HR: 08:40h
AN: OS41E-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Cyberinfrastructure (CI) for Interactive Ocean Observatories: LOOKING Ahead
AU: * Orcutt, J
EM: jorcutt@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0210, La Jolla, CA 92093-0210 United States
AU: Abbott, M
EM: mark@coas.oregonstate.edu
AF: Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 United States
AU: Bellingham, J
EM: jgb@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Director of Engineering 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039-0628 United States
AU: Chave, A
EM: alan@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanograhic Institution, Deep Submergence Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1531 United States
AU: Delaney, J
EM: jdelaney@u.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, School of Oceanography Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195 United States
AU: Johnson, R
EM: ronj@cac.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Vice President, Computing & Communications Vice Provost, Provost's Office, Box 351208, Seattle, WA 98117 United States
AU: Lazowska, E
EM: lazowska@cs.washington.edu
AF: University of Washington, Department of COmputer Science & Engineering Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98117 United States
AU: Moline, M
EM: mmoline@calpoly.edu
AF: California Polytechnic State University, Biological Sciences Department, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 United States
AU: Smarr, L
EM: lsmarr@ucsd.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology 9500 Gilman Drive, 0436, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436 United States
AB: Investments in next-generation facilities to achieve a permanent, interactive telepresence throughout remote or hostile environments can empower a broad spectrum of autonomous sensornet facilities through the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facililties Construction Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). These systems must involve powerful suites of generic cyberinfrastructure tools designed to optimize access and benefits to a large academic and public user base. Many future research and educational efforts focused throughout the ocean basins, especially within heavily populated coastal regions, will be empowered by these new systems. Our project LOOKING (Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid) is developing prototype CI for the OOI to achieve these goals. In the case of ocean observatory networks, it is essential to establish powerful network infrastructures linking the wet or subsea portion, with a host of shore station facilities. These components in turn must seamlessly communicate with an ensemble of data repositories, and relevant computer and visualization resources designed to serve a widely diverse ocean science community with real time, broadband access to all observatory system data, products, and metadata. This infrastructure must be secure, reliable, and resilient. It must meet the potentially ambitious latency, bandwidth, and performance requirements demanded by a set of evolving autonomous sensor platforms over a period of decades. This Grid environment must seamlessly interconnect all relevant national and international research and education nets accessible through high speed, next generation communication networks. The primary components of LOOKING are remote services that fulfill the CI needs of the ocean observatory community. These services arise from overarching science and education requirements: 1) Instrument Services operate at the sensor end of an ocean observatory, and are dominantly but not exclusively wet. 2) Infrastructure Services operate within the ocean observatory itself, providing data, time distribution, and power functions to instruments; 3) Data Services interface the ocean observatory to users, whether human beings or modeling programs. In an appropriately designed and functioning system, none can stand alone, nor can they be developed in isolation. These services and associated middleware layers must be designed from the outset to interact seamlessly and transparently.
DE: 9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4299 General or miscellaneous
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting