EPSCoR Environmental Observing Systems Workshop

  NSF-Supported Workshop  |  Sponsored by the EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative (CDI)
EPSCoR EOS 2004
February 9-10, 2004  |  Hilton Old Town Alexandria, Alexandria, VA

[Agenda ]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2004

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Workshop Introduction
                - Randall Haley (EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative)
                - Karen Sandberg (National Science Foundation)

Session 1: NEON – National Ecological Observatories Network
9:30 AM Introduction to NSF NEON
                - Elizabeth Blood (National Science Foundation)
10:00 AM Planning and Organizing for NEON
                - Jeffrey Goldman (AIBS)
10:30 AM EPSCoR Research Activities, Plans, and Strategies Related to NEON
                - Scott Gardner (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) [*]
11:00 AM Q&A / Discussion

11:15 AM Networking Break

Keynote Presentation
11:45 AM Overview of NSF Environmental Research
                - Margaret Cavanaugh (National Science Foundation)

12:30 PM Lunch

Session 2: CLEANER – Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research
1:30 PM Introduction to NSF CLEANER: Planning, Organizing, and EPSCoR Activities
                - Danny Reible (Louisiana State University) [*]

2:15 PM Q&A / Discussion

2:30 PM Networking Break

Session 3: OOI – Ocean Observatories Initiative
3:00 PM Introduction to NSF OOI
                - Alexandra Isern (National Science Foundation)
3:30 PM Planning and Organizing for OOI
                - Kenneth Brink (OOI/ORION)
4:00 PM EPSCoR Research Activities, Plans, and Strategies Related to OOI
                - Mary Jane Perry (University of Maine) [*]
                - Jorge Corredor (University of Puerto Rico) [*]
5:00 PM Q&A / Discussion


5:30 PM Day 1 Concludes

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2004

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Session 4: LTHO – Long Term Hydrologic Observatories
9:30 AM Introduction to NSF LTHO
                - L. Douglas James (National Science Foundation)
10:00 AM Planning and Organizing for LTHO
                - Richard Hooper (CUAHSI)
10:30 AM EPSCoR Research Activities, Plans, and Strategies Related to LTHO
                - Venkat Lakshmi (University of South Carolina) [*]
11:00 AM Q&A / Discussion

11:15 AM Networking Break

Charge to Attendees
11:45 AM Framing the Needs and Next Steps Related to the EPSCoR Research Community and NSF’s Emerging Environmental Observing Systems
                - Led by EPSCoR Organizing Committee


                [Working Lunch Served]

1:15 PM Workshop Concludes



[*] - EPSCoR Organizing Committee


WORKSHOP INFORMATION

FUTURE NSF PLANS & INITIATIVES
EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative (CDI) - an EPSCoR Foundation initiative funded by the National Science Foundation