Scalable Information Networks for the Environment (SINE) Workshop Agenda

San Diego Supercomputer Center
October 29- 31, 2001 (Writing Day = November 1)

Time
Session
October 29 - Keynote by M. Cavanaugh (NSF) and Sensor Networks
7:00 - 8:00
Shuttles to SDSC from the Radisson Hotel
7:30 - 8:00
Breakfast Buffet at SDSC
8:00 - 8:30
Alison Withey (SDSC) -- Workshop background and objectives.
Fran Berman (SDSC) -- Welcoming address.
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:30
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Doug Goodin (Kansas State U.) -- Environmental remote sensing technologies.
11:00 - 11:30
Dave Hughes (Old Colorado City Communications) -- Wireless environmental science.
11:30 - 12:00
Kenneth Johnson (MBARI) -- Marine/aquatic sensor arrays.
12:00 - 12:30
Frank Vernon (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) -- Wireless networks and sensor connectivity: HPWREN.
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch (catered)
1:15 - 1:30
William Michener (LTER) -- Announcements and charge for the breakout sessions.
1:30 - 3:30
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Theme 1: Design and implementation of aquatic and marine sensor networks.
(Facilitator, Orcutt; Reporter, Helly)
Theme 2: Design and implementation of terrestrial sensor networks.
(Facilitator, Waide; Reporter, J. Porter)
Theme 3: Sensor technologies.
(Facilitator, Goodin; Reporter, Bonito)
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30
Reports from Breakout Sessions
(20 minute presentation by breakout session facilitator/10 minute discussion each)
6:00 - 7:30
Reception at the Radisson Hotel [sponsored by Cal-(IT)2]
October 30 - Data Technologies
7:00 - 8:00
Shuttles to SDSC from the Radisson Hotel
7:30 - 8:15
Breakfast Buffet at SDSC
8:15 - 8:30
Alison Withey (SDSC) - Announcements.
8:30 - 9:00
Cherri Pancake (Oregon State) -- Enabling technologies and user requirements for data and information management and delivery.
9:00 - 9:30
John Porter (UVA) -- Information systems for ecological research.
9:30 - 10:00
Robert Peet (UNC) -- Taxonomic plot and specimen databases.
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Jim Beach (KU-BRC) -- Biodiversity data retrieval and integration.
11:00 - 11:30
Matt Jones (UC - Santa Barbara) -- Data integration, analysis, and synthesis.
11:30 - 12:00
Jim Quinn (UC Davis) -- Technologies for integration and discovery of geospatial data.
12:00 - 12:30
Mike Bailey (SDSC) -- Scientific data visualization.
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch (catered)
1:15 - 1:30
William Michener (LTER) -- Announcements and charge for the breakout sessions.
1:30 - 3:30
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Theme 1: Geospatial data integration.
(Facilitator, Quinn; Reporter, Stocks)
Theme 2: Distributed data access and retrieval.
(Facilitator, Beach; Reporter, Ludaescher)
Theme 3: Interfaces, portals, and knowledge environments.
(Facilitator, Pancake; Reporter, Jones)
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30
Reports from Breakout Sessions
(20 minute presentation by breakout session facilitator/10 minute discussion each)
October 31 - Scalable Environmental Information Networks
7:00 - 8:00
Shuttles to SDSC from the Radisson Hotel
7:30 - 8:15
Breakfast Buffet at SDSC
8:15 - 8:30
Alison Withey (SDSC) - Announcements.
8:30 - 9:00
William Michener (LTER) - Environmental information networks: the field station reality.
9:00 - 9:30
Geoff Bowker (UCSD) - Scaling environmental information networks: the human dimension.
9:30 - 10:00
Warren Cohen (USDA Forest Service) -- Integration across scales: the role of remote sensing and models.
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Raymond McCord (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) -- Regional databases and archives.
11:00 - 11:30
Terry Smith (UCSB) -- Digital Libraries: conceptual & technical framework.
11:30 - 12:00
Phil Papadopoulos (SDSC) -- Scalable computational infrastructure: workstations, clusters, grid computing.
12:00 - 12:30
Chaitan Baru (SDSC) -- Data and knowledge-based grids.
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch (catered)
1:15 - 1:30
William Michener (LTER) -- Announcements and charge for the breakout sessions.
1:30 - 3:30
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Theme 1: Environmental networks: site to regional scaling.
(Co-Facilitators, Gage & Gosz; Reporter, Michener)
Theme 2: Environmental networks: regional to continental scaling.
(Facilitator, Baru; Reporter, Papadopoulos)
Theme 3: Data sharing, IPR, and human dimension issues.
(Facilitator, Uhlir; Reporter, Vande Castle)
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30
Reports from Breakout Sessions
(20 minute presentation by breakout session facilitator/10 minute discussion each)
November 1 - Writing day for breakout session Reporters and Facilitators
9:00 - 2:00

Radisson Hotel
(breakfast and lunch provided)

(Baru, Beach, Bonito, Gage, Goodin, Gosz, Helly, Jones, Ludaescher, Michener, Orcutt, Pancake, Papadopoulos, Quinn, J. Porter, Stocks, Uhlir, Vande Castle, Waide, Withey)


   


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