IN51B:
Challenges and Benefits of Open-Source Software and Open Data I Posters

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Session ID#: 23607

Session Description:
Scientists rely on a broad range of software tools and services to conduct their research such as GIS, data hosting and discovery platforms, data processing packages, and modelling suites. The continued development of these tools is essential to improving our understanding of critical geoscience questions. Open source software and open data foster reusing and adopting existing scientific results. Due to the increasing needs for data analysis and infrastructure, earth and space sciences benefits from adopting these practices. In addition, open source software enhances capabilities of researchers, science teams, and new users and allows them to build more capable, reliable, reusable and long-lasting software. Reusing open source software and data can be synergistic and beneficial for research collaborations, as well as challenging to govern. This session discusses ways to address the challenges and benefits of open science, as well as cutting-edge tools and services that support the needs of the community.
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia
Conveners:  Anthony M Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel Garijo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Bert Jagers, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Chairs:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia, Bert Jagers, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands and Daniel Garijo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Anthony M Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
1978 Software re-use [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Evolving Worldview: Making Open Source Easy (272978)
Zachary Rice, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Generic Space Science Visualization in 2D/3D using SDDAS (241744)
Joey Mukherjee, Zackary B Murphy, Carrie Ann Gonzalez, Michael Muller and Steven Ybarra, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
The Snow Data System at NASA JPL (282182)
Jason Horn1, Thomas H Painter1, Kathryn J Bormann1, Karl Rittger2, Mary J. Brodzik3, McKenzie Skiles1, Annie Bryant Burgess4, Chris A Mattmann1, Paul Ramirez1, Michael Joyce1, Cameron E Goodale1, Lewis John McGibbney5, Paul Zimdars1 and Rojeh Yaghoobi1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Portland, OR, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Integrating hydrologic modeling web services with online data sharing to prepare, store, and execute models in hydrology (286905)
Tian Gan1, David G Tarboton2, Pabitra K Dash1, Tseganeh Gichamo1 and Jeffery S Horsburgh3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, UT, United States

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