Objectives: The ultimate goal of this activity is to build a network (of people and of the rest of cyberinfrastructure) to enable long-term ecological projects, produce new scientific discoveries, and gain a better understanding of the roles of these aquatic systems in the global environment. Specific objectives of this workshop are:

·        Expand the prototype system, currently between the North Temperate Lake System in Wisconsin US and Yuan Yang Lake in Taiwan, to more lakes;

·        Create connections between researchers studying coral reefs, and identify next steps in linking extant infrastructure for the global community

 

Balance of Presentations and Working Breakout Sessions: While there will need to be some plenary presentations, the bulk of the meeting will be spent in working groups to meet the specific workshop objectives.

 

Prior to Meeting: Information will be requested of several participants prior to the meeting, to help make progress towards the objectives.

 

Themes: For the working activities, we have identified three themes: Science, Technology (including metadata), Governance / Policy.


 

Proposed Schedule

 

Date: Sunday, 6 March 2005

Location: The Shores Restaurant at Sea Lodge Inn

 

1800 – 2000    Informal gathering of participants who are interested for dinner at the

Shores Restaurant in the Sea Lodge Inn

 

 

Date: Monday, 7 March 2005

Location: Sumner Auditorium

 

0800 – 0830    Walk from Hotel to Sumner Auditorium

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0830 – 0900    Continental Breakfast

 

0900 – 0915    Overview and Introduction of Steering Committee Members

 

0915 – 0945    Setting the Stage: What we might expect from this meeting: Lakes and Coral Reefs

Example: Lakes Activity: Background, Status, Explicit Goals for meeting, Hoped outcomes – Tim Kratz

Example: Coral Reefs: Background, Goals for Meeting – Sally Holbrook

 

0945 – 1230    Introduction of participants, addressing “Why are you here?”

            Time: 3 minutes

            Number of Slides: 2

 

1230 – 1400    Lunch (provided for

 

1400 – 1430    Overview of Breakout Goals: Peter Arzberger

 

1430 – 1800    Theme 1: Science (see below)

Breakout groups: Coral Reef Community and Lake Observatory Community (IT people will split between these two groups).

 

Lead for Coral Reef: Sally Holbrook and Stuart Kininmonth

Lead for Lake Observatory: Tim Kratz and David Hamilton

 

Note: Breakout Room: Classroom 10 in Scripps Bldg. (#4 on map)

 

1800 – 1830    Walk to Piatti’s for dinner

 

1830 – 2100    Dinner at Piatti’s (provided for)


 

Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005

Location: Hubbs Hall 4500

 

0800 – 0830    Walk from Hotel to Hubbs 4500

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0830 – 0900    Continental Breakfast

 

0900 – 0930    Feedback from the Breakout Groups: Highlights of discussion

Lake Observatory Group

Coral Reef Group

 

0930 – 1045    IT Perspective: Comments on Day One, and Common Science Opportunities, Common IT Needs led by Ian Atkinson, Fang-Pang Lin, Vlad Veytser, Barbara Benson, Frank Vernon

 

1045 – 1100    Break

 

1130 – 1200    Setting the Stage for Afternoon Break Out: TBA

 

1200 – 1330    Lunch (provided for)

 

1330 – 1700    Working Groups

                        Building a Global Lake Observatory Network: Tim Kratz, David Hamilton, Peter Arzberger (see below for details)

                        Issues for Coral Reef Observing and Data Sharing: Sally Holbrook, Stuart Kininmonth, Fang-Pang Lin, Room

 

Note: Breakout Room: Hubbs Hall 3230, 11:00-5:00

 

1700 – 1800    Report back to larger group

 

1800 – 1830    Walk down to the Marine Room for dinner      

 

1830 – 2100    Dinner at the Marine Room (provided for)

 

 

Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2005

Location: Sumner Auditorium

 

0800 – 0830:  Walk from Hotel to Sumner Auditorium

 

0830 – 0900:   Continental Breakfast

 

0900 – 0930:   Goals for the Day: How to build the network and the community

 

0930 – 1130:   Breakouts:

                        Continue Technical Sessions: Work on timetables of next steps

                        Targeted working groups: Documenting needs, sharing experiences

Planning for next meeting: What will each group do? What will they do for the network? What will the network do for you?

Focus on Policy and Governance

 

Note: Breakout Room: Hubbs Hall 3230

 

1130 – 1300:   Lunch and Discussions

Feedback from groups

                        Final Discussion about Next Steps

                        Main Meeting Adjourn

 

Themes and Questions:

 

Science Questions: Day 1 Breakout Groups

  1. Identify site-based science questions: What do researchers do now?
  2. Identify questions that could be gotten across sites. What are the networked-based science opportunities?  
  3. Integration of data into predictive models (e.g. climate change, future ecosystems states) [PA: Even at a local level, data need to be integrated into models of circulation, or calculations of metabolism or evaporation].
  4. Look at commonality of measurements: what measurements do we take now? How do we take them?  
  5. Look at the equipment that is being used.
  6. Identify technology issues.
  7. In short – set the stage for Day 2’s breakout session

 

Technology Breakout:

  1. How do we make sites functional? What are the IT issues?
  2. How do we make the network functional? What are the IT issues?
  3. Are there a common set of data we can agree on (given a few cross cutting science questions)?
    1. Can we agree on metadata?
    2. Can we agree on use of English in terms?
  4. How do we move data from sensor to database?
  5. What should our priority be in designing an overall network?
  6. Many more (this needs to be developed)

 

Governance:

  1. Should we insist on open access of data for participating sites?
  2. Are there decisions we will need to make (give distributed resources) collectively? If so, how will we make them? Who will make them?
  3. Do we wish to have regular vtc of key members?

 

Next Steps:

  1. Does it make sense to have another meeting?
    1. If so, with the whole group, or each group separately?
    2. If so, where?
  2. Are there natural questions (science or technology) that will bind these two groups together, if not now, then in the future? Or are the topics too disparate?

 

 

Possible Additional Technical Topics/Breakouts

 

The following topics may be of interest to a subset of groups. These may also form follow-up activities or separate meetings.

  • Challenges linking sensors to the internet
  • Sensor development

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 SPONSOR: National Science Foundation (NSF)

              Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)

              Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)

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  • Existing Sensor Networks at testbeds for new sensors

 

Agenda for Day 2: Lake Metabolism Group

 

Basic Architecture and Next Steps

  • Presentation of possible architecture:Peter Arzberger, Vlad Veytser
    • Discussion of strengths, weaknesses, priorities for next steps
    • Discussion of agreement to a version of the principles and architecture.
  • Demonstration of what is currently possible
    • Registration of databases (that adhere to ontology):Vlad Veytser, Dave Balsiger
    • Running lake metabolism web service (Paul Hansen, Longjiang Ding, Tony Fountain)
  • Presentation of data collected prior to meeting: Vlad Veytser, Dave Balsiger, Hsiu-Mei Chou
    • What is being collected?
    • What is common?
  • Agreements on: Tim Kratz, David Hamilton
    • Key variables
    • Dictionary / ontology of terms
  • Revisit discussion of Architecture and next steps
  • Possible next steps overall with the design: Vlad Veytser
  • Volunteers for next lake to be incorporated into system: David Hamilton

 

Additional Considerations

  • Challenges of physical limnology, example of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler: Chin Wu
  • Examples of data integration and computing: Models and Databases: Amarnath Gupta, Fang-Pang Lin

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda for Day 2: Coral Reef Group

 

  • Presentation of current sensor network architecture: Stuart Kininmonth and Fang-Pang Lin
  • Discussion of major technical challenges for implementation of marine sensor networks
  • Fouling and other in-water implementation issues
  • Underwater wireless development
  • Middleware issues

 

  • How can we learn from and utilize developments by the Lake Metabolism Sensor Networks group?

 

  • Next steps for implementation of coral reefs network


 

Important Additional Information:

 

Acknowledgements:

 

This workshop is made possible by support from the following foundations and awards:

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Toward a Distributed Information System for Marine Biology and Limnology

National Science Foundation: Scalable Information Network for the Environment (NSF DBI 0120071) and the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA, www.pragma-grid.net) (NSF INT 0314015)

 

In addition, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography provided the space for the meeting, and the University of California San Diego helped provide assistance for organization.

 

 

Steering Committee of the Lake and Coral Reef March 2005 Meeting

 

Peter Arzberger, University of California San Diego, parzberg@ucsd.edu (skype: parzberg)

David Hamilton, University of Waikato, d.hamilton@waikato.ac.nz

Sally Holbrook, University of California Santa Barbara, holbrook@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Stuart Kininmonth, Australian Institute of Marine Science, s.kininmonth@aims.gov.au

Tim Kratz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, tkkratz@wisc.edu

Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing, c00fpl00@nchc.org.tw