I'm a member of the eScience group focusing on end-to-end management of scientific data. On data discovery front I've been working on SciScope (www.sciscope.org) a search engine that allows discovery and retrieval of environmental data from distributed heterogeneous data repositories. As for data exchange, as part of a collaboration with Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) I've been working on the development of OGC compliant data exchange standards for water resources/quality observations. On the database side, I'm working on a data model and supporting APIs with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and SDSC for environmental data that supports various types of observations including fixed point and moving sensors, bottled samples, rasters from remote sensors and models, and categorical descriptions as well as events like hurricanes and floods. 

Recent Publications

• Beran B., Valentine D., Zaslavsky I., Cox S. J. D., McGee J. Web Services Solutions for Hydrologic Data Access & Cross-Domain Interoperability, International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems (to appear)
• Beran B., van Ingen C., Fatland R., SciScope: A Participatory Geoscientific Web Application, Concurrency & Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issue: Successes in Furthering Scientific Discovery (to appear)
• Beran B., Piasecki M., (2009). Engineering New Paths to Water Data, Computers & Geosciences, 35 (4) pp. 753-760
• Beran B., Valentine D., Zaslavsky I. (2009) Standardizing Access to Hydrologic Data Repositories through Web Services, International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services, February 1-7, 2009
• Fatland D. R., van Ingen C., Beran B., Heavner M., Habermann M., Berner L., (2008). Pain and Gaps in IT Infusion, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2008
• Kapeljushnik O., Beran B., Valentine D., van Ingen C., Zaslavsky I., Whitenack T., (2008). A data model for environmental scientists, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2008
• Beran B., van Ingen C., Barclay T., (2008). Virtual Globes as Tools of Hydrologic Data Discovery and Visualization, 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, July 6-10, 2008
• Beran B., Rodriguez M., Valentine D., van Ingen C., Zaslavsky I., (2008). Leveraging OLAP Data cubes for Water Resources Research, American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Specialty Conference GIS and Water Resources, March 17-19, 2008
• Piasecki M., Beran B., (2008) HydroTagger: A Tool for Semantic Mapping of Hydrologic Terms, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Symposium on Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration, March 26-28, 2008
• Zaslavsky I., Rodriguez M., Beran B., Valentine D.,van Ingen C., Wallis J. C., (2007). OLAP Cube Visualization of Hydrologic Data Catalogs , American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2007