Summary
We quote the recent NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure in stating that “a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research, pushed by continuing progress in computing, information, and communication technology, and pulled by the expanding complexity, scope, and scale of today’s challenges”. In the geosciences community, grassroots efforts to build cyberinfrastructure abound. These efforts are driven by the a pressing need to integrate information—both model outputs ans and observed data—across multiple disciplines in order to gain deeper understand of the complex natural phenomena that we study. This session seeks to look to the future to put these efforts into a broad information technology and scientific context.
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The large and complex effort required to produce the Magnetic Map of North America is, from a data perspective, an excellent example of the development of cyberinfrastructure.
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