyberinfrastructure partner is the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego.
- Website:
- Full Application:
Arizona Geological Survey (Type II - Research)
- Application excerpt:
- AZGS is an independent state agency with objectives to: (1) Serve as a primary source of geologic information in this state to enhance public understanding of the state's geologic character, geologic hazards and limitations and mineral resources. (2) Inform, advise and assist the public in matters concerning the geological processes, materials and landscapes and the development and use of the mineral resources of this state. (3) Encourage the wise use of the lands and mineral resources of this state toward its development. (4) Provide technical advice and assistance in geology to other state and local governmental agencies engaged in projects in which the geologic setting, character or mineral resources of the state are involved. (5) Provide technical advice and assistance in geology to industry toward the wise development and use of the mineral and land resources of this state.
- Website:
- Full Application:
Ozone and Atmospheric Quality Processing Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Type II - Research)
- Application Excerpt:
- The Ozone and Air Quality Processing Team (OAQPT) develops and operates data processing systems that flight projects and individual scientists use to produce data sets from spacecraft sensors in an automated production system. We developing approaches that will enable Earth Science Community Members to search for and retrieve selected data products and to automatically stage them for further processing through user supplied scientific algorithms. Our system currently supports data from the Backscattered UltraViolet sensor, BUV, from Nimbus 4 from 1970 to 1976, The Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer from Nimbus 7 from 1978 through 1993, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument flown on EOS Aura from 2004 onward, and will support the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite, OMPS to be flown on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project to be launched in 2011.
- Website:
- Full Application:
January 2011
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.
- Website:
- Full Application:
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:
- Full Application:
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:
- Full Application:
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.
- Website:
- 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).
- Website:
- Full Application:
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.
- Website:
- Full Application:
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.
- Website:
- Full Application:
October 2010
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/
- Full Application:
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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
- Full Application:
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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:
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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."
- Website:
- Full Application:
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."
- Website:
- Full Application:
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
- Full Application:
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
- Full Application:
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
- Full Application:
September 2009
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."
- Website:
- Full Application:
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."
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- 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
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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2008
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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2007
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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