2. 1. Introduction and Welcome
2. Announcement of Committee Rep.
3. Internal Leadership
1. Responsibilities and Structure
4. Timeline for upcoming Milestones and Deliverables
5. Meeting Schedule Moving Forward
6. Conclusions and Actions
AGENDA
3. Coordinating with the Leadership Council to ensure
responsiveness to the EarthCube strategic direction
Monitoring and coordinating Working Groups
Sponsoring ad hoc Working Groups that emerge, described
in more detail in the Working Groups Annex
Coordinating with the Liaison Team and Engagement Team
Coordinating with other Standing Committees
COMMITTEE FUNCTIONS (ALL)
4. 1. Ensure the explicit connection between the scientific process and technical function, including
coordinating testbeds and other mechanisms for development of cyberinfrastructure components,
for use in science use cases
2. Seek alignment of EarthCube funded projects to foster integrated technology to meet end user
requirements and create new capabilities to enable transformative geoscience research
3. Provide stewardship of an EarthCube architecture
4. Address how EarthCube will accommodate or incorporate different standards and standards bodies
5. Identify gaps in coverage of needed cyberinfrastructure capabilities, and determine
recommendations on how to fill them
6. Monitor technical requirements with the goal to ensure EarthCube is meeting their needs
7. Serve as an emissary between software developers, the science community, and infrastructure, as
well as educators
8. Encourage, engage, and enable the next generation of EarthCube technology leadership
9. Coordinate with the Technical Funded Team
TECHNOLOGY STANDING COMMITTEE
FUNCTIONS
5. Begin facilitating community convergence on an
EarthCube Architecture
Coordinating a testbed for EarthCube components
COMMUNITY SUGGESTED PRIORITIES
6. Problem 1: Scientific reproducibility, including benchmarking
capabilities.
Problem 2: Interdisciplinary communication.
Problem 3. Model-data integration.
Problem 4. Data and software management.
Interaction w/ Conceptual Design and building block projects
7. General Membership Direct Election
Model
Council
Direct election by membership
Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Additional Officers
8. General Membership
Council
Direct election by membership
Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Appointment by council
Appointed Officers
GSA Model
9. Assembly
General Membership
ESIP internal representative selection
Elected by Assembly vote
President Vice-President
ESIP Model
ESIP ESIP ESIP
10. Voting Member
Representatives
Member Institutions
Elected by Voting Member representatives
President Vice-President
IRIS Model
IRIS member internal selection
Institution
Representative
Institution
Representative
Institution
Representative
11. General Membership
Council
Direct election by membership
President-elect
Section Heads
AGU Model
Board of Directors
Additional Officers
President
Directors
Additional Officers
Hinweis der Redaktion
Make sure we explain the logic behind the agenda, and the sequence of the conversations. We are starting with Functions and Priorities, digging into what those really mean for this group. Then moving onto discussion about leadership, informed by the previous discussions.
Hello, my name is Anna Katz and as Lee mentioned, I work as a project coordinator within the EarthCube Office. I’d like to take a quick step back and explain what we hope to get out of the next portion of the meeting. In this next part of the meeting, we’ll be covering the functions and priority issues for the Science Committee. We’ll first go over the priorities and functions as they are spelled out in then Demonstration Governance Charter. We’ll then dedicate group discussion time to really dive deep into what those functions and priorities really mean to a group like ours, what actions must be taken, and if there are any evident gaps. Finally, we’ll move the conversation toward the structure and leadership of this Committee, building off of the Priority and Functions conversation
As the demonstration governance structure showed, there are 3 standing committees. This is the language from the Charter that outlines the functions of ALL Committees. And The emphasis here in on coordination among the different governance bodies. There was strong consensus behind the idea that not one of these groups should be acting alone, and that consistent and effective communication should be present between all groups. So as you can see, this involves the Science Committee to coordinate with group like the Leadership Council, Working Groups, Liaison and Engagement Team, as well as the other Standing Committees. It is also important to note: cross membership is encouraged
Language in charter that outlines the functions specific to the Technology and Architecture Standing Committee. Note: highlight function to work with funded projects to make sure end-user requirement are met.
Through the All-Hands Meeting governance sessions, the community brainstormed and discussed high priority issues that they felt EarthCube Demonstration Governance should address in the coming year. On the final day, these priorities were refined and then assigned to a standing body within the Governance Structure. These priorities are what the community at the All-Hands Meeting thought would be best for the Science Committee to begin addressing.
It is important to note that these priority issues this is just one example, or a starting point, that came out of the All-Hands Meeting. Further priorities and action plans can be discussed during this meeting’s discussion time and further down the road. These priority issues are:
Develop a strategy and priorities for use cases and scientific engagement first by reviewing the End-User Workshops and then recommending and pursuing follow on activities
The Engagement of Scientific Community and incorporated them into the structure of the work groups