Big Data and Earth Sciences Workshop Hosted by UC San Diego in 2017
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) will be hosting a three-day workshop on "Big Data and the Earth Sciences" from May 31 to June 2, 2017, in La Jolla, California. The event is being organised by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) of UCSD and the Pacific Research Platform (PRP).
The workshop aims to advance the understanding and predictability of Earth systems and highlight key technological advances and methods that can assist this advancement. It primarily focuses on the integration of large-scale data analytics and Earth science problems, addressing grand challenges that arise in geosciences through advanced computational and data-driven methods.
Key topics typically include:
- Developing scalable tools and algorithms for managing and analyzing vast Earth science datasets.
- Leveraging machine learning and AI techniques to extract insights from multidisciplinary Earth observation data (satellite imagery, climate records, etc.).
- Addressing complex environmental and geological phenomena through big data approaches.
- Enhancing predictive modeling capabilities related to climate change, natural hazards, and earth system dynamics.
- Collaboration frameworks that bring together data scientists, earth scientists, and computational experts to solve pressing earth science questions.
The workshop is seeking research papers on the application of computer science, Big Data organization, management, and utilization techniques in earth sciences. Abstracts for the workshop are restricted to one page and should include the abstract title, authors' names, and affiliations. A Word document or PDF is preferred.
Limited travel support for students, graduate students, and postdocs is available due to sponsorship from CW3E and PRP. The deadline to submit abstracts or full papers is April 21, 2017.
The workshop includes four Grand Challenge lectures, two panels, eight sessions, and a poster session. Confirmed keynote speakers for the Grand Challenge lectures include Larry Smarr, Padhraic Smyth, Vipin Kumar, and Michael Wehner. The workshop will take place in UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall, which is the headquarters of the Qualcomm Institute (the UCSD division of Calit2).
Sessions at the workshop will focus on big data collaborations, big data research platforms, networks, technologies, and visualization, big data and predictability challenges in earth science data, pattern detection, segmentation, and object recognition for earth sciences, structuring unstructured data in the earth sciences, data mining and discovery, machine learning, and predictive modeling. The workshop is also utilizing progress in the application of graphical processing units (GPUs) and GPU clusters.
The news item was originally posted by the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. For more information or to submit an abstract, visit the provided website. Registration for the workshop can be done through the provided Workshop Registration Form. The workshop builds on UC San Diego's Understanding and Protecting the Planet Initiative, which seeks to explain and effectively communicate environmental change, engineer economically viable solutions, recommend necessary policy changes, and assess their economic impact.
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