HR: 09:30h
AN: IN31A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: A Candidate Cyberinfrastructure for the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative
AU: * Orcutt, J A
EM: jorcutt@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, United States
AU: Vernon, F L
EM: flvernon@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, United States
AU: Arrott, M
EM: marrott@ucsd.edu
AF: California Institute for Telecommunications and Technology, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436, United States
AU: Chave, A D
EM: achave@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Deep Submergence Lab, MS#7, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AB: We will describe a candidate cyberinfrastructure for the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction project termed the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The system architecture departs substantially from earlier models in dealing with real-time data streams (not files), real-time workflow quality assurance and modeling/analysis, and the use of the knowledge developed in controlling the attached, real-time sensor network. The middleware, which facilitates these interactions, also provides the capability to support many separate virtual observatories developed to meet individual scientist's needs. This transformative approach to scientific interaction with the ocean environment marks the beginning of a new epoch of the instrumented or digital Earth with a globally accessible continuous signal representing the now state of the Earth system. The data and inferred knowledge informs our understanding of the past, present, and predicted future of Earth systems as the observed signal grows exponentially for the foreseeable future.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 3050 Ocean observatories and experiments
DE: 4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis (3225)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly