Great Lakes to Gulf and Great Lakes Monitoring
* Free, public seminar — all welcome *
Abstract
Whether it is sensors in the field, external data providers, results of lab analyses, remote sensing data, images from drones or field scanners, modern virtual observatories require a wide variety of features to aggregate data from multiple sources and support cross-cutting research. The Geostreaming Data Framework provides data management capabilities and web application interfaces for pre-processing, cleaning, and visualisation of geospatial and streaming data. This presentation will give an overview of the framework, how it was developed and applied to support the following use cases:
- Great Lakes Monitoring provides easy access to environmental monitoring data collected throughout the Great Lakes by the U.S. EPA and other agencies.
- Great Lakes to Gulf Virtual Observatory collects water quality monitoring data aggregated from multiple sources along the Mississippi River and its tributaries concerning excess nutrient and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory collects environmental data at three sites in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota with the aim to understand the short-term and long-term resilience of the crucial ecological, hydrological, and climatic services provided by the Critical Zone.
- Terra-Ref catalogues the output of the Lemnatec Field Scanalyzer in Arizona, the largest high-throughput phenotyping field-scanning robot in the world.
Speaker bio's:
Luigi Marini is a Lead Research Programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. He has been with NCSA for more than 15 years, developing software for generic cyberinfrastructure and e-Science in a variety of domains, including earth sciences, data curation, clinical informatics and digital humanities.
Dr Jong S. Lee is a Principal Research Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and co-leads the Innovative Software and Data Analysis group (ISDA) at NCSA. His research interests focus on designing, developing and operating end-to-end cyber-environments supporting various research and education communities. He is particularly interested in the role of geographic information sciences and systems in cyber-environments of various scientific domains. Current representative projects include NSF CIF21 DIBBs - Brown Dog (Co-PI), Ergo: Seismic Risk Assessment Systems, Great Lakes to Gulf Virtual Observatory, and GeoStreaming Data Framework (API and Dashboard), and DataWolf: Scientific Workflow Systems. Via those projects, he is collaborating with various scientific domains such as hazard management, hazard risk assessment, agricultural food market system, environmental engineering, water management, CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) simulation, sensor web, etc.
About RCC/MURPA Seminar Series
RCC and MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) co-host an IT-focused seminar series in the second semester each year.
Speakers are leaders in their field — from either the academic world, government or industry — and are often based overseas.
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