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The following five applications are open for review. Please send comments to DHardin@itsc.uah.edu or carol.meyer@earthsciencefoundation.org

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:

http://esg-pcmdi.llnl.gov.

Full Application:

CLASS ESIP Partnership 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:

http://pds.nasa.gov

Full Application:

CLASS ESIP Partnership 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:

JMU Geographic Science Program Partnership 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:

Massachusetts Maritime Academy Partnership 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:

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute / Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative Partnership Application