1 July 2011
The Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure team needs an exceptional lead web developer eager to drive both backend services and frontend delivery. Without googling, do the following statements prompt an immediate smile (or frown)?
- You forgot your verbs in your REST.
- How $.live saved my tightly coupled life.
- What do threads have to do with the phrase "C10k"?
- There's just something about 24 columns. Or 16 columns. Or 960px. Or…
- Your semantics are getting in the way of my deadline!
- Conditional comments are sooo 2008.
- NoSQL's no "no sql," you know.
- You've got how many firebug addons?
- HTML5 or CSS3? At least we've got ECMAScript 5. Kinda. OK, not really.
- Reduce on DFS or aggregate on DHT or ETL on OLAP or just give up and shard on RDB?
Did you follow most of that? Can you build these systems yourself? Now can you do it in a complex system working with a number of other teams? Can you work smoothly with architects and see code when you look at a diagram? Do you know and appreciate business needs, and how to turn them into workable tasks on a hard deadline? Finally, can you lead a team to do the same, inspiring your team to be proud that their work is the public face of many other teams?
If this sounds like you, go to the UCSD job posting and send us an application, so we can get you on board our team.
2 May 2011
Release 2 (R2) of the OOI Cyberinfrastructure kicked off today with a web meeting of the distributed release team. You can view details about R2 at the OOI Confluence site's R2 overview page. We'll follow up with a full story soon.
26 April 2011
John Orcutt Chaired, and Matt Arrott, Ingolf Krueger and Frank Vernon gave talks for a session titled "Virtual Infrastructure: The Backbone of Environmental Advances." The session, part of Day Two of the Third Annual Research and Innovation Summit held in La Jolla, California, focused solely on the OOI CI. Read Calit2's web story on the Summit here.
15 March 2011
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership announced that Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will join the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) to build a variety of software interfaces and web-based tools that ultimately will allow educators to bring the ocean into their learning environments. You can read the full announcement here.
11 March 2011
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography responded to media inquiries regarding the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami off the coast of Japan. Frank Vernon, Deputy Project Manager of the CI, and Principal Investigator for the ANZA Network Broadband Seismic Collection Network, spoke to reporters at the San Diego Union Tribune about the possibility of tsunami waves reaching San Diego. You can view the tsunami signal recorded at La Jolla here.
Frank spoke with Chris Matthews about the earthquake on MSNBC's Hardball as well, and is quoted in the following articles in the Vancouver Sun, The Ottowa Citizen and on PBS NewsHour.
Debi Kilb, the CI EPE Liaison and a researcher at Scripps Oceanography, also responded to numerous media inquiries, and created an interactive visualization of the earthquake and the first 225 aftershocks.
2 March 2011
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) instruments for the OOI will be manufactured by Sea-Bird Electronics, a marine instrument development company in Bellevue, Washington. The CTD is a core oceanographic instrument, and provides detailed profile and time series data on the measured parameters conductivity, temperature and pressure, and more particularly the calculated values of salinity, density and sound velocity. You can read COL's press release here.
24 February 2011
John Orcutt, Principal Investigator of the OOI CI, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. You can read the full story here.
6 October 2010
An article in the current issue of International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), provides a useful overview of the OOI CI, and how it differs from other existing ocean observing systems, as well as how the CI is being developed to allow for changes in technologies over the life of the project. Read "A Lasting Ocean Observatory."
29 September 2010
An article on last year's Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) appears in the current issue of EOS. Oscar Schofield, the Project Scientist for the OOI CI, is the lead author. You can read the article here.
21 September 2010
This Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) workshop, held on 19 September in Seattle, focused specifically on the interoperability of individual ocean observatory initiatives in different nations and on different continents. Matt Arrott of the OOI CI participated in a panel discussion on information systems and interoperability with Zdenka Willis, Director of IOOS, and Luis Bermudez, Director of Interoperability Certification for the Open Geospatial Consortium. Deb Kelley, Project Scientist for the Regional Scale Nodes of the OOI at the University of Washington, and Bob Weller, PI for the Global and Coastal Scale Nodes at WHOI, also gave talks at the workshop.
