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Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-20 14:43

... the digital world-wide repository of discharge data and associated metadata ... focusing the multifaceted world of global river discharge data for the sake of key research linking local and global change issues ... mandate reinforced by WMO Resolution 21 (Cg-XII), 1995 and a Support Letter from WMO Secretary General (July 2004) [in 5 languages]

NSF: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics (GLD) by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-20 14:50

Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify natural landscapes over a variety of length and time scales. The program encourages research that investigates the coupling and feedback between such processes and their relative roles, especially in the contexts of variation in climate and and changes in human impact. Investigations are encouraged that quantitatively tackle issues of rates of change, that use complementary methodologies, innovative data and techniques, and that efficiently combine expertise from related fields.

Gilbert Club homepage by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-23 14:50

Gilbert Club (named after the pre-eminent geologist Grove Karl Gilbert) is a one-day conference for various topics in geomorphology and related fields. The conference convenes after the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held each December in San Francisco. Gilbert Club meetings are held at the University of California, Berkeley campus and consist of invited talks, impromptu presentations, lunch, dinner and social interaction. Anyone interested in geomorphology is encouraged to attend.

NCALM - NSF supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-23 14:49

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has created a research center to support the use of airborne laser mapping technology in the scientific community. The NSF supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) is operated jointly by the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, College of Engineering , University of Florida (UF) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California-Berkeley (UCB). NCALM uses the Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM) system jointly owned by UF and Florida International University (FIU), based at the UF Geosensing Engineering and Mapping (GEM) Research Center . The state-of-the-art laser surveying instrumentation and GPS systems, which are installed in a Cessna 337 Skymaster twin-engine aircraft, collects data in areas selected through the competitive NSF grant review process. The ALSM observations is analyzed both at UF and UCB, and made available to the PI through an archiving and distribution center at UCB - building upon the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) Northern California Earthquake Data Center system. Both the UF and UCB groups contribute to software development that increase the processing speed and data accuracy. NSF supported researchers must contact UF during proposal preparation to obtain guidance on cost estimates, scheduling and related issues. Once funded, PIs and their students will be able to participate in all phases of the work.

NCALM @ Berkeley by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-23 14:50

NCALM is the National Science Foundation supported Center for Airborne Laser Mapping. The NCALM @ Berkeley web site provides public access to high-resolution airborne laser mapping data, documentation and tools to analyze digital elevation datasets.

GEON by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-23 14:51

The Geosciences Network: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences The goal of GEON is to advance the field of geoinformatics to prepare and train current and future generations of geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals. Geoinformatics will foster new interdisciplinary research, for example, the gravity modeling of 3D geological features, such as plutons; study of active tectonics by integrating LiDAR data and geodynamics models; and, study of lithospheric structure and properties across diverse tectonic environments. GEON is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with support for “intelligent” search, semantic data integration, visualization of 4D scientific datasets, and access to high performance computing platforms for data analysis and model execution -- via the GEON Portal. While focused on Earth Sciences, GEON cyberinfrastructure is generic and broadly applicable to a variety of other sciences and other application domains.

International Landslide Research Group by Colin Stark — last modified 2006-01-23 19:29

The ILRG is an informal group of individuals concerned about sharing information on landslide research and promoting regional landslide analyses.