Award Abstract # 1842088
2018 NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure PI Workshop

NSF Org: OAC
Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient: KEYSTONE INITIATIVE FOR NETWORK BASED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Initial Amendment Date: August 22, 2018
Latest Amendment Date: August 22, 2018
Award Number: 1842088
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Kevin Thompson
kthompso@nsf.gov
 (703)292-4220
OAC
 Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2018
End Date: August 31, 2019 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $90,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $90,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2018 = $90,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Gwendolyn Huntoon (Principal Investigator)
    huntoon@kinber.org
  • Jennifer Leasure (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research
101 W LINCOLN AVE STE 10
LITITZ
PA  US  17543-1060
(717)963-7490
Sponsor Congressional District: 11
Primary Place of Performance: Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research
5775 Allentown Blvd
Harrisburg
PA  US  17112-4051
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
10
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): MV5VCLNQDF47
Parent UEI: MV5VCLNQDF47
NSF Program(s): Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Primary Program Source: 01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):
Program Element Code(s): 808000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

The 2018 Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure PI Workshop builds upon the success of the previous Campus Cyberinfrastructure Workshops providing an opportunity for recipients of all active NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) awards to meet in person, exchange project findings, interact with national cyberinfrastructure experts and collaborate across project areas and project regions. By again co-locating with the Quilt Fall Member Meeting, the broader scope encourages relationships between campus cyberinfrastructure, science driven applications, cybersecurity, and regional and national cyberinfrastructure resources. Based on last year's experience, we have updated the meeting schedule to provide additional opportunities for interaction between PIs themselves as well as between the three groups participating in the meetings. New to the 2018 PI Workshop is an expanded pre-workshop set of breakout sessions half-day breakout sessions on topics relevant to academic research networking challenges facing campuses and CC* and CICI PI teams.

The intellectual merit of this project is the exchange of project findings, interaction between national cyberinfrastructure experts, collaboration across project areas and project regions that will lead to new ideas, relationships and collaborations associated with an in person workshop. The half-day cyberinfrastructure engineering session will provide timely insights into growing practice of cyberinfrastructure facilitation in the campus environment that can be shared with the co-located meeting attendees as well as the community in general. The broader impact associated with the workshop includes the dissemination of workshop information, including the workshop presentations. By co-locating with the Quilt meeting the workshop continues to bring together stakeholders with a vested interest in leveraging campus cyberinfrastructure investments to provide the opportunity to develop stronger ties between campus cyberinfrastructure, science driven applications and regional and national cyberinfrastructure resources, leading to a broader set of collaborations and lasting impact on national campus cyberinfrastructure and science driven applications.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

Disclaimer

This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.

The 2018 CC* and CICI Workshop was held in College Park, MD in September 2018 continuing the practice of moving the location of the workshop to facilitate attendance from a diverse set of participants.  Total attendance over the two collocated meetings was 242 people.  This included 104 PIs and staff associated with CC* awards, 29 PIs and staff associated with CICI awards, and 10 individuals who represented awards under both programs.  These PIs and staff represented 113 different universities and organizations with 25 institutions ending more than one participant. Attendees provided new or updated Virtual Business Cards (VBC), a one-page powerpoint slide that included basic information on the PIs, the individual projects with contact information as well as a project quad chart summarizing their projects. Three pre-workshop breakout sessions were offered in collaborations with other NSF projects of interest to the PIs with over 75 attendees from over 45 organizations attending the breakouts. 


As with the past PI Workshops, the most visible outcome of the 2018 Workshop was the availability of the workshop presentations, meeting notes and other supplemental material online as a resource for the project PI?s, their staff and collaborators as well as the broader cyberinfrastructure community.  The Workshop provides an opportunity for the exchange of information, project findings, new collaborations and ideas occurring through both formal presentations as well as informal interactions between the workshop attendees.  An additional outcome of the workshop is the adoption of new cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity techniques, technologies and methods by a diverse set of campuses and disciplines. The VBCs and project quad charts, which are linked to the workshop rosters so available after the workshop, provide an easy mechanism for the participants, and their project colleagues, to follow up on information and possible collaborations after the workshop. New to the 2018 Workshop were the Speed Learning sessions, providing the opportunity for  small group discussions on topics of interest to the participants.  


By collocating with The Quilt Fall Member Meeting and including external participants, such as PIs from expired cyberinfrastructure grants and ESnet staff members, the workshop continues to provide an opportunity to develop strong ties between the campus cyberinfrastructure project staff and the regional and national networking community. It is expected that the in-depth knowledge exchange between program PIs, regional network leaders and ESnet technical staff will lead to improved cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity resources as they are applied to science research and education applications nationwide. 


Last Modified: 12/30/2019
Modified by: Gwendolyn Huntoon

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