The GLASSNET team is awarded an NSF...

The GLASSNET team is awarded an NSF AccelNet grant to develop the global network for sustainability research

Entry #1179

14 Sep 2020

2:07 pm

A Purdue team led by Professor Thomas Hertel has been awarded a new $2 million dollar grant to establish a global network of scientific teams and research communities to work together and tackle sustainability issues related to land and water use across the globe. One of the goals of GLASSNET is to reduce barriers to information-sharing by creating global linkages between researchers. "LASSNET will act as a center without walls to break down global communication barriers through a synergistic mix of models, data, spatial scales, tools, disciplines, expertise, cultures, key regional test beds, and open access commitment to fill the SDG integration gap. Collaborators on the project are X. Carol Song (Purdue University); Matthew Huber (Purdue University); Stephen Polasky (University of Minnesota); and Danielle Grogan (University of New Hampshire). The team will focus specifically on the land- and water-related SDGs, including: SDG 1 No Poverty; SDG 2 Zero Hunger; SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production; SDG 13 Climate Action; SDG 14 Life Below Water; and SDG 15 Life on Land." MyGeoHub will play a key role to enable information sharing and collaboration among the international teams of researchers and students.

More information about the project can be found in Purdue's news release and NSF's award page.

About the author

Carol Song

Carol is a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where she is the director of the Scientific Solutions group. She leads the group in developing cyberinfrastructure to support scientific research and educational needs through collaboration with researchers at Purdue, elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally. Carol leads a number of NSF funded projects as principal investigator, including the TeraGrid Resource Partner and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects at Purdue, the DRINET data interoperability project and, mostly recently, an NSF Data Infrastructure Building Blocks implementation project. Prior to joining Purdue, she worked in industry for eight years leading development of software products and standards for network medical imaging technologies, and publishing and storage solutions. She also founded her own software company at Purdue Research Park, funded by NSF SBIR and Indiana 21st Century grants, developing mobile computing software solutions. Carol worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC when the center was first created and developed one of the first scientific visualization tools used in academic. Carol received her Ph.D. in computer science in from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion.

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