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Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO) is partnered with GEON project for the use of technology and infrastructure for accessing data and tools along with creating collaborative platform for the Environmental Community.

A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared Cyberinfrastructure: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)

The CBEO Project, led by Prof. William Ball, Johns Hopkins University, is organizing disparate observations data for the Chesapeake Bay, developing a range of spatio-temporal interpolation models and services, and using the data to model and visualize hypoxia-related variables. The team consisting of environmental researchers, hydrologists and computer scientists received a 3-year NSF award, under the Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototyping (CEO:P) program, to develop and deploy relevant data and services via a “data node”, based on the GEON software stack, thereby leveraging many of the advancements and tools already developed by GEON. The CBEO research plan includes resolving complex cross-disciplinary issues of semantics, syntax and interoperability as well as developing new shared CI tools for data assimilation and interpolation.

The CBEO cyberinfrastructure team is led by Prof. Michael Piaceski, Drexel University (co-PI), who is collaborating with SDSC’s Ilya Zaslavsky, Director, Spatial Information Systems Lab and a member of the GEON team. The CBEO portal uses a customized version of the GEON portal implementation. The system has been designed such that both portals use the same physical metadata catalog but different logical namespaces.

The CBEO project is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, under grant #0618986.