Environmental Research Workshop 2010
July 14, 2010, Redmond, Washington
(Last updated: July 19, 2010)
| Time | Presentation/Activity | Speaker/Chair |
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08:00–09:00 |
Continental Breakfast | |
|
09:00–09:05 |
Welcome |
Yan Xu—Microsoft Research |
|
09:05–09:20 |
Opening Speech: Environmental Research at Microsoft |
Dan Fay—Microsoft Research |
|
09:20–09:40 |
Bridging the Gaps: Satellites to Sensors and Desktop to Cloud |
Catharine Van Ingen—Microsoft Research |
|
09:40–10:00 |
Virtual Environmental Observatories |
Yong Liu—National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
|
10:00–10:10 |
A Global Tree Database |
You-Wei Cheah—Indiana University |
|
10:10–10:20 |
Tsunami Forecast Challenge: Development, Implementation, Information Dissemination |
Vasily Titov—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
|
10:20–10:30 |
SQL Server Spatial—A Powerful Platform for Storing and Querying Geospatial Data |
Ed Katibah—Microsoft SQL |
| 10:30–10:40 | Break | |
|
10:40–11:50 |
Roundtable Discussions |
All / Chairs: A.J. Brush, Rob Fatland, Chris Pendleton, Evelyne Viegas |
|
11:50–01:30 |
Group Picture, Lunch, and Group Presentations |
Representatives from each group |
|
01:30–01:50 |
Open Data Protocol |
Pablo Castro—Data Framework, Microsoft |
|
01:50–02:10 |
Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Research: A Case Study from a Field Campaign in a Brazilian Rain Forest |
Andreas Teriz—Johns Hopkins University |
|
02:10–02:20 |
SensorWeb |
Suman Nath—Microsoft Research |
|
02:20–02:30 |
The Development of GeoCENS: Finding the Long Tail in Sensor Web |
Steve Liang—Calgary University, Canada |
|
02:30–02:40 |
Project Dallas—a Data Marketplace in the Windows Azure |
Christian Liensberger—Project Dallas, Microsoft |
|
02:40–02:50 |
Citizen Environmental Science and the Geospatial Web 2.0 |
Renee Sieber—McGill University |
|
02:50–03:00 |
Break | |
|
03:10–03:20 |
Bing Maps |
Chris Pendelton—Microsoft Bing Maps |
|
03:20–03:30 |
Spatial Computing: Utilizing Spatial Principles and Distributed Computing to Support Environmental Sciences |
Phil Yang—George Mason University |
|
03:30–03:40 |
Seamless Integration and Visualization of Heterogeneous and Distributed Earth Science Data Using Bing Map |
Hannes Wu—George Mason University |
|
03:40–03:50 |
Forecasting Crop Disease Risk Using Mesoscale Weather Forecasts |
Kathleen M. Baker—Westerdn Michigan University |
|
03:50–04:50 |
Roundtable Discussions |
All / Chairs: James Bellingham, Matt Heavner, Beth Plale, Chaowei Yang |
|
04:50–05:50 |
Group Presentations |
Representatives from each group |
|
05:50–06:00 |
Closing Remarks |
All |
|
06:00 |
End | |
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