BELMONT FORUM E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA

MANAGEMENTCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ACTION

US DELEGATION CALLJULY 22, 2014

MARIA UHLE (NSF)

LEE ALLISON (ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY)

AGENDA

Welcoming remarks and introductions (Maria and Lee) – 10:00 am

Belmont Forum objectives and plans (Maria) - 10:05 am

Update on the E-Infrastructure CRA, including revised timeline and deliverables (Lee) - 10:15 am

WPs updates (objectives, activities, challenges) (WP members) 10:40 am

Open discussion and Q&A (All)11:20 am

Closing remarks and thanks (Maria and Lee) 11:55 am

PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION THROUGH NEW

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESWorld’s leading funders of global

environmental change research and international science councils

Established to foster global environmental change research;

Initiated June 2009 by NSF and NERC, building on IGFA

Australia Austria Brazil Canada China France European

Commission Germany Italy* India

BELMONT FORUM MEMBERS Japan

Norway

South Africa

Sweden*

UK

USA

Int’l Council for Science

Int’l Social Science Council*Will officially join the Belmont Forum

in 2014

BELMONT FORUM COUNTRIES

THE BELMONT CHALLENGETo deliver knowledge needed for action to avoid and adapt to detrimental environmental change, including extreme hazardous events.

This requires:  Assessments of risks, impacts and vulnerabilities,

through regional and decadal-scale analysis and prediction 

Information on the state of the environment, through advanced observing systems

Interaction of natural and social sciences  Enhanced environmental information service

providers to users  Effective international coordination mechanisms

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ACTIONS (CRAS)

Address the Belmont Challenge Societally relevant global environmental

change challenges

A minimum of 3 BF countries is required to form a CRA

Interdisciplinary (Natural and Social sciences)

Clear links to research users

Support for capacity-building

TYPES OF ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY CRA’SNetworking / community-building actionsCalls to run a summer schools or develop

training materialSmall-scale, catalyst projects to enable

the establishment of interdisciplinary partnerships, pilot studies, and the development of new methodologies

Larger scale research activities, etc., whatever is most appropriate to address the issue in question

Others TBD

CURRENT, PAST AND FUTURE FUNDING CALLS (CRAs)

2014 Arctic: Call for Proposals -

Closes July 30, 2014

Biodiversity - Closed

2015 Mountains as Sentinels of

Change -To be announced

E-Infrastructure & Data Management – Under study

2012 Coastal Vulnerability - Funded

Freshwater Security - Funded

2013 Food Security and Land

Use Change - Funded

CRA SCOPING PERIOD – GENERAL OVERVIEW

Goals Review  CRA  priorities  

Identify  a  list  of  topics/key  questions  the  CRA  will focus  on

Identify  the  best  mechanisms/activities  to  deliver  the  desired  results

Develop  strategy  and  options  for   coordination  among  activities  

Identify  key  communities  for collaboration  

E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT

Collaborative Research Action

Phase 1

E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT

“….the need to address global environmental challenges requires a more coordinated approach to the planning, implementation, and management of data, analytics and E-Infrastructures” through international collaboration.

- Belmont Forum, New Delhi, February 2013

COMMUNITY STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLANIdentify strategic science policies,

outlining what can be done better, in a multilateral way, to support global change researchVision that clearly expresses global e-

infrastructure needs, barriers and gaps Informs stakeholders Prioritizes action to address the

interoperability challenges Integrates existing national and international

research in order to promote more holistic environmental support systemsOBJECTIVES AND BROADER IMPACTS

COMMUNITY STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Recommendations could consist of one or more funding calls (CRAs) and/or policies/procedural changes: Actions that produce quick wins leading to recognizable results

Strategic leverage points to make a big difference with small sums of money or policy changes

Analysis of funding mechanisms that best sustain e-infrastructures

Strategic community-building initiatives around data infrastructuresProcess to engage the BF in the co-design of future CRAs to keep

pace with changing global e-infrastructure landscape

OBJECTIVES AND BROADER IMPACTS

MULTI-PHASE BELMONT FORUM PROJECTPhase I: (current effort)

September 2013 – April 2015 Series of collaborative

scoping activities instead of a competitive call for small grants

Focus on reducing the risk of fragmenting existing communities and excluding important players

Produce a Community Strategy and Implementation Plan

Phase II: (BF will decide what to do)

Starts in 2015/2016 Begin delivering on

Implementation Plan based on input from the Knowledge Hub activities

Depends on outcomes of Phase I and funding agency participation

May include a funding call to implement the strategies and vision from Phase IE-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

WHO’S INVOLVED?

International Steering Committee (14 people) 1 member per country or international organization Members lead six Work Packages (WPs) / working

groups

6 Work Packages (120 people, ~ 10 per country) ~ 20 people per WP

Project Secretariat – jointly funded by US (NSF) and UK (NERC)

Architecture and Interoperability WP1: Data Integration for

Multidisciplinary Research WP2: Improved interface

between the computation and data infrastructures

WP3: Harmonization of global data infrastructure for sharing environmental data

Governance WP4: Data

Sharing WP5: Open Data WP6: Capacity

Building (cross-cutting)

WORK PACKAGES

ASSEMBLY AND ROLE OF THE WORK PACKAGES

ROLE OF THE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS AND WORK PACKAGES

Provide evidence to support recommendations on how the BF can best support e-infrastructure

Each individual: Brings a unique area of expertise, so all contributions are

critical and valuable

Should draw on her or his knowledge/expertise to identify existing capabilities, gaps and remaining research challenges in both technical and governance arenas

Already participates in a number of international and national initiatives, and so can take a holistic view

ASSEMBLY AND ROLE OF THE WORK PACKAGES

DELIVERABLES

Initial WP reports: Due August 11, 2014 to project

Interim Report: Due September 15, 2014 to GPC

Community Strategy and Implementation Plan Draft due in January 2015

Final due in March/April 2015

Other Work Package Deliverables TBD

DELIVERABLES

WORK PACKAGES: DELIVERABLES Initial WP internal deliverables are due by August 11,

2014:1. Review of the existing situation/lay of the land in each WP focus

area(s)

2. Identify the need to take action in a particular area: What are the issues that need to be addressed and why?

3. Identify whether a CRA could address this issue. If so, how?

4. Identify strategic policies or actions that BF could take to address this issue

Final deliverables for the Plan will include documentation to support recommendations

DELIVERABLES

PHASE I TIMELINE (UPDATED)

October 2013: Steering Committee Meeting in Windsor, UK, to define WPs and WP leadership

November 2013 – February 2014: Finalize WP workplans and populate WPs with Assembly members

August 11, 2014: WPs provide a report on preliminary findings to the Secretariat

August 21-22: Steering Committee meeting to synthesize WP findings into a cohesive interim report

September 15: Interim report due to the Belmont ForumE-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

PHASE I TIMELINE (CONTINUED)

October 8-10: Belmont Forum Plenary Meeting in Beijing, China to decide CRAs released in 2015

October – December : Executive summary of the interim report publicly disseminated and feedback solicited

December 13-14: SC meeting in San Francisco, USA

January 15, 2015: Draft Community Strategy and Implementation Plan due to the Belmont Forum Principals

March/April 2015: Community Strategy and Implementation Plan due. E-INFRASTRUCTURES AND DATA MANAGEMENT CRA OVERVIEW

US DELEGATION (1) – WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

Allison, Lee: Arizona Geological Survey

Arrigo, Jennifer: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.

Cavalier, Darlene: SciStarter

Chandler, Cynthia: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Chen, Robert: Columbia University – Center for International Earth Science Information Network

Contreras, Jorge: American University – College of Law

Entwisle, Barbara: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Department of Sociology

Foster, Ian: University of Chicago – Department of Computer Sciences

US DELEGATION (11)– WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

Hedstrom, Margaret: University of Michigan – School of Information Sciences

Lehnert, Kerstin: Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

Michener, William: University of New Mexico - DataONE

Parsons, Mark: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Research Data Alliance

Reichman, Jerome: Duke University – School of Law

Rose, Kevin: * University of Wisconsin

Wee, Brian: National Ecological Observatories Network, Inc.

Wilbanks, John: Sage Bionetworks

Zaslavsky, Ilya: San Diego Supercomputer Center*Not funded by the NSF to participate in this effort.