Observatories as Integrators

Bill Howe, Phd

David Maier, Maseeh Professor of Emerging Techologies, Portland State University

Claudio Silva, University of Utah

Juliana Freire, University of Utah

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Observatory as Integrator

– Systems (Observation network, Daily Forecasts,

Hindcast databases)

– Education (EIT Program, SMILE,

COACH)– Research (Oceanography,

Microbiology, Computer Science)

– Culture and Management

Claim: Information systems are the substrate and catalyst for successful integration

SATURN: A commitment to integrate…

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SATURN as the democratization of CORIE

Collaboration Tools

Telemetry

Real-time data acquisition

Email (private discussion)

Visualization

Pre-defined suite of products

Data Access

Browsable by year and day

Information at the fingertips of CORIE staff…

Blogs, forums, wikis, video conferencing

- Real-time data integration - Uniform capabilities everywhere- Active platforms and event response

Ad-hoc, on-demand data products

Queryable by time, space, platform, instrument, etc.

… and of scientists, students, and the public

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Appliance Model for Data Exchange

R/V Wecoma

OHSU

forecasts, products

transparent access to information – on shore and at sea

observations

OSU

UW

R/V Barnes

M/V Forerunner

video conferencingad hoc products

observationsmodel results

Pre-configured information appliance deployed on each vessel

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SWAP Network; collaboration of:- OSU- OHSU- UNOLS

Challenges for Real-time Two-way Telemetry

Wecoma

Forerunner

Barnes

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Real-time Shipboard Decision Support

“Will another cast on the return trip pass through the plume?

If not, it’s not worth the extra time.”

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5/3/2007 8:00 am 5/3/2007 5:00 pmstartdate enddate

Rapid Development, Dynamic Products

Extract salinity and temperature between a given start and end time, averaged by minute”

Restructure the Data

Generate the Plot

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Enabling Technologies: Query and Visualization

looking down the mouth

river mouth

Residual Salt Flux for two spring neap cycles, 1999

exposes upstream flow of salt in tidal flats between channels

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Sophisticated Analysis and Visualization

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H0 : (x,y,b) V0 : (z)

Enabling Technologies: Gridfields

Howe’s thesis work on an algebra for manipulating model results.

A

restrict(0, z >b)

B

H0 : (x,y,b) V0 : ( )

apply(0, z=(surf b) * )

bind(0, surf)

C

coloris salinity

Actively deployed for visualization and data extraction applications

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Enabling Technologies: VisTrails

• Scientific Workflow and Visualization

• Developed at the University of Utah

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Education

• Current Advisees:– Darin Toy, an OGI Master’s Student

• Software design for Individual-Based Modeling (Fish, larvae, etc.)

• Summer:– One advisee under the Research

Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

• Summer/Fall:– Master’s Student from Portland State

University• Integrating Biological Data in a Physical

Context

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Observatories as Integrators

ORCA

SSNERR

WS DOE

PRISM

OrCOOS

Observation Database

ForecastsWeb Apps

NOAA

Simulation DBs

CORIEFrom CORIE to SATURN Needs

Refinement

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SATURN as the Democratization of CORIE

CORIE• Data Acquisition • Highly-available

models• Products developed

by technical staff• Highly-focused

culture• Fixed product

inventory

SATURN• Data Assimilation• Highly-customizable

models• Empowered users

develop products• Large, diverse,

integrative culture• Ad hoc, on-demand

products

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Cyberinfrastructure as Cultural Catalyst

• Transition to an integrative culture requires an integrative cyberinfrastructure

• Which means:– Increased dynamism– Increased utility– Agile development practices

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SATURN as the democratization of CORIE

Collaboration

Telemetry

Visualization

Query and Analysis

Blogs, Forums, Wikis

Real-time data acquisition

Conducted by CORIE staff

Fixed suite of data products

Ad-hoc, on-demand data products

Users empowered to conduct their own analyses

Real-time data integration

Data AccessBrowsable by time

Queryable by time, space, value, platform, instrument, etc.

Active platforms, event-response

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SATURN as the Democratization of CORIE

Models

Research

Public

CORIE CI

UUVs

Policy Makers

K-12

Higher Education

SATURN CI

2-D Plots

3-D Vis.

Data Access

fixed stations

Aircraft

vessels

Special Apps

Cruise Planning

Tsunami Mitigation

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SATURN as the Democratization of CORIE

Models

Research

PublicCORIE CI

UUVs

Policy Makers

K-12

Higher Education

SATURN CI

2-D Plots

3-D Vis.

Data Access

fixed stations

Aircraft

vessels

Special Apps

Cruise Planning

Tsunami Mitigation

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SATURN as the Democratization of CORIE

Models

Research

Public

UUVs

Policy Makers

K-12

Higher Education

FixedProduct

Inventory

fixed stations

Aircraft

vesselsSpecial Applications

Cruise Planning

Tsunami Mitigation