Environmental eScience Applications
BoF meeting.
Martin Dove and Stuart Ballard
National Institute for Environmental eScience
Cambridge, UK
The National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS) has co-ordinated a Birds of a
Feather session that brings together all the environmental eScience groups for the first
time to discuss “Environmental eScience Applications”. Each project will have a
representative who will give a brief overview on the science and the technology behind
their project. The overviews will then be followed by a discussion session on the
common technological needs of these projects and how these requirements might
influence future Grid middleware developments.
Environmental scientists will see how eScience is being implemented and middleware
developers will have the opportunity to disover how the complexities of
environmental sciences are the perfect testbed for Grid technologies.
The full breadth of environmental eScience projects will be represented by:
• Advanced Grid Interfaces for Environmental eScience in the Lab and in the Field
(An Equator IRC project);
• Environment from the molecular level (eminerals);
• GRid and Biodiversity (GRAB);
• Grid ENabled Integrated Earth (GENIE);
• Grid for Ocean Diagnostics Interactive Visualisation and Analysis (GODIVA);
• NERC datagrid;
• NIEeS.