Key Personnel

GEON is an NSF collaborative project involving a number of funded, “PI Institutions”. Each such institution has a main PI for the project (see the main page for list of PI Institutions).

Key project management roles include:

• Overall project PI: Chaitan Baru, SDSC.
• Project Manager: Dogan Seber, SDSC.
• Chief Software Engineer: Ashraf Memon, SDSC

Internal Coordinating Committee (icc@geongrid.org):

• Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State
• Margaret Banton, SDSC
• Chaitan Baru, SDSC
• Randy Keller, U of Oklahoma
• Ashraf Memon, SDSC
• Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis
• Charles Meertens, UNAVCO
• Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC
• Allister Rees, U.Arizona
• Dogan Seber, SDSC
• Krishna Sinha, VaTech

Advisory Board

• Malcolm Atkinson, Director, UK e-Science Center, University of Edinburgh
• Fran Berman, Director, SDSC, UC San Diego
• Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UC San Diego
• Sharon Mosher, Professor, UT Austin
• David Simpson, Director, IRIS
• Mary Lou Zoback, USGS.

Technical activities are coordinated via project working groups for the Paleo Integration Project, Geophysics Integration Project, and GEON LiDAR Workflow.