Intelligent Systems for
Geosciences
March 26-27, 2015
Westin Hotel, Arlington VA
http://www.IS-GEO.org
Co-Chairs:
Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu)
Suzanne Pierce (suzpierce@jsg.utexas.edu)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Yolanda Gil
Suzanne Pierce
Information Sciences Institute and
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Hector Muñoz-Avila
Eva Zanzerkia
Program Director, Robust Intelligence
Information and Intelligent Systems
CISE
Program Director
EarthCube
GEO
Welcome by:
Deborah F. Lockhart
Deputy Division Director
CISE/IIS
Introductions
Advisory Committee
(*) indicates attending the workshop
CISE/IIS:
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Deborah McGuinness (*)
CISE/ACI
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http://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/Debora
h_L_McGuinness
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Knowledge Representation
Vipin Kumar (*)
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http://www.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/
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Machine Learning
Jia Zhang (*)
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http://eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers
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Robotics and spatial reasoning
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https://sites.google.com/site/victorpa
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nkratius/
Software engineering and
parallel computing
Cecilia Aragon
https://faculty.washington.edu/aragon
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Visual Analytics
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Santiago Pujol
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Victor Pankratius (*)
Prof. Benjamin Kuipers
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http://www.cmu.edu/siliconvalley/faculty-staff/zhang-jia.html
Service-oriented computing
GEOSCIENCES
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https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE
/People/view_person?group_id=19
20&resource_id=9006
Earthquake engineering
Duncan Brown
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http://www.gravity.phy.syr.edu/
~duncan/
Astrophysics
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Pierre Lermusiaux (*)
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http://web.mit.edu/pierrel/www/
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Physical Oceanography
John Horel (*)
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https://faculty.utah.edu/u0035056JOHN_D_HOREL/research/index.hml
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Atmospheric Sciences
Aaron Ridley (*)
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http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/people
/ridley
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Space Physics
Basil Tikoff (*)
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http://geoscience.wisc.edu/geoscien
ce/people/faculty/basil-tikoff/
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Tectonics
Workshop Goals
Synthesize a vision and roadmap for intelligent systems
research that will provide new capabilities to advance
geosciences
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Intelligent systems
Information integration
Machine learning
Knowledge
representation
Geospatial computing
Visualization/Intelligent
user interfaces
Robotics/vision
Geosciences
• Earth
• Atmospheric
• Space Physics
• Oceanography
• Polar
Build on momentum of the EarthCube initiative
Informed by existing cyberinfrastructure efforts
Build new bridges to connect GEO and CISE/IIS communities
Pre-workshop Participant Statements
Computer scientists were asked to:
1) summarize 3-4 big ideas in their field in the last few years that they think
may have an impact in geosciences research, and
2) highlight 2-3 important research trends in their area that can be relevant to
the workshop goals.
Geoscientists were asked to:
1) summarize 2-3 computing innovations in recent years that they believe
have had the most impact in their field, and
2) discuss science challenges that they think would benefit from computing
solutions or innovations in intelligent and information systems research.
Statements were used for designing the workshop schedule
as well as to plan the workshop report.
Workshop Agenda
Exploratory session (plenary)
I: Themes in intelligent and information systems
II: Themes in geosciences
Breakouts: World Café
Breakouts I: Each table devoted to an intelligent & information systems area
Breakouts II: Each table devoted to a geoscience area
Reports from breakouts (plenary)
Start to identify themes and trends
Synthesis of intelligent systems research themes: grand challenges?
Breakouts
Breakout reports (plenary)
Report planning and dissemination (plenary)
Draft report out for comments in May, Final report out in June
Workshop presentation with Q/A session for NSF PDs (Friday 3-4pm)
DRAFT OUTLINE OF FINAL PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP REPORT
1. Introduction (SP/YG)
2. Recent impact of intelligent and information systems in geosciences (YG)
2.1 One section per major area
2.2 A synthesis section of major themes
• Developed in 2 iterations:
1. CS and GEO participant pre-workshop statements
2. Exploratory session and other workshop discussions
3. Geoscience challenges that would benefit from innovations in IIS research (SP)
3.1 One section per major area
3.2 A synthesis section of shared challenges
• Developed in 3 iterations:
1. Geo participant pre-workshop statements
2. World cafe session II and other workshop discussions
3. Synthesis Session
4. A research agenda for IIS research and its potential impact to geosciences (YG)
4.1 One section per area
4.2 A summary of major highlights
• Developed in 3 iterations:
1. CS participant pre-workshop statements
2. World cafe session I and other workshop discussions
3. Synthesis Session
5. Conclusions and recommendations (SP/YG)
• Developed in final workshop discussions:
1. Synthesis Session
2. Report planning session
Expected Workshop Outcomes
WORKSHOP REPORT
• Final workshop presentation on Day 2 of the workshop
• Meet with NSF PDs to discuss preliminary findings
• Draft workshop report planned for May 2015
• Meet with NSF PDs to discuss final report
• Final workshop report planned for June 2015
• Journal article(s)
DISSEMINATION: IIS
• AAAI workshop proposal will be
submitted Aug 2015
• AI Magazine article (AAAI)
• AI Matters article (ACM SIGAI)
• Other opportunities suggested by
participants
DISSEMINATION: GEO
• Presentation at EarthCube AHM
• Geological Society of America
session planned for Nov 2015
• AGU session proposal will be
submitted in April 22
• Other opportunities suggested by
participants
COMMUNITY BUILDING
• Collaboration opportunities
• Grand challenges
• Continuity and follow-on events