EPSCoR Environmental Observing Systems Workshop

Contents

• General and Crosscutting Resources
  
  
• National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON)
  -  Solicitations
  -  Organizing Activities
  
  -  National
  -  Regional
  
  -  Workshops
  -  Select Documents and Reports
  
  
  
• Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER)
  -  Solicitations
  -  Organizing Activities
  -  Select Documents and Reports
  
  
  
• Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI/ORION)
  -  Solicitations
  -  Organizing Activities
  
  -  National
  -  Regional
  
  -  Workshops
  -  Select Documents and Reports
  
  
  
• Hydrologic Observatories
  -  Solicitations
  -  Organizing Activities
  -  Meetings and Seminars
  -  Select Documents and Reports
  
  
  
• EarthScope
  -  Solicitations
  -  Meetings
  -  Select Documents and Reports
  

General and Crosscutting Resources

• EPSCoR EOS 2004 Workshop Presentations - Includes presentations that explore the interface between NSF's emerging initiatives and programs related to "Environmental Observing Systems" and EPSCoR research activities, plans, and strategies in these areas.
  
• Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century - On January 8th, 2003, the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education introduced their report, Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century. The report presents a ten-year outlook for environmental research and education and argues that we need to develop environmental synthesis to frame integrated interdisciplinary research questions and activities to merge data, approaches, and ideas across spatial, temporal, and societal scales.
  
• Project Science - Project Science is an NSF supported effort to broaden and increase the competence in the research community to carry out large scientific construction projects and to implement major scientific platforms and tools.

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

• NSF 04-549 - National Ecological Observatory Network: Development of NEON Coordinating Consortium (NCC) and Project Office - Required letters of intent: 3/08/04; Full proposals: 4/26/04

• Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales (IBRCS) - The IBRCS Project, an effort by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), launched in August 2002 with support from the National Science Foundation. The project has a special focus on the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) program, which is a major NSF initiative to establish a national platform for integrated studies and monitoring of natural processes at all spatial scales, time scales, and levels of biological organization. (NSF Award Abstract for IBRCS)

    Regional

• Mid-Atlantic Region Ecological Observatory
  
• NEON New York
  
• Southeastern Region NEON
  

• February 27, 2004: NEON Prospective PI Meeting (Recorded webcast available online) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) is hosting a prospective PI meeting on February 27, 2004 to discuss the NEON program solicitation for proposals to develop a NEON Coordinating Consortium and Project Office. In addition, NSF staff will discuss general aspects of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), NSF's Facilities Management and Oversight Guide, and Large Facilities Project Management. Online registration is required and space is limited at the meeting location. This meeting will also be webcast for those who are unable to attend locally. For details contact Dr. Elizabeth Blood, Program Director, Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, 615 N, telephone: (703) 292-8470.
  
• March 18, 2004: Designing NEON Initiatives for Invasive Species Workshop - The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is intended to be a continent-wide research platform, composed of networked state-of-the-art analytical and communication technologies. As part of the development process it is important to describe to the network's scientific, technological, and financial requirements to the intended research community and targeted funding agencies. This workshop, convened by AIBS as part of the IBRCS project, is an effort to describe those requirements for the invasive species component of NEON.

Select Documents and Reports:

• A Plan for Developing and Governing the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), IBRCS, 2003.
  
• Rationale, Blueprint, and Expectations for the National Ecological Observatory Network, IBRCS, 2003.
  
• Neon: Addressing the Nation's Environmental Challenges, National Research Council, 2003.
• NSF Facilities Management and Oversight Guide, National Science Foundation, 2002.
  
• Additional reports and information are available on the IBRCS website.

Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER)

• Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER): An Engineering Cyberinfrastructure "Test Bed" - Full proposals: 1/07/04

• CLEANER Website

Select Documents and Reports:

• CLEANER Workshop 3 Report, 2003.
  
• CLEANER Workshop Report, 2001.
• Additional reports and information are available on the CLEANER website.
  

Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI/ORION)

• NSF 03-576 - Ocean Observatories Initiative: Project Office to Coordinate Ocean Observing Activities - Required letters of intent: 9/29/03; Full proposals: 10/27/03

• Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION) - A program funded by the National Science Foundation to provide ocean-observing capabilities for the research community.
• Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) - Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) is a consortium of U.S. academic institutions which brings to bear the collective capabilities of the individual oceanographic institutions on research planning and management of the ocean sciences.
• Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) - CORE is the Washington, D.C. based association of U.S. oceanographic research institutions, universities, laboratories, and aquaria. Our 74 members represent the nucleus of U.S. research and education about the ocean.
• 1201 Group LLC - The National Science Foundation has recommended that the 1201 Group, LLC govern the ORION OOI Project Office. The 1201 Group, LLC is a newly formed partnership of JOI (Joint Oceanographic Institutions) and CORE (Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education).
• Ocean.US - Ocean.US was created by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program to coordinate the development of an operational and integrated and sustained ocean observing system (IOOS).
• National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) - The National Oceanographic Partnership Program is a cooperative effort between 15 federal agencies, academia and private industry to coordinate national oceanographic research and education programs. Since it was established in 1997, the consortium has awarded nearly $80 million to more than 50 research and educational projects in ocean science.

    Regional

• NEPTUNE
  - The goal of the NEPTUNE project is to establish a regional ocean observatory in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The Project’s 3,000-km network of fiber-optic/power cables will encircle and cross the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate in the northeast Pacific Ocean, an area roughly 500 km by 1,000 km in size.
• MARS - The Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) is a cabled-based observatory system, incorporating a benthic instrument node, AUVs, and various benthic and moored instrumentation. The MARS infrastructure will provide the capability to place and power instruments in areas of scientific interest in various geographical sites.
• VENUSThe Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea is an ambitious project to conduct coastal oceanography in an innovative and informative way. VENUS is a proposed network of instruments in the ocean to observe the seafloor waters off our coast.
• GoMOOS - Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System “is a national pilot program designed to bring hourly oceanographic data from the Gulf of Maine to all those who need it.

Workshops:

• January 4-8, 2004: The ORION Workshop - To formulate the science priorities and educational opportunities that can be addressed using ocean observatories.

Select Documents and Reports:

• Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean Observatories, National Research Council, 2003.
• Report of the UNOLS Working Group on Ocean Observatory Facility Needs, UNOLS Working Group, 2003.
• OOI Brochure, CORE.
• Ocean Sciences at the New Millennium, JOSS, 2001.
• Illuminating the Hidden Planet: The Future of Seafloor Observatory Science, National Research Council, 2000.
• An Information Technology Infrastructure Plan to Advance Ocean Sciences, Noesis, 2002.
• SCOTS: Scientific Cabled Observatories for Time Series, OOI, 2002.
• Coastal Ocean Processes and Observatories: Advancing Coastal Research, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, 2002.
• DEOS Moored Buoy Ocean Observatory Design Study, DEOS, 2000.
• An Integrated Ocean Observing System: A Strategy for Implementing the First Steps of a U.S. Plan, NOPP.
• The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Plan for Data Management and Communications (DMAC) – draft report, 2003.

Hydrolic Observatories

• Development of Proposal for National Center for Hydrologic Synthesis (NCHS) - The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) seeks a Collaborator to initiate, manage and operate a National Center for Hydrologic Synthesis (NCHS). The Center, to be hosted by the collaborating institution, will be funded by submitting an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and/or other governmental agencies. (Statements of Interest Due April 1, 2004).

• Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI) - To foster advancements in the hydrologic sciences, in the broadest sense of the term. (NSF Award Abstract for CUAHSI)

Meetings and Seminars:

CUAHSI hosts cyberseminars on a variety of Hydrology topics (complete list and additional information available on the CUAHSI website).
- February 27, 2004: "Time for a New Dimension in Capillary Pressure-Saturation Space" (Dave Tuck - NAPLogic, Inc.)
- March 5, 2004: "Terrain Analysis and Hydrologic Modeling using Digital Elevation Models and GIS" (David Tarboton - Utah State University)
- March 19, 2004: "Integrated Science and Decision Making: Cutting Edge Science to Address Real-World Watershed Issues" (David Goodrich - USGS-ARS-SWRC)
- April 9, 2004: "What Role Do Ecologic and Hydrologic Research Play in the TMDL Process?" (Matt Moore - National Sedimentation Laboratory)

Select Documents and Reports:

• A National Center for Hydrologic Synthesis: Scientific Objectives, Structure, and Implementation (White Paper), CUAHSI, 2004.

EarthScope

• EarthScope: Science, Education, and Related Activities for the USArray, San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), and Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) 2003 competition.

• March 18-20, 2004: Thermal Processes in the Context of EarthScope - Salt Lake City, Utah
• June 21-23, 2004: GreatBREAK: Preparing for EarthScope in the Great Basin and its margins - Tahoe City, California

Select Documents and Reports:

• EarthScope Brochure: A New View Into Earth, EarthScope, 2001.
• EarthScope Project Plan: A New View Into Earth, EarthScope, 2001.
• Review of EarthScope Integrated Science, National Research Council, 2001.

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