Meet face-to-face to plan 2017 project goals

Logistics

Dates: February 2-3, 2017

Location: ISI East offices in Arlington VA.

Schedule: Breakfast served at 8:30am. Start time: 9am. Dinner planned for 7pm at SER (walking distance from meeting and hotels).

Agenda

@Paul_Hanson, @Chris_Duffy @Hilary_Dugan @Daniel_Garijo: Please add to the agenda below, feel free to edit directly or add comments -- -- Yolanda

IMPORTANT NOTE: The agenda is in the ODSF site, but the pointers below are to a separate site for Age of Water.

1. Discussion of within-group and cross-group project goals (All)
   • Intelligent systems research goals (ISI)
     • Capture research meta-workflows as tasks in Organic Data Science Framework (ODSF)
     • Integrate in ODSF descriptions of individual research products: models, datasets, ancillary software, workflows
     • Analyze how ODSF facilitates the dissemination of meta-workflows and research products to new science collaborators
   • Geosciences research goals (PSU)
   • Environmental research goals (UW)
   • Age of water integrative research goals (PSU and UW)
     • Support multi-disciplinary work (e.g. with CNH)
     • Basic science: Already done conceptually, but need to start to work with actual data and running workflows
     • Goal is to bring the field up to speed with lake-catchment modeling.
     • Experience with working with other groups it is clear that running a lake model is not easy to learn, so need ODSF to help capture the calibration and modeling process. Documentation is very poor (sparse and/or obsolete), and it is hard to set up the model. Current approach is not working, little adoption.
     • Hurdle in initial investment, so it is important for them to understand the kinds of questions that one can answer. And even more of a hurdle to do lake-catchment simulation
     • Making the simulation products available would be very useful for the community, it would allow researchers to understand the value of the coupled models
     • Our goal could be to set up a repository of model products for all lake-catchment systems in the US. Then researchers could experiment with the models if they want to, but they would not have to set them up from scratch
     • Coupling of hydrology and lake models (PIHM and GLM)
   • Joint research goals (PSU, UW, ISI)
     • Facilitate multi-disciplinary research through the dissemination of meta-workflows and research products to new science collaborators
2. Proposed approach to capture research meta-workflows and research products (ISI -- based on prior discussions with PSU and UW)
   • Capturing modeling tasks (Yolanda)
     • Create lake model workflow
     • Create hydrology model workflow
     • Coupled model
     • Documenting modeling workflows
   • Describing research products (Daniel)
     • Describing data
       • User-provided data: examples
       • User-described data
     • Describing software in ODSF with OntoSoft
       • GLM in ODSF, GLM in OntoSoft
       • PIHM in ODSF, PIHM in OntoSoft
     • Describing workflows in ODSF with WINGS
       • GLM workflow: Sketch, [DANIEL PLEASE ADD LINK implementation] (need to login to Daniel's account):
       • PIHM workflow: Sketch, implementation of a small water runoff workflow with PIHM (need to login to Paul's account)
3. Proposed approach to model coupling and age of water research (PSU)
   • Strategy for coupling PIHM and GLM (Yu)
   • Age modeling of lake catchments (Chris)
4. Discussion (Hilary)
   • Plan for the Coupling of models
   • Plan for the Harmonization of data from PIHM to GLM