[Geo4All] NSF ROGER User Meeting -- May 12 (Thursday), 2016: 11am-2pm (CDT)

[Wang, Shaowen]

Dear colleagues,

The primary goal of this meeting is to bring together the broad ROGER (https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/ROGER/) user community to learn about how to effectively use ROGER and diverse scientific advances that ROGER enables.

Time and Location

Thursday, May 12, 2016: 11am–2pm (CDT)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Room 1030

WebEx Coordinates

Direct Link: https://ncsaevents.webex.com/ncsaevents/j.php?MTID=mc3b26b65dca5cab1aaae40388d91dd4d
(You may also go to http://ncsaevents.webex.com<http://ncsaevents.webex.com/> and there will be a link there on the day of the event for "Spring 2016 ROGER User Meeting”.)
Phone Coordinates (audio only): 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
Access code: 297 926 678

Registration

https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4487793
Please register on this page so as to help us with our planning and allow us to send you follow-up materials (e.g. link to slides) after the meeting.

Agenda

11:00am-11:20am: Welcome and introduction (John Towns and Shaowen Wang)
11:20am-11:40am: Science highlight: NSF Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO) (Praveen Kumar) - Chair: Shaowen Wang
11:40am-12:20pm: Lightning talks - Chair: Anand Padmanabhan
   * Terra data fusion and 3D radiative transfer modeling ­(Guangyu Zhao and Larry Di Girolamo)
   * Detection and characterization of forest disturbances in California (Courtney Reents and Jonathan Greenberg)
   * USDA NRCS Scalable Solutions for High-Resolution Elevation Data ­(Tim Prescott and Aiman Soliman)
   * Scalable visual analytics for geospatial big data ­ (Nathan Casler and Donald Keefer)
   * NSF SKOPE (Synthesized Knowledge of Past Environments) ­(Bertram Ludaescher and Johnathan Rush)
   * USGS National Map ­(Michael Finn, Jeffrey Wendel, and E. Lynn Usery)

12:20pm-12:30pm: Break (Pizza lunch served for participants @ NCSA)

12:30pm-1:10pm: ROGER system update and demo (Johnathan Rush, Jeff Terstriep, and NCSA ICI staff) - Chair: Randy Butler
1:10pm-1:30pm: Science highlight: TERRA-REF: An open access crop observatory and computing platform for plant breeding (David LeBauer) - Chair: Shaowen Wang
1:30pm-1:50pm: Science and CI highlight: National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) and cyberGIS innovation (David Maidment, Yan Liu, David Tarboton, and Shaowen Wang) - Chair: Praveen Kumar
1:50pm-2:00pm: Onsite help session - Chair: Anand Padmanabhan

Best,
-Shaowen

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