1. Gateway Round Table Update Nancy Wilkins-Diehr TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

2. As presented at Sept TG quarterly What else is exciting? SGW funding a Cyberinfrastructure in GIS workshop in conjunction with the UCGIS meeting in DC in February –Co-led by Shaowen Wang at NCSA and Nancy –Approved by UCGIS board after a lengthy voting process –Winter UCGIS meeting will focus on CI and includes a White House briefing Workshop attendees welcome to attend the briefing Briefing will include very short recap of the workshop –Expected outcome of the workshop Increased visibility New partnerships for TeraGrid, UCGIS, and other pertinent organizations Workshop report Interesting collaborative proposal ideas Potential future publications TeraGrid Quarterly, September 24-25, 2009

3. Results? 50 attendees from throughout the US, Sweden and Australia –Had to turn away nearly as many Attendees submitted thought- provoking position papers Agenda combined –Keynote talks (Ed Seidel, NSF; Mike Goodchild, UCSB – father of “GI Science”) –Invited talks (Bill Appelbe, CEO of Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing; Steve Kopp, ESRI) –Panels Science Drivers for CyberGIS Cyberinfrastructure and GIScience, where to converge? Building effective CyberGIS Strategies, and Pitfalls for Fostering Collaboration and Virtual Organization Federal Agency panel –Break out sessions Computational intensity of spatial analysis and modeling Disaster response Geospatial ontology and semantic web Spatial decision support systems Cyber-enabled geographic information science Geospatial middleware, clouds, and grids Data-intensive geographic information science High performance computing and CyberGIS TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

4. Next steps? All white papers and slides posted at http://www.cigi.uiuc.edu/cybergis/ (in progress) http://www.cigi.uiuc.edu/cybergis/ “Top 5 things you learned from the workshop” Workshop report/paper Possible special issue of Journal of Spatial Information Science to expand position papers Identification of grand challenge problems in GIS, exemplars Smaller more problem-specific workshops since GIS is very broad TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

5. Workshop highlighted the next day at the UCGIS Winter Session Meeting Members Room, Library of Congress TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010 Photos courtesy Diansheng Guo

6. Administration Attendees Karen Siderelis –GIO Department of Interior, Acting Chair Federal Geographic Data Committee Raphael Bostic –Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, HUD Derek Douglas –Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs Jerry Johnston –CIO, EPA Stephen Lowe –GIO, Dept of Agriculture Joseph Klimavicz –CIO, NOAA, Director of High Performance Computing and Communications TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010 Photos courtesy Diansheng Guo