EarthCube GEO Domain Workshop: Articulating Cyberinfrastructure Needs of the Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Community

海洋生态系统动力学包含了广泛的学科，旨在增加我们对海洋中物理、生物和化学过程之间相互作用的理解。海洋生态系统动力学研究包括海洋生产力、种群动态、生物地理学和生物地球化学。它是一门跨学科的科学，产生高度多样化的数据类型，对数据管理、集成和分析提出了独特的挑战。本次研讨会的目标是在这个重要的海洋科学领域提出对NSF数据和知识管理计划（即EarthCube）的需求，该计划致力于通过提供方便的访问、发现和可视化来自地球和环境科学的数据来彻底改变地球科学。本次研讨会将汇集约50位海洋水柱科学家，以确定未来15年海洋生态系统动力学领域的科学驱动因素，并向EarthCube进程通报相关科学界的数据和网络基础设施需求。将参考海洋、沿海水域和五大湖，讨论数据和建模工作在时间和空间上的不同尺度问题。研讨会还将包括网络/计算机科学专家；研讨会参与者将共同确定未来的科学目标，并将重点放在确定最关键、最广泛的网络基础设施和数据管理问题以及阻碍海洋生态系统动力学领域科学进步的问题上。研讨会参与者还将讨论软件和可视化方面的需求，以便更好地理解和建模现有数据和新数据。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括通过确定有助于塑造EarthCube网络基础设施最终形式的需求来建立科学基础设施，支持两个性别在科学和工程领域代表性不足的pi，以及早期职业科学家的参与。将举办讲习班的一个虚拟部分，以帮助扩大现场人员以外的参与。

Ocean ecosystem dynamics encompasses a broad array of disciplines that seek to increase our understanding of the interplay between the physical, biological, and chemical processes in the ocean. Ocean ecosystem dynamics studies include ocean productivity, population dynamics, biogeography, and biogeochemistry. It is an interdisciplinary science that produces highly diverse data types that pose unique challenges for data management, integration, and analysis. The goal of this workshop is to surface requirements in this important ocean science arena for a major new NSF data and knowledge management initiative (i.e., EarthCube) that is dedicated to revolutionizing geoscience by providing easy access to, discovery of, and visualization of data from across the geo- and environmental sciences. This workshop will bring together ~50 ocean water column scientists to identify science drivers in the next 15 years in the ocean ecosystem dynamics field and inform the EarthCube process about the data and cyberinfrastructure needs of the associated scientific community. Issues of different scales in time and space of both data and modeling efforts will be discussed in reference to oceans, coastal waters, and the Great Lakes. The workshop will also include cyber/computer science experts; and together workshop participants will collectively define future science goals and focus on identifying the most critical, widespread, cyberinfrastructure and data management issues and problems holding back scientific advances in the area of ocean ecosystem dynamics. Workshop participants will also discuss needs in software and visualization that are needed to better understand and model both present and new data. Broader impacts of the work include building infrastructure for science by identifying needs that will help to shape the final form of EarthCube cyberinfrastructure, support of two PIs whose gender is under-represented in the sciences and engineering, and engagement of early career scientists. A virtual component of the workshop will be held to help broaden participation beyond those present on-site.