Centers and Large Facilities - Education and Outreach
Project Name: GEON |
Location: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego |
Contact information: Dogan Seber, seber@sdsc.edu; (858) 822-5409 |
Website: www.geongrid.org |
Main Project description/purpose |
GEON is a collaborative research project designed to build a comprehensive earth science cyberinfrastructure to enable interdisciplinary research. The project develops resources for distributed data sharing, data archiving, data integration, and high-end computational environments. GEON also provides training and outreach services in the form of summer institutes, workshops, webcasts, and scientific exhibits. |
Education and Outreach Mission and Goals |
The mission of the GEON Education and Outreach program is to educate the next generation of earth scientists in the area of information technology and help them build technology-based resources to enable them to conduct more efficient and effective scientific research.
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Primary Audience(s) served (i.e., high school teachers, college students, etc.) |
Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Scientists |