Intelligent Systems for Geosciences March 26-27, 2015 Westin Hotel, Arlington VA Co-Chairs: Yolanda Gil Suzanne Pierce

Workshop Co-Chairs Suzanne Pierce Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin Yolanda Gil Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science University of Southern California

Eva Zanzerkia Program Director EarthCube GEO Hector Muñoz-Avila Program Director, Robust Intelligence Information and Intelligent Systems CISE Welcome by: Deborah F. Lockhart Deputy Division Director CISE/IIS

Introductions

(*) indicates attending the workshop CISE/IIS: Deborah McGuinness (*) h_L_McGuinness h_L_McGuinness Knowledge Representation Vipin Kumar (*) Machine Learning Prof. Benjamin Kuipers Robotics and spatial reasoning Cecilia Aragon / / Visual Analytics GEOSCIENCES Pierre Lermusiaux (*) Physical Oceanography John Horel (*) JOHN_D_HOREL/research/index.hml JOHN_D_HOREL/research/index.hml Atmospheric Sciences Aaron Ridley (*) /ridley /ridley Space Physics Basil Tikoff (*) ce/people/faculty/basil-tikoff/ ce/people/faculty/basil-tikoff/ Tectonics CISE/ACI Jia Zhang (*) – valley/faculty-staff/zhang-jia.html valley/faculty-staff/zhang-jia.html – Service-oriented computing Victor Pankratius (*) – victorpa nkratius/ victorpa nkratius/ – Software engineering and parallel computing Santiago Pujol – /People/view_person?group_id=19 20&resource_id= /People/view_person?group_id=19 20&resource_id=9006 – Earthquake engineering Duncan Brown – ~duncan/ ~duncan/ – Astrophysics Advisory Committee

Workshop Goals Informed by existing cyberinfrastructure efforts Intelligent systems Information integration Machine learning Knowledge representation Geospatial computing Visualization/Intelligent user interfaces Robotics/vision Synthesize a vision and roadmap for intelligent systems research that will provide new capabilities to advance geosciences Geosciences Earth Atmospheric Space Physics Oceanography Polar Build new bridges to connect GEO and CISE/IIS communities Build on momentum of the EarthCube initiative

Pre-workshop Participant Statements Computer scientists were asked to: 1)summarize 3-4 big ideas in their field in the last few years that they think may have an impact in geosciences research, and 2) highlight 2-3 important research trends in their area that can be relevant to the workshop goals. Geoscientists were asked to: 1)summarize 2-3 computing innovations in recent years that they believe have had the most impact in their field, and 2) discuss science challenges that they think would benefit from computing solutions or innovations in intelligent and information systems research. Statements were used for designing the workshop schedule as well as to plan the workshop report.

Workshop Agenda Exploratory session (plenary) I: Themes in intelligent and information systems II: Themes in geosciences Breakouts: World Café Breakouts I: Each table devoted to an intelligent & information systems area Breakouts II: Each table devoted to a geoscience area Reports from breakouts (plenary) Start to identify themes and trends Synthesis of intelligent systems research themes: grand challenges? Breakouts Breakout reports (plenary) Report planning and dissemination (plenary) Draft report out for comments in May, Final report out in June Workshop presentation with Q/A session for NSF PDs (Friday 3-4pm)

DRAFT OUTLINE OF FINAL PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP REPORT 1. Introduction (SP/YG) 2. Recent impact of intelligent and information systems in geosciences (YG) 2.1 One section per major area 2.2 A synthesis section of major themes Developed in 2 iterations: 1.CS and GEO participant pre-workshop statements 2.Exploratory session and other workshop discussions 3. Geoscience challenges that would benefit from innovations in IIS research (SP) 3.1 One section per major area 3.2 A synthesis section of shared challenges Developed in 3 iterations: 1.Geo participant pre-workshop statements 2.World cafe session II and other workshop discussions 3.Synthesis Session 4. A research agenda for IIS research and its potential impact to geosciences (YG) 4.1 One section per area 4.2 A summary of major highlights Developed in 3 iterations: 1.CS participant pre-workshop statements 2.World cafe session I and other workshop discussions 3.Synthesis Session 5. Conclusions and recommendations (SP/YG) Developed in final workshop discussions: 1.Synthesis Session 2.Report planning session

Expected Workshop Outcomes DISSEMINATION: GEO Presentation at EarthCube AHM Geological Society of America session planned for Nov 2015 AGU session proposal will be submitted in April 22 Other opportunities suggested by participants DISSEMINATION: IIS AAAI workshop proposal will be submitted Aug 2015 AI Magazine article (AAAI) AI Matters article (ACM SIGAI) Other opportunities suggested by participants WORKSHOP REPORT Final workshop presentation on Day 2 of the workshop Meet with NSF PDs to discuss preliminary findings Draft workshop report planned for May 2015 Meet with NSF PDs to discuss final report Final workshop report planned for June 2015 Journal article(s) COMMUNITY BUILDING Collaboration opportunities Grand challenges Continuity and follow-on events