Friday, AUGUST 13th


7:15 - 7:30 P.M. GEON AHM Welcome Reception, in the “Grove” at the Radisson Hotel, La Jolla

DAY 1


Saturday, AUGUST 14th


8:00 AM Van(s) to transport attendees from Radisson Hotel, La Jolla to SDSC/UCSD
8:00 AM Continental breakfast served in Lobby of San Diego Supercomputer Center)
8:30 AM

Introduction/Welcome by Fran Berman, Director of San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Chaitan Baru
9:00 AM Randy Keller & Krishna Sinha to provide GEON philosophy and goals, geoscience overview, and status of testbed-oriented scientific integration efforts:
CREATOR team (Appalachian = Sinha)
DYSCERN team (Rockies = Keller)
9:30 AM IT Overview (Baru)
IT advances
Grid systems & geosciences, user registration, GEON Portal (Bhatia, Seber)
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM IT advances (cont’d)
Data Integration: Ontologies, data registration (Ludaescher, Lin)
Workflows (Ludaescher, Altintas)
Visualization (TBN)
12:35 PM Lunch to be served on 2nd floor patio, provided by SDSC
1:45 PM DYSCERN work group presentations by PIs and students, related science discussion (Led by Randy Keller)
Seber/SDSC, “Building Distributed Computational Environments”
Mian Liu/Missouri, “Toward a 4D simulation of Continental Deformtation in the Rocky Mountain Testbed and Western US”
• Chuck Meertens/UNAVCO [PPT] [Movie]
Ramon Arrowsmith/Arizona State, “Active Tectonics, Digital Elevation Model Analysis,and Remote Sensing in GEON”
John Oldow/Idaho
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM CREATOR work group presentations by PIs and students, related science discussion (Led by Krishna Sinha)
Emil Platon/Utah
Allister Rees/Arizona
Maria Luisa Crawford/Bryn Mawr, “Adapting metamorphic data for geoinformatics: a case study from the mid-Atlantic region”
5:30 PM

Meeting adjourns

5:45 PM Reception & Dinner at Great Hall, UCSD Campus.
Co-Sponsored by Cal-(IT)2 and Sun Microsystems
Dinner will include speakers from Cal-(IT)2 and Nick Weston, Sun Microsystems.
8:30 PM Vans to transport attendees from campus to hotel, after dinner
 

DAY 2


Sunday, August 15th


8:00 AM Van(s) transport AHM attendees to UCSD
8:00 AM Continental breakfast served in auditorium of San Diego Supercomputer Center
8:30 AM Outreach Aspects Education (M. Wright, A. Gates, D.Seber)
International Collaborations (C. Baru)
BIRN Integration (Mark James)
9:30 AM Break-Out Sessions:
Science Integration Group (Auditorium, SDSC)
Software Integration Group (Room 408, SDSC)
11:30 AM Reports from each break-out session to larger group
12:00 PM

Lunch
Afternoon agenda involves GEON PIs, other interested attendees may tour SDSC immediately following lunch

1:30 PM Looking Ahead, GEON’s plans in the upcoming year
• Fall PI Meeting in Idaho, October 21-22, 2004
• Future GEON AHM and PI Meetings (timing/location
• PI participation in GEON booths at GSA, AGU
• Project Communications
• Future GEON AHM and PI Meetings (timing/location)
• CVS
2:30 PM Meeting Wrap-UP