2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Information Technology

Live from the field: Capturing images and data from a barrier island via wireless networking

John Porter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:52:58 +0000

Poster Number:

372

Presenter/Primary Author:

John Porter

Co-Authors:

David E. Smith

Co-Authors:

Thomas Williams

Wireless networks provide new opportunities for retrieving data from the field - and to support new types of data. At the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Project we have employed wireless networks to connect to three barrier islands, with some connections spanning over 20 km. The wireless network is used to integrate a variety of data sources. A network of ten wells, meteorological and tide stations produce data that is automatically processed to create a dataset or graph on the World-Wide Web.

VOSS: Delegating Organizational Work to Virtual Organization Technologies

R. Stuart Geiger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Poster Number:

337

Presenter/Primary Author:

R. Stuart Geiger

Co-Authors:

David Ribes

Co-Authors:

Steve Jackson

Co-Authors:

Matt Burton

Co-Authors:

Tom Finholt

This project is currently undertaking a comparative study of the formation and maintenance of Virtual Organizations (VOs) in two leading collaborative science networks: the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and the Open Science Grid (OSG). Both LTER and OSG are mature enterprises for supporting multidisciplinary scientific research; however, they differ in the nature of their VO tool use.

ULTRA-Ex: Connecting the social and ecological sciences with planners, managers, and the public: Building a broad foundation for the Chicago Region ULTRA

David Wise — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Poster Number:

285

Presenter/Primary Author:

David Wise

Co-Authors:

Lynne M Westphal

Co-Authors:

Liam Heneghan

Co-Authors:

Bryan C Pijanowski

Co-Authors:

Nancy C Tuchman

Co-Authors:

Aaron N Durnbaugh

Co-Authors:

Paul H Gobster

Co-Authors:

Jennifer L Hirsch

Co-Authors:

Eric V Lonsdorf

Co-Authors:

Emily S Minor

Co-Authors:

Susan I Stewart

Co-Authors:

Moira L Zellner

The Chicago Region ULTRA-Ex will address a question fundamental to understanding the dynamic interactions between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem processes, and human well being in urban landscapes: In a complex urban/metropolitan system, what are the synergies and tradeoffs between conserving biodiversity and providing ecosystem services to people? The project focuses on the Green Infrastructure Vision of the Chicago Wilderness alliance, a conservation consortium of over 240 organizations.

LTER-Europe Information Management – A European perspective into supporting large-scale data-intensive LTSER network and infrastructure

David Blankman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:05:12 +0000

Poster Number:

279

Presenter/Primary Author:

David Blankman

Co-Authors:

Johannes Peterseil

Co-Authors:

Helena Karasti

Co-Authors:

Michael Mirtl

Co-Authors:

Pirjo Kuitunen

LTER-Europe is a network of national networks established in 2007 through a merger of existing smaller regional and new national LTER networks in Europe. It represents the European contribution to the global International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER); 16 of the 44 ILTER members belong to LTER-Europe.

Implementing a wireless communications network at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Donald Henshaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:14:34 +0000

Poster Number:

262

Presenter/Primary Author:

Donald Henshaw

Co-Authors:

Bierlmaier, Fred

Co-Authors:

Valentine, Theresa

Co-Authors:

Bond, Barbara

The vision for a future “cyber forest” at the Andrews Experimental Forest foresees high performance wireless communications enhancing connectivity among remote field research locations, station headquarters, and beyond to the university and Internet. Increasing use of sensor technologies and collaboration tools for both research and education foretell exponential increases in data and information flow.

CCE LTER: A Site-Based Information Architecture

James Conners — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:49:21 +0000

Poster Number:

260

Presenter/Primary Author:

James Conners

Co-Authors:

Mason Kortz

Co-Authors:

Lynn Yarmey

Co-Authors:

Karen Baker

Designing infrastructure to support the management of diverse data presents unique challenges for each site. Described here is the current information system architecture, as well as targeted architectural features, implemented by the Ocean Informatics team to provide a working solution for accommodating heterogeneous data types. The system architecture is a major component of a site information environment, providing an orientation for technical development, organizational communication, and collaborative science.

Palmer LTER: A Site-Based Information Architecture

James Conners — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:43:59 +0000

Poster Number:

259

Presenter/Primary Author:

James Conners

Co-Authors:

Mason Kortz

Co-Authors:

Lynn Yarmey

Co-Authors:

Karen Baker

A Web of Data Repositories

Lynn Yarmey — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:03:19 +0000

Poster Number:

254

Presenter/Primary Author:

Lynn Yarmey

Co-Authors:

Karen Baker

The movement and exchange of data are frequently described using a 'flow' or a 'pipeline' model. We differentiate a uni-directional data 'flow' from an alternative model, a web-of-repositories. A web-of-repositories is a federation of diverse nodes where communication, connections, and data exchange are multi-directional. Each node has a unique sphere-of-context with technical, organizational and social dimensions. In this poster we explore a multi-repository data landscape.

LTER Unit Working Group Projects: Dictionary and Registry

Mason Kortz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:48:17 +0000

Poster Number:

253

Presenter/Primary Author:

Mason Kortz

Co-Authors:

Lynn Yarmey

Co-Authors:

James Conners

Co-Authors:

Todd Ackerman

Co-Authors:

Karen Baker

Units of measurement are a fundamental element of scientific discourse and data integration. The LTER Unit Working Group has developed two initiatives to promote consistent use of units throughout the network. One is the LTER Unit Dictionary, comprising the set of units in use by the LTER sites and the best practices that support them. The other is the Unit Registry, a software solution for online access to the Unit Dictionary. This poster provides an overview of both efforts, including motivations, progress made, and future plans.

SPAN – A Network Providing Sensor-to-Database End-to-End Services

Sridhar Gullapalli — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:41 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

SPAN: A network providing Sensor-to-Database End-to-End Services Final Report

Organizer:

Terry Benzel

Co-organizer(s):

Sridhar Gullapalli

In recent years, advances in sensor network technology have shown great promise to revolutionize environmental data collection. Still, these systems have remained the purview of the engineers and computer scientists who design them rather than the useful tools for the field scientists who could utilize them. Today, while there are many data logging options for basic data collection in the field, scientists are still usually required to travel to the sites to retrieve their data, and manually import it into spreadsheets.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 3

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

Working Group Materials