Overview

The GEON Project

From the GEON page, "GEON is being designed as a scientist-centered cyberinfrastructure, freeing researchers to think and be creative by relieving them of onerous data management tasks." With the advent of more data intensive earth science projects such as USArray, PBO, and other data consolidation programs in various subdisciplines, new ways to manage data are more important than ever. GEON researchers are working to develop data serving, visualization, analysis and computing techniques to give the geosciences a head start in Information Technology.

For a complete description of the GEON project's work see www.geongrid.org

The Rocky Mountain Test-bed

To help focus the efforts of the researchers, GEON work has been centered on two regions, the mid-Atlantic and the Rocky Mountain test-beds. By focusing on a specific geographic region, IT researchers, working with scientists, can more easily incorporate virtually all available information from virtually all disciplines within the earth sciences. Tools and techniques developed in these regions can then be easily applied to earth science work in other regions.

At UNAVCO, we are working on the geodynamics effort of the Rocky Mountain test-bed. We have been compiling data such GPS derived products as strain rates and velocities, seismic models such as global and regional tomography models, moment tensors, and hypocenter information. In addition, we have experimented with and begun implementing new platform independent data serving techniques and data visualization and analysis tools. Follow the links above for more information.