Joint Workshop for WATERS Network Test Beds and CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS)

November 14 - 17, 2006 | Austin, TX

Agenda as of November 3, 2006

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Tuesday
14 November
6:00pm Meeting of Coordinating Committee, NSF Program Officers, CUAHSI and CLEANER Project Office personnel (dinner following AmeriSuites Hotel)
Wednesday
15 November
Meeting in MCC Room 3.1004
8:00am Registration in MCC Atrium
8:30am "The Role of Test Beds in Development of the WATERS Network" (5.4MB)
Pat Brezonik and Doug James
9:15am Questions and Answers
10:00am Break
Theme 1. Science Goals of the Test Bed Projects
10:15am "The Digital Continent: A Vision of Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories" (1.6MB)
Rick Hooper

(Each talk limited to 10 minutes and 3 PowerPoint slides. Speakers should allow a few minutes for questions. Projects are encouraged to bring a poster to the workshop that will be displayed for the duration of the workshop. Note that the Corpus Christi Bay test bed will be presented on Thursday in a more extended example of HIS application.)

10:40am Crown of the Continent (MT) Test Bed (11.9MB)
10:50am Bear River (UT) Test Bed (3.2MB)
11:00am Sierra Nevada/San Joaquin (CA) Test Bed (1.6MB)
11:10am Clear Creek (IA) Test Bed (9.1MB)
11:20am Minehaha Creek (MN) Test Bed (5.9MB)
11:30am Susquehanna River (PA) Test Bed (116KB)
11:40am Chesapeake Bay (PA/MD/VA) Test Bed (573KB)
11:50am Chesapeake CEO:P Project (1.0MB)
Noon Break for Lunch (in West Atrium)
Poster Viewing (in East Atrium)
1:30pm Baltimore (MD) Test Bed (7.2MB)
1:40pm Albemarle Sound (NC) Test Bed (5.9MB)
1:50pm Santa Fe (FL) Test Bed (1.5MB)
Other Proto-observatory Efforts
2:00pm SAHRA Field Sites (AZ/NM) (1.7MB)
2:10pm Illinois River Basin (IL) Water/Carbon Project (793KB)
2:20pm HydroKansas ARM Site (KS) (3.8MB)
2:30pm Sevilleta LTER Site (NM) (16.5MB)
2:40pm Break and Poster Viewing
Related NSF Cyberinfrastructure Projects
3:40pm ITR Hydro-NEXRAD Project
3:50pm COMET: Coast-to-Mountain Transect
4:00pm Kepler Scientific Workflow System
4:10pm Cyber-Environmental Portal (1.5MB)
4:20pm A Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Component for Coastal Forecasting and Change Analysis (323KB)
4:30pm Comments of Coordinating Committee
Open Discussion
5:30pm Adjourn
Thursday
16 November
Morning session in Auditorium Room 1.118
Videotapes from Thurs morning of the HIS Symposium
Tape #1 |
Tape #2 |
Tape #3
Tape #4
8:00am Registration in MCC Foyer near auditorium
Coffee
Theme 2. CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System
8:30am Web services and the National HIS (the HIS team and Dean Djokic from ESRI) HIS and WATERS Project presentation (12.5MB) and live demos. Distribution of user surveys.
10:00am Break
10:30am Sensor networks, ODM and the Bear Creek Test Bed (3.3MB)
(Tarboton and Horsburgh)
11:00am Workgroup HIS at the Corpus Christi Bay Test Bed (6.0MB)
(Maidment)
11:30am Corpus Christi Bay Test Bed Cyberenvironment: CyberInfrastructure from NCSA's ECID Project (3.1MB)
(Minsker)
Noon Lunch (in West Atrium)
1:00pm Break-out 1: Test Bed PIs; discussion of collaboration opportunities
Session in Room 3.1004
Break-out 2: Test Bed Information Managers: Getting started with HIS
Ssession in Room 1.108
5:00pm Adjourn
Friday
17 November
Morning session in Auditorium Room 1.118
8:00am Coffee
Theme 3. Toward Digital Observatories: Where to from here?
8:30am Reporting from Break-out groups
9:30am Discussion of coordinating HIS and Test Beds
10:30am Break
10:45am Finalizing strategy for engagement
12:30pm Adjourn