GEON: Geosciences Network www'geongrid'org Example of a Cyberinfrastructure Project

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GEON Geosciences Network (www.geongrid.org)Examp
le of a Cyberinfrastructure Project

• Multi-institution collaboration between IT and
  Earth Science researchers
• Funded by NSF large ITR program
• GEON Cyberinfrastructure provides
• Authenticated access to data and Web services
• Registration of data sets and tools, with
  metadata
• Search for data, tools, and services, using
  ontologies
• Scientific workflow environment
• Data and map integration capability
• Visualization and GIS mapping

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Environmental Observing Systems Projects

• A major area of emphasis for NSF, and other
  agencies (e.g. GEOSS)
• LTER, www.lternet.org
• NEON, www.neoninc.org
• ORION, www.orionprogram.org
• Waters Network
• CUAHSI HIS, www.cuahsi.org/his
• CLEANER, cleaner.ncsa.uiuc.edu
• And many smaller effortsas well as large,
  related efforts (e.g. EarthScope)
• Number of established efforts at other federal
  and state agencies
• USGS, EPA, DOE,

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NEON Infrastructure Overview
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NEON Climate Domains
Cyberdashboard (portal)
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Next Step Build a UCSD Energy Portal

• Single point of entry for a wide range of
  energy-related information and resources
• Other related activities
• Digests of information on various topics
• E.g. effectiveness of carbon-free, low-carbon
  technologies and rate of penetration
• Online access to related data sets and models
• A point of access for data collected by the
  project as well as data obtained from Web crawls
• Etc
• Focused on 40-100 year transition scenarios