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Location Folder Show Tree ROOT _ScienceBase Catalog __Community for Data Integration (CDI) ___CDI Projects Fiscal Year 2017 Extending ScienceCache—a Mobile Application for Data Collection—to Accommodate Broader Use within USGS USGS Data at Risk: Expanding Legacy Data Inventory and Preservation Strategies Filters Date Range Past year (0) Past month (0) Past week (0) Past day (0) Custom range... To   Search Extensions Project (5) Contacts Community for Data Integration - CDI Erin E Boydston Mark T Wiltermuth Erika Lentz Richard A Erickson Sarah E Nagorsen Categories Project (5) Tag Schemes https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/WRET/CMS_Topics/CDI_CMS_Topics (4) Tags (with Type=CMS Keywords ) bayesian networks (1) citizen science (1) climate change (1) data collection (1) docker (1) high-throughput computing (htc) (1) htcondor (1) More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV Browse Folder

Extending ScienceCache—a Mobile Application for Data Collection—to Accommodate Broader Use within USGS ScienceCache was originally developed as a mobile device data collection application for a citizen science project. ScienceCache communicates with a centralized database that facilitates near real-time use of collected data that enhances efficiency of data collection in the field. We improved ScienceCache by creating a flexible, reliable platform that reduces effort required to set up a survey and manage incoming data. Now, ScienceCache can be easily adapted for citizen science projects as well as restricted to specific users for private internal research. We improved scEdit, a web application interface, to allow for creation of more-complex data collection forms and survey routes to support scientific studies.... Categories: Project; Tags: 2017, All Funded Projects, Completed, Computational Tools and Services, Data Collection, All tags... Data and Information Assets, Mobile Application, Mobile Applications, ScienceCache, Fewer tags Web Mapping Application for a Historical Geologic Field Photo Collection Geotagged photographs have become a useful medium for recording, analyzing, and communicating Earth science phenomena. Despite their utility, many field photographs are not published or preserved in a spatial or accessible format—oftentimes because of confusion about photograph metadata, a lack of stability, or user customization in free photo sharing platforms. After receiving a request to release about 1,210 geotagged geological field photographs of the Grand Canyon region, we set out to publish and preserve the collection in the most robust (and expedient) manner possible (fig. 6). We leveraged and reworked existing metadata, JavaScript, and Python tools and developed a toolkit and proposed workflow to display... Categories: Project; Tags: 2017, All Funded Projects, Best Practices, Completed, Computational Tools and Services, All tags... Data Release, Data and Information Assets, Mapping Application, Photo, Publication, Software, Source Code, Web Application, Web Service, Fewer tags Flocks of a feather dock together: Using Docker and HTCondor to link high-throughput computing across the USGS USGS scientists often face computationally intensive tasks that require high-throughput computing capabilities. Several USGS facilities use HTCondor to run their computational pools but are not necessarily connected to the larger USGS pool. This project demonstrated how to connect HTCondor pools by flocking, or coordinating, within the USGS. In addition to flocking the Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center and the Wisconsin Water Science Center, we have flocked with the USGS Advanced Research Computing Yeti supercomputing cluster and other water science centers. We also developed tutorials on how to sandbox code using Docker within the USGS environment for use with high-throughput computing. A main accomplishment... Categories: Project; Tags: 2017, All Funded Projects, Completed, Computational Tools and Services, Docker, All tags... HTCondor, High-Throughput Computing (HTC), Software, Source Code, Fewer tags Empowering decision-makers: A dynamic web interface for running Bayesian networks U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are at the forefront of research that is critical for decision-making, particularly through the development of models (Bayesian networks, or BNs) that forecast coastal change. The utility of these tools outside the scientific community has been limited because they rely on expensive, technical software and a moderate understanding of statistical analyses. We proposed to convert one of our models from proprietary to freely available open-source software, resulting in a portable interactive web-interface. The resulting product will serve as a prototype to demonstrate how interdisciplinary USGS science and models can be transformed into an approachable format for decision-makers.... Categories: Project; Tags: 2017, All Funded Projects, Bayesian Networks, Completed, Computational Tools and Services, All tags... Software, Source Code, Web Application, Web Service, Fewer tags Automating the use of citizen scientists’ biodiversity surveys in iNaturalist to facilitate early detection of species’ responses to climate change A BioBlitz is a field survey method for finding and documenting as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period. The National Park Service and National Geographic Society hosted the largest BioBlitz survey ever in 2016; people in more than 120 national parks used the iNaturalist app on mobile devices to document organisms they observed. Resulting records have Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, include biological accuracy assessments, and provide an unprecedented snapshot of biodiversity nationwide. Additional processing and analysis would make these data available to inform conservation and management decisions. This project developed a process to integrate iNaturalist data with existing... Categories: Project; Tags: 2017, All Funded Projects, Best Practices, Citizen Science, Climate Change, All tags... Completed, Computational Tools and Services, Data and Information Assets, Software, iNaturalist, Fewer tags