PI Institutions

Arizona State University

PI: Ramon Arrowsmith
Research Goals: Integrated studies of the Southern Rockies. In particular, active tectonics, digital elevation model analysis and image processing in GEON.
Go to GEON/ArizonaState

Bryn Mawr College

PI: Maria Luisa Crawford
Research Goals: Study of Appalachian tectonics.
Research Page: Under construction.
Go to GEON/BrynMawr

DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education)

PI: Mary Marlino
Research Staff: Mike Wright
Research Goals: Development of advanced information technologies for use in authoring of education modules.
Go to GEON/DLESE

Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI), University of Utah

PI: Paul Sikora
Research Staff: Anthony Gary, Emil Plato
Research Goals: Providing chronostratigraphic databases and associated tools for integration into GEON.
Go to GEON/EGI

Penn State University

PI: Mark Gahegan
Research Staff: Bill Pike
Research Goals: Development of a web portal for creating and managing personal and community ontologies for scientific research.
Go to GEON/PennState

Rice University

PI: Alan Levander
Research Goals: Development of a model for the physical structure of the crust and mantle beneath the continental western US and use of this model to improve understanding of the geologic events responsible for its formation.
Collaborative Project on The Cenozoic History of the Western US - A Data Integration Strategy for Earthscope
Project Summary
Project Work Plan
Project Description

San Diego State University

PI: Eric Frost
Research Goals: Development of advanced capabilities for remote geovisualization.
Research Page: Under construction.

San Diego Supercomputer Center

PI: Chaitan Baru
Co-PI's: Phil Papadopoulos, Bertram Ludaescher Research
Staff: Margaret Banton, Karan Bhatia, Sandeep Chandra, Efrat Jaeger, Kai Lin, Ashraf Memon, Ghulam Memon, Viswanath Nandigam, Dogan Seber, Nancy White
Research Goals: Development of advanced information technologies for data integration, map-based visualization, science workflows, visualization, and grid deployment.
Technologies being developed by the SDSC team can be seen in action at the GEON portal, e.g. GEONsearch, Data Registration, and myGEON. Also, the GEONgrid was deployed by members of the SDSC team.
Please go to the GEON portal to see examples of technology being developed at SDSC.
PI: Dogan Seber
Research Staff: Choonhan Youn, Cinthia Santini
Research Goals: To develop a portal for GEON and also online tools and applications for synthetic seismograms. SYNSEIS, the application for generating synthetic seismograms, is available at the GEON portal, under the "GEONscience" tab.

UNAVCO, Inc.

PI: Chuck Meertens
Research Goals: Contributing GPS velocity vectors and, eventually, time series from the UNAVCO archives. Participating in data integration and visualization efforts. In particular, investigating integration of OpenDAP data system and use of IDV visualization software in GEON.
Go to GEON/UNAVCO

University of Arizona

PI’s: Allister Rees, Karl Flessa
Research Goals: The focus of the University of Arizona GEON team is on paleontology and paleogeography. Research is focused on ensuring the interoperability of diverse fossil and sedimentary rock databases, and also linking this information with spatial, geologic time, and other ontologies.
Go to GEON/Arizona

University of Idaho

PI: John Oldow
Research Goals: Study of the active deformation of the northern Cordillera.
Go to GEON/Idaho

University of Missouri

PI: Mian Liu
Research Goals: Geodynamic modeling of active tectonics in western US.
Go to GEON/Missouri [Under construction]

University of Texas at El Paso

PI: Randy Keller
Co-PI’s: Ann Gates, Vladik Kreinovich
Research Goals: Development of a databases and a service-based architecture to deliver US-wide gravity and magnetic data along with associated tools
Go to GEON/UTEP

University of Utah

PI: Robert Smith
Research Goals: Development of detailed integrated database for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
Go to GEON/Univ of Utah

Virginia Tech

PI: Krishna Sinha
Research Goals: Development of a rigorous understanding of the evolution of continents through use of data and knowledge from igneous rocks, geologic events chronology and tectonics. Development of data products and tools in support of this goal.
Go to GEON/VaTech