EQUATOR eScience activities

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EQUATOR e-Science activities

• Tom Rodden
• (pp Chris Greenhalgh)

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Advanced Grid Interfaces for Environmental
e-Science in the Lab and in the Field
Antarctic lake ecology
Urban pollution
Schools EScience Network for the Study of
Environmental Science (SENSE - JISC)
Children as active scientists
GRID-Based Medical Devices for Everyday Health
(w. MIAS IRC)
The GRID
Diabetes
Chronic heart disease
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Session agenda

• Introduction/overview
• Antarctic device
• Medical devices
• Access Grid integration
• Urban Pollution Anthony Steed
• Schools e-science Hilary Smith
• Pollution Signage Bill Gaver
• EQUATOR/e-science links
• Q A

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Antarctic Environmental Sensing Probe

• Deployed on Crooked Lake
• Jan 2003
• May 2003-Jan 2004
• Handed over to AAD
• Jan 2004
• Deployed on sea ice
• July-Dec 2004
• Sensor array lost
• Dec 2004

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Probe data - benefits

• High temporal coherence in e.g. light and
  temperature

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With device Automatic sampling Every 5 minutes
288 per day Catch small-scale changes
Without Manual sampling once a week lt0.2 per
day Meaningless changes

• Several variables all measured for same place at
  same time - ideal for modellers - minimum
  formatting of data required.

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Use as a Test Data-set with Hybrid MDS
Visualisation
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Other Ongoing Analysis Activities

• EEE
• Deployability, device enhancements
• Data analysis for self-monitoring
• Life Sciences
• Lake system physical modelling
• General environmental model-fitting

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Medical Devices
Grid protocol
Java Phone Blood Monitor
StandardGrid Service for feature detection
Proxy Buffers Material for sending on
Grid based Storage Services
Grid protocol
Grid protocol
Patients
Visualisation Services
Proxy Convers Signals to database record
Wearable Devices
Grid protocol
Display
Clinicians
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Recent Developments

• Work on unobtrusive sensors
• Reflective head-worn SPO2 sensor
• EEG from conductive wrist-bands
• Spin-out application to occupational health
  (deep mining)
• Continuing phone-based Diabetes trial
• Illustrative remote access interface/metaphor
• Promoting pervasive computing to the GRID
  community
• Follow-on proposal to DTI

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Access Grid Integration

• The Access Grid
• Multi-party audio and video conferencing
• Simple virtual room metaphor
• Widely used for GRID project collaboration

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Recent Developments

• 3D clients for Access Grid video
• Displayed in CAVE/RealityCentre using Chromium
• OpenGL streaming
• Integrated with other 3D applications
• E.g. escience-GS ?

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Contributors
EQUATOR IRC JISC SENSE Project Nottingham
Steve Benford, Neil Crout, John Crowe, Stefan
Egglestone,Malcom Foster, Chris Greenhalgh,
Alastair Hampshire, Barrie Hayes-Gill, Jan
Humble, Alex Irune, Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Ben
Palethorpe, Timothy Reid, Tom Rodden, Danae
Stanton Fraser (now Bath), Mark Sumner, Ella
Tallyn UCL Andrea Brogni, Ben Croxford, Richard
Milton, Salvatore Spinello, Anthony
Steed Glasgow Barry Brown, Matthew Chalmers,
Steve North, Paul Rudman, Ying Zhang,
Southampton Don Cruikshank, Dave De
Roure Lancaster Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday,
Oliver Storz Bristol Henk Muller, Chris
Setchell Sussex Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Rose
Luckin, Hilary Smith, Josh Underwood RCA Bill
Gaver, Ben Hooker MIAS IRC Oxford William R.
Cobern, Oliver J. Gibson, Lionel Tarassenko