Workshop on Innovative Cyberinfrastructure for Integrated Food, Energy, and Water Research
Hotel Valley Ho, Scottsdale, Arizona
Sunday, May 22 (8:30am - 5:30pm) – Monday, May 23 (8:00am - 1:00pm)
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Food, energy, and water (FEW) demands are often interdependent and transcend regional and national boundaries, and have posed tremendous global challenges where actions in one part of the world impact behaviours and outcomes in another. As location-aware sensors and devices (e.g., environmental sensors, LiDAR, remote sensing, and social media) become increasingly common, advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) must support collaborative and scalable coupling of geospatial big data with various domain-specific models and computational capabilities for conducting integrated FEW research, and associated compute- and data-intensive scientific problem solving. CyberGIS (aka geographic information science and systems based on advanced CI) brings critical geospatial thinking and big compute and data approaches to bear and promises to play a significant role in advancing integrated FEW understanding. This workshop addresses innovative CI for facilitating interoperability between cyberGIS and domain-specific CI capabilities (e.g. HydroShare) driven by integrated FEW research.
Attendance
- If you are interested in attending this workshop, please prepare a position paper of up to 2 pages using this document template.
- Submit your paper to the EasyChair webpage
- Funds are available to support travel to attend the workshop. To request travel funds, please send an email to few@cybergis.org after submitting your position paper. To ensure full consideration for travel funds please submit your paper and request by April 27, 2016.
- The discounted hotel block through UCGIS expires on April 29th.
- Papers received after April 27, 2016 may be presented at the workshop subject to time and space constraints.
UCGIS Symposium
Note that this workshop is being held in coordination with the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 2016 symposium at the same location starting on Tuesday May 24. Workshop attendees are encouraged to stay for some or all of the UCGIS symposium.
Workshop Chairs
David Tarboton is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University. His research focuses on advancing the capability for hydrologic prediction by developing models that take advantage of new information and process understanding enabled by new technology. He is lead on the National Science Foundation HydroShare project for the development of a collaborative environment for sharing hydrologic data and models.
Shaowen Wang is a professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science (Primary), Computer Science, Library and Information Science, and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is named a Centennial Scholar. He is also an Associate Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Founding Director of Illinois' CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies. He is President-Elect of the the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and a current member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the U.S. National Academies.
Please contact few@cybergis.org with any questions. See you in Scottsdale!