AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

— Hassan Babaie, Georgia State University. Structural geology and IT. Expertise in knowledge representation and ontology development. Is setting up a GEON node at GSU.

— Cal Barnes, Texas Tech University. Expertise in Igneous Petrology, and ontology development for rocks. Participated in igneous processes ontology workshop.

— Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa. Providing expertise in ontology and knowledge representation for Geosciences.

— Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University. Is helping make the link to Chronos and leverage GEON technologies in Chronos.

— David Maidment, UT Austin. Is helping make the link to CUAHSI-HIS. In particular, use of GIS and common data standards. Is also working with Randy Keller on a N-dimensional data model for earth sciences data.

— Bill Glassley, Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Providing domain expertise in aqueous geochemistry. Helping organize 1TF of compute capability from LLNL.

— Vithal Gogate, IBM. Is providing GMR code for data replication in data grids.

— Alejandro Hinojosa, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico. Providing geophysics data sets.

— Murray Journay, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver. Providing expertise in knowledge representation, structural geology, petrology.

— Milt Halem, NASA Goddard. Is helping provide NASA data sets to GEON.

— Marwa Mabrouk, ESRI. Is helping install GEON node at ESRI, Redlands, as gateway to ArcWeb services.

— Inderpal Narang, IBM. Is providing GMR code for data replication in data grids.

— Michael Piaceski, Drexel University. Hydrology and IT. Expertise in development of ontologies. Is helping organize a hydrology ontology workshop.

— Leslie Rupert, USGS. Is helping acquire USGS data sets for dissemination via a USGS GEON node.

— Clinton Smythe, Georeference On Line Inc., Vancouver, Canada. Providing expertise in database management, ontologies and semantic integration.

— Art Snoke, University of Wyoming. Expertise in Igneous Petrology, Tectonics. Participated in igneous processes ontology workshop.

— Mike Tait, ESRI. Is providing access to ArcWeb services and Geography Network.

— Jorge Torres, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico. Providing geophysics data sets.

— Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University.

— Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon.

— Guust Nolet, Princeton University.

— Tony Dahlen, Princeton University.