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From Goddard DAAC to GES DISC: What Does Data Science Do?

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Illinois State Water Survey Climate and Atmospheric Science Section
Location
Illinois Room, Illinois State Water Survey, 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign
Date
Nov 7, 2019   1:30 pm  
Speaker
 Jennifer C. Wei, lead scientist, Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center
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Illinois State Water Survey events

Abstract: First established as the Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) in 1993 and re-named as the Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) in early 2000, it has always been our objective to provide Earth science data, information, and services to research scientists, applications scientists, applications users, and students. Our data belong to the NASA Earth Science Focus Areas: Atmospheric Composition, Water & Energy Cycles, Weather, and Climate Variability. We also archive data sets in the Carbon Cycle & Ecosystem focus area, but we describe this area in the context of the three previously mentioned.

In recent years, we have enhanced the GES DISC’s information services through the development of tools and services that promote easier use of Earth science data and information. Over time, as the data and information management needs of science researchers have become more sophisticated and complex, we have kept pace by developing tools and services that help our users to more easily extract the information they seek from data they work with.

In this presentation, I will briefly describe who we are, why we evolved from the Goddard DAAC to the GES DISC, and how we are advancing past the 'traditional' DAAC role of data archive and distribution to now offering the capability to analyze and mine large amounts of data.

Bio: Jennifer C. Wei received the B.A. degree in atmospheric science from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1992, the M.S. degree in environmental science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Professor Don Wuebbles in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.

Dr. Wei is the lead scientist at the Goddard Earth Science (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC), who guides the science support staff (1) to promote DISC data and services awareness to the science teams and user community, (2) to advocate the user needs from research and application communities, and (3) to broaden user community by participating science team meetings, user/application workshops, conferences, and forums. Having led multi-sensors aerosol-related projects, and involved with designing, developing and evaluating the GES DISC various data and visualization tools (such as Giovanni, Data Quality Visualization (DQViz), Subsetter and Colocation) for different user communities, she has been extended her expertise in the data science, which is critical to improve earth science data discoverability, accessibility, and usability to the holdings.

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