GEON 3rd Annual Meeting Agenda
Research Frontiers in Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
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Wednesday May 4, 2005	5-7 pm   Welcome Reception, Bahia Hotel at 'The Pond' (weather permitting)
Thursday May 5, 2005 Bahia Hotel Ballrooms B-C-D-E	7:00 am     Full Breakfast Served aboard the Wm D Evans Sternwheeler 8:00 am   Welcome (Chaitan Baru) 8:10 am   Remarks by NSF: Herman Zimmerman, Leonard Johnson, David Lambert, Kevin Thompson 8:30 am   GEON Science Integration Concepts (Krishna Sinha) 9:00 am   GEON IT Solutions (Chaitan Baru) 9:30 am   GEON Products and Demos -  GEONGrid Systems (Karan Bhatia) -  Portal (Choonhan Youn) -  Data Registration and Ontology-based Smart Search (Kai Lin) -  Map Integration (Ashraf Memon) -  Workflows: Bertram Ludaescher, Efrat Jaeger -  Grid Enabled HPC, e.g. SYNSEIS (Dogan Seber) -  Visualization: Chuck Meertens, Chuck Stein 10:00 am     Break 10:30 am   GEON Products and Demos (Cont.) 12:00 pm     Lunch - Bahia Barbeque Served at 'The Pond' 1:00 pm   Larry Smarr, UCSD/Calit2, "Analyzing Large Earth Data Sets: New Tools from the Optiputer and LOOKING Projects" 1:30 pm   Deborah McGuinness, Stanford, "Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatories" 2:00 pm   David Soller, USGS, "Standards Development for the US National Geologic Map Database" 2:30 pm     Break 3:00 pm   Robert Hatcher, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Recovering Non-Digital and Digital Geospatial Data that are Not Becoming Part of Organized Databases: A GEON Opportunity" 3:20 pm   Randy Keller, UTEP, "A Scheme for the Development of Integrated 3-D Models of Lithospheric Structure" 3:40 pm   Norm Miller, Deb Agarwal, NCHS/UC Berkeley, "The National Center for Hydrological Synthesis and Development of a 'Watershed Toolbox'" 4:00 pm   Poster Session 5:30 pm     Meeting ends 6:00 pm   Dinner Cruise
Friday May 6, 2005 Bahia Hotel Ballrooms B-C-D-E	7:00 am     Full Breakfast Served aboard the Wm. D Evans Sternwheeler Morning   Session Chair: Art Goldstein, Colgate University 8:00 am   Fran Berman, UCSD/SDSC, "Building a Community Through GEON" 8:30 am   John Orcutt, President AGU, SIO, "Information Technology at the AGU" 9:00 am   Ramon Arrowsmith, ASU, "Image Processing, LIDAR and High Resolution 2D interpolation, and 3D Visualization for Data Integration" 9:20 am   Kerstin Lehnert, LDEO, Columbia Univ, "EarthChem: Solid Earth Geochemisty in Geoinformatics" 9:40 am   Martin Flower, University of Illinois, Chicago (presented by Shuhab Khan, University of Houston), "Report for the TETHYS Database: Advancing Data Management for Orogenic Systems" 10:00 am     Break 10:30 am   Allister Rees, Univ of Arizona, "A Hierarchical Coding Scheme for Integrating Geologic Databases" 10:50 am   John Oldow, Univ of Idaho, "Integration of Digital Data Resources To Estimate the History and Rates of Deformation in the Alvord Ext Basin" 11:10 am   Calvin Barnes, Texas Tech Univ, "Toward a Concept Space for Crustal Magmatic Processes" 11:30 am   Drew Mirante, Bryn Mawr, "Implementing a Web Service for Spatial Data - Spatial Fusion" 11:50 pm     Lunch - Deli Express Buffet Served at 'The Pond' Afternoon   Session Chair: Leslie Ruppert, USGS 1:00 pm   Mike Tait, ESRI, "OnDemand GIS: The Next Evolution for Geographic Information Systems" 1:20 pm   Michael Piasecki, Drexel Univ, "Hydrologic Ontologies Framework" 1:40 pm   Jamie Farrell, Univ of Utah, "The Yellowstone GIS Database" 1:50 pm   Ghulam Memon, SDSC/SDSU, "Generating Composite Thematic Maps From Semantically-different Shapefile Collections" 2:00 pm   Leonardo Salayandia, UTEP, "Extending a Worflow Management System to Support Interoperable and Reliable Service-Oriented Components" 2:10 pm   Omar Ochoa, UTEP, "JavaMac and Runtime Monitoring for Geoinformatics Grid Services" 2:20 pm   Flor Salcedo, UTEP, "Structuring Ontologies for Data Discovery and Navigation" 2:30 pm   Dogan Seber, SDSC, "Discover Our Earth: A Discovery-based Learning Tool in the Cyberinfrastructure Era" 2:50 pm   Michael Wright, UCAR/DLESE, "Integration of Educational Knowledge Structures into GEON Cyberinfrastructure" 3:15 pm     Break 3:30 pm   Town Hall Meeting: Cyberinfrastructure and Geoscience Research Opportunities (Moderators: Lee Allison, Chaitan Baru) 4:45 pm   Closing Remarks 5:00 pm     Meeting Adjourns

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