Science Objective: Actionable Science

Couple data and scientific discovery life cycles

Science Objective: Actionable Science

Couple data and scientific discovery life cycles

Science Objective: Actionable Science

Couple data and scientific discovery life cyclesCan we do better than the present paradigm?

Science Objective: Actionable Science

Couple data and scientific discovery life cycles

Emergent Data & People Network

Science Objective: Actionable Science

Support Science and Action

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Data Network

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Observations Knowledge Discovery

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Emergent Data and People Networks

Actionable Science

Science Objective: Actionable Science

Enable Novel Paradigms• Couple data and scientific

discovery life cycles– Reuse of verifiable value-added

data and science

• Accelerate time to new discovery– Data reveals novel

dependencies

• Couple natural and social science – Data provides a common

language

• New paradigms for a knowledge society – Support agile actions rooted in

verifiable data and knowledge

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SEAD serves scientists in the “long tail"

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Researchers who produce and analyze heterogeneous data that is

unique and at fine resolution and granularity.

Researchers who need to collaborate with others to make scientific advances.

Researchers who lack access to reliable cyberinfrastructure for managing, sharing, analyzing, publishing and archiving data.

Emergent Data & People Network

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Communities

• CZO• HydroShare• EarthCube• NCED• SEN• UMBS

• ICPSR