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Description
Date;: 11/6/2017
Presenter: Christine Kirkpatrick (SDSC) & Niall Gaffney (TACC)
Institutions: San Diego Supercomputer Center; Texas Advanced Computing Center
West Big Data Hub
B
B
You
know,
especially
given
so
many
new
tools
in
something
like
compared
to
you
know
Hurricane
Katrina,
and
so
that's.
When
I
first
became
aware
of
the
standby
task
force,
which
is
just
standby
task
force
org
they
have
a
website,
but
it's
not
as
up-to-date
as
what
they're
doing
but,
like
you
know,
like
all
volunteer
organizations
or
even
some
non
volunteer
organizations
what
they
do
and
again
I'm,
not
an
official
spokesperson,
but
I
was
given
some
clearance
to
talk
informally.
B
You
know
they
do
things
like
try
and
build
crisis
maps
do
assessments
of
infrastructure,
especially
when
a
any
kind
of
agency.
In
the
most
recent
case,
FEMA
or
the
Coast
Guard
says
you
know,
we
could
really
use
some
volunteers
on
X,
so
I
went
through
a
process
where
you
fill
out
a
Google,
Form
and
I.
Guess
you
know
they
they
just
vet.
You
slightly
to
make
sure
that
you
sound
like
you
could
be
helpful
and
I.
Don't
know
the
criteria
for
vetting
make
sure
that
they've
got
your
contact
info.
B
Excuse
me
and
then,
following
that
here
added
to
their
slack
channel
and
then
there's
also
a
legacy
on
Ning
site
I.
Never
knew
how
to
say
that,
but
the
Ning
site
nominally
keeps
track
of
who
the
members
are
and
it's
the
place
where
they
have
their
their
training
and
every
member
is
required
to
go
through
basically
two
PowerPoint
presentations
that
then
have
quizzes
at
the
end
and
the
first
one
for
people.
The
types
of
people
on
this
call
is
a
little
excruciating,
but
it's
just
to
level
set.
B
Okay,
we've
got
a
deployment,
that's
going
to
start
at
this
date
and
time,
here's
a
sign-up
sheet,
and
then
you
really
how
the
work
works
and
I
did
this
for
Emma,
as
you
hang
out
in
the
slack
Channel
and
you
work
through
shared
Google
Spreadsheets,
the
the
basic
work
for
something
like
Emma
can
be
trying
to
figure
out
which
hash
tags
and
keywords
people
are
using
includes
coding,
misspellings
I
know,
I
found
tons
of
stuff.
That
was
imra
and
you
know
trying
to
monitor
for
things
that
might
be
difficult.
B
B
There's
one
ongoing
right
now
for
helping
FEMA
to
assess
the
road
infrastructure
in
Puerto
Rico,
and
it
can
involve
going
through
satellite
imagery
and
FEMA's
public
to
for
denote,
eNOS,
I,
guess
I've
only
I'm
not
on
this
deployment,
but
I
did
see
what
the
tool
looks
like
for
buildings,
and
you
just
have
a
you
know.
A
few
simple
options
totally
destroyed,
minimal
damage
looks
fine
and
then
that
helps
them
to
to
bend
things
for
you
know
what
to
check
on
first
or
you
know,
integrate
with
other
data
sources
with
Ella's
work
for
the
Coast
Guard.
B
B
Time,
of
course,
so
I
felt
like
rather
than
doing,
searches.
I
wish.
I
was,
you
know,
writing
Python,
but
you
know
I,
guess,
there's
only
so
many
hours
in
the
day.
So
that's
really
the
the
recap.
If
you'd
like
to
sign
up
to
be
part
of
the
standby
task,
force
go
to
standby
task
force
org
and
you
should
find
the
links
are
there?
Does
anyone
have
any
questions
or
comments?
B
A
Is
Lea
Shanley
I've
been
deeply
embedded
actually
into
my
prior
life
at
the
Wilson
Center
was
working
with
these
groups,
including
standby
task
for
his
humanitarian
OpenStreetMap
team
crisis,
Commons
humanity
and
a
variety
of
other
virtual
operation
support
teams.
There
is
a
whole
host
of
these
volunteer
groups
out
there
that
harnessed
the
crowd.
All
of
them
are
mobilizing
very
actively
for
the
response
for
Harvey
for
Emma,
for
the
earthquake
in
Mexico
for
flooding
in
India
I'm
about
to
send
out
a
link
to
the
crowd
in
the
cloud
which
is
a
PBS
TV
series
on
crowdsourcing.
A
They
very
kindly
aggregated
a
lot
of
these
links
to
these
different
groups
on
their
homepage
right
now,
so
you
can
go
and
check
that
out.
I,
really
like
humanitarian
OpenStreetMap
team,
because
I
think
they've
been
very
rigorous
in
their
mobilizing
the
mapping
community
and
trying
to
ensure
a
high
data
quality,
there's
also
a
project
on
the
universe
that
is
doing.
Satellite
image
interpretations
to
the
crowd
and
I
would
I'm
a
little
cautious
of
digital
Globes.
A
Thomna
they've
had
some
ethical
issues
with
that,
but
that
they
still
could
potentially
have
some
good
applications
there
to
check
out
Sofia
Lu
from
US
Geological
Survey
their
innovation
officer
and
also
helps
to
run
the
federal
community
on
crowdsourcing
now
has
been
mobilizing
people.
She
sent
me
an
invitation.
We
probably
could
forward
it
they're
having
a
tag
or
stand
up
every
day
at
4:00
for
those
who
want
to
help
FEMA
in
this
kind
of
crowdsourcing
activities.
B
You
reminded
me
of
one
thing:
I
didn't
mention
that
someone
especially
like
Andrew
might
be
interested
in
this
one.
One
group
that
you
can
volunteer
with
em
with
in
standby
task
forces
to
be
on
and,
of
course,
I'm
not
going
to
get
the
name
right
of
this
group,
but
I
think
it's
like
the
empathy
team
or
the
compassion
team,
and
it
is
really
hard
when
you're
going
through
lots
of
messages
from
desperate
people
seen
seen
pictures
of
things
that
aren't
going
to
be
fixed
anytime
soon.
I
didn't
partake
of
that.
B
A
Another
thing
to
consider
is
gif
score
takes
people
with
each
technical
skill,
so
their
requirement
to
volunteer
for
them
is
that
you've
had
at
least
five
years
of
GIS
remote
sensing
or
data
science
experience,
and
they
do
very
targeted
mobilization,
so
they
get
activated
by
the
United
Nations
World
Bank
USA
be
other
response
organizations.
They
work
very
closely
with
those
organizations
and
their
volunteers
not
only
work
remotely
but
often
go
on
site
to
help
out
with
the
response
efforts.
A
So
that's
another
group
to
look
towards
if
you're,
looking
for
more
active
engagement
on
this
response
and
have
and
have
that
you
know
technical
skills,
I
also
believe
Code
for
America
should
mention
was
looking
for
programmers
to
help
out,
particularly
on
api's.
You
know
to
create
interactive
maps
and
things
for
people,
and
you
know
where
they
could
fight
food
or
shelter
or
medical
care,
etc.
D
D
We
have
other
folks
who
are
doing
more
sort
of
flood
and
coastal
flooding
simulations
based
on
both
measured
and
projected
forecasting,
and
that
was
sort
of
the
interesting
part
that
we
had
here,
because
dr.
David
Meghnath
here
who's
the
center
for
water
research
was
called
by
the
Texas
Task
Force
one
folks
who
are
there
the
folks
who
were
sending
people
out
into
the
field
to
go?
D
It
sort
of
a
larger
level,
but
then
also
starting
to
disseminate
that
information
out
to
the
responders
in
the
field,
so
really
sort
of
a
you
know,
take
everything
from
from
a
high
level
map
down
to
almost
a
building
by
building
prediction
and
projection
on
those
things,
the
first
time
it
was
tried-
and
we
had
you
know
success
in
a
lot
of
ways.
It
was
good
for
them.
They
just
have
data.
You
know
the
accuracy
of
it
was
a
little
I
would
say
it
wasn't
perfect,
but
it
was
a
lot
better
than
having
absolutely
nothing.
D
Besides.
You
know
people
driving
down
the
road
and
then
pointing
out
where
things
were
flooded
or
what
bridges
were
down.
So
you
know
there
was.
It
was
a
successful
project
that
we
had
going
through
that
and
we
hope
to
continue
expanding,
that
and
and
refining
the
national
water
model
of
some
level
to
give
us
a
more
accurate
basis
for
for
predicting
storm
and
storm
surges
and
river
flooding
during
storms
like
Harvey.
We.
D
Were
you
know
it
was?
It
was
a
key
thing
for
me
at
least,
because
my
sister
is
part
of
the
Texas
Task
Force
one.
She
has
a
search-and-rescue
dogs
and
you
know
really
being
able
to
get
the
information
quickly
out
to
people
in
that
period
of
time
is
very
important,
and
so
that's
one
of
the
things
that
I
hope
that
you
know
not
just
tact
but
other
centers
will
be
able
to
do,
and
we
can
you
know
refine
all
of
this
and
moving
forward
and-
and
you
know
hopefully
can
save
some
lives
here.
C
Interesting
so
Lindsey
have
been
dealing
with
some
of
these
same
issues
and
we
don't
the
national
water
mom
yeah.
We
don't
what
we
think.
We
run
our
ad
sort
of
quite
a
bit
here
and
you
know
for
strength
which
is
a
storm
surge
of
protection
could
and
it
doesn't.
If
it
would
be
mitigation,
it
will
give
inundation
up
the
river
channels
too,
but
it
lacks
in
a
great
as
far
as
I
understand
it
much
for
Mac's
integration
with
the
with
the
water
model
itself.
You
know
the
inland
flooding
stuff.
C
It's
a
website
called
NC
Sarah
is
I,
can
remember
where
it's
done
from
it,
but
the
model
runs
happening
here.
I
think
it's
at
LSU
that
the
website
is
actually
stored
and
they
have
you
know
pretty
detailed
way
of
presenting
the
information
from
the
model
runs
and
what
would
be
good
and
they
have
some
live.
Just
I
believe
that
some
way
of
distributing
it
already
to
the
first
responders,
and
so
it
might
be
instructed
at
least
to
have
a
look
absolutely.
D
C
D
Here
so
there
was
interest
here
in
trying
to
you
know.
Most
of
these
innovation
models,
at
least
from
the
coastal
flooding
of
storm
surge,
are
very
localized
Christine's.
You
know
you
do
Galveston
Bay,
you
do.
You
know
Corpus
Christi,
but
but
actually
you
know
expanding
that
and
getting
the
sort
of
edge
conditions
and
and
all
of
the
difference
in
you
know,
going
out
to
a
larger
scale
was
sort
of
the
next
big
thing.
I
know
that
they're
working
to
do
there.
C
D
A
So
this
is
for
the
last
nine
months.
Oh
and
I
have
organized
a
series
of
informal
calls.
We
haven't
advertised
it
to
the
whole
hub,
but
the
group
is
growing
that
includes
Rick
and
Larry
band,
junket,
all
Jared
bales
from
collapsing
the
USGS
data
science,
water
data,
science
team
and
several
others
to
scope
out
what
are
the
water
data
challenge
or
what
our
data
science
challenges
to.
C
C
B
Hi
Lee
I
know
some
as
the
West
hub
here
who
would
be
interested
in
the
Nexus,
yeah
and
Niall.
Your
comments
reminded
me
where
Santa
San,
Diego
supercomputer
centers,
really
put
a
lot
of
emphasis,
is
in
wildfire
response
when
it
of
course
have
as
much
as
some
others
have
hurricane
activity,
and
so
the
big
project
there,
which
I
know
you
know
about,
but
for
others,
is
why
fire
WI
fire
like
wildfire
and
through
that
project
and
through
that
area
we've
become
a
part
of
what
emerged.
B
D
B
When
what
we
learned
from
working
with
firefighters-
and
this
isn't
something
I
learned,
but
okay,
I'll
Quinta
choose
the
PI
and
many
of
these
projects.
You
know
she
describes
that
what
they
want
to
be
able
to
do
is
tell
the
person
on
the
ground
go
right
or
go
left
and
it's
not
more
complicated
than
that.
And
so
yes,
it's
a
very
hard
thing
for
an
academic
to
to
distill
to
a
very,
very
simple
binary
answer.
But
that
is
what
our
first
responders
need.
C
B
D
B
E
Mean
this
is
John.
Blood
Leah
might
have
answered
this,
that
innit
past
10
minutes,
I've
kind
of
heard
this
extraordinary
patchwork
of
Hertz
that'll
feel
kind
of
separate.
It
is
in
fact,
on
the
ground
when
a
disaster
happens,
does
this
all
come
together,
seamlessly
and
and
there's
people
know
how
to
coordinate
at
all
or
or
is
it
kind
of
more
of
a
collision
of
sometimes
happier
on
accident
at
the
accidents
when
the
resources
show
up.
B
Well,
at
least
for
the
Y
fire
project,
which
is
reasonably
well
funded
and
has
you
know,
supported
connections
like
with
the
Los
Angeles,
Fire
Department
and
in
local
Cal
Fire
in
our
state.
It
does
work
even
for
things
that
aren't
making.
You
know
the
headlines
in
all
of
our
West
Coast
papers.
You
know
the
you
know
they
are
working
together
operationally
very
often
for
other
efforts.
I
I
can't
speak
to
that.
Thank
you.
B
I
know
that
when
I
was
part
of
you,
you
have
a
core
group
of
people
who
are
regular
volunteers
and
they
seem
to
kind
of
hum
along
and
the
new
people.
You
know
struggle
to
be
useful,
but
they're
the
standby
task
force
seems
to
have
a
model.
That's
that's
well
honed,
it's
not
always
the
right,
the
right
tool
for
the
hurricane
because,
as
we
saw
with
Irma,
the
cell
cell
towers
were
knocked
out
in
the
Caribbean,
and
so
those
people
certainly
would
have
liked
to
be
getting
our.
A
E
A
Time
the
groups
have
really
begun
to
professionalize,
as
you
say
that
the
core
group
of
volunteers
and
the
leadership
and
one
of
my
roles
back
at
the
Wilson
Center,
was
to
help
these
groups
form
nonprofits
with
governance
boards
and
sustain
funding
and
connect
them
with
the
promo
response
organizations,
and
one
thing
that
un
OCHA,
which
is
the
office
of
humanitarian
affairs
or
humanitarian
coordination.
What
to
do
is
they
do
a
really
nice
kind
of
information
needs
assessment,
one
looking
at
decision-makers
in
emergency
response,
both
back
office
and
kind
of
boots
in
the
field.
A
What
kind
of
information
says
they
need?
What,
when
did
they
need
it
and
what
form
did
they
need
it
to
make
decisions?
And
then
how
do
we
help
those
crowdsource
volunteers
to
produce
those
kinds
of
information?
So
it's
not
just
a
mad
data
scramble,
which
is
what
it
was
initially
and
on
the
flip
side,
they
also
created
guidebooks
on
okay,
if
you're
an
emergency
responder.
How
do
I
work
with
digital
volunteer
groups,
because
what
you
have
is
a
very
hierarchical
formal
response
organization
and
a
very
flat
distributed
organic
crowd-sourced
information,
so
kind
of
organizationally.
A
So,
satellite
that
success
was
the
humanitarian
OpenStreetMap,
be
he
doesn't
specifically
in
fact,
with
Haiti.
They
were
at
may
able
to
map
that
damaged
a.
He
was
in
a
matter
of
days
that
took
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
three
weeks
and
they
have
a
live
video.
You
can
see
all
the
notes
that
we're
added
soon.
C
A
C
A
Same
place,
they
have
a
seasoned
volunteer.
Maybe
do
the
checking
so
there's
sufficient
quality
control
procedures,
and
then
you
check
it
back
in
and
you
have
all
the
volunteers
suddenly
you've
created
that
mosaic
yeah,
but
they
do
it
engrave
it.
If
now
have
a
really
well
developed
workflow
system.
That
allows
me
to
check
in
and
check
out
at
these
different
points
and.
C
A
Know
if
they'll
get
funded,
but
it
was,
it
was
definitely
quasi
as
interested
in
serving
as
a
store
or
repository
for
crowd-sourced
data
and
how
to
integrate
it
with
the
data
that
they
traditionally
keep
and
one
of
the
data
quality
issues
they
have
to
consider.
So
maybe
we
could
get
John
and
Jared
to
come
talk
about
it.
The
next
meeting
yeah.
B
This
is
Christine
to
that
point.
Exactly
the
standby
task
force
just
had
a
deployment
for
doing
just
what
Lia
described
with
the
tiled
images
for
road
conditions
and
I'll
I'll
paste
the
example
map
that
was
generated.
Hopefully
it
won't
prompt
you
for
a
login.
You
can
click
around
and
avoid
that.
But
that'll
give
you
an
example
of
how
this
data
looks
when
it's
kind
of
in
its
final
usable
form.
D
Along
those
lines,
the
other
thing
that
might
be
some
interest,
you
know
we're
part
of
the
design
safe
project,
which
is
a
natural
hazards.
Civil
engineering,
it's
the
old
and
hairy
project
is
what
it
is,
but
they,
you
know
it
really
they've
built
up
a
rather
nice
portal
that
allows
you
to
bring
in
data
share
data
and
then
compute
on
things
largely
you
know
this
is
going
to
be.
You
know,
initially
it's
coming
in
from
from
the
different
labs
that
are
doing.
D
You
know,
water,
you
know
wave,
wave,
experiments
and
shake
tables
and
all
those
sort
of
things,
but
it
we
did
wind
up
putting
some
of
the
data
in
there
for
people
to
look
at
and
it
gives
a
nice
infrastructure
for
people
to
you
know
work
on
different
data.
That's
been,
you
know
fairly
well,
curated,
your
at
least
it's
tagged
and
you
know
allows
allows
people
to
just
get
the
resources
they
need
and
hopefully
discover
and
put
these
things
together.
So.