IN54A:
Big Data in Earth Science: From Hype to Reality II


Session ID#: 10598

Session Description:
Big Data has plausibly reached the peak of its technology “hype” cycle, at least in geosciences.  For a new technology to evolve, mature, and realize its maximum potential, it must successfully survive the transition through the ensuing "trough of disillusionment".  In a community such as ours, i.e. Earth Science, which has had a long, if not the longest, history in trying to make use and make sense out of large volumes of data, the benefits promised by Big Data appear especially enticing.  Therefore, with an aim to focus our collective efforts on the challenges and to nurture the maturation of Big Data in Earth Science, we seek abstracts in this session 1) to describe, define, or categorize Big Data challenges through illuminating science use cases, 2) to report and describe progresses/statuses in ongoing/upcoming Big Data projects, or 3) to identify opportunities for addressing the challenges and reaping benefits.
Primary Convener:  Kwo-Sen Kuo, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Bayesics, LLC, Bowie, MD, United States
Conveners:  Rahul Ramachandran, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Michael M Little, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Michael M Little, NASA, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Kwo-Sen Kuo, Bayesics, LLC, Bowie, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Building the Petascale National Environmental Research Interoperability Data Platform (NERDIP): Minimizing the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ and Accelerating Pathways to the ‘Plateau of Productivity’ (78510)
Lesley A Wyborn and Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
"HELIX NEBULA - THE SCIENCE CLOUD", A EUROPEAN SCIENCE DRIVEN CROSS-DOMAIN INITIATIVE IMPLEMENTED IN VIA AN ACTIVE PPP SET-UP. (82533)
Wolfgang Lengert, European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, Emmanuel Mondon, CloudEO AG, Munich, Germany, Marc-Elian Bégin, SixSq, Geneva, Switzerland, Marc Ferrer, ATOS, Toulouse, France, Frederic Vallois, Thales, Toulouse, France and Jurry DelaMar, T-System, Frankfurt, Germany
The NOAA Big Data Project: NEXRAD on the Cloud (69384)
Ariel Gold, Amazon Web Services, Washington, DC, United States and Jeff Weber, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Unidata, Boulder, United States
Can Data be Organized for Science and Reuse? (Invited) (61933)
Ted Habermann1, Svetlana Shasharina2, Aleksandar Jelenak3 and David W Fillmore2, (1)Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States, (2)Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)HDF Group, Champaign, IL, United States
Scientific Data Management and Analysis for Earth Science at Scale (79513)
Paul Geoffrey Brown, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Climbing the Slope of Enlightenment during NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (Invited) (59951)
Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Elizabeth Embury Hoy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Daniel Duffy, NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, United States, Mark McInerney, NASA Center for Climate Simulation, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ABoVE Science Cloud Team
Towards a New Assessment of Urban Areas from Local to Global Scales (Invited) (79075)
Budhendra L Bhaduri1, Pranab K. Roy Chowdhury2, Jacob McKee1, Jeanette Weaver1, Edward Bright1 and Eric Weber1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, United States

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