U51A:
Innovative Community Software Schemes for the Geosciences: Models, Scripts, GIS Data Systems, Workflows, Collaboration Tools, and More...

Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.


Session ID#: 8928

Session Description:
The NSF EarthCube Initiative aims to enable scientists to solve challenging Earth System problems that span diverse geoscience communities, each with their own distinct software and data resources, as well as unique software strategies for knowledge creation and collaboration. This session invites an open discussion of the latest and most innovative geoscience software that is leading to transformative breakthroughs across the  geoscience communities. The goal of the session and panel discussion is to give scientists and their respective geoscience communities/colleagues, a platform to advance new software innovations that promote the scientific process from model and data sharing to software-mediated forms of knowledge sharing, and tools for scientific collaborations. In particular the session organizers wish to explore what works and why for a particular community; how might software support connecting geoscientists for local, regional and global investigations, and to generally facilitate common research interests and needs.
Primary Convener:  Christopher Duffy, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Yolanda Gil, Univ. of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, United States, Chris A Mattmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Scott Dale Peckham, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Christopher Duffy, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Chris A Mattmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christopher Duffy, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
Index Terms:

1902 Community modeling frameworks [INFORMATICS]
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
1978 Software re-use [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sustaining an Online, Shared Community Resource for Models, Robust Open source Software Tools and Data for Volcanology – the Vhub Experience (Invited) (71733)
Abani K Patra1, Greg Valentine1, Marcus I Bursik2, Charles Connor3, Laura Connor4, Matt Jones1, Nikolay Simakov5, Hossein Aghakhani5, Renette Jones-Ivey6, Tevfik Kosar5, Bing Zhang5 and SSI on Tools for Volcanology Team, (1)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, (3)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (4)University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States, (5)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, (6)University at Buffalo, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Buffalo, United States
HydroTerre: Towards an expert system for scaling models from hillslopes to major river basins (Invited) (73667)
Lorne N Leonard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Designing Collaborative Developmental Standards by Refactoring of the Earth Science Models, Libraries, Workflows and Frameworks. (Invited) (79091)
Eugene Mirvis, IMSG @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Global Climate & Weather Modeling Branch of EMC, College Park, MD, United States and Mark Iredell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP EMC, College Park, MD, United States
OntoSoft: A Software Commons for Geosciences (Invited) (81502)
Yolanda Gil, Univ. of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, United States

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