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| PROJECT SUMMARY-CYBER-SHARE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE |
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| 8 Intellectual Merit |
| The Cyber-ShARE Center will bring together experts in computer science,computational mathematics, education, earth |
| science, and environmental science. This team will addressthe challenge of providing information to scientists and other |
| users of cyber-infrastructure (CI) that allows them to make informed decisions about the resources that they retrieve and to |
| have confidence in using results from CI-based applications. The Cyber-ShARE team will conduct innovative research to |
| facilitate the development of CI-based applications and increase their use by scientists by enhancing CI results with |
| provenance information, trust recommendations, and uncertainty levels (areas that are recognized as essential for the |
| success of CI); by creating scientist-centered tools and artifacts; and by contributing CI resources to appropriate CI portals. |
| In addition, the synergistic and multi-disciplinary subprojects will advance knowledge in i) provenance to capture knowledge |
| about uncertainty and trust using results from discipline experts; ii) the physical properties of the Earth by studying CI-based |
| techniques and approaches for integrating data with varying accuracy and sensitivity; iii) optimization of data streams and |
| sensor arrays in ecological and environmental networks by targeting improved characterization of environmental |
| phenomenon and processes. Many of the Center researchers have been involved in national CI efforts, and they will |
| work with an educator who has expertise in technology and science education to create unique and effective CI-based |
| teaching components. |
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| 8 Synergy |
| The combination of CI and human resources, i.e., scientists, educators, and students, underpins the collaborative and |
| synergistically beneficial environment that will be established in Cyber-ShARE. CI and its mobilizing effect on sharing |
| knowledge, methods, techniques, and approaches will becentral to Cyber-ShARE’s mission of creating a cooperative |
| environment for interdisciplinary research. A common thread through the subprojects is the use of provenance for to |
| encoding trust and uncertainty. The subprojects will receive support from the Center and make contributions the Center |
| as the team meets the following Center Goals: (1) develop an approach based on provenance, trust and uncertainty |
| computation to inspire confidence in results obtained with CI; (2) create a CI-enabled synergistic environment to |
| support advances in environmental and earth science; (3) train and educate the nextgeneration scientist who can use |
| CI-based software services and middleware and tools, and who embraces multi-disciplinary approaches for advancing |
| science, mathematics, and technology; and (4) contribute CI resources to appropriate portals in the discipline areas that |
| are supported by the Center. |
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| 8 Project Activities |
| In addition to the research activities and the tool, ontology, workflow, and software services development, the Center will |
| engage in the following activities: annual workshops aimed at educating undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, |
| including members of underrespresented groups from outside UTEP;development of K-16 educational models geared for |
| educating the next-generation CI scientist and tied to existing outreach efforts in the Colleges of Education, Engineering, |
| and Science; a Cyber-ShARE Visiting Researcher program for sponsoring faculty and advanced students from |
| underrepresented groups from outside UTEP to work with researchers at the Center for a week; a Distinguished Lecture |
| series that invites 4 scientists per year who are involved in cutting edge research in science and CI; Cyber-ShARE |
| Research Scholar recognition for students involved in research; a Cyber-ShARE Research Experiences for |
| Undergraduates program that involves students in research using the Affinity Research Group model that uses focused |
| activities for developing students’ technical, professional, communication, and research skills. |
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| 8 Broader Impacts |
| The Cyber-ShARE Center will develop CI resources, such as software services, ontologies, and workflows, that will have |
| far-reaching implications for other projects under development (NSF-funded projects such as EarthScope and NEON, both |
| of which aim to collect multivariate data over large spatial areas, and GEON and CEON). The multi-disciplinary expertise |
| supported by the Center will result in innovative research, teaching components, curriculum, and tools that will build |
| capacity in a computational science doctoral program as well as programs at all educational levels. By offering research |
| experiences to students from a variety of backgrounds, providing workshops, and supporting a Distinguished Lecture |
| Series, the Center will contribute to the development of a workforce with CI proficiency. The Center will leverage existing |
| education and outreach efforts, and its activities will involve researchers from underrepresented groups outside of UTEP, |
| extending the impact the Center. |
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