1. Biodiversity and Ecological Modeling and Analysis

2. Specifications Document Overall objective: Test-bed to direct SEEK A&M design, and evaluate the effectiveness of SEEK Actively engage with other SEEK participants Address cross-cutting, contemporary problems Provide continuous and constructive feedback to ensure the development of useful tools Facilitate community participation in EcoGrid Actively promote public data sharing

3. Functional Requirements: ID 6-10 high-level collaborations Examine past studies to see how SEEK could have facilitated the project Interview scientists at the frontiers Selections should include a mixture from the ecological-biodiversity-environmental-human data quadrangle ID community common needs: analytical, semantic mediation, data discovery, computational, etc.

4. Functional Requirements Choose a subset for prototyping General to specific ID fundamental building blocks Test assumptions in analytical pipelines

5. Use Cases UC1: Ecological Niche Modeling UC2: Biodiversity-productivity linkages from KNB UC3: AgTRANS Criteria: High profile (community-wide relevance) Crosscutting Range of technical issues Leverage ongoing research in other groups

6. Products Specifications for selected activities: EcoGrid, Pipeline, semantic mediation. For example, define functional requirements for prototypes, interfaces, etc. Publications: for each prototype effort Assessment of SEEK “tools”

7. Calendar, Meetings Working group meetings at Developers Meeting and AHM (1/2 day). Flexible timing, tied to major development advances

8. Milestones/Planned Activities Ongoing-Identify new and existing work and leveraging activities March NCEAS Productivity/Diversity WG meeting; AgTrans…discuss SEEK development interest April 2003 Meet with NCEAS ecological niche modeling working group August 2003 Meet with ecological niche modeling working group in Mexico.

9. Deliverables for June 1 Assessment of Productivity-Diversity potential use case Assessment of Ag-Tran potential use case Report of ENM data and analytical needs