DAY 1


THURSDAY, AUGUST 12th


7:15 AM Van(s) to transport Site Review Team from Radisson Hotel La Jolla to SDSC
7:30 AM Van(s) to transport meeting attendees from Radisson Hotel La Jolla to SDSC
7:30AM

Continental breakfast served (in Rm. 408 for Site Review team and Auditorium for meeting attendees)
8:00 AM Introduction by Leonard Johnson, NSF Program Director
8:15 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 (15 min)
DYSCERN team (Rockies) = Keller (15 min)
Question & Answer Opportunity (10 min)
8:55 AM Dogan Seber to provide Project Management overview (10 min)
9:05 AM Chaitan Baru to provide IT overview (10 min)
9:15 AM





IT advances
Grid systems & GEON portal (Karan Bhatia, 30 min)
Data/Mapping Integration, GEON Search, GEON Workbench
(Bertram Ludaescher with demo by Kai Lin (35 min)

Mark Gahegan (15 min)
Question & Answer Opportunity (15 min)
10:50 AM Break
11:10 AM








Data and modeling related efforts (12 min per presenter)
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
Question & Answer Opportunity (15 min)
12:30 PM

Lunch. Site Review Team to meet with up to 15 students and post docs re: their research activities on GEON.
Boxed lunches to be served in 408 for this group, and in SDSC lobby for PIs, et al.
1:30 PM Executive Session of Site Review Team (30 min, Room 408)
2:00 PM





Continuation of Data and modeling related efforts (12 min per presenter)
Emil Platon/Utah
Allister Rees/Arizona
Maria Luisa Crawford/Bryn Mawr, “Adapting metamorphic data for geoinformatics: a case study from the mid-Atlantic region”
Question & Answer Opportunity (15 min)

2:55 PM



Educational/Outreach Program
DLESE, Mike Wright and Mary Marlino (15 min)
Ann Gates, UTEP (15 min)
Question & Answer Opportunity (10 min)
3:35 PM Break
3:50 PM

Developing Cyberinfrastructure: Social Issues, Plans for GEON in Upcoming Year
(Chaitan Baru, 15 min)
4:05 PM Social Integration Issues of GEON (David Ribes, 15 min = 5 min Q & A)
4:25 PM Meeting of Site Review Team with University Administrators (20 min, Rm. 408)
4:45 PM Executive Session of Site Review Team (60 min)
5:45 PM Site Review Team identify key issues/questions requiring clarification (15 min)
6:00 PM Vans to transport Site Review Team back to hotel, they will dine privately and hold formal evening meeting
6:00 PM


GEON PI’s and team members remain at SDSC to work through issues/questions asked by review team.
Dinner brought in.
GEON Advisory Board to dine together, discuss project & formulate feedback.

 

DAY 2