Strategic Cooperation Board Newsletter

 Monday | November 27, 2017

In this edition: 
AGU Meeting
Project Updates
Publications
Opportunities
ANCILLARY MEETING AT AGU
We are hosting a meeting during American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

See our agenda here.
Please RSVP!
DATE AND TIME
12/14/17 10:00am - 12/14/17 12:00pm

I'll be there!
I can't make it
Plant Phenology Ontologies (PPO)

Our team has annotated plant phenological data from multiple source (NEON, NPN, PEP) to create a set of high level data which can be used to answer questions relating to phenological stages and their expression across time and space, and different environments.

The open source and freely available ontology output is coordinated to global data-store and that can be re-used and sustained in the future. We are proud to announce our current milestone of all the data sources mapped to the ontology is now available at https://www.plantphenology.org/

Here you can query phenological traits and narrow search by data range, genus, specific epithet and source and then download your search results.
Kepler Workflow and RO Hub
Earlier this month, some of the team met at San Diego Supercomputer Center to discuss the Kepler/RO project and begin implementing web services. There we discussed project direction and created a specific agenda that came out of the meeting. Below are some of the highlights.
  • Reformatting the NEON API and header to a useable format. Begin a mock up with precipitation data and build the associated workflow/RO.
  • Implementation of simple web GUI, Shiny app, to make it easier for users and push through Webview REST services.
  • Set up a Kepler instance on a server hosted by SDSC that can be downloaded as needed.
  • Search options using Shiny widgets (connecting Shiny to rest services). Allow pop up windows to return image, data, and display metadata.
  • Work to embed the workflow to the Kepler RO. Start with focusing on the Kepler/RO loop in the workflow.
Currently, we are working to create a prototype and a proof of concept. We are exploring what works, what doesn’t, what’s scalable and what’s not. Moving forward we plan to show scalability capability and design the scoop of the project with the next phase in mind.
13th IEEE eScience 2017 Conference
Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez presented ongoing work at the 13th IEEE eScience 2017 conference ( http://escience2017.org.nz ), taking place in Auckland New Zealand, on 24-27 October 2017. The paper titled "Research Objects for Interworkability among Global Environmental and Geophysical Data" brings together previous initiatives related to biodiversity and geodetic time series data, the Kepler workflow management system and the research object management platform ROHub.org with the objective of ensuring credit and reproducibility in the generation and exploitation of the aforementioned data.

Thanks to this work it will be possible to encapsulate scientific workflows within research objects, enabling each particular execution to be citable as a research object with its own DOI, giving proper credit to data providers and allowing inspection by third party scientist on the execution traces themselves. The approach was welcome by delegates from the international e-science community, who gave interesting feedback along these lines, as well as on related benefits from the application of workflows and research objects, including data orchestration and decay monitoring and long-term preservation, respectively.

PUBLICATIONS
We're extremely proud of relevant publications from the team pertaining to CoopEUS and COOP+ projects. Please see a complete list of related publications on the SCB Publication webpage.
To request a full pdf, please email mgenazzio@battelleecology.org

CALL FOR PAPERS/VIGNETTES
National Science Foundation's Dear Colleague Letter (DCL): Seeking Community Input for Topic Ideas to Accelerate Research Through International Network-to-Network Collaboration, invites individuals or groups of individuals from the U.S. research community to submit White Papers on topics in science, engineering, and/or STEM education that are ripe for international network-to-network collaboration.


See our response here.





Due by November 30, 2017.
The International Research Collaborations Working Group (I-Group) of the National Academies’ Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable ( GUIRR) is hosting “Data Matters: Ethics, Data and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World”.

The I-Group is seeking input from the community in the form of case studies, research vignettes, or illustrative examples that will aid in identifying ethical issues in the collection, sharing, curation, access, and use of data in any of a variety of research and data collection contexts.

Due by  December 1, 2017.
National Science Foundation's Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) seeks information on existing and future needs for mid-scale research infrastructure projects from the US-based NSF science and engineering community.

The purpose of this Request for Information is to assess the needs for mid-scale Research Infrastructure from the US-based NSF science and engineering community in order to develop a strategy, in accordance with the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA).




Due by December 8, 2017.
National Science Foundation's Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories ( FSML ) are off-campus facilities for research and education conducted in the natural habitats of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. FSMLs support environmental and basic biological research and education by preserving access to study areas and organisms, by providing facilities and equipment in close proximity to those study areas, and by fostering an atmosphere of mutual scientific interest and collaboration in research and education. In recognition of the importance of FSMLs in modern biology, NSF invites proposals that address these general goals of FSML improvement.





Due by December 8, 2017.

In this Focus Collection, the scientific and technological capabilities of current environmental research infrastructures (RIs) will be evaluated for their ability to address global environmental challenges. This call is looking for cooperative and interdisciplinary contributions that put together ideas from ecology, biogeochemistry, Earth sciences and/or social sciences to describe the role of research infrastructures in providing part of the global solution.

Contributors are encouraged to describe fruitful cooperative constellations involving research infrastructures and global networks, academia and industry. In addition, identifying data, technology and social gaps that are hindering global action should also be included to contribute to potential maturation process in regards to the respective global challenge.

Due by April 15, 2018.

SCB Website
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Chris Lenhardt
Strategic Cooperation Board Chair

Henry W. Loescher
Lead PI

Francisco Javier Bonet García
COOP+ H2020
Questions or comments please contact:
Melissa A. Genazzio
SAVI Staff Scientist
mgenazzio@battelleecology.org
CoopEUS is funded by NSF's Science Across Virtual Institutes  (SAVI)