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BBiological iological SSciences: ciences: CIBS & Strategic PlanningCIBS & Strategic Planning

Michael R. WilligDivision of Environmental Biology

CIBSWorking Group

Chris Greer & Manfred Zorn, PDs DBI

Jim Morris & Alan Tessier , PDs DEB

Bill Zamer & Cole Gilbert, PDs IOB

Kamal Shukla & Matt Kane, PDs MCB

K-lyn Smith, SA BIO

Liz Blood, Juan Carlos Morales, & Michele Kelleher

CYBERINFRASTRUCTUREAn integrated system of state-of-the-art computing, communications and information resources, tools and services that is transforming science and engineering research and education.

Critically dependent on educated and trained workforce.

2121stst Century Biology Century BiologyDispersionHeterogeneityQuantity

HierarchicalDynamicalEvolving

Non-linearContext-Dependent

Cyberinfrastructure

Splendid Isolation

Written prior to Foundation-wide activity to produce an NSF Strategic Plan

Limited implementation until adjustments are made in light of the evolving NSF

Strategic Plan

Focus on the essential elements of the BIO Plan that are related to unique characteristics of the disciplinary workforce and NSF-BIO scientific workforce

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanVision & Goals

Strategy -- External ActivitiesWorkforceResources

AccessInteroperability

Strategy -- Internal ManagementProfessional Staff

Interagency ActivitiesFrontiers of Integrative Activities

VISIONWe envision an era in biological research & education in which cyberinfrastructure serves as a universal integrator. In this new era, individuals from all areas of science and education will have effective access to information from all areas of biology. All individuals desiring to participate will have the opportunity to contribute to the limits of their own abilities and creativity, without artificial limitations imposed by geography, institutional setting, career status, cultural constraints related to sex, ethnicity, or race, physical disability, or any of the other factors that currently form barriers to full participation.

GOALSEnsure that individuals at all levels and in

all settings can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to use cyberinfrastructure in the biological sciences.

Ensure that information in the biological sciences – including the latest results of cutting-edge research and the most innovative educational resources – is made readily available in usable form through advanced cyberinfrastructure to all who wish to participate.

Ensure that the community possesses the means for readily receiving, broadly distributing, fully recognizing and acknowledging, and reliably preserving the contributions of all who participate in the biological research and education enterprise.

Organizational Organizational SchemaSchema

Focal Topic

Outline of Targeted Activities

Low-Hanging Fruit(uncertain or declining

budgets)

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanWorkforce

Mid-Career ScientistsPostdoctoral Scientists

Graduate StudentsUndergraduate Students

Teacher ProgramsFaculty at Undergraduate

InstitutionsHistorically Underrepresented

Groups

WorkforceWorkforceLow Hanging FruitLow Hanging Fruit

Dear Colleague Letter that focuses (e.g., post-doctoral or

graduate student) or re-focuses (e.g., REU, RET, ROA) supplement

opportunities on cyberinfrastructure

CommunicateSupport

Maximally Inclusive

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanResources

Long-Lived DataData Centers

Grid Computing

ResourcesResourcesLow Hanging Fruit

Community coalescence through workshops and RCN

mechanisms

Data Management Plans

Final Project Reports

Strategic PlanStrategic Plan

Access

Basic ResourcesHigh End Computing

Resource Location & ArchivingIntellectual Property Rights

AccessAccess

Low Hanging Fruit

Virtual Clearing House (www page) for information

regarding the BIO-CI interface

PDs attend CI Workshops and provide out-reach to

disciplinary communities

Strategic PlanStrategic Plan

InteroperabilityPhysicalLogical

Semantic

InteroperabilityInteroperability

Low Hanging Fruit

Expand development of standards of

interoperability via RCN mechanisms and activities at BIO-supported Centers

Strategic PlanStrategic Plan

Professional StaffProfessional StaffProgram Directors

Relationship with CISEInteragency Awareness

Workload

Professional StaffProfessional StaffLow Hanging FruitLow Hanging FruitCyberinfrastructure Forum

Internal Town HallsWorkshops on CI-BIO Interface

Recruitment of cyber-savvy PDs

Directorate-levelDivision-level

Strategic PlanStrategic Plan

Interagency Interagency ActivitiesActivities

Leadership RolesEngaged Participants

Interagency Interagency ActivitiesActivities

Low Hanging FruitLow Hanging FruitStrategic placement of cyber-

savvy PDs on interagency committees

Strategic PlanStrategic PlanFrontiers of Integrative Frontiers of Integrative

ActivitiesActivities

Biosphere Simulator ProjectEnvironmental Microbial

GenomicsPhenomics

National Systematics CI Project

Frontiers of Integrative Frontiers of Integrative ActivitiesActivities

Low Hanging FruitLow Hanging Fruit

Develop an “incubation strategy” for initiatives

(workshops, symposia, RCNs) that is sensitive to

developmental state of activities