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<div><span style="font-family: Courier;">Dear colleagues,</span></div>
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<div><font face="Courier"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">The primary </span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">goal of this meeting is to bring </font>together the broad ROGER (</font><a href="https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/ROGER">https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/ROGER</a>/) <span style="font-family: Courier;">user
community to learn about how to effectively use ROGER and diverse scientific advances that ROGER enables.</span></div>
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<div><font face="Courier"><b>T</b><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b>ime and Location</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">Thursday, May 12, 2016: 11am–2pm (CDT)</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: medium;">National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Room</span><font face="Courier"> 1030</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">Direct Link: <a href="https://ncsaevents.webex.com/ncsaevents/j.php?MTID=mc3b26b65dca5cab1aaae40388d91dd4d">https://ncsaevents.webex.com/ncsaevents/j.php?MTID=mc3b26b65dca5cab1aaae40388d91dd4d</a></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">(You may also go to <a href="http://ncsaevents.webex.com/">http://ncsaevents.webex.com</a> and there will be a link there on the day of the event for "Spring 2016 ROGER User Meeting”.)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">Phone Coordinates (audio only): 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">Access code: 297 926 678</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4487793"><font face="Courier">https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4487793</font></a></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Courier">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. </font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b><font face="Courier">Agenda </font></b></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">11:00am-11:20am: Welcome and introduction (John Towns and Shaowen Wang)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">11:20am-11:40am: Science highlight: NSF Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML-CZO) (Praveen Kumar) - Chair: Shaowen Wang</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">11:40am-12:20pm: Lightning talks - Chair: Anand Padmanabhan</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"> * Terra data fusion and 3D radiative transfer modeling (Guangyu Zhao and Larry Di Girolamo)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> * Detection and characterization of forest disturbances in California (Courtney Reents and Jonathan Greenberg)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> * <span style="font-size: medium;">USDA NRCS Scalable Solutions for High-Resolution Elevation Data</span> (Tim Prescott and Aiman Soliman)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> * Scalable visual analytics for geospatial big data (Nathan Casler and Donald Keefer)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> * NSF SKOPE (Synthesized Knowledge of Past Environments) (Bertram Ludaescher and Johnathan Rush)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> * USGS National Map (Michael Finn, Jeffrey Wendel, and E. Lynn Usery)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">12:20pm-12:30pm: Break (Pizza lunch served for participants @ NCSA)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier">12:30pm-1:10pm: ROGER system update and demo (Johnathan Rush, Jeff Terstriep, and NCSA ICI staff) - Chair: Randy Butler</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">1:10pm-1:30pm: Science highlight: TERRA-REF: An open access crop observatory and computing platform for plant breeding (David LeBauer) - Chair: Shaowen Wang</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">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</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier">1:50pm-2:00pm: Onsite help session - Chair: Anand Padmanabhan</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Courier, monospace;">Best,</span></div>
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<div>-Shaowen</div>
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<div>Shaowen Wang: <a href="http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/shaowen">http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/shaowen</a></div>
<div>CIGI Laboratory: <a href="http://cigi.illinois.edu">http://cigi.illinois.edu</a></div>
<div>CyberGIS Center: <a href="http://cybergis.illinois.edu">http://cybergis.illinois.edu</a></div>
<div>NCSA: <a href="http://ncsa.illinois.edu">http://ncsa.illinois.edu</a></div>
<div>UIUC: <a href="http://illinois.edu">http://illinois.edu</a></div>
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<div>Office Phone: (217) 333-7608</div>
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