My Journey with Data

Yaxing Wei ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC)

Climate Change Science Institute

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge, TN, USA

weiy@ornl.gov

My First Data Project

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Courtesy of Google and www.lafayette.edu

Research on Geospatial Data Grid

• NASA Earth Observation Data

• Grid computing and Web technologies

3 Wei, Dissertation

Virtual Geospatial Data

Geospatial Data Grid

GMU

NASA Ames

DOE LLNL

Build Skills

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Programming Web

Technology

Metadata Data

Analysis

Data Management GIS

Engage with Science Communities

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• North American Carbon Program Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (NACP MAST-DC) – Site-level Interim Synthesis

– Regional and Continental Interim Synthesis

– Mid-continent Intensive Interim Synthesis

– Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases

– Coastal Interim Synthesis

Engage with Science Communities

• NACP Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP)

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Engage with Science Communities

• National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program (NHAAP)

7 http://nhaap.ornl.gov

Dasgupta et al., 2015

Innovation

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• Data Visualization

Before After

Before

After

Dasgupta et al., 2015

Innovation

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• Web-based On-demand Data Access

http://webmap.ornl.gov/ogcdown

Innovation

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Long Journey Ahead

• Data Interoperability

• Big Data

• Small Data

Most Important …

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Devoted

ORNL DAAC

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Questions?

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