Welcome to Cyber-ShARE

Created in 2007, the Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence brings together experts in computer science, computational mathematics, education, earth science, and environmental science. The team addresses the challenge of providing information to scientists and other users of cyberinfrastructure (CI)* that allows them to make informed decisions about the resources that they retrieve and to have confidence in using results from CI-based applications. The Cyber-ShARE team conducts innovative research to facilitate the development of CI-based applications and increase their use by scientists by enhancing CI results with provenance information, trust recommendations, and uncertainty levels (areas that are recognized as essential for the success of CI); by creating scientist-centered tools and artifacts; and by contributing CI resources to appropriate CI portals.

*Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is the technical infrastructure, organizational practices, and social norms required to collectively provide for the smooth operation of work in which interactions may be distributed across time and geographic location. (Edwards et al., Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, March 2007).

Announcements

Job opportunity at UCDavis

The University of California, Davis, invites applications for the position of Junior Developer in the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG). CIG is funded by the National Science Foundation to develop and support high performance open source software for geophysical applications in cooperation with the computational geoscience community.

2012-2013 XSEDE Scholars Program

EXSEDE Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment - Outstanding student opportunity in the computational sciences!
Want to learn more about high performance computing and the exciting digital resources that are available to research scientists for free? Interested in joining a cohort of students that can provide mutual support in academic endeavors?

Job opportunity at University of Nevada, Reno

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) seeks a full-time programmer for its data center at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). This is an administrative faculty position that includes a comprehensive benefits package, including a generous leave policy and tuition benefits for self and family. The position is a unique opportunity for a programmer, who is interested in the sciences, to take part in university-level research, and to acquire a broad range of practical computing skills.

2012 AHPCRC Summer Institute for Undergraduates in Computational Science and Engineering

This institute is held at Stanford University from June 25-August 17. UTEP students are encouraged to apply. Participants receive a $4,000 stipend, travel allowance, dormitory accommodations, and meals at Stanford. US citizenship is required.

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Research

Cyber-ShARE focuses on the following projects, each with significant contributions to the educational components:

Computer Science - Believing and Accepting Cyber-Results: focuses on promoting the scientist’s use of CI by including trust and uncertainty management in support of workflow results.
Geoscience - Integrated Analysis for Development of 3-D Models of Earth Structure: addresses the problem of obtaining different results from the analysis of geophysical studies of the Earth’s structure, mainly due to mischaracterization of measurement uncertainty, by applying results from optimization and trust models research (e.g., data assimilation and inversion methods using sensor information) to geophysics.
Environmental Science - Advancing the Utility of Cyberinfrastructure in Environmental Science: addresses the challenge of optimizing data streams and sensor arrays in ecological and environmental networks through use-case studies to improve characterization of various environmental phenomena and processes.