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[Poster] CyVerse: Transforming Science Through Data Driven Discovery

CyVerse: Transforming Science Through Data Driven Discovery

CyVerse is a provider of cohesive and extensible cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs for global academic research communities, national defense projects, health care research, and commercial organizations. Our CI supports a wide diversity of users from students, domain experts, developers, and IT professionals. CyVerse provides:

  • Public CyVerse global academic research and teaching
  • On-prem deployments and cloud deployments
  • Security compliance (HIPPA, ITAR, ISO, etc.)
  • Federation with on-prem and commercial cloud, data storage, and HPC resources
  • Integration with local user identity management systems.
  • Zero-effort collaboration for data-driven projects across organizational boundaries
  • Support for cloud-native technologies and resources
  • Extensible and well-documented APIs
  • Build and engaged communities of diverse users
  • Extensive training materials and sharing of best practices

[Poster] The Arecibo Observatory: Big Dreams into Action

The Arecibo Observatory: Big Dreams into Action

After the collapse of the radio telescope, Arecibo has been resilient focusing on archival data analysis, commissioning new on-site instruments, attracting and accomplishing new science, and studying concepts for a new main instrument with increased capabilities to achieve new discoveries in the future. As always, the Arecibo Team is also providing exceptional STEM education opportunities for students ranging from K-12 to graduate levels.

September 14, 2022

Presenter:
Olga Figueroa, Director, The Arecibo Observatory

[Poster] How We Strengthened Major Facility Oversight with NSF: Highlights of NSF Office of Inspector General Audit Work

How We Strengthened Major Facility Oversight with NSF: Highlights of NSF Office of Inspector General Audit Work

The National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General Office of Audits has completed a decade of work focused on improving NSF, and recipient, major facility oversight. Our work spans a facility’s life from construction and operations to divestments. NSF has partnered with us in implementing recommended improvements. NSF has improved its oversight, including creating a tracking tool for equipment at major facility recipients; requiring recipient incurred cost audits and accounting system reviews; and developing numerous standard operating guidance surrounding contingency, management reserve, management fee, and cost estimates, just to name a few.

[Poster] The Build America, Buy America Act

The Build America, Buy America Act

Information about the Build America, Buy America Act requirements, guidance documents, the waiver and comment process, and how NSF is implementing the Act.

[Poster] The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI: an Overview —— Communications Campaigns for NHERI Network Facilities

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI: an Overview —— Communications Campaigns for NHERI Network Facilities

NHERI, the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, is a 12-node network of facilities dedicated to mitigating natural hazards damage to the built, natural, and social environments.

The NHERI communications team, headquartered at Purdue University, conducts rolling communications campaigns for its twelve network facilities. This approach increases the impact of communications efforts, benefiting each facility.

[Poster] O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

The Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, established in 1972, is a state-of-the-art Center conducting both applied and fundamental research to address ocean, coastal and nearshore processes via physical model experiments. Hinsdale makes learning and discovery possible. With two large-scale experimental facilities, investigators are able to perform physical model testing of coastal systems subject to the action of tsunamis, waves, and/or storm surge. A large variety of projects have been carried out at the Laboratory including wave propagation, wave-structure interaction, stability of coastal structures, beach erosion, offshore structures, bio-fouling, floating structures, and testing of renewable energy devices.

[Poster] Accuracy. Precision. Cost Uncertainty And Mid-Scale Projects

Accuracy. Precision. Cost Uncertainty And Mid-Scale Projects

ACCURACY . PRECISION . COST UNCERTAINTY. in the Context of Budget Estimation.
  • PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR MID-SCALE RI PROJECTS — SCIENCE FOUNDATION Work Break Down Structure (WBS) Performance Measurement and Management Earned Value Management (EVM) Earned Value Management System (EVMS)“ A Mid-scale RI project should follow project planning and management practices that suit the scale and complexity of the project while supporting sound performance measurement and management needs. Examples of some key practices are highlighted below.
  • PROJECT EXECUTION PLAN — Project Execution Plan (PEP) is required for all mid-scale projects in order to document the foundation for how the project will be managed by the Recipient during the construction stage (also referred to as implementation). Concurrence on an initial PEP must be reached between NSF and the proposing organization. It is reasonable to expect the PEP to evolve during the execution of the award. The following list provides the minimum required components of the PEP for a mid-scale project. The contents of each PEP component should be tailored in both detail and scope to the specifics of the project.
  • SCHEDULE — schedule is a management tool used for planning and executing work. It addresses both how and when the work is to be performed by identifying the activities needed to accomplish the scope of work and by time-phasing these activities with durations and schedule logic. Time-phasing involves identifying the key relationships between activities to determine the proper sequence necessary to accomplish the work.