Geosciences Cyberinfrastructure Incubator

GEO CI promotes open, inclusive, computationally-enabled and data-driven research and education in the geosciences. Cyberinfrastructure includes resources for data curation capabilities, modeling and computation and tools that increase capacity for research and education in the geosciences.

GEO CI Incubator priority activities include:

1. Open science: Promoting open science and broad participation in geosciences through cyberinfrastructure and coordination efforts.
2. AI-enabled geosciences: Catalyzing innovative artificial intelligence techniques in the geosciences and lowering barriers for geoscientists to use AI.
3. Cyberinfrastructure partnership: Advancing computational and data-driven research approaches through GEO participation in NSF-wide cyberinfrastructure programs.

Shared Computing Resources

NSF supports a range of advanced shared computing resources for researchers and educators. Some of these resources are available to all researchers (with or without supporting grants); others are available only through specific programs.

NSF Public Access Initiative

The NSF-wide Public Access Initiative strives to make the outputs of scientific research funded by NSF publicly available to the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints possible and consistent with the law. As articulated in its Public Access Plan 2.0 (NSF 23-104), NSF public access policies and programs seek to increase public access to publications, data, and other research products resulting from federal funding, including through the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR). In addition to NSF-wide public access policies described in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), GEO divisions and offices specify additional policies and resources for data management and sharing.

AI Institutes

The cross-agency National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes (AI Institutes) program supports multidisciplinary, multistakeholder teams to focus on large-scale, long-time horizon challenges in both foundational and use-inspired AI research, development of the future AI workforce, and addressing societal grand challenges around specific themes. The Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI) program seeks to broaden and diversify the artificial intelligence research community in collaboration with the AI Institutes.

If you believe you have an idea for an AI institute that can benefit the geosciences, please contact Sean Kennan (skennan@nsf.gov) and Andrew Zaffos (azaffos@nsf.gov) to discuss your idea and NSF opportunities.

EarthCube

EarthCube was an NSF program and associated community-driven activity sponsored through a partnership between GEO and the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), to transform research in the academic geosciences community. EarthCube supported projects and community activities (some of which continue now) to promote the discovery, integration and interoperability of data and cyber resources for the geosciences.

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR)

One of NSF's "10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments," HDR was a program that supported foundations and applications of data science across research domains, including the geosciences.

The GEO CI working group consists of representatives from across GEO and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). It receives key organizational support from the Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education Division (RISE).