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Michael R. WilligDivision of Environmental Biology

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Dynamics

Non-linearitiesContext-Dependent Evolution

CYBERINFRASTRUCTUREAn integrated system of state-of-the-art computing, communications and information resources, tools and services that is transforming science and engineering research and education.

Critically dependent on educated and trained workforce.

CIBS CHARGE•Assessment & update of CI baseline data•Review of CI programs•Develop a strategic plan

VisionGoalsRecommendationsNear-term Opportunities

History of Activity2003

July BIO-AC Workshop

2004March CIBS WG formedApril Internal NSF WorkshopApril - June Portfolio ReviewJuly - Dec Strategic Planning

2005Jan – March Document WritingMarch CIBS Strategic Plan (Draft)March CIIWG Formed***April-??? Draft Comments from BIO-AC

CIBSWorking Group

Chris Greer & Manfred Zorn, PDs DBI

Jim Morris & Alan Tessier , PDs DEB

Bill Zamer & Cole Gilbert, PDs IOB

Kamal Shukla & Matt Kane, PDs MCB

K-lyn Smith, SA BIO

Liz Blood, Juan Carlos Morales

DIVERSE PORTFOLIOPrograms

• AToL• BIO-ITR • Biological Databases & Informatics Program• Biophysics Program • Synthesis Centers: NCEAS & NESCent• LTER Program • NEON• Plant & Microbial Genome Programs

DIVERSE PORTFOLIOFocal Activities

• Preserve and curate data • Identify data• Retrieve data• Integrate heterogeneous data (metadata)• Visualize data and relationships• Advanced analyses• Advanced simulations• People• Synthesis

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanVision & Goals

Strategy -- External ActivitiesWorkforceResources

AccessInteroperability

Strategy -- Internal ManagementProfessional Staff

Interagency ActivitiesFrontiers of Integrative Activities

VISIONWe envision an era in biological research & education in which cyberinfrastructure serves as a universal integrator. In this new era, individuals from all areas of science and education will have effective access to information from all areas of biology. All individuals desiring to participate will have the opportunity to contribute to the limits of their own abilities and creativity, without artificial limitations imposed by geography, institutional setting, career status, cultural constraints related to sex, ethnicity, or race, physical disability, or any of the other factors that currently form barriers to full participation.

GOALSEnsure that individuals at all levels and in

all settings can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to use cyberinfrastructure in the biological sciences.

Ensure that information in the biological sciences – including the latest results of cutting-edge research and the most innovative educational resources – is made readily available in usable form through advanced cyberinfrastructure to all who wish to participate.

Ensure that the community possesses the means for readily receiving, broadly distributing, fully recognizing and acknowledging, and reliably preserving the contributions of all who participate in the biological research and education enterprise.

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanWorkforce

Mid-Career ScientistsPostdoctoral Scientists

Graduate StudentsUndergraduate Students

Teacher ProgramsFaculty at Undergraduate

InstitutionsHistorically Underrepresented

Groups

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanResources

Long-Lived DataData Centers

Grid Computing

Strategic PlanStrategic Plan

Access

Basic ResourcesHigh End Computing

Resource Location & ArchivingIntellectual Property Rights


InteroperabilityPhysicalLogical

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Professional StaffProfessional StaffProgram Directors

Relationship with CISEInteragency Awareness

Workload


Interagency Interagency ActivitiesActivities

Leadership RolesEngaged Participants

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanFrontiers of Integrative Frontiers of Integrative

ActivitiesActivities

Biosphere Simulator ProjectEnvironmental Microbial

GenomicsPhenomics

National Systematics CI Project

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NSF InvestmentsNSF Investments

NSF Management Structure for CINSF Management Structure for CI

Multi-Agency ContextMulti-Agency Context

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Fundamental Research

ObservatoryNetworks

Collaboratories

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CI Investment Opportunity

Strategic Investments: Which apples do we choose?

Low Hanging Fruit

LARGE BIO-ITR GRANTS

• AToL: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

• SEEK: Science (Semantic) Environment for Ecological Knowledge (www.ecoinformatics.org)

• Bio-Molecular Imaging and Information Discovery

OTHER GRANTS

• Phylogenetics

• Environmental Sensors & Networks

• Natural History Museum Collections

• Ecological Modeling

• Biomolecular Data

• Metabolic Pathways

• Biodiversity Informatics

Cost

CI Investment Opportunity

Strategic Investments: Which apples do we choose?

Low Hanging Fruit

FUNDING