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

海洋生态系统动力学包括一系列广泛的学科，这些学科试图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，这给数据管理、集成和分析带来了独特的挑战。这次研讨会的目的是揭示这一重要的海洋科学领域对国家科学基金会数据和知识管理重大举措(即地球立方)的需求，该举措致力于通过方便地获取、发现和可视化地球和环境科学领域的数据，为地球科学带来革命性的变化。这次研讨会将聚集约50名海洋水柱科学家，以确定未来15年海洋生态系统动力学领域的科学驱动力，并向地球立方进程通报相关科学界的数据和网络基础设施需求。将参照海洋、沿海水域和五大湖讨论数据和建模工作在时间和空间上不同规模的问题。讲习班还将包括网络/计算机科学专家；讲习班参与者将共同确定未来的科学目标，并侧重于确定最关键、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态领域科学进展的问题。研讨会参与者还将讨论软件和可视化方面的需求，这是更好地理解现有数据和新数据并对其建模所必需的。这项工作的更广泛影响包括通过确定有助于形成EarthCube网络基础设施的最终形式的需求来为科学基础设施建设，支持在科学和工程领域性别比例不足的两个私人投资机构，以及让早期职业科学家参与进来。将举办讲习班的虚拟部分，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.