Dear Sediment Experimentalists,
Hope all is going well in the laboratory. In this message we have information about
(1) sharing our research topics and data with each other with a Google Fusion Table
(2) EarthCube, one of NSF’s latest efforts on data and knowledge management.
(1) Sediment Experimentalists Fusion Table
We’ve been trying to think of quick ways to share information about our research with the rest of the community, whether it is in progress or already published. So, we are testing a new resource for data sharing among sedimentary researchers. This is the “Sediment Experimentalists” Google Fusion Table, put together by Raleigh Martin. It can be viewed here:
To access the table view:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S508266LfWw
To access the maps view:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S508269Asyx
Our long-term goal is to generate a robust, secure, and easy-to-use framework for data sharing among sedimentary researchers. In the near term, we believe that the Google Fusion Table, which is free and (relatively) easy to use, can act as a testbed for data sharing. In addition to being free, the Fusion Table provides nice visualization and sorting tools.
We encourage you to add information about your own research projects to the Fusion Table. If you would like to do this, please send an email to sedimentexp@gmail.com with your Gmail address (if you don’t have one, you can create one for free). More detailed instructions for using the Fusion Table are available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C34iCc4yd7stvUm4grpcz1q6KMhIFYpfx0VFlhb5UWU/edit
Please note that, while it is helpful, it is not necessary to directly share your data online. Simply listing that the data is available (and providing contact information) is very useful. Also, while this project is mainly aimed at experimentalists, we also encourage sharing of field data as well.
(2) What is EarthCube?
Many of us may have received multiple emails recently encouraging us to take a survey for EarthCube and participate in the discussions. One of the most common responses to these emails was probably “What is EarthCube?” Here are two attempts at answering that question:
(1) What is EarthCube? from the Sediment Experimentalists blog
(2) EarthCube’s official What is EarthCube? document
The short answer is “a knowledge and data management system,” but we also encourage you to follow the links to learn more. At this early stage in the system’s development, scientist feedback to the system architects is extremely important. If you are interested in this effort, please join the EarthCube site as a member and connect with us (Wonsuck Kim, Leslie Hsu, Brandon McElroy, and Raleigh Martin. We are participating in the events and will make sure that our community’s voice is heard at EarthCube.
Please reply to this email address (sedimentexp@gmail.com) with any comments, feedback, or questions.
Happy experimenting,
Leslie, Brandon, Raleigh, Wonsuck
Archived messages:
http://sedimentexperiments.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
What is EarthCube?
Many of you may have received emails asking you to fill out a survey for EarthCube - in fact we have posted the call for the survey on this blog as well. When you received the email, you may have thought "What is EarthCube anyway?"
The survey states "EarthCube is a bold, new, NSF initiative to create an integrated data and knowledge management system that extends across the geosciences." On the EarthCube website, currently there are hundreds of scientists and cyberinfrastructurists who have organized into groups such as "Data Discovery, Mining, Integration," "Semantics and Ontologies," "Interoperability," and "Education and Workforce Development." (See all Groups.) At this early stage, they are creating roadmaps of how to make progress on their particular topics.
What does this mean for a disciplinary scientist like a sediment experimentalist? The products of the EarthCube effort will be apps, web services, and resources that help you to do science in a more efficient and effective way. But before the products are built, your input into what types of data you collect and use, how you interact with it, and what you want to do, will help the programmers and computer scientists to develop the products. Think about your favorite data resources today - high resolution topography (USGS, OpenTopography), hydrograph data (USGS), geophysical data (IRIS, EarthScope), models (CSDMS, CIG), and publications (ScienceDirect, Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar) - what would it take for these entities to work in concert so that you can seamlessly access and discover the information that you need?
Here at the Sediment Experimentalists site, we hope to facilitate the communication between our scientific community and the EarthCube effort. Don't hesitate to ask any questions in the comments or by email (sedimentexp@gmail.com). As a first step, you can take a look at the EarthCube site: http://earthcube.ning.com/, and register as a participant or join a mailing list.
The survey states "EarthCube is a bold, new, NSF initiative to create an integrated data and knowledge management system that extends across the geosciences." On the EarthCube website, currently there are hundreds of scientists and cyberinfrastructurists who have organized into groups such as "Data Discovery, Mining, Integration," "Semantics and Ontologies," "Interoperability," and "Education and Workforce Development." (See all Groups.) At this early stage, they are creating roadmaps of how to make progress on their particular topics.
What does this mean for a disciplinary scientist like a sediment experimentalist? The products of the EarthCube effort will be apps, web services, and resources that help you to do science in a more efficient and effective way. But before the products are built, your input into what types of data you collect and use, how you interact with it, and what you want to do, will help the programmers and computer scientists to develop the products. Think about your favorite data resources today - high resolution topography (USGS, OpenTopography), hydrograph data (USGS), geophysical data (IRIS, EarthScope), models (CSDMS, CIG), and publications (ScienceDirect, Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar) - what would it take for these entities to work in concert so that you can seamlessly access and discover the information that you need?
Here at the Sediment Experimentalists site, we hope to facilitate the communication between our scientific community and the EarthCube effort. Don't hesitate to ask any questions in the comments or by email (sedimentexp@gmail.com). As a first step, you can take a look at the EarthCube site: http://earthcube.ning.com/, and register as a participant or join a mailing list.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Scientist survey on data for EarthCube
We want you to help guide EarthCube, a bold new NSF initiative to create an integrated data and knowledge management system for the geosciences. Researchers funded by NSF want to know your views on the needs in data and cyberinfrastructure across the geosciences.
Help shape EarthCube by telling us how easy (or hard) it is to find, get, and use data, models, and computational/visualization tools for the geosciences. Share your views on how to best move EarthCube forward. Click here: http://sgiz.mobi/s3/EarthCube-Stakeholder-Consent-EC * Results will be posted on http://earthcube.ning.com in early June and presented at the June 12-14 EarthCube Charrette in Arlington, VA.
*This link takes you to a survey to capture your view on how to best advance data-enabled geoscience. Your participation is voluntary. Your identity will be kept separate from your responses and be kept strictly confidential. Only aggregate findings will be reported. As for all surveys of this kind, it starts with a voluntary consent form. Please share your views by visiting the link above and telling us what you think.
Help shape EarthCube by telling us how easy (or hard) it is to find, get, and use data, models, and computational/visualization tools for the geosciences. Share your views on how to best move EarthCube forward. Click here: http://sgiz.mobi/s3/EarthCube-Stakeholder-Consent-EC * Results will be posted on http://earthcube.ning.com in early June and presented at the June 12-14 EarthCube Charrette in Arlington, VA.
*This link takes you to a survey to capture your view on how to best advance data-enabled geoscience. Your participation is voluntary. Your identity will be kept separate from your responses and be kept strictly confidential. Only aggregate findings will be reported. As for all surveys of this kind, it starts with a voluntary consent form. Please share your views by visiting the link above and telling us what you think.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Data Policies and Plans
Dear Sediment Experimentalists,
Greetings, hope you are all doing well as spring approaches.
Thank you to those who have responded to our survey about Experimental data, we have some great responses which will guide our future plans. There is still time to contribute your thoughts, and we want to hear them. Please respond during the month of March (a good spring break activity, perhaps?).
[Link to Survey]
In the meantime, we are planning a few projects including
We will also use these email messages to share information on best data practices. Here, we post some links about the Data Policy of the U.S. National Science Foundation and some tools that have been developed to help researchers with their data management plans. Although not all of us are funded through the NSF, other funding sources have similar data policies, and the requirements for data sharing and archiving are becoming more strict than the past.
Happy experimenting,
Sediment Experimentalist Group
p.s. [Link to Survey]
Greetings, hope you are all doing well as spring approaches.
Thank you to those who have responded to our survey about Experimental data, we have some great responses which will guide our future plans. There is still time to contribute your thoughts, and we want to hear them. Please respond during the month of March (a good spring break activity, perhaps?).
[Link to Survey]
In the meantime, we are planning a few projects including
- an AGU Session that will highlight cutting-edge laboratory experiments and data handling
- a face-to-face meeting for our community
- a web space where you can contribute ideas and questions
We will also use these email messages to share information on best data practices. Here, we post some links about the Data Policy of the U.S. National Science Foundation and some tools that have been developed to help researchers with their data management plans. Although not all of us are funded through the NSF, other funding sources have similar data policies, and the requirements for data sharing and archiving are becoming more strict than the past.
- Integrated Earth Data Applications Data Management Plan Tool
- California Digital Library Data Management Plan Tool
Happy experimenting,
Sediment Experimentalist Group
p.s. [Link to Survey]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sediment Experimentalists Update
Dear Gilbert Club,
Thanks for the recent response to our call for those interested in building up the community of laboratory experimentalists.
Now that many of us are getting into the full swing of a new year, we just wanted to send an update and call to the entire group one more time.
Here is a link to a document describing the vision for this organizing effort:
http://tinyurl.com/sed-exp-doc
If you contacted us previously, you are on an email list that will be used for all communications after this one. It was great to hear from you; we had response from a wide range of people:
We are still soliciting general responses, but here are some of the ideas already shared:
You can still join the focused mailing list by responding to any of us. And thanks in advance for your time.
Cheers,
Leslie Hsu (Lamont-Doherty, lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin, delta@jsg.utexas.edu)
Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming, bmcelroy@uwyo.edu)
Thanks for the recent response to our call for those interested in building up the community of laboratory experimentalists.
Now that many of us are getting into the full swing of a new year, we just wanted to send an update and call to the entire group one more time.
Here is a link to a document describing the vision for this organizing effort:
http://tinyurl.com/sed-exp-doc
If you contacted us previously, you are on an email list that will be used for all communications after this one. It was great to hear from you; we had response from a wide range of people:
- an investigator with access to old abandoned flumes
- individuals involved in a range of experiments
- early career scientists who have just set up their own lab
- field experimentalists
- applied mathematicians
We are still soliciting general responses, but here are some of the ideas already shared:
- develop a dialog with major journals on the need to support publication of laboratory methods and datasets
- opinion paper to one of the AGU journals
- concern about the timing of sharing data in order to protect students
- need for quick communication about the unique details of the setup, like speed dating
- collaborate on attempting to replicate each other's work in the other labs
- workshops
- Google spreadsheet for individuals to share details of their data or areas of expertise and contact info
You can still join the focused mailing list by responding to any of us. And thanks in advance for your time.
Cheers,
Leslie Hsu (Lamont-Doherty, lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin, delta@jsg.utexas.edu)
Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming, bmcelroy@uwyo.edu)
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Calling all Sediment Experimentalists
Everyone knows that the image below is a false depiction of the downtrodden physical experimentalist, because laboratory experiments are wonderful and exhilarating (especially after the tenth try when you finally obtain the desired data).
(1) Following up on the EPSP town hall and Gilbert Club discussions at the recent AGU meeting, and* in order to spread, share, and preserve the joy of laboratory experiments and their results*, we propose to gather the community in an effort to document and publish data practices and data tools for laboratory experiments in geomorphology, sediment transport, and stratigraphy.
(2) With the growing number of experimental labs and the precedent set by other geoscience communities (e.g. seismology (IRIS), geochemistry (GfG), oceanography (MGDS), and many others), this is an excellent time to organize and thereby accelerate the progress of successful laboratory experimental data collection, analysis, and publication.
(3) Such an effort will only succeed with broad community participation and feedback. No doubt there are plenty of informal interactions already, let's attempt to advertise all of these existing efforts and collaborate with larger initiatives (e.g. CSDMS, NCED, U.S. agencies, the international community, and many others) to reach the widest possible audience.
If you are interested in participating, advising, leading, or even just learning, please reply to this email (lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu) and join in. We will let you know more about the near-term plans.
Thank you for your attention!
Leslie Hsu (Lamont-Doherty, lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin, delta@jsg.utexas.edu)
Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming, bmcelroy@uwyo.edu)
(1) Following up on the EPSP town hall and Gilbert Club discussions at the recent AGU meeting, and* in order to spread, share, and preserve the joy of laboratory experiments and their results*, we propose to gather the community in an effort to document and publish data practices and data tools for laboratory experiments in geomorphology, sediment transport, and stratigraphy.
(2) With the growing number of experimental labs and the precedent set by other geoscience communities (e.g. seismology (IRIS), geochemistry (GfG), oceanography (MGDS), and many others), this is an excellent time to organize and thereby accelerate the progress of successful laboratory experimental data collection, analysis, and publication.
(3) Such an effort will only succeed with broad community participation and feedback. No doubt there are plenty of informal interactions already, let's attempt to advertise all of these existing efforts and collaborate with larger initiatives (e.g. CSDMS, NCED, U.S. agencies, the international community, and many others) to reach the widest possible audience.
If you are interested in participating, advising, leading, or even just learning, please reply to this email (lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu) and join in. We will let you know more about the near-term plans.
Thank you for your attention!
Leslie Hsu (Lamont-Doherty, lhsu@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin, delta@jsg.utexas.edu)
Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming, bmcelroy@uwyo.edu)
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