Imagine a World….

• With easy, unlimited access to scientific data from any field

• Where you can easily plot data of interest and display it any way you want

• Where you can easily model your results and explore any ideas you have

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What is EarthCube?• Transform the conduct of

data-enabled geoscience-related research.

• Create effective community-driven cyberinfrastructure.

• Allow global data discovery and knowledge management.

• Achieve interoperability and data integration across disciplines.

Dynamic Earth Changing

Climate

Earth & Life

Geosphere-Biospheric Connection

Water: Changing

Perspectives

EarthCube is a Collaboration

• Between the NSF GEO directorate and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

• Between geo, atmosphere, ocean, computer, information, and social scientists

Why EarthCube?• Nature does not recognize separate disciplines.

• EarthCube will democratize access to data.

• EarthCube will increase research time by reducing time needed to find, access, and analyze data.

• EarthCube will enable more interdisciplinary research and the pursuit of new questions.

• EarthCube will accelerate the pace of discovery.

• EarthCube will give all scientists the same chance of making major contributions regardless of institution size or institutional endowment.

GEO Is Ready

• Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is part of the research fabric of geo, atmosphere and ocean sciences

• These scientists are sophisticated CI users and creators

• NSF and other agencies support substantial infrastructure and research that will form the foundation of EarthCube

• Community is connected by the science and collegial relationships

Atmo-spheric

Chemistry

Climate & Large Scale

Dynamics

Paleo-Climate

Meteor-ology

Aeronomy

Space Weather

Magneto-spheric Physics

Solar Terrestrial

Igneous Petrology & Volcan-

ology

Structure &

Tectonics

Geo Ed & Workforce

Training

Geodesy

NCAR

Geophysics &

Geody-namics

Geobiology & Paleoen-

tology

Cryosphere & Ice

Dynamics

Critical Zone &

Soil Science

Chemical Ocean-ography

Geomor-phology

Hydrology

Sediment-ology & Strati-graphy

Marine Geophysics

Physical Ocean-ography

Marine Geology

BiologicalOcean-ography

Ocean Education

Ocean Drilling & Engineer-

ingSoftware

& Modeling

Bio-informatics

Ecosystems

Biology

High PerfComputing

Semantics &

Ontologies

Algorithms & DataMining

EarthCube CI

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Solid and Aqueous Geochem

-istry

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Who is EarthCube?

EarthCube is YOU!

Who is EarthCube?EarthCube is YOU! • Atmospheric or Space Weather

scientists• Oceanographers• Geologists• Geophysicists • Hydrologists• Critical zone scientists• Climate scientists• Biologist • Geographers• Anthropologists• Economists• Sociologists• Data managers

• Psychologists• Computing experts• Software engineers• IT user support personnel• K-12 educators• Designers/developers of

geoscience instrumentation• Environmental resource

managers • Policy makers• Federal and State government

representatives • Private industry• Academia • And more!

CommunityMeeting

Spring 2015 Early EC??

Nov. 2011

Charrette 1Requirements Analysis

Community Groups

Capability ProjectsMar. 2012

CommunityMeeting

Prototype1 Prototype2Spring 2014

Charrette 2Roadmaps & Design

Jun. 2012

Late 2012-2013Working Groups

Working Groups

Working Groups

Concept Prototyping

Prototypes

Cliff Jacobs, 2012, NSF GEO Directorate

When is EarthCube?

You can shape EarthCube

An alternative approach to respond to daunting science and

cyberinfrastructure challenges

EarthCube is an outcome and a

process

EarthCube is based on broad

community participation

Feedback so far…

Get Involved!

• Explore the EarthCube website: www.earthcube.ning.com

• Join the online forum• Join one or more of the EarthCube Groups• Participate in upcoming Events, including the

Community Workshops

Upcoming Events• EarthCube Community Workshops

– Experimental Stratigraphy– Advances in Data Assimilation and Prediction– Critical Zone – Envisioning a Digital Crust– Paleogeoscience

• EarthCube Events at– GSA and AGU

Give Us Your Feedback

What do you need from cyberinfrastructure to help do your

science?