Theme
This workshop will focus on information technologies necessary to support and advance the state of climate research. In particular, the Workshop themes include:
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- Data Grid Infrastructures
- High End Computing
- GIS/Visualization Capabilities
- Cyberinfrastructure to support climate modeling research
- Scientific portals focusing on climate research
- Coupling of heterogeneous models
- Data Mining, Fusion, and Assimilation
- Novel spatial grids and associated algorithms
- Efficient spectral methods for climate models
- Computer-assisted detection of climate change
- Metadata requirements for climate data stewardship
- Ontologies to support knowledge representation of the climate system
- Parallel algorithms for computer-intensive algorithms
- Downscaling and upscaling of model results
- Methods for capturing provenance in models
- Novel delivery methods to support climate education
- Data analysis in distributed environments
Goals
- Enhance and raise awareness of the importance of IT to enable climate research, particularly at a national level
- Identify potential collaborations between academia, agencies and national laboratories
- Share lessons learned and inspire the sharing, infusion, and reuse of information technology
- Encourage collaborations and use of data from multiple agency missions (DOE, NOAA, NASA, etc)
Participant solicitation
Participation is open to anyone interested in climate research and applications. The purpose of the Workshop is to raise awareness and encourage greater collaboration among the many stakeholders involved in climate studies. We also seek presentations from computer experts who are currently developing IT technologies and solutions for climate research.
Background Organizers
Daniel Crichton – Mr. Crichton is a principal computer scientist, program manager and principal investigator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He oversees programs in earth and planetary data systems and serves as JPL’s thrust lead in the area of data systems for climate research. He has published over 40 papers on data intensive systems including three book chapters.
Amy Braverman – Dr. Braverman is a senior statistician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an adjunct associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently principal investigator of the Climate Data Exchange (CDX) task that is developing an infrastructure for sharing and coupling data from science data systems and modeling environments. Dr. Braverman’s research interests include massive data set analysis, statistical methods for diagnosing climate models, and data fusion.
Dean Williams – Mr. Williams is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also a principal investigator for the Earth System Grid project. He currently manages the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and is building an infrastructure for sharing model output.
Chris Mattmann – Dr. Mattmann is a senior computer scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the Department of Computer Science. He serves as Co-Investigator for the Virtual Oceanographic Data Center, a NASA-funded research task to building a data grid infrastructure for sharing oceanographic data sets. He is also a Co-Investigator with Dr. Braverman on the Climate Data Exchange and also serves as the cognizant development engineer (CDE) in building a bioinformatics data grid for the National Cancer Institute.
Robert Raskin – Dr. Raskin is the group supervisor of the Science Data Engineering Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded SWEET project to develop an upper level ontology of Earth System Science. He is Associate Editor and Feature Editor of the Earth Science Informatics journal and is Chair of the Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He is the outgoing Vice-President of the Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP) Federation. He holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan.
Agenda
A workshop entitled “IT for Climate Research” will be held at the 2009 Space Mission Challenges for IT. The focus of this workshop will be to bring together technologists and scientists interested in leveraging emerging technologies and solutions to support, enable and enhance climate research. Of particular interest are individuals who are building infrastructures and tools to support analysis and sharing of both climate data and models.
Important Dates
Workshop to be held on July 21, 2009.
Program Committee
Daniel Crichton (NASA/JPL)
Dean Williams (LLNL)
Amy Braverman (NASA/JPL, UCLA)
Chris Mattmann (NASA/JPL, USC)
Michael Gunson (NASA/JPL)
Robert Raskin (NASA/JPL, George Mason Univ.)
Nicolas Christou (UCLA)
Logistics
Size: 60 people
Room Orientation: Theatre style
Audio/Video: Digital Projector and Microphone
Principal Organizer:
Daniel Crichton, NASA / JPL,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 169-400
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: (818) 354-9155
Daniel.J.Crichton@jpl.nasa.gov
