Collaborative Research: EarthCube Data Capabilities: Project Pythia: A Community Learning Resource for Geoscientists

Pythia项目将提供一个公共的、可访问的网络培训资源，帮助教育当前和有抱负的地球科学家更有效地使用科学Python生态系统和云计算来理解大量的数字科学数据。在超级计算机上运行的数值模拟用于气候、天气、大气化学、野火、太空天气等方面的研究。同样，通过数值模拟或仪器观测产生的大量数字数据，在功能强大的计算机和软件的帮助下进行分析。因此，科学家需要能够有效地分析、处理和理解潜在的海量数据。该项目重点关注两项最近才出现并被科学界采用的技术：云计算平台和围绕开源编程语言Python构建的科学工具软件生态系统。Pythia项目将构建和部署一个可信的、面向社区的教育和培训资源，以提高与地球科学数据分析相关的所有领域的计算素养，并特别强调将工作流程转移到云端。Pythia项目将利用Jupyter笔记本作为培训示例、课程和交互式计算平台的主要交付机制。项目的内容将托管在GitHub上，并使用开放开发模式进行维护，这将促进和鼓励来自广泛用户社区的贡献，并有助于确保项目的长期可持续性。内容开发和新用户增长将通过数据密集型课堂和研究活动在纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校催化。其结果将是为想知道使用什么工具以及如何使用这些工具来探索地球科学数据的地球科学家和学生提供一个世界上最重要的社区拥有的网站。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Project Pythia will provide a public, web-accessible training resource that will help educate current, and aspiring, earth scientists to more effectively use both the Scientific Python Ecosystem and Cloud Computing to make sense of huge volumes of numerical scientific data. Numerical simulations run on supercomputers are used in the study of climate, weather, atmospheric chemistry, wildfires, space weather, and more. Similarly, a tremendous volume of digital data produced by numerical simulations, or observations made with instruments, are analyzed with the help of powerful computers and software. Scientists thus need to be able to effectively analyze, manipulate, and make sense of potentially vast volumes of data. This project focuses on two technologies that have emerged and are being adopted by scientific communities relatively recently: Cloud Computing platforms and a software ecosystem of scientific tools built around the open source programming language called Python. Project Pythia will construct and deploy a trusted, community-oriented education and training resource to improve computing literacy in all areas relevant to the analysis of geoscientific data, with a particular emphasis on moving workflows to the Cloud. Project Pythia will leverage Jupyter Notebooks as the primary delivery mechanism for training examples, curricula, and as an interactive computing platform. The content for Project Pythia will be hosted on GitHub and maintained using an Open Development model that will facilitate and encourage contributions from a broad user community, as well as help ensure the long-term sustainability of the project. Content development and new user growth will be catalyzed through data-intensive classroom and research activities at SUNY at Albany. The result will be one of the world's go-to, community-owned sites for geoscientists and students who want to know what tools to use and how to use them to explore geoscience data.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.