Group Meeting November 2, 2005

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Group MeetingNovember 2, 2005
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Agenda

• Updates Submitted proposals NSF-PIRE,
  CI-Team - M. Muste, T.
  Papanicolaou2) Updates on-campus Cyber
  activities Clear Creek Eco-Hydrological
  Observatory - Observatory and
  modeling T. Papanicolaou -
  Digital Watershed M. Muste, D. Bennett 3)
  Proposals under preparation -
  NSF CLEANER J. Schnoor -
  Geoscience Education F. Weirich and W. Illman
  - NASA J. Giglierano4) Strategy for
  NSFs Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental
  Observatories RFP -
  discussions5) Cyberinfrastructure Vision for
  21st Century Discovery (NSFs Cyberinfrastructure
  Council white paper) - S.
  Wang

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Updates Submitted Proposals

• 1) NSF-PIRE International Institute for
  Cyber-Management of Water Resources
  Sustainability 3/10/2005
• Proposal team UI (RE, MM, JS, WK, LW, T.P),
  UIUC, UMN, UNESCO-IHE, U Newcastle, NCHC
• 174 proposals 10 awards
• Excellent team and concept
• Followup visit with NSF Weber, Patel, Muste
• Followup action Planning visit, May 2006
  (proposal to be written)
• 2) NSF-CI Team Collaborative proposal A Cyber
  Infrastructure-based Training, Demonstration
  Project for Current and Future Workforce on Earth
  Surface Processes
• Proposal team UI (TP, SW, MM, TH,RE)
  5/27/2005
• - 10 awards
• 3) CGRER Special Initiative Integrating CI
  Components in a Pilot IIHR-CGRER Eco-Hydrological
  Digital Watershed for Clear Creek Basin
  9/01/2005
• Proposal team MM, DB, RL, MW, TP

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Updates Cyber Activities on Campus

• Clear Creek Eco-Hydrological Observatory
• Observatory and modeling T. Papanicolaou
• Digital Watershed M. Muste, D. Bennett
• Visits with DNR
• Ongoing developmental work with internal support
  from IIHR and Geography departments

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Proposals under Preparation

• NSF CLEANER (due 11/14/05) Pilot Environmental
  Hydrologic Observatory for Analysis of Sediment
  Erosion and Phosphorus Transport at the Hillslope
  Scale Clear Creek Watershed, Iowa
• Proposal team JS, CJ, WK, LW, TP, MM
• Proposal status 70 finalized
• 2) NSF Geoscience Education (due 11/17/05)
  Curriculum Initiative Cyberinfrastructure for
  Characterization of the Water Cycle Processes
• Proposal team FW,WI, MM
• Proposal status ?
• 4) NASA (due 11/22/05) Decision Support through
  Earth-Sun Science Research Results
• - Proposal team DNR, ISU, UNI, UI
• - Proposal status 70
• 3) Clear Creek Digital Watershed
• - Proposal team DB, MM, RL, MW, TP
• ISWRRI (due 11/11/05) Status 95
• CHEEC (due 11/07/05) Status 70
• UI VP (due 11/14/05) Status 80

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Strategy for NSFs RFP 06-505 Cyberinfrastructur
e for Environmental Observatories RFP
Synopsis There are a number of questions about
how to best construct such a cyberinfrastructure.
To help answer these questions and to promote
planning for Cyberinfrastructure for
Environmental Observatories (CEO), this
solicitation requests proposals for the
development of practical environmental
cyberinfrastructure prototypes along with a
demonstration of their capability to answer
significant environmental research questions.
Proposals should be for projects that pursue an
end-to-end approach to an information
infrastructure prototype. Proposals should
identify the types of data involved and the ways
in which users might wish to use such data. The
proposed projects should include the careful
exploration of use cases followed by deployment
of a prototype that implements these use cases.
Estimated Number of Awards 4 Anticipated
Funding Amount 8,500,000 Full Proposal Target
Date(s) January 25, 2006 Key Questions - The
project team - What can we do better than the
competition (there are already 18 HOs
established) - Partnership (discussion on the
subject on Nov 17-18 CLEANER Workshop please
attend)
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UI-UM CLEANER
Workshop II November 17-18 IMU
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IIHR Cyber expertise, tools functions
Digital Watershed for the Clear Creek
Eco-Hydrological Observatory

• Digital watershed (DW) functions
• extracts eco-hydrological observations from
  ground-based measurements and remote-sensed data
• - performs data quality control
• - renders the information in a relational
  database
• aggregates information through the information
  layers
• prepares the data needed for fusion of
  observations and models
• retrieves modeling results for validation,
  scientific research, and cyber-management

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CCDW
Pilot Eco-Hydrological Observatory for the
Clear Creek Testbed, IA
Sample DW Application 1 Extraction, processing,
and visualization of stream gage data from USGS
repository (waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt)
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CCDW
Pilot Eco-Hydrological Observatory for the Clear
Creek Testbed, IA
Sample DW Application 2 Extraction, processing,
and visualization of rainfall estimates using
NOAA-NCDC data (ncdc.noaa.cpv/nexradinv)
Clear Creek Watershed