1. EarthCube National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science Presentation to the Faster Administration of Science and Technology Education and Research (FASTER) Presentation by Clifford Jacobs for the EarthCube team  June 19, 2012  Arlington, VA Presentation to the Faster Administration of Science and Technology Education and Research (FASTER) Presentation by Clifford Jacobs for the EarthCube team  June 19, 2012  Arlington, VA Leadership Tim Killeen, Assistant Director for Geosciences Alan Blatecky, Head of Office of Cyberinfrastructure EarthCube Team Eva Zanzerkia (GEO)Mark Suskin (OCI)Dane Skow (OCI) Barbara Ransom (GEO)Irene Lombardo (OCI)Robert Chadduck (OCI) Jennifer Schopf (GEO) Almadena Chtchelkanova (CISE) Rosalind Douglas (GEO)Melissa Lane (GEO) Leadership Tim Killeen, Assistant Director for Geosciences Alan Blatecky, Head of Office of Cyberinfrastructure EarthCube Team Eva Zanzerkia (GEO)Mark Suskin (OCI)Dane Skow (OCI) Barbara Ransom (GEO)Irene Lombardo (OCI)Robert Chadduck (OCI) Jennifer Schopf (GEO) Almadena Chtchelkanova (CISE) Rosalind Douglas (GEO)Melissa Lane (GEO)

2. OutlineOutline EarthCube --- context The Vision --- transformational A year’s worth of effort --- discovery and exceeded expectations Much work to be done --- things we worry about

3. EARTHCUBEEARTHCUBE Context ---- Science and Cyberinfrastructure

4. SCIENCE CONTEXT “Fostering a sustainable future through a better understanding of our complex and changing planet.” NSF’s GEO Vision report, 2009

5. Science foundations for EarthCube PURPOSE: “To understand more deeply the planet and its interactions will require the geosciences to take an increasingly holistic approach, exploring knowledge coming from all scientific and engineering disciplines.” CALL TO ACTION: “Over the next decade, the geosciences community commits to developing a framework to understand and predict responses of the Earth as a system—from the space-atmosphere boundary to the core, including the influences of humans and ecosystems.” NSF’s GEO Vision report

6. Arctic Sea Ice Research Vessel Sikuliaq Oceans Water Satellites Earth System Modeling Era of Observation and Simulation EarthScope Observatory Network

7. Crossroad Challenges of GEOvision GEO CI The Dynamic Earth The Changing Climate Earth and Life Geosphere- Biosphere Connections Water: Changing Perspective Water: Changing Perspective 7

8. CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE CONTEXT “… a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research, pushed by continuing progress in computing, information, and communication technology, and pulled by the expanding complexity, scope, and scale of today's challenges. The capacity of this technology has crossed thresholds that now make possible a comprehensive “cyberinfrastructure” on which to build new types of scientific and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research in new ways and with increased efficacy.” Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, 2003

9. 9 Science and Society Transformed by Data

10. Discovery Collaboration Education Maintainability, sustainability, and extensibility Organizations Universities, schools Government labs, agencies Research and Medical Centers Libraries, Museums Virtual Organizations Communities Expertise Research and Scholarship Education Learning and Workforce Development Interoperability and operations Cyberscience Networking Campus, national, international networks Research and experimental networks End-to-end throughput Cybersecurity Computational Resources Supercomputers Clouds, Grids, Clusters Modeling, Visualization Compute services Data Centers Data Databases, Data repositories Collections and Libraries Data Access; storage, navigation management, mining tools, curation, privacy Scientific Instruments Large Facilities, MREFCs,telescopes Colliders, shake Tables Sensor Arrays - Ocean, environment, weather, buildings, climate. etc Software Applications, middleware Software development and support Cybersecurity: access, authorization, authentication Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem (CIF21)

11. Software Analytic Tools Compute, Modeling Communities Expertise, research Networks Multi-disciplinary & multi-scale integration Transforming Earth Science

12. THE VISION Transformational

13. Vision=EarthCube Goal and Outcomes Provide a framework for a knowledge environment for the Earth system Accelerate research on the Earth system Vastly improve the productivity of community Provide unprecedented new capabilities to researchers and educators Transform practices within the geosciences community over the next decade Outcomes Goal To transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information across the Geosciences.

14. An alternative approach to respond to daunting science and CI challenges EarthCube is an outcome and a process EarthCube will require broad community participation Obtaining the Vision Unidata IRIS IEDANCAR OOI CUASHI The unlabeled dots represent the “long-tail” of science which is graphically under represented in this diagram. Also, the large dots under represent all the community- guided activities in support of geosciences.

15. Strategic Convergence Using “Spiral Development” 10 Years Given: almost all the technologies used today to provide cyberinfrastructure to the geosciences will be refreshed in the next decade.

16. A YEAR LONG EFFORT A process of discovery about the process

17. TimelineTimeline WebEx Community Outreach First Charrette June 2011July 2011Aug 2011Nov 2011 EAGER/WKSHOP Phase  Accelerating the Community Dialog  Defining the initial scope of EarthCube  New starting point for collaboration  Accelerating the Community Dialog  Defining the initial scope of EarthCube  New starting point for collaboration  Unprecedented collaborations  Focused efforts to gather & share knowledge  Growing interest in EarthCube  Unprecedented collaborations  Focused efforts to gather & share knowledge  Growing interest in EarthCube Dec 2011- present

18. TimelineTimeline First Awards Chapeau Solicitation Mar – May, 2012June, 2012~Sept 2012Sept -Nov 20122012 -2013 Charrette 2 End-user engagement events Chapeau Amendment 1 Chapeau Amendment 1 More EAGER Awards? More EAGER Awards? Chapeau Amendment 2 Chapeau Amendment 2

19. Social Network Site >1100 members to the EarthCube website 113 white paper submission;185 respondents to user survey ~70 expression of interest emails 17 Community Groups Unknown number of hours of pro bono contributions by the community Unprecedented view of the pulse of the geosciences community Significant International Engagement http://earthcube.ning.com/

20. Awards 5+2 Concepts 4 Community 1 Workshop 1 Stakeholder study Community Groups 17 active 9 working on roadmaps 1 special interest groups (several more pending approval) Website >1100 members Frequent updates NSF EarthCube Staff Participation (not all full time) 5 GEO 3 OCI 2 CISE ~10 POs (partial involvement) Activities

21. Data Brokering X-Domain Interop. Service Based Integration Earth System Modeling Layered Architecture Community Event Charrette 2 Community Event Charrette 2 Semantics and Ontologies Workflow Governance Data Discovery/Mining /Access Data GeoData Hydrosheric Model (OHMF) Collaboratively produced framework to form an integrated & synergistic path forward

22. CHARRETTE A dynamic three days --- Facilitator was essential to success

23. Charrette Participants Total Cadres Participants On-site ~200 Virtual ~50 Organizations ~85 Observer Federal agencies Early career/Students International participants Community awards Concept awards New members

24. Charrette Participants

25. MUCH WORK TO BE DONE What we worry about

26. Seven Modes of Failure Unrealistic or misaligned expectations among people presently involved in EarthCube “Build it and they will come” mindset – users don’t show up, data is not shared, etc. Not valuing what presently exists – current cyber/geo science efforts and initiatives that represent parts of the EarthCube vision Not advancing the frontier in transformative ways relative to what presently exists – only automating the current state Not engaging the 14,000+ geoscience and cyber stakeholders not presently involved in EarthCube Not anticipating the needs of the next generation of geoscience and cyber stakeholders (todays doctoral students and post docs, as well as the generation behind them) “Unk Unk” – additional unknown unknowns including transformational changes in the technology, catastrophic shifts in the policy arena, etc.

27. Aeronomy GEM CEDAR Solar Terrestial Petrology & Geochen Tectonics SHINE EarthScope Continenta l Dyn. Biological Ocean Geomomor phology & land use dyn Chem Ocean Chem Ocean XSEDE Emerging Frontiers (BIO) CIF 21 OCI Program 2 OCI Program 1 EarthCube CI ANT Astro & Geospace ANT Earth Sciences ANT Glaciology ANT Integrated Sys. Sci. ANT Ocean & Atm. Sci. ANT Organisms & Ecosys. ARC Natural Sciences ARC Obs. Network (AON) ARC Social Sciences ARC Sys Science (ARCSS) NCAR Biological Infrastruct ure Envir. Biology Atm. Chemistry Clm & Large Scale Dyn Palio-Clm Phy. & Dyn Met. Magneto- spheric Phys. Hydrology Sediment Geology and Paleobio EAR Ed. Geophysics Geobio & Low Temp Geochem Phys Ocean Ocean Drilling OCE ED Atm. Chemistry Marine Geology & Geo-phys

28. Questions How do we take advantage of the opportunities generated to date factoring in the human dynamics? What portfolio of activities are the necessary to engage the scientific community in the development/use of EarthCube? How can we effectively engage our sister agencies and international partners in the dialog? How can NSF be a more effective facilitator of collaborative dialogs among the geosciences? How do you change the community culture?