Purpose

Across the geosciences, models of the solid and fluid dynamics and physical processes of the earth and space systems advance our scientific understanding of complex environments and our ability to translate our science into useful societal applications. As EarthCube seeks to develop a data and knowledge management system to transform the geosciences, the input of groups and individuals whom have built-up their own infrastructure and communities around modeling efforts will be critical. While the scientific problems addressed by the broad community of geosciences “modelers” are varied, the strong commonalities in the computational challenges and requirements of many of these communities should be exploited to meet these challenges and be a central goal of EarthCube.

This workshop seeks to document the experiences and expertise of well-defined modeling communities within the Geosciences that have, over time, developed their own community, infrastructure and resources, assess the needs and readiness of modelers in related geosciences disciplines who do not currently have access to similar resources or community organizations, and provide well defined use cases and a list of functional requirements that can inform the development of EarthCube.

1. CSMDS
2. CUAHSI
3. Earthcube