U32A:
Collaborative Research Infrastructures to Support Current and Future Global Challenges in Earth and Space Sciences

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Session ID#: 13575

Session Description:
Research in the Earth and space sciences today needs to address global challenges such as climate variability, effective prediction of natural hazards, sustainable management of the Critical Zone, as well as contributing evidence to debates on sustainable economic development. Multinational collaborations that develop large-scale infrastructures can accelerate such worldwide research objectives, enabling high quality research outcomes more efficiently. The types of infrastructures are varied, including global research collaborations, global sensor networks, international data sharing infrastructures, and virtual research laboratories. Most start out as national networks that coerce to become international networks of networks and ultimately form global infrastructures able to support research objectives across national and continental boundaries. This session will highlight collaborative initiatives that are underway to support research across the Earth and space sciences, showcasing their diversity and drawing attention to achievements and challenges of moving research infrastructures from institutional or national focus into an international sphere.
Primary Convener:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Conveners:  Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Xiaogang Ma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
Chairs:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Xiaogang Ma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States and Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Xiaogang Ma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1934 International collaboration [INFORMATICS]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Collaborative Development of e-Infrastructures and Data Management Practices for Global Change Research (158720)
Robert John Samors, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, M Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States and Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management Coordination Office
Climate Science’s Globally Distributed Infrastructure (Invited) (173978)
Dean Norman Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
The Global Seismographic Network (GSN): Goals, Structure, Accomplishments and Challenges (Invited) (122644)
Robert S Detrick, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), Washington, DC, United States, Katrin Hafner, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS, Washington, DC, United States, J Peter Davis, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, David Wilson, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Albuquerque, United States and Robert Woodward, IRIS, Washington, DC, United States
The international Argo data infrastructure; past, present, and future. (Invited) (122666)
Justin James Henry Buck1, Sylvie Pouliquen2, Ann Thresher3, Catherine Schmechtig4, Mark Ignaszewski5, Thierry Carval2, Megan Scanderbeg6, Michael Frost5 and Argo Data Management Team, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)IFREMER, Brest, France, (3)CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Australia, (4)OSU Ecce Terra, UMS 3455, CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu 75252, Paris, France, (5)Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
ENVRIplus - European collaborative development of environmental infrastructures (Invited) (155526)
Ari Asmi1, Magdalena Brus1, Werner Leo Kutsch2 and Paolo Laj3, (1)University of Helsinki, Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (2)ICOS ERIC, Head Office, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS, LGGE, Grenoble, France
Enabling Research without Geographical Boundaries via Collaborative Research Infrastructures (Invited) (122212)
Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame, IN, United States

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