{"id":668,"date":"2009-06-24T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-06-24T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:47:49","slug":"the-environmental-escience-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/06\/the-environmental-escience-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environmental eScience Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while doing some research on availability of code for climate models, I came across a set of papers published by the Royal Society in March 2009 reporting on a meeting on the <a title=\"Contents list for papers on the Environmental eScience Revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/367\/1890.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental eScience Revolution<\/a>. This looks like the best collection of papers I&#8217;ve seen yet on the challenges in software engineering for environmental and climate science. These will keep me going for a while, but here are the papers that most interest me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gurney et al, <a title=\"Gurney et al's editorial\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0253\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a>. Describes the workshop, and the challenge of cross-disciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and environmental scientists.<\/li>\n<li>Slingo et al &#8220;<a title=\"Slingo et al abstract and pointer to full text\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0207\" target=\"_blank\">Developing the next-generation climate system models<\/a>&#8220;. Actually, I&#8217;d already read this and <a title=\"Serendipity on Great Women in Climate Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=124\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about it. I just hadn&#8217;t realised it was part of a volume of equally interesting papers.<\/li>\n<li>Washington et al &#8220;<a title=\"Abstract and full paper for Washington et al.\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0219\" target=\"_blank\">The computational future for climate and Earth system models<\/a>&#8220;. Looks like a good account of the history of climate model development, and challenges of processing power.<\/li>\n<li>Clark et al &#8220;<a title=\"Clark et al, Abstract and link to full paper\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0190\" target=\"_blank\">Taxonomy as an eScience<\/a>&#8220;. Interesting discussion of how to make build web-based scientific taxonomies.<\/li>\n<li>Hall et al &#8220;<a title=\"Hall et al, abstract and link to full text\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0252\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch<\/a>&#8220;. This one is written by computer scientists, and looks like a very readable introduction to the semantic web and what&#8217;s been done so far in eScience.<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence et al &#8220;<a title=\"Bryan's paper...\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0237\" target=\"_blank\">Information in Environmental Data Grids<\/a>&#8220;. Takes a look at access to scientific data sets as a set of web services.<\/li>\n<li>Frame et al &#8220;<a title=\"Frame et al abstract and link to full paper\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsta.2008.0193\" target=\"_blank\">New Tools to Support Collaboration and Virtual Organizations<\/a>&#8220;. A discussion of how web 2.0 social networking tools are being used by scientists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll probably have to read the rest as well. Interestingly, I&#8217;ve met many of these authors. I&#8217;ll have to check whether any followup meetings are planned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while doing some research on availability of code for climate models, I came across a set of papers published by the Royal Society in March 2009 reporting on a meeting on the Environmental eScience Revolution. 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