Cyberinfrastructure

Regularly rerunning forecastings using the newest data is a core aspect of iterative near-term forecasting. This sets a higher bar for repeatability and presents informatic and computational challenges that go beyond most ecological analyses, particularly for forecasts running closer to real-time. The goal of the cyberinfrastructure working group is to make it easier to implement, archive, and share automated iterative forecasts, so that any research group that can develop a forecasting model can deploy it as an automated system. Efforts of this working group include, but are not limited to, the development of standards and databases for transparent, open, and interoperable archiving and sharing or both forecasts and forecast workflows, and the development of shared community tools for data ingest/interoperability and for forecast workflow automation / continuous integration. We will make the components of our infrastructure available through open-source software and open educational resources for using existing tools.

Cyberinfrastructure Working Group Schedule of Calls:
The Cyberinfrastructure & Methods Group will meet jointly on Thursdays at 2pm US Eastern on September 19, October 17, November 21, and December 19. A new schedule for January to May 2025 will be created in December. We are always open to people joining the calls, contact us at eco4cast.initiative@gmail.com

Cyberinfrastructure Blog Posts and Resources

  • https://projects.ecoforecast.org/efi-ci-workshop-2024/ provides a summary of the April 2024 EFI Cyberinfrastructure workshop materials and recommendations. A handbook will be created through this website that will provide CI design principles and best practices to serve as a comprehensive guide, suitable for both beginners and experienced forecasters.
  • Introducing EFI Task Views!, posted April 20, 2020
  • Webpage of Resources for Reproducible Forecasting Workflows
    • The webpage material on “Reproducible Forecasting Workflows” was compiled with the other Task Views on “Uncertainty quantification, Data assimilation, Modeling & Statistics” and “Visualization” on this bookdown site
  • EFI’s response to a NASA RFI on Earth System Predictability Research and Development, May 18, 2020
  • EFI’s response to an NSF Request for Information regarding Data-Focused CI Needs to Support Future Data-Intensive Science and Engineering Research, December 16, 2019
Matt Brousil provides an overview of the Cyberinfrastructure and Methods Working Groups’ progress on the Task Views for the EFI 2022 Conference held May 23-25, 2021.

Notes from Working Group Calls

  1. August 19, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  2. July 22, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  3. June 24, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  4. May 17, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  5. April 26, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  6. March 15, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  7. February 23, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  8. January 19, 2024 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  9. December 8, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  10. November 17, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  11. October 27, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  12. September 29, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  13. August 22, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  14. June 14, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  15. May 10, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  16. April 12, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  17. March 15, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  18. February 15, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  19. January 18, 2023 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  20. December 9, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  21. November 11, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  22. October 14, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  23. September 16, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  24. August 11, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  25. July 21, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  26. June 9, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  27. May 12, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  28. April 14, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  29. March 10, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  30. February 10, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  31. January 13, 2022 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  32. December 7, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  33. November 9, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  34. October 12, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  35. September 21, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  36. August 20, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  37. July 16, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  38. June 25, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  39. May 24, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  40. April 26, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  41. March 29, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  42. March 1, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  43. February 1, 2021 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  44. December 15, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  45. November 17, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  46. October 20, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  47. September 22, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  48. August 24, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  49. July 27, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  50. June 29, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  51. June 1, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  52. May 8, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  53. April 17, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  54. March 27, 2020 – joint CI and Methods Working Groups call
  55. March 6, 2020
  56. February 11, 2020
  57. December 3, 2019
  58. November 12, 2019
  59. October 29, 2019
  60. October 1, 2019
  61. August 29, 2019
  62. July 9, 2019