Working Group Meeting 2017

Environmental System Science (ESS) Working Groups Annual Meeting

Bolger Center, Potomac MD, April 24, 2017

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome: BER perspective and goals
  • David Lesmes, Jay Hnilo, BER – CESD
8:45 - 9:15 Overview of WGs, and working group activities
9:15 - 9:25 Highlights of IDEAS and IDEAS-ECP Lois Curfman McInnes (ANL)
9:25 - 9:35 ACME/NGEE Liaisons: Updates from the CMDV-land project Bill Riley (LBNL)
9:35 - 9:45 Highlights of ILAMB Forrest Hoffman (ORNL)
9:45 - 10:15 BREAK
10:30 - 10:45 New ESS Data Center Overview Deb Agarwal (LBNL)
10:45 - 11:00 Highlights of (Non-DOE) Community Cyberinfrastructure Roelof Versteeg (SSI)
10:45 - 11:00 Highlights of (Non-DOE) Community Cyberinfrastructure Roelof Versteeg (SSI)
11:00 - 11:15 Overview of CSDMS, Training, and Potential Interactions Elchin Jafarov (LANL)
11:15 - 11:30 Overview of ISMC, Objectives, status, etc. Scott Painter (ORNL), Umakant Mishra (ANL)
11:30 - 11:45 Overview of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Tracey Pilone (Element84/ESIP)
11:45 - 12:00 Public View (web) / Governance / Business Model David Moulton (LANL)
12:00 - 12:00 Open Discussion (What we heard so far, and what comes next)
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:20 Data Center Discussion
  • Presentation with more detailed plans for the Data Center,
  • Clarify plans for community engagement in tools?
  • Includes everyone for the discussion
  • Has a component of projects/WGs expressing concerns and needs
  • Opportunity for Data Center folks to respond, and have open discussion
2:20 - 2:30 Preparation for Breakout Sessions
  • Set groups (~4 to get numbers right)
  • Ensure integration of new Data Center team
  • Set tasks using Use Cases derived from ModEx cycle
  • Provide templates for output from the groups?
  • Is this the material that is pitched back to the group?
2:30 - 3:00 BREAK
3:00 - 4:30 Breakout: Develop vision for the future with near term goals, and develop pitch for high priority activities that WGs could help with.
  • Session A: Data Management
  • Session B: Model Data Integration
    • Geospatial analysis and remote sensing
    • Model evaluation and benchmarking
  • Session C: Model Data Integration
    • Data assimilation and uncertainty quantification
    • Workflows
    • Jupyter notebooks
  • Session D: Software Engineering and Interoperability
4:30 - 5:00 Report Out
  • Near term goals, and 1-slide pitches for near term activities that need support (we’ll collect these for BER to review and we’ll work with them on identifying possible path forward - e.g., proposals to SBIR)
5:00 Adjourn