Agency Partners

Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

Participation–Boyan Brodaric of GSC is one of the research staff members of the GEON project. Boyan has been instrumental in developing the strategy for use of advanced knowledge representation schemes in GEON and also in initiating an effort to deploy a GSC GEON node which will serve data sets for North Amercia, of interest to GEON science. This will be via a Web Mapping Server (WMS) that will be deployed within the WestGrid infrastructure in Vancouver, BC. Murray Journay also participates in ontology development efforts in GEON.

Project Participants

  • Boyan Brodaric, GSC, Ottawa
  • Murray Journay, GSC, Vancouver

Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL)

Participation – Geoscientist William Glassley from LLNL is a GEON participant. Bill has organized an ontology workshop for aqueous geochemistry. He is also helping arrange for 1TF of compute capability from LLNL’s Linux cluster for use in GEON.

Project Participants

  • William Glassley

NASA

Participation – currently, NASA participates via their Earth Systems Directorate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Maryland. NASA is working towards providing some of their data sets via a GEON node at Goddard. These include the paleomagnetic data set, archeomagnetic data set, and magnetic field models. They are also working to provide new Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and LIDAR data from ICESAT.

Project Participants

  • Milt Halem
  • Wei Jai Kuang

USGS

Participation – The USGS is engaged at several levels within the project. GEON is working with USGS to make available commonly used, important national coverage data sets via a USGS GEON node. This activity is in conjunction with the EROS Data Center. There is also joint work in the ontology development area, in particular with the National Geologic Map Database project. We are also investigating incorporation of software like GEODE, developed by USGS, into the GEON portal. There are on-going collaborations between USGS and GEON geosciences researchers. For example, Randy Keller (UTEP) is collaborating with USGS in developing the gravity and magnetic map databases. Mary Lou Zobak, senior scientists at USGS, Menlo Park, is a member of the GEON Advisory Board.

Project Participants

  • Linda Gunderson
  • Jordan Hastings
  • Marc Levine
  • Leslie Ruppert
  • David Soller
  • Mary Lou Zoback (member, GEON Advisory Board)