Environmental Observatories
I was fortunate to have Carl Woese, the Father of the microbial Tree of Life, as a mentor on microbes at UIUC in the 1990s. In 2005, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded me to create a Calit2 computational and storage complex to become a global repository for microbiome ecology datasets. Together with colleagues at UCSD and the J. Craig Venter Institute we created the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA), housed in Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute. By 2013 CAMERA was serving over 5000 remote users in 90 countries. Then in 2014, I helped recruit Rob Knight to UCSD and have been a close collaborator of his since. With his Center for Microbiome Innovation’s extraordinarily talented team, as well as other UCSD collaborators, I have helped investigate many frontier areas of the exploding field of microbiomes and how they interact with their hosts or environments.
WIFIRE: A Scalable Data-Driven Monitoring, Dynamic Prediction and Resilience Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfires
The University of California at San Diego is awarded a grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure, called WIFIRE, for real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire behavior.
EAGER: Wildfire Modeling and Prevention Initiative: Developing a Technical Framework for Integrating Research with Public Policy Decision Support
The need for descriptive and predictive simulation tools to support wildfire prevention, or suppression during future wildfire events, is becoming critical.
Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
The CAMERA (Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis) community database for metagenomic data deposition is an important first step in developing methods for monitoring microbial communities.
Designing the Next Generation Cyber-infrastructure to Operate Interactive Ocean Observatories
This project involves research and experimentation with cyberinfrastructure components in order to develop and prototype new approaches to information technology for ocean observing systems.
Towards a Dynamic Composability Approach for using Heterogeneous Systems in Remote Sensing
Altintas, Ilkay, et al. "Towards a dynamic composability approach for using heterogeneous systems in remote sensing." 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science). IEEE, 2022.
Towards an Integrated Cyberinfrastructure for Scalable Data-driven Monitoring, Dynamic Prediction and Resilience of Wildfires
Procedia Computer Science, vol. 51, pp 1633-1642. (2015).
Building an OptIPlanet collaboratory to support microbial metagenomics
Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 124-131. February 2009.
CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics
R. Seshadri, SA Kravitz, L Smarr , Gilna P, M Frazier, PLoS Biol 5(3): e75.(2007).
LOOKING: Cyberinfrastructure For Ocean Observatories
Proceedings of SSC’06- the Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies, Feb 8-10, 2006
A Management Concept For Ocean Observatories Based On Web Services
Alan Chave, Bill St. Arnaud, Mark Abbott, John Delaney, Ron Johnson, Ed Lazowska, Andrew Maffei, John Orcutt, and Larry Smarr. In Oceans ’04, 2187-2193. (2004).
An Integrated Approach To Ocean Observatory Data Acquisition/Management And Infrastructure Control Using Web Services
Bill St. Arnaud, Alan Chave, Andrew Maffei, Ed Laszowka, Larry Smarr, Ganesh Gopalan, Mar. Tech. Soc. J., 38, 155-163, 2004.
The Use Of E-Science Grids To Support ORION
International Science Planning Workshop on the Dynamics of Earth and Ocean Systems (DEOS): Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION), January 4-8, 2004, Puerto Rico. (2004).WIFIRE: Technology to Predict and Prevent the Spread of Wildfires
Researchers at UC San Diego are working on cutting edge technology to combat the constant threat of wildfires in California.