While a bevy of standards exist for managers biological data to use, science departments or projects could benefit from an easy digest primer about and the value they confer. Moreover, quick visual breakdown comparing help choose those that best serve their needs. The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is nonprofit enables supports high quality virtual in-person collaborations between cr...

We present a novel approach to computational modeling of social interactions based on modeling of essential social interaction predicates (ESIPs) such as joint attention and entrainment. Based on sound social psychological theory and methodology, we collect a new “Tower Game” dataset consisting of audio-visual capture of dyadic interactions labeled with the ESIPs. We expect this dataset to prov...

In this article, we address the implementation of a distributed data system designed to serve Earth system scientists. Recently, a consortium led by George Mason University has been funded by NASA’s Working Prototype Earth Science Information Partner (WP-ESIP) program to develop, implement, and operate a distributed data and information system. The system will address the research needs of seas...

Geographical Information System (GIS) applications that process large amount of data require intensive usage of hardware capabilities provided by distributed platforms, such as the Grid infrastructure. Due to the constant demand of data availability and data sharing, without concerning its format and size, a new software solution is needed. GreenLand is a system capable to provide such a soluti...