Joint CEE 595W and CEE 595AG seminar
"The Role of
Cyberinfrastructure in Supporting Collaborative Research on Large-Scale,
Complex Environmental and Water Resource Systems"
Dr. Barbara S. Minsker
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Director, Environmental
Engineering, Science, & Hydrology Group,
Arthur & Virginia Nauman
Faculty Scholar
Abstract
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is launching a series of new initiatives that seek to create a new paradigm for collaborative research, in an effort to better understand and manage large-scale, complex environmental and water resource systems. These initiatives, which include CUAHSI (hydrology), CLEANER (engineering), NEON (ecology), and ORION (oceans), involve networks of environmental observatories instrumented with sensor systems and linked by "cyberinfrastructure." These networks become "collaboratories," in which teams of researchers across the nation can collaborate remotely on experiments (lab, field, and computational) at and across the observatories. Cyberinfrastructure consists of any computational hardware, networks, and software needed to support the collaboratories. This talk will give an overview of the plans and status of the major collaboratory initiatives and discuss issues associated with cyberinfrastructure to support these initiatives. This will include a summary of issues and recommendations discussed at an NSF Environmental Cyberinfrastructure workshop last December, and an introduction to emerging information technologies that have the potential to transform environmental and water resources research.
Room 1518 Hydrosystems Lab
Everyone
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