2012 Workshop Program
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Monday, August 6
8:00
Registration & Breakfast
8:30
9:00
10:00
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Welcome & Introduction to the NSF Expeditions in Computing on
Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach
NSF Expeditions Research Highlights
Q&A
10:15
Coffee Break
Session 1 - Chair: Peter Snyder
10:45
11:05
11:25
11:45
David R. Easterling, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Global Data for Analysis of Climate Extremes
Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate 2.0: Usable Climate Science and Services for Society
Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TECA, 13TB, 80,000 processors -- Or: Characterizing extreme weather in a changing climate (pdf)
Bruno Sansó, University of California Santa Cruz
Assessing Regional Climate Model Predictions (pdf)
12:05
Lunch Break
Session 2 - Chair: Snigdhansu Chatterjee
13:30
13:50
14:10
14:30
14:50
Siegfried Schubert, NASA
On the Causes of and Long Term Changes in Eurasian Heat Waves (pdf)
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
Nonlinear Multivariate Projections and long range ENSO predictability (pdf)
Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto
Getting Climate Models and Data into the Open: How hard can it be?
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
Big Process for Big Data (pdf)
Slobodan Simonovic, University of Western Ontario
System Dynamic Modelling of Interactions within the Society-Biosphere-Climate System (pdf)
15:10
Coffee Break
Session 3 - Chair: Karsten Steinhaeuser
15:40
16:00
16:20
16:40
Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame
Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change (pdf)
Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University
Machine Learning Methods for Timing of Biological Events (pdf)
Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University
Global Climate Model Tracking Using Geospatial Neighborhoods (pdf)
Yan Liu, University of Southern California
Sparse Extreme Value Modeling for Climate Change Attribution Analysis (pdf)
17:00
Closing Remarks
18:00
Poster Session & Dinner
Tuesday, August 7
8:00
Registration & Breakfast
8:30
Welcome & Recap of August 6th
Session 4 - Chair: Shashi Shekhar
8:40
9:00
9:20
9:40
Ashok Srivastava, NASA
Scalable Regression for Multimodal Data
Zoran Obradovic, Temple University
Modeling Multi.Source Remote Sensing Observations of Varying Quality in the Presence of a Large Fraction of Missing Values
J. Ronald Eastman, Clark University
Geotemporal Analysis, Earth System Science and GIS
Chris Brunsdon, University of Liverpool
Humans as Sensors - Modelling Climate Change with Volunteered Geographical Information (pdf)
10:00
Coffee Break
Session 5 - Chair: Abdollah Homaifar
10:30
10:50
11:10
Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana.Champaign
Characterizing Disaster Impact using LIDAR and AVIRIS: 2011 Lower Mississippi Flood Study
Lian Xie, North Carolina State University
Decipher Complex Climatic Records for Clues of Tropical Cyclone Temporal Variability, Trends and Spatial Pattern (pdf)
Zhan Zhang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Advancements in Operations and Research on Hurricane Modeling and Ensemble Prediction System at EMC/NOAA (pdf)
11:30
Lunch Break
13:00
Panel Discussion: Ana Barros, Bhaskar Chattaraj, Nitesh Chawla, Marvin Geller, Robert Oglesby, Anand Patwardhan, Soroosh Sorooshian
15:00
Closing Remarks