SEO Day 2 Breakouts

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SEO Day 2 Breakouts

• Science

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Overview Day 2

• Now until 1145 Break
• 1145 1230 Breakouts
• Science, including Education and Outreach
• Sensor Technology
• Deployment, including cyberinfrastructure
• 1230 1330 (?) Lunch
• 1330 1530 Continue Breakouts
• 1530 1600 Break
• 1600 1700 Feedback from groups
• 1700 1730 Discussion and Plans for Day 3
• Dinner on your own

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When you come back at 1600

• Each group presents key points
• Structure of Section
• Key points (recommendations, observations) for
  NSF and community
• Plan for writing the section
• Need to have draft no later than tomorrow morning
• Plan to do some writing
• Send to session chair
• dfries_at_marine.usf.edu
• bonner_at_tamu.edu
• parzberg_at_ucsd.edu

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Cross-Cutting SciencePeter Arzberger

• What are successful strategies to bring together
  and nurture a multidisciplinary group (prepare
  the community) of scientists, engineers, and
  researchers at different stages of their careers
  to focus on and produce solutions to challenges
  based on the driving science questions?
• Identify several interface challenges (e.g.
  aquatic- terrestrial interface) for the next
  decade, identify sensor and deployment needs.
• What can NSF do to encourage team building to
  address these interface challenges?

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Cross-Cutting Enabling TechnologyDavid Fries

• What are the new sensors that need to be
  developed? Possibly consider sensors by medium
  air, land, water, biota.
• Are there demands for a similar sensor across
  multiple scenarios?
• What can NSF do to encourage greater migration of
  technologies across scenario boundaries?

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Cross-Cutting DeploymentJames Bonner

• What are issues in deploying sensors for
  long-term studies? What role does calibration and
  quality assurance play in deployment and
  maintenance?
• What are key strategies in developing and
  deploying sensors that can be shared across
  scenarios?
• Give examples of systems approach to deployment
  of sensors. A systems approach looks at the
  entire set of tools to gather the desired data by
  using a variety of approaches that reflect the
  reality of the environment.
• What can NSF or the community do to communicate
  experiences on deployment or address the key
  issues of raised by this working group?

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Report Outline

• Executive Summary To be determined on Thursday
  afternoon 2 Dec
• Background and Rationale for meeting Input from
  NSF being written
• Key Findings and / or Recommendations To be
  determined on Thursday afternoon 2 Dec
• Scenarios Scenario Session Chairs or Designees
• Driving Science (rough drafts can be written
  from abstracts)
• Format would be Science, technology, deployment
• Need pictures/images
• Other scenarios (e.g., coral reefs?)
• Technologies Common Opportunities David
  Fries
• Respond to questions
• Deployment Issues Shared Challenges Jim
  Bonner
• Respond to questions
• Future Community Building, Addressing
  Interfaces David Fries, Peter Arzberger
• Respond to questions
• References
• We need to get these from contributors.

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Audience

• NSF program staff (who are here)
• Community
• National Science Board, Staffers, OMB

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STOP
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Science Session

• Motivation for sensor and sensor network
  development
• Use graph developed by John Porter, presented by
  Tim Kratz
• Cross-cutting Issues
• Preparing the community, to do new science
• Outreach and Education
• Public, K-12, (Undergrad?, Grad?)
• International aspects
• If you are going to do global scale science
• Interface Challenges (?) David Fries, Harry
  Hemond
• Other agencies?
• Scenarios
• What do we want the scenarios to cover
• Examples of what has been done
• Examples of knowledge gaps
• Key Points

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Starting point

• Sensor nets will produce revolution and
  broad/understandable changes in research,
  education, public awareness
• Examples include
• Meteorology
• Ag
• Ground water
• Fresh water/ocean (harmful algal blooms)
• Education in classroom
• Public policy
• (Note remote sensor)
• Conduct of science will be (completely) different
  in next 5 years
• Modeling
• Design experiments / statistics
• New proxies
• Other consideration
• If we had sensor networks 20 years ago
• Reducing uncertainty

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Sensor networks allow high frequency observations
over broad spatial extents
100 km
10 km
Spatial extent
1 km
100 m
10 m
random selection from Ecology 2003
1 m
10 cm
Annual
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Hourly
Min. Sec.
Frequency of measurement
Source John Porter Peter Arzberger et al.,
Bioscience, in review
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Cross Cutting

• Social Impact
• Reducing Uncertainty
• Need and opportunities Power Issue
• Need Sensors to measure organisms, chemicals
  (environmentally relevant)
• Profile analysis
• Multivariate potential
• Models (adaptive modeling building/data
  acquisition process)
• Locate Sensors
• Sensors to find gaps in Models
• Nested suite of sensors
• Balance of expense sensor with inexpensive
• Proxies change at different scales
• Flux-based sensor
• Comments Are we hopelessly over-aliased?
• Need to know appropriate scale of measurements
• Example sensing of nitrogen common, delivery
  system different

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Observations

• Challenge to bring together engineers, scientists
• (Some want data some want to change /
  experiment)
• Benefits for all parties
• SBIR industry partnerships
• Many technologies we are using came from
  different arenas not designed for environment
• New ideas generated in many labs
• Public understand rates of change (time series)
• Sensors are part of network
• Networks need to be built to be adaptable
• Multiple use of networks
• Push/pull
• 5 year horizon (what is doable now), versus long
  term development

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Preparing the community

• Junior Researchers
• Issues with promotion and tenure committee
• About funding, papers (only authored papers)
• Role of researcher in project
• NSF Make small grants for researchers (junior) to
  analyze data that is coming off sensing systems
• Pre-sabatical grants at center
• Groups
• Multidisciplinary Collaborations
• Need carrot
• Sensor and Sensor network solicitation has
  created collaboration
• Issue of discovery based vs observation based
• Issue of review (if more shift in community on
  observations)
• Inclusion of archival capability and tools to
  cross-site/data integration
• Scientific society Discussion of value

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Education/Outreach

• Teachers
• Come to labs
• Class work
• Problem solving, not memory
• E.g., put equipment in hands of students
• Student are sensor
• Target disadvantage sectors of the education
  system
• School boards
• Citizen scientist
• E.g. Lake association in WI, Get date of
  satellite overpass, take data (send in
  electronically)
• Essential in MN able to monitor many lakes
• Adult formal education
• Work with legislators / policy makers
• Resource managers
• Land Managers
• Water resource managers
• Localize issues
• Increase diversity

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Global Scale Science

• Many environmental processes dont respect
  boundaries
• We can take advantage of good technologies
  (developed anywhere)
• Need to be vechicles to encourage exchange
  (bilateral) of scientist
• International Collaborations
• Developing Countries
• Need to collect data (beneficiaries of sensor
  networks, long list of quantities to measure)
• Sponsored research
• Support students, postdocs
• Unique areas / global significant -
• Genetic material
• Education need to think globally

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Interfaces

• Fluxes
• Transports
• Do more than sense chemical quanitites
• Sharp gradient at interfaces (need to measure
  chemical, physical, and biology)
• Learn from biomedical community
• Biofilm
• Multiple methods of sampling rather than multiple
  instruments

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Recommendations

• Encourage Multidisciplinary Team Research /
  Activities
• (Require) (encourage) in team
• Think of several strategies
• Fund to retooling
• Develop strategy to share resources across
  spectrum of observing systems
• Honoring diversity, of people, scale of
  development
• Minigrants (cross-fertilization awards)
• Postdocs / researchers in different projects
  come together on regular basis
• Joint course top researchers and faculty
  (intense focus on topic)
• E.G. meteorology community technique facility
  for training of people
• NASA has a publication
• Postdocs moving from project to project
• How to encourage continued cross disciplinary
  exposure? How to share commonality?

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Scenario Sessions
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Science Session

• Motivation for sensor and sensor network
  development (bruce, roland, Ken)
• Use graph developed by John Porter, presented by
  Tim Kratz
• Cross-cutting Issues (Perri, Tim, Ken)
• Preparing the community, to do new science
  (Craig, Barbara)
• Outreach and Education (..)
• Public, K-12, (Undergrad?, Grad?)
• International aspects (Peter, )
• If you are going to do global scale science
• Interface Challenges (?) David Fries, Harry
  Hemond
• Other agencies?
• Scenarios
• What do we want the scenarios to cover
• Examples of what has been done
• Examples of knowledge gaps
• Key Points (Peter )