The National Science Co-ordinators of EarthByte are A/Prof. Dietmar Müller and A/Prof. Louis Moresi. A/Prof. Dietmar Müller is an Australian Geoscience project research leader within the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) and is based in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. A/Prof. Louis Moresi is based in the School of Mathematics at Monash University. Dr. Robert Woodcock from the CSIRO is the National EarthByte Infrastructure Technical Co-ordinator. A/Prof. Dietmar Müller and Dr. Patrice Rey are the University of Sydney EarthByte Science Group Co-ordinators. Dr. Patrice Rey is Senior Lecturer in Structural Geology and Geodynamics in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
A/Prof. Müller will oversee the planning and accountability of the project, coordinating national
and international collaborative infrastructure and data integration efforts. Müller, jointly with
Moresi and Gurnis, will also help implement testbed projects for linking data to dynamic models.
Prof. P. Cawood (Director, TSRC) will coordinate the plate tectonic data integration effort with the
Tectonic Special Research Centre (TSRC), especially with regard to palaeomagnetic data.
A/Prof. L. Moresi, Director of the Monash Cluster Computing (MC2) Facility will play a key role
in test-beds for mantle convection and lithospheric deformation models constrained by EarthByte.
Prof. H. Mühlhaus, Director of the Comp. Geodynamics Group of the Australian Comp. Earth
Science Simulator (AcCESS) MNRF (UQ), will coordinate EarthByte activities with AcCESS.
Dr. P. Rey (University of Sydney, Geosciences) will be testing the connection between Ellipsisbased
numerical lithospheric extension and compression models and EarthByte data.
Prof. A. Zomaya, CISCO Systems Chair of Internetworking at the University of Sydney, will
provide expertise in parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, and cluster computing.
Dr. C. Cervato (Manager, CHRONOS project) will form the liaison between the EarthByte and
CHRONOS projects, ensuring compatible and mutually complementary database development.
Prof. P. Hatherly (Geosciences, Univ. of Sydney) will provide key seismic and logging information
related to mining geophysics.
Prof. M. Coffin (Univ. of Tokyo Ocean Research Institute) will represent a liaison with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and contribute a database for Large Igneous Provinces.
Dr. S. Cox (CSIRO EM) is a recognised international expert in information modelling and service
interface design for the geosciences and will oversee the development of the GPML data format.
Dr. K. Gohl (Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar Research, AWI) will form a liaison to link the
extensive Pangaea sediment database as well as circum-Antarctic tectonic data into EarthByte.
Prof M. Gurnis is the leader of the GeoFramework project which aims to develop a suite of tools to
model multi-scale deformation for Earth Science problems and will run test beds in this area.
Dr W. Roest (Director of Marine Geosciences Department at IFREMER) will contribute large scale
oceanic data compilations and key software API's for grid rotations to EarthByte.
Prof. T. Torsvik (Nowegian Geol. Survey, NGU) is already number one (if you believe the
inscription on his favourite T-shirt). Even though therefore he should not have to work any harder,
he will contribute travel funds, a global database of tectonic data and plate rotations, 20 years of
software and database development expertise and the madness and good humour that is actually
required to get this project done in the time frame given.
Prof. P. Wessel's (Univ. of Hawaii) open GMT software system is used globally by tens of
thousands of geoscientists. He will spend a US-NSF-funded sabbatical at the University of Sydney
from June 2005 to June 2006 to help integrate relevant parts of GMT into EarthByte.
Prof. X. Xie (China University of Geosciences), who recently spent a sabbatical at the University of
Sydney, will contribute relevant data from Chinese sedimentary basins to EarthByte.
Dr. R. Woodcock (CSIRO EM) will provide the primary liaison between the EarthByte project and
the SEE Grid community, ensuring the implementation of compatible open standards and interfaces
development, especially information standards compliant with SEE Grid XMML.
Dr. A. Woolf (UK NERC Data Grid) will form a liaison to the NERC Data Grid community and
ensure the implementation of a compatible, open and extensible infrastructure that allows data
access services to be chained via plug-in data translation tools, especially for gridded data.
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