AGU/EGU/GSA activities

Earth and Space Science Informatics

ESSI history• AGU Special Focus Group was formed after the

Spring 05 AGU meeting• Fall 05 - 18 sessions and several hundred abstracts -

two inspired by eGY• Spring 06 - 8 sessions, and ~100 abstracts (1 eGY)• Fall 06 featured 23 sessions with hundreds of

abstracts; three of these sessions were inspired by eGY

• Spring 07 features 6? Sessions, 1 eGY • ESSI has almost 300 ‘FTE’ affiliations (please

consider adding it as a secondary affiliation if you are a member)

ESSI officers• Robin Pfister (chair)• Peter Fox (co-chair)• Ben Domenico (secretary)• Bernard Minster (past-chair)• Executive:

– Officers + Thomas Narock, Venkat Lakshmi, Ilkay Altinas, Lee Allison, Glenn Rutledge, Richard Ullman, Jean Virieux, Tamas Gombosi, Dave Yuen, Henry Shaw

ESSI is active

• Website, newsletter, email list, publication presence: e-journal, special issue/ monograph, EOS articles, discussion forum, etc. www.geoinformatics.info

• Liason efforts to all AGU sections, true joint sessions

• Plans to identify a Prize lecture, support students

• eGY will propose sessions to ESSI through 2008

EGU ‘ESSI’ history• Members of EGU have been proposing ad-hoc

(union sessions) for year• No formal geoinformatics organization -

currently a sub-division within GI/Data• April 06 - 3 sessions (2 oral, 1 poster), and

~50 abstracts• April 07 - 4 sessions (4 oral, 2 poster, 1

special) 70 abstracts - one Union and two GI, one NH

• Town Hall - at lunch on Thursday of EGU• Planning for 2008

GSA Geoinformatics• Geological Society of America, division

of Geoinformatics, confirmed mid-2006• President of division: Prof. Krishna

Sinha (VT)• Annual meeting in October• Primary sponsor for Geoinformatics

2007 (and 2008) - you will hear more • Has almost 120 ‘members’ - > 40 of

these are students!

National Geoinformatics System

• NSF-sponsored initiative for solid earth (NSF/EAR), invitation only (w/ strong USGS and state survey participation)

• Meets March 14, 15 at USGS/Federal Center, Denver

• Has position paper and specific outcomes related to ‘traditional’ geoinformatics (see links on www.geoinformatics.info)

• eGY will participate on the 15th; a lunch presentation to review our meeting

Geoinformatics ctd.• Some time ago, Art Goldstein, Director the Earth Sciences Division of

NSF, asked Randy Keller (Univ of Oklahoma), Doug Walker (University of Kansas) and David Maidment (University of Texas) to organize a meeting to explore where the United States should be going in developing a National Geoinformatics System. Art envisioned that such an effort should involve a partnership between academia, government and industry, and in particular that NSF's efforts in this field should be closely connected with those of the US Geological Survey and the state Geological Surveys.

• The meeting has three goals: (1) to define the content of a National GeoInformatics System for the United States; (2) to identify the technology by which such a system should be created; (3) to create a process for moving forward to jointly plan and develop such a system.