BELMONT FORUM E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ACTION US DELEGATION CALL JULY 22, 2014 MARIA UHLE (NSF) LEE ALLISON (ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY)

AGENDA  Welcoming remarks and introductions (Maria and Lee) – 10:00 am  Belmont Forum objectives and plans (Maria) - 10:05 am  Update on the E-Infrastructure CRA, including revised timeline and deliverables (Lee) - 10:15 am  WPs updates (objectives, activities, challenges) (WP members) 10:40 am  Open discussion and Q&A (All) 11:20 am  Closing remarks and thanks (Maria and Lee) 11:55 am

PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION THROUGH NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES World’s leading funders of global environmental change research and international science councils

Established to foster global environmental change research; Initiated June 2009 by NSF and NERC, building on IGFA

 Australia  Austria  Brazil  Canada  China  France  European Commission  Germany  Italy*  India BELMONT FORUM MEMBERS  Japan  Norway  South Africa  Sweden*  UK  USA  Int’l Council for Science  Int’l Social Science Council *Will officially join the Belmont Forum in 2014

BELMONT FORUM COUNTRIES

THE BELMONT CHALLENGE To deliver knowledge needed for action to avoid and adapt to detrimental environmental change, including extreme hazardous events. This requires:  Assessments of risks, impacts and vulnerabilities, through regional and decadal-scale analysis and prediction  Information on the state of the environment, through advanced observing systems  Interaction of natural and social sciences  Enhanced environmental information service providers to users  Effective international coordination mechanisms

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ACTIONS (CRAS)  Address the Belmont Challenge  Societally relevant global environmental change challenges  A minimum of 3 BF countries is required to form a CRA  Interdisciplinary (Natural and Social sciences)  Clear links to research users  Support for capacity-building

TYPES OF ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY CRA’S  Networking / community-building actions  Calls to run a summer schools or develop training material  Small-scale, catalyst projects to enable the establishment of interdisciplinary partnerships, pilot studies, and the development of new methodologies  Larger scale research activities, etc., whatever is most appropriate to address the issue in question  Others TBD

CURRENT, PAST AND FUTURE FUNDING CALLS (CRAs)  2014  Arctic: Call for Proposals - Closes July 30, 2014 Arctic: Call for Proposals  Biodiversity - Closed Biodiversity  2015  Mountains as Sentinels of Change -To be announced Mountains as Sentinels of Change  E-Infrastructure & Data Management – Under study  2012  Coastal Vulnerability - Funded Coastal Vulnerability  Freshwater Security - Funded Freshwater Security  2013  Food Security and Land Use Change - Funded Food Security and Land Use Change

CRA SCOPING PERIOD – GENERAL OVERVIEW  Goals  Review CRA priorities  Identify a list of topics/key questions the CRA will focus on  Identify the best mechanisms/activities to deliver the desired results  Develop strategy and options for coordination among activities  Identify key communities for collaboration

E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT Collaborative Research Action Phase 1

E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT “….the need to address global environmental challenges requires a more coordinated approach to the planning, implementation, and management of data, analytics and E- Infrastructures” through international collaboration. - Belmont Forum, New Delhi, February 2013

COMMUNITY STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN  Identify strategic science policies, outlining what can be done better, in a multilateral way, to support global change research  Vision that clearly expresses global e-infrastructure needs, barriers and gaps  Informs stakeholders  Prioritizes action to address the interoperability challenges  Integrates existing national and international research in order to promote more holistic environmental support systems OBJECTIVES AND BROADER IMPACTS

COMMUNITY STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN  Recommendations could consist of one or more funding calls (CRAs) and/or policies/procedural changes:  Actions that produce quick wins leading to recognizable results  Strategic leverage points to make a big difference with small sums of money or policy changes  Analysis of funding mechanisms that best sustain e-infrastructures  Strategic community-building initiatives around data infrastructures  Process to engage the BF in the co-design of future CRAs to keep pace with changing global e-infrastructure landscape OBJECTIVES AND BROADER IMPACTS

MULTI-PHASE BELMONT FORUM PROJECT Phase I: (current effort) September 2013 – April 2015  Series of collaborative scoping activities instead of a competitive call for small grants  Focus on reducing the risk of fragmenting existing communities and excluding important players  Produce a Community Strategy and Implementation Plan Phase II: (BF will decide what to do) Starts in 2015/2016  Begin delivering on Implementation Plan based on input from the Knowledge Hub activities  Depends on outcomes of Phase I and funding agency participation  May include a funding call to implement the strategies and vision from Phase I E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

WHO’S INVOLVED?  International Steering Committee (14 people)  1 member per country or international organization  Members lead six Work Packages (WPs) / working groups  6 Work Packages (120 people, ~ 10 per country)  ~ 20 people per WP  Project Secretariat – jointly funded by US (NSF) and UK (NERC)

Architecture and Interoperability  WP1: Data Integration for Multidisciplinary Research  WP2: Improved interface between the computation and data infrastructures  WP3: Harmonization of global data infrastructure for sharing environmental data Governance  WP4: Data Sharing  WP5: Open Data  WP 6: Capacity Building (cross-cutting) WORK PACKAGES ASSEMBLY AND ROLE OF THE WORK PACKAGES

ROLE OF THE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS AND WORK PACKAGES  Provide evidence to support recommendations on how the BF can best support e-infrastructure  Each individual:  Brings a unique area of expertise, so all contributions are critical and valuable  Should draw on her or his knowledge/expertise to identify existing capabilities, gaps and remaining research challenges in both technical and governance arenas  Already participates in a number of international and national initiatives, and so can take a holistic view ASSEMBLY AND ROLE OF THE WORK PACKAGES

DELIVERABLES  Initial WP reports: Due August 11, 2014 to project  Interim Report: Due September 15, 2014 to GPC  Community Strategy and Implementation Plan  Draft due in January 2015  Final due in March/April 2015  Other Work Package Deliverables TBD DELIVERABLES

WORK PACKAGES: DELIVERABLES  Initial WP internal deliverables are due by August 11, 2014:WP internal deliverables 1. Review of the existing situation/lay of the land in each WP focus area(s) 2. Identify the need to take action in a particular area: What are the issues that need to be addressed and why? 3. Identify whether a CRA could address this issue. If so, how? 4. Identify strategic policies or actions that BF could take to address this issue  Final deliverables for the Plan will include documentation to support recommendations DELIVERABLES

PHASE I TIMELINE (UPDATED)  October 2013: Steering Committee Meeting in Windsor, UK, to define WPs and WP leadership  November 2013 – February 2014: Finalize WP workplans and populate WPs with Assembly members  August 11, 2014: WPs provide a report on preliminary findings to the Secretariat  August 21-22: Steering Committee meeting to synthesize WP findings into a cohesive interim report  September 15: Interim report due to the Belmont Forum E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

PHASE I TIMELINE (CONTINUED)  October 8-10: Belmont Forum Plenary Meeting in Beijing, China to decide CRAs released in 2015  October – December : Executive summary of the interim report publicly disseminated and feedback solicited  December 13-14: SC meeting in San Francisco, USA  January 15, 2015: Draft Community Strategy and Implementation Plan due to the Belmont Forum Principals  March/April 2015: Community Strategy and Implementation Plan due. E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

US DELEGATION (1) – WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU  Allison, Lee: Arizona Geological Survey  Arrigo, Jennifer: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.  Cavalier, Darlene: SciStarter  Chandler, Cynthia: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  Chen, Robert: Columbia University – Center for International Earth Science Information Network  Contreras, Jorge: American University – College of Law  Entwisle, Barbara: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Department of Sociology  Foster, Ian: University of Chicago – Department of Computer Sciences

US DELEGATION (11)– WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU  Hedstrom, Margaret: University of Michigan – School of Information Sciences  Lehnert, Kerstin: Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)  Michener, William: University of New Mexico - DataONE  Parsons, Mark: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Research Data Alliance  Reichman, Jerome: Duke University – School of Law  Rose, Kevin: * University of Wisconsin  Wee, Brian: National Ecological Observatories Network, Inc.  Wilbanks, John: Sage Bionetworks  Zaslavsky, Ilya: San Diego Supercomputer Center *Not funded by the NSF to participate in this effort.