Meetings
A series of meetings is being organized to initiate discussions both within the Earth Institute and with other interested individuals and groups. Plans for upcoming CI4EI meetings will be posted here as the meetings are scheduled.
The shuttle bus travels between the Morningside Heights campus and the Lamont campus each hour, on the hour, according to the shuttle bus schedule.
Next Meeting
Details to be announced.
Previous Meetings
Lamont Campus:
Friday, September 14, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Lamont Hall
Rajendra (Raj) Bose, a CIESIN visitor since July, presented “Towards CI4EI success: lessons from UK e-Science”, describing his views on the strengths and shortcomings of the UK e-Science program from his perspective as a postdoctoral researcher in digital curation at the University of Edinburgh for the past three years. An account of the plans for—and the realities of—collaboration between University researchers, the National e-Science Centre, the University Library and the Digital Curation Centre, all based in Edinburgh, will hopefully, inform the success of CI4EI activities.
Morningside Heights Campus:
Wednesday, September 5, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., Satow Room in Lerner Hall
Jim Neal of the Columbia University Libraries discussed long-term digital data preservation and access issues at the University. The meeting included discussion of the planned University-wide CI committee, the expected large NSF competition related to trusted digital data repositories, and potential areas of research and collaboration in scientific data stewardship.
Lamont Campus:
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 12:00 noon–1:30 p.m., Lamont Hall
Kerstin Lehnert gave a talk about the social and cultural challenges in developing cyberinfrastructure, entitled “People: The Ultimate Challenge for Developing Cyberinfrastructure” (PDF).
CI4EI Kickoff Meetings
Two initial kickoff meetings have been convened: one on the Morningside Heights campus and one on the Lamont campus. The agenda and the list of individuals who participated in the kickoff meetings are available below. The Minutes for the kickoff meetings will be available soon.
Morningside Heights Campus:
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 12:00 noon–2:00 p.m., Low Library Trustee's Meeting Room
Lamont Campus:
Friday, February 23, 2007, 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m., Lamont Hall
CI4EI Kickoff Meetings Agenda
- Welcome and Introductions (15 minutes)
- Impetus for this meeting (15 minutes)
Cross-Cutting Initiatives award—Overview of our goals and objectives - Overview of Cyberinfrastructure at the Earth Institute (30 minutes)
Assessing the current status of CI at the EI
Potential benefits derived from improvements to CI
Existing models—CI at other research centers
Emerging opportunities—New directions at NSF - Open Discussion (45 minutes)
- Formation of sub-committees (15 minutes)
- End Session
Participants of the CI4EI Kickoff Meetings
| Robert Arko | LDEO |
| Mark Becker | CIESIN |
| Benno Blumenthal | IRI |
| Hans Bosch | CIESIN |
| Suzanne Carbotte | LDEO |
| Bob Chen | CIESIN |
| Gus Correa | LDEO (OCP) |
| Peter Daszak | Consortium for Conservation Medicine |
| George Deodatis | Civil Engineering |
| Dave DeWitt | IRI |
| Bob Downs | CIESIN |
| Brian Falk | CIESIN |
| Monique Girard | COI |
| Andres Gonzalez | CIESIN |
| Malanding Jaiteh | CIESIN |
| Andrew Kanter | Millennium Villages Project |
| Kerstin A. Lehnert | LDEO |
| Chris Lenhardt | CIESIN |
| Marc Levy | CIESIN |
| Yuanliang Liu | CIESIN |
| Sylvia Mosquera-Machado | CHRR |
| Maria Muniz | CIESIN |
| Naomi Naik | LDEO (OCP) |
| Mahdad Parsi | LDEO |
| Frank Pascuzzi | CIESIN |
| Dana Pillai | EI (MVP) |
| Al Pinto | CIESIN |
| Randy Pullen | CIESIN |
| Daniel Quoidbach | Borehole |
| Elliott Sclar | CSUD, EI, Urban Planning |
| Richard Seager | LDEO (OCP) |
| David Strom | CIESIN |
| Jeff Turmelle | IRI |
| Lex Van Geen | LDEO |
| Sri Vinayagamoorthy | CIESIN |
