Skip to main content

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Project Description

NCEAS and its partner collaborators are developing a strategic plan for a nationally supported Institute that would coordinate the development and sustainable support of innovative and interoperable scientific software tools that can transform science at the intersection of earth, environmental, and life sciences. The ISEES steering committee is facilitating a series of design workshops with the broader research community to create a vision and criteria for an Institute. ISEES will advance the state of science software by engaging earth and environmental research communities to address the software barriers that most impede grand challenge earth science. The envisioned institute will enable researchers to collaboratively address the entire software lifecycle, from product conceptualization, to requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, long-term support, and decommissioning.
Working Group Participants

Principal Investigator(s)

Matthew B. Jones, Mark P. Schildhauer

Project Dates

Start: October 1, 2012

End: September 30, 2013

completed

Participants

Parker Abercrombie
Abercrombie Consulting
Bugra Akyildiz
New York University
M. Lee Allison
Arizona Geological Survey
Ilkay Altintas
University of California, San Diego
Daniel P. Ames
Brigham Young University
Sean S. Anderson
California State University Channel Islands
Betsy Aoki
Microsoft
Robert Arko
Columbia University
Jennifer S. Arrigo
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)
George Azzari
University of California, Irvine
Sarah Bagby
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leanne Baker
Baylor University
Ryan Bart
University of California, Berkeley
Marissa L. Baskett
University of California, Davis
Jayne Belnap
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Karl Benedict
University of New Mexico
Alexandra Benjamin
University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin D. Best
University of California, Santa Barbara
Carl Boettiger
University of California, Santa Cruz
Maziyar Boustani
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Gabriel J. Bowen
Purdue University
Annie Bryant
University of Utah
Amber E. Budden
University of New Mexico
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Bruce Caron
New Media Studio
Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Scott A. Chamberlain
University of California, Berkeley
Cynthia Chandler
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Aashish Chaudhary
Kitware, Inc.
Ying-Jung Chen Deweese
University of California, Santa Barbara
Janet Choate
University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura Christopherson
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Tyler Clavelle
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dave Cole
MapBox
Scott L. Collins
University of New Mexico
Larry Cooper
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Jorge Cornejo-Donoso
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jessica Couture
University of California, Santa Barbara
Alex Cross
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Patricia Cruse
University of California, Office of the President
John Czaplewski
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Frank W. Davis
University of California, Santa Barbara
Cecelia DeLuca
NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
Stephen Diggs
University of California, San Diego
Jeff Dozier
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ruth Duerr
University of Colorado, Boulder
Stevan Earl
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)/Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP)
Gregory Ederer
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Vyki Englert
NationBuilder
Kate Ettinger
Mural Institute
Denny S. Fernandez-del-Viso
University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
Francesco Ferretti
Stanford University
Alessandro Filazzola
York University
Peter Fox
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jim Frew
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Fulker
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)
John A. Gamon
University of Alberta
Yolanda Gil
University of Southern California
Nancy Glenn
Boise State University
Cameron Gray
Sustain3
Corinna Gries
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nancy B. Grimm
Arizona State University
Louis J. Gross
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
William Gunn
Mendeley
Lauren M. Hallett
University of California, Berkeley
Stephanie E. Hampton
University of California, Santa Barbara
Xueying Han
University of California, Santa Barbara
David J. Harris
University of California, Davis
Edmund M. Hart
National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON)
Jefferson Heard
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bryan Heidorn
University of Arizona
Rebecca R. Hernandez
Stanford University
Thomas Hetmank
University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Hills
Vizzuality
Elizabeth E. Holmes
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Richard P. Hooper
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)
James Howison
University of Texas, Austin
Leslie Hsu
Columbia University
Margarita Huesca-Martinez
University of California, Davis
Grant Humphries
University of California, Davis
Ryan Hunt
MFMP/Hunt Utilities Group
Ray Idaszak
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aline Jaimes
University of Delaware
Erik Jasiak
University of Colorado, Boulder
Matthew B. Jones
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sydney Jones
University of New Mexico
Lucas Joppa
Microsoft Research Ltd.
Michael Joyce
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Kotrina Kajokaite
University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah W. Kansa
Alexandria Archive Institute
Jessie Kennedy
Napier University
Shakeh Khudikyan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Puneet Kishor
Creative Commons
Tamara S. Ledley
Technical Education Research Centers (TERC)
Ben Leinfelder
University of California, Santa Barbara
W. Christopher Lenhardt
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jennifer Lin
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Sophia Liu
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Catherine S. Longo
University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris Lynnes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Andrew Lyons
Stanford University
Stephanie Ma
University of California, Santa Barbara
John MacCuish
Mesa Analytics & Computing, Inc.
Andrew MacDonald
University of British Columbia
Suresh Marru
Indiana University
Chris Mattmann
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Tess Mayall
Science Exchange
Peter McCartney
National Science Foundation
William McClintock
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lewis John McGibbney
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Carol B. Meyer
Foundation for Earth Science
Vanessa Michelou
University of Hawaii, Manoa
William K. Michener
University of New Mexico
Brian Miles
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bill Mills
Independent
Jamie Montgomery
University of California, Santa Barbara
Joseph Mudge
Texas Tech University
Brian Muir
University of California, Riverside
Sylvia J. Murphy
NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
Camilla Novaglio
University of Tasmania
George Oates
Stamen Design
Margaret O'Brien
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nidal Odat
Al Hussein Bin Talal University
Nick Outin
University of California, Santa Barbara
Margaret A. Palmer
University of Maryland
Claire B. Paris-Limouzy
University of Miami
Kristen Peach
University of California, Santa Barbara
Malin L. Pinsky
Princeton University
Heather Piwowar
Impact Story
Jonathan Pollak
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)
Amina Pollard
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Andrea Porras-Alfaro
Western Illinois University
Afshin Pourmokhtarian
Boston University
Jason Priem
Impact Story
Tom Quisel
Data Science Consultant
Karthik Ram
University of California, Berkeley
Mohan K. Ramamurthy
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Paul Ramirez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Sarah Ratay
University of California, Los Angeles
Jordan S. Read
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Stacy Rebich Hespanha
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jacob Redding
Drupal Association
Jordan Reese
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James Regetz
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Rheinheimer
University of California, Merced
Stephen Richard
US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN)
Julie Ripplinger
Arizona State University
Erin Robinson
Foundation for Earth Science
Keely Roth
University of California, Davis
Mark D. Scheuerell
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Mark P. Schildhauer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Adam Shepherd
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter Slaughter
University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Smith
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Rachel S. Smith
Grove Consultants International
Noah Spahn
University of California, Santa Barbara
Thornton Staples
Smithsonian Institution
Michael Starch
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Michael Stealey
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julia Stewart Lowndes
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nick Stoddart
Kaizen SCN
Carly Strasser
University of California, Office of the President
Cody Szuwalski
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jing Tao
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Tarboton
Utah State University
Andy Terrel
Continuum Analytics
Kaitlin Thaney
Mozilla Science Lab
Curt Tilmes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Shivira Tomar
Industrial Ecology Research Services (IERS)
Ian Truslove
University of Colorado
Mark Turner
California Institute of Technology
Michael B. Twidale
University of Illinois
Rodrigo Vargas
University of Delaware
Rishi Verma
Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
David A. Vieglais
University of Kansas
Maria José Viñas Garcia
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Lauren Walker
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leah Wasser
National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON)
Nicholas Weber
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Brian Wee
National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON)
Chhaya Werner
University of California, Davis
Christine White
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Mary Whitton
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Mark Wilber
University of California, Santa Barbara
Angela Willcocks
University of Redlands
John W. Williams
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anne Wilson
University of Colorado, Boulder
Gregory Wilson
Software Carpentry
Luke Winslow
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
University of British Columbia
Kara Woo
University of California, Santa Barbara
Zoe Wood
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Dawn Wright
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Kevin Wu
University of California, Santa Barbara
Hong Yi
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dan Yocum
University of California, Santa Barbara
Naupaka Zimmerman
University of Arizona

Products

  1. Software / 2015

    R package pangear

  2. Journal Article / 2014

    The tao of open synthesis for ecology

  3. Software / 2014

    Coverage Extractor

  4. Software / 2015

    Datapackage

  5. Presentations / 2014

    Assesing ecohydrological impacts of forest disturbance using open source

  6. Software / 2014

    OSS-2014

Are you part of a working group or visiting NCEAS for another opportunity? Check out our page of resources for you.

Learn More