James Frew

Associate Professor
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131

Short biography

James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB's Earth Research Institute (ERI).

His research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences. He is interested in information architectures that improve the discoverability, usability, and reliability of distributed environmental information. Trained as a geographer, he has worked in remote sensing, image processing, software architecture, massive distributed data systems, and digital libraries. His current research is focused on geospatial information provenance, science data curation, and applications of array databases, using remote sensing data products as operational test beds. He has affiliate appointments in UCSB's Geography and Computer Science departments.

He received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image Processing Workbench, an open-source set of software tools for remote sensing image processing. He served as both the Manager and the Acting Director of UCSB's Computer Systems Laboratory (ERI's predecessor), and as the Associate Director of the Sequoia 2000 Project, a 3-year $14M multi-campus consortium formed to investigate large-scale data management aspects of global change problems. He was a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative), where he directed the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) testbed system. He also served on the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science Data Utilization, and as President (2009-2011) of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners. During the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 academic years he was a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics.

Contents

Research Interests

Environmental/geospatial information management; digital archiving and curation; scientific computing environments; information provenance.

Education

All degrees in Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara

• Ph.D. 1990 (dissertation: The Image Processing Workbench)
• M.A. 1980 (thesis: Remote sensing of snow surface albedo)
• B.A. 1977

Employment

• 2015-2016: Visiting Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
• 2005-2006: Visiting Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
• 2004-current: Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 2004-current: Affiliated Faculty, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 2004-current: Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1997-2004: Assistant Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1993-1997: Specialist, Institute for Computational Earth System Science and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1991-1993: Research Engineer, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1988-1991: Computing Resources Manager, Computer Systems Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1988: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1986-1988: Programmer/Analyst, Computer Systems Laboratory and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1983-1986: Research Assistant, Computer Systems Laboratory and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 1980-1981: Lecturer, Department of Geography and Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Awards and Honors

• 2010: Distinguished Teaching Award, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1992: Group Achievement Award, NASA Climate and Land Data System Operations and Development Team

Publications

Contact me for copies of any of these publications you are otherwise unable to access.

Refereed (Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Proceedings)

1. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1981. Atmospheric corrections to satellite radiometric data over rugged terrain. Remote Sensing of Environment, 11: 191-205. doi:10.1016/0034-4257(81)90019-5
2. Nichols, D., Frew, J., Marks, D., Lohman, G. and Wallgren, K., 1982. Digital hardware. In: R. Colwell (Editor), Manual of Remote Sensing. American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, VA, pp. 841-871.
3. Marks, D., Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1984. Automated basin delineation from digital elevation data. Geo-Processing, 2: 299-311.
4. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1990. Rapid calculation of terrain parameters for radiation modeling from digital elevation data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 28(5): 963-969. doi:10.1109/36.58986
5. Stonebraker, M., Frew, J., Gardels, K. and Meredith, J., 1993. The Sequoia 2000 benchmark. In: P. Buneman and S. Jajodia (Editors), ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. ACM Press, Washington, DC, pp. 2-11. doi:10.1145/170035.170038
6. Stonebraker, M., Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1993. The SEQUOIA 2000 Project. In: D. Abel and B. Ooi (Editors), SSD'93 Third International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Singapore, pp. 397-412. doi:10.1007/3-540-56869-7_22
7. Frew, J., 1994. Bigfoot: an Earth science computing environment for the Sequoia 2000 Project. In: W. Michener, J. Brunt and S. Stafford (Editors), Environmental Information Management and Analysis. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 113-125. ISBN: 0-7484-0123-7
8. Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1997. Data management for Earth system science. SIGMOD Record, 26(1): 27-31. https://www.sigmod.org/publications/sigmod-record/9703/Special/frew.ps
9. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Janée, G., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1998. The Alexandria Digital Library architecture. In: C. Nikolaou and C. Stephanidis (Editors), ECDL '98 Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heraklion, Greece, pp. 61-73. doi:10.1007/3-540-49653-X_5
10. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Hill, L., Janée, G., Larsgaard, M. and Zheng, Q., 1999. Generic query metadata for geospatial digital libraries. Meta-Data '99 Third IEEE META-DATA Conference, Bethesda, MD.
11. Hill, L., Janée, G., Dolin, R., Frew, J. and Larsgaard, M., 1999. Collection metadata solutions for digital library applications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 50(13): 1169-1181. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:13<1169::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-3
12. Hill, L., Carver, L., Larsgaard, M., Dolin, R., Smith, T., Frew, J. and Rae, M.A., 2000. Alexandria Digital Library: User evaluation studies and system design. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 51(3): 246-259. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:3<246::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-6
13. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Janée, G., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 2000. The Alexandria Digital Library architecture. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(4): 259-268. doi:10.1007/PL00021470
    
14. Smith, T., Janée, G., Frew, J. and Coleman, A., 2001. The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype System. In: E.A. Fox and C.L. Borgman (Editors), JCDL 2001: First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Roanoke, VA, pp. 118-119. doi:10.1145/379437.379463
15. Frew, J. and Bose, R., 2001. Earth System Science Workbench: A Data Management Infrastructure for Earth Science Products. In: L. Kerschberg and M. Kafatos (Editors), SSDBM 2001 Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. IEEE Computer Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, pp. 180-189. doi:10.1109/SSDM.2001.938550
16. Janée, G. and Frew, J., 2002. The ADEPT digital library architecture. Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Portland, OR, pp. 342-350. doi:10.1145/544220.544306
17. Smith, T., Zeng, M.L., Agapova, O., Buchel, O., Freeston, M., Frew, J., Hill, L., Smart, L., Tierney, T. and Ushakov, A., 2002. Structured models of scientific concepts for organizing, accessing, and using learning materials. Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Portland, OR. doi:10.1145/544220.544355
18. Janée, G., Frew, J., and Valentine, D., 2003. Content access characterization in digital libraries. Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Houston, TX. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827140.827185
19. Ancona, D., Frew, J., Janée, G., and Valentine, D., 2004. Accessing the Alexandria Digital Library from Geographic Information Systems. Fourth ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ. doi:10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336101
20. Bose, R., and Frew, J., 2004. Composing Lineage Metadata with XML for Custom Satellite-Derived Data Products. Sixteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Santorini Island, Greece, 21-23 June 2004. doi:10.1109/SSDBM.2004.23
21. Bose, R. and Frew, J., 2005. Lineage Retrieval for Scientific Data Processing: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1-28. doi:10.1145/1057977.1057978
22. Janée, G., Frew, J., 2005. A Hybrid Declarative/Procedural Metadata Mapping Language Based on Python. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3652, Sep 2005, Pages 302 - 313. doi:10.1007/11551362_27
23. Frew, J., Metzger, D., Slaughter, P., 2007. Automatic capture and reconstruction of computational provenance. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 20(5) 485-496. doi:10.1002/cpe.1247
24. Janée, G., Mathena, J. and Frew, J., 2008. A Data Model and Architecture for Long-term Preservation. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 134-144. doi:10.1145/1378889.1378912
25. Frew, J. and Slaughter, P., 2008. ES3: A Demonstration of Transparent Provenance for Scientific Computation. Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes, Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 17-18, 2008. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89965-5_21
26. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 2008. Computational Provenance in Hydrologic Science: A Snow Mapping Example. Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society 367(1890) 1021-1033. doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0187
27. Dozier, J., Painter, T.H., Rittger, K., and Frew, J., 2008. Time-space continuity of daily maps of fractional snow cover and albedo from MODIS. Advances in Water Resources 31: 1515-1526. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.011
28. Janée, G., Frew, J. and Moore, T. 2009. Relay-supporting Archives: Requirements and Progress. International Journal of Digital Curation 4(1) 57-70. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v4i1.78
29. Frew, J., Janée, G., and Slaughter, P. 2011. Provenance-Enabled Automatic Data Publishing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6809, Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp. 244-252. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22351-8_14
30. Hardy, D., Frew, J., and Goodchild, M.F. 2012. Volunteered geographic information production as a spatial process. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 26(7) 1191-1212. doi:10.1080/13658816.2011.629618
31. Frew, J. and Dozier, J. 2012. Environmental Informatics. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37: 449-472. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-042711-121244
32. Planthaber, G., Stonebraker, M., Frew, J. 2012. EarthDB: scalable analysis of MODIS data using SciDB. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, BigSpatial '12, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, pp. 11-19. doi:10.1145/2447481.2447483
33. Groth, P., and Frew, J. (eds.) 2012. Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. 4th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2012, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34222-6
34. Fournier, E., Keller, A., Geyer, R., Frew, J. 2016. Investigating the Energy-Water Usage Efficiency of the Reuse of Treated Municipal Wastewater for Artificial Groundwater Recharge. Environmental Science & Technology 50(4) 2044–2053. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b04465
35. Rilee, M.L., Griessbaum, N., Kuo, K.-S., Frew, J., Wolfe, R.E. 2020. Griessbaum, N., STARE-based Integrative Analysis of Diverse Data Using Dask Parallel Programming. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '20), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 417–420. doi:10.1145/3397536.3422346
    
36. Rilee, M.L., Kuo, K.-S., Frew, J., Gallagher, J., Griessbaum, N., Neumiller, K., Wolfe, R.E. 2021. STARE into the future of GeoData integrative analysis. Earth Science Informatics. doi:10.1007/s12145-021-00568-8
    
37. Tague, C., and Frew, J. 2021. Visualization and ecohydrologic models: Opening the box. Hydrologic Processes 35(1) e13991. doi:10.1002/hyp.13991
    

Unrefereed (Magazine Articles, Conference Proceedings, Reports, and Theses)

1. Simonett, D., Smith, T., Tobler, W., Marks, D., Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1978. Geobase information system impacts on space image formats. Technical Report 3, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
2. Frew, J., 1980. Remote sensing of snow surface albedo. M.A. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
3. Frew, J. 1981. Remote sensing of snow surface albedo. In: Use of Environmental Satellite Data for Input to Energy Balance Snowmelt Models. NOAA S/T 81-50, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC.
4. Marks, D., J. Dozier, and J. Frew. 1983. Automated basin delineation from digital terrain data. NASA Technical Memorandum 84984, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
5. Frew, J., 1984. Registering Thematic Mapper imagery to digital elevation models. In: M. Klepfer and D. Morrison (Editors), 10th International Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, pp. 432-435.
6. Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1986. The Image Processing Workbench - portable software for remote sensing instruction and research. In: T. Guyenne and J. Hunt (Editors), IGARSS '86 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. European Space Agency, Zurich, pp. 271-276.
7. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1989. Rapid calculation of terrain parameters for radiation modeling from digital elevation data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1989. IGARSS'89. 12th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing., 1989 International , vol.3, no., pp.1769-1774, 10-14 Jul 1989. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.1989.576516
8. Frew, J., 1990. The Image Processing Workbench. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 412 pp.
9. Frew, J., 1991. Difficulties of dealing with large image cubes. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reno, NV.
10. Fine, J., T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, J. Frew, M. Olson, and D. Patterson. 1992. Abstracts: a latency-hiding technique for high-capacity mass-storage systems. Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 92/11, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA. https://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/sequoia/tech-reports/s2k-92-11/
11. Stonebraker, M., J. Frew, and J. Dozier. 1993. The Sequoia 2000 architecture and implementation strategy. Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 93/23, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA. https://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/sequoia/tech-reports/s2k-93-23/
12. Dozier, J., Stonebraker, M. and Frew, J., 1994. Sequoia 2000: a next-generation information system for the study of global change. 13th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. IEEE Computer Society, L'Annecy, France, pp. 47-56. doi:10.1109/MASS.1994.373028
13. Smith, T. and Frew, J., 1995. Alexandria Digital Library. Communications of the ACM, 38(4): 61-62. doi:10.1145/205323.205340
14. Fischer, C., Frew, J., Larsgaard, M., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. Alexandria Digital Library: rapid prototype and metadata schema. In: N.R. Adam, B.K. Bhargava, M. Halem and Y. Yesha (Editors), ADL '95 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, McLean, VA, pp. 221-241. doi:10.1007/BFb0024614
15. Frew, J., Carver, L., Fischer, C., Goodchild, M., Larsgaard, M., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. The Alexandria Rapid Prototype: building a digital library for spatial information. ESRI User Conference. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA. https://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc95/to300/p255.html
16. Andresen, D., Carver, L., Dolin, R., Fischer, C., Frew, J., Goodchild, M., Ibarra, O., Kothuri, R., Larsgaard, M., Manjunath, B., Nebert, D., Simpson, J., Smith, T., Yang, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. The WWW prototype of the Alexandria Digital Library. ISDL'95 International Symposium on Digital Libraries. University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, pp. 17-27. https://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/ISDL95/proceedings/pages75/17.html
17. Smith, T., Andresen, D., Carver, L., Dolin, R., Fischer, C., Frew, J., Goodchild, M., Ibarra, O., Kemp, R., Kothuri, R., Larsgaard, M., Manjunath, B., Nebert, D., Simpson, J., Wells, A., Yang, T. and Zheng, Q., 1996. A digital library for geographically referenced materials. IEEE Computer, 29(5): 54-60. doi:10.1109/2.493457
18. Frew, J., 1996. The Sequoia 2000 Project. In: M. Goodchild, L. Steyaert and B. Parks (Editors), GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues. GIS World Books, Fort Collins, CO, pp. 69-72.
19. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Kemp, R., Simpson, J., Smith, T., Wells, A. and Zheng, Q., 1996. The Alexandria Digital Library testbed. D-Lib Magazine 2(7/8). https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/alexandria/07frew.html
20. Hill, L., Dolin, R., Frew, J., Kemp, R., Larsgaard, M., Montello, D., Rae, M.A. and Simpson, J., 1997. User evaluation: Summary of the methodologies and results for the Alexandria Digital Library, University of California at Santa Barbara. 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science (ASIS), Washington, DC, pp. 225-243. https://www.asis.org/annual-97/alexia.htm
21. Hill, L., J. Frew, and Q. Zheng. 1999. Geographic names: the implementation of a gazetteer in a georeferenced digital library. D-Lib Magazine 5(1). doi:10.1045/january99-hill
22. Marks, D., Domingo, J. and Frew, J. 1999. Software Tools for Hydro-Climatic Modeling and Analysis. ARS Technical Bulletin 99-1, Northwest Watershed Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID. ftp://ftp.nwrc.ars.usda.gov/ipw/Marks%20et%20al%201999/exec_summ.html
23. Smith, T., Frew, J., Janée, G., and Hill, L. 2001. The Alexandria Digital Library Project. NIT2001 12th International Conference on New Information Technology - Global Digital Library Development in the New Millenium, Beijing, China, 29-31 May 2001.
24. Janée, G. and Frew, J. 2004. Spatial Search, Ranking, and Interoperability. Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, 29 July 2004.
25. Janée, G., Frew, J., and Hill, L. 2004. Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, vol. 10, no. 5. doi:10.1045/may2004-janee
26. Goble, G. and Frew, J. 2012. Social Aspects of Provenance. In Cheney, J., Finkelstein, F., Ludaescher, B., and Vansummeren, S. (eds.) Principles of Provenance (Dagstuhl Seminar 12091). Dagstuhl Reports, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 84-113. doi:10.4230/DagRep.2.2.84
27. Janée, G., and Frew, J. 2013. Faculty/Researcher Survey on Data Curation. UCSB Library research report. doi:10.5062/F4PN93K4
    

Abstracts and Posters

1. Frew, J., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R. and Zheng, Q., 1998. The Alexandria Digital Library System Architecture. In: J. Strobl and C. Best (Editors), Earth Observation & Geo-Spatial Web and Internet Workshop '98. Salzburger Geographische Materialien. Instituts für Geographie der Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
2. Frew, J., 1998. The Earth System Science Workbench: A scalable infrastructure for earth science information providers, AGU 1998 Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
3. Frew, J., Bose, R., Duff, J., Duma, C., Fields, E., Miley, S. and Siegel, D., 1999. The Earth System Science Workbench: improving Web-based access to near-real-time satellite imagery, AGU 1999 Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
4. Duff, J. and Frew, J., 1999. The Earth System Science Workbench, Earth Observation & Geo-Spatial Web and Internet Workshop '99, Washington, DC.
5. Janée, G., Frew, J., Hill, L. and Smith, T., 2001. The ADL Bucket Framework, Proceedings of the Third DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Interoperability and Mediation in Heterogeneous Digital Libraries. ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, Darmstadt, Germany. https://www.ercim.eu/publication/ws-proceedings/DelNoe03/13.pdf
6. Frew, J. and Gallagher, J., 2002. Peer-to-Peer Sharing for Remote Sensing Standard Products, IGARSS '02 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE Computer Society, Toronto, Canada.

Professional Service and Special Appointments

National Research Council

• 2016-2019: member,  Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education
  
• 2014: session chair, Workshop on Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data, Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics
  
• 2002-2004: member, Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, Space Studies Board
• 2002: invited presentation, Workshop on Coping with Increasing Demands on Government Data Centers
• 2001: invited participant, Workshop on Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology

Professional Societies

• 2011-2013: invited expert, Provenance Working Group, World Wide Web Consortium
• 2009-2011: president, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
• 2005-2010: steering committee, International Conferences on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM)
• 2004-2005: chair, 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2005)
• 2003-2010: selection committee, Charles S. Falkenberg Award, American Geophysical Union
• 2002-current: Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
• 2001: local demonstrations chair, ACM SIGMOD 2001 Conference
• 1999-2000: chair, Interoperability Committee, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners

U.S. Government Agencies

• 2004-2005: member, Evolution of EOSDIS Elements Study Team, NASA Earth Science Enterprise
• 2002-2003: vice-chair, Executive Committee, ESIP Federation
• 2000-2003: consultant, Strategy for the Evolution of ESE Data Systems (SEEDS), NASA Earth Science Enterprise
• 1998-2000: consultant, New Data and Information Systems and Services (NewDISS) Team, NASA Earth Science Enterprise
• 1998-1999: vice-chair, Executive Committee, NASA Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation
• 1995-2000: member, National Spatial Data Clearinghouse Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee
• 1993-1998: member, EOSDIS Panel, NASA EOS Investigators Working Group
• 1991-1994: member, User Working Group, EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• 1988-1993: member, Science Working Group, NASA Pilot Land Data System

UCSB committees

• 2014-current: member, Connect (campus email & calendaring) Governance Group
  
• 2014-current: UCSB representative, Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
  
• 2012-current: member, Research Cyberinfrastructure Committee
  
• 2012-2014: faculty advisor, Data Curation @ UCSB project
  
• 2010-2012, 2013-current: chair, Advisory Committee, Earth Research Institute
• 2010-2012: chair, Council on Research and Instructional Resources (and member ex-officio, Executive Council) Academic Senate
• 2010-2011: member, search committee for University Librarian
• 2008-2010: divisional representative, University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• 2008-2010: chair, Committee on Library, Information and Instructional Resources, Academic Senate
• 2007-current: member, Executive Committee, Center for Spatial Studies ("spatial@ucsb")
  
• 2007-2010: member, Advisory Committee, Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS)
• 2006-current: member, Faculty Steering Committee, Center for Information Techology & Society (CITS)
• 2006-2008: member, Committee on Research Policy and Procedures, Academic Senate
• 2004-2012: member, Academic Technology Planning Group, Office of Information Systems and Technology
• 2003-current: member, Natural Reserve System Advisory Committee
• 2000-2001: Bren School representative, Faculty Legislature, Academic Senate
• 2000: member, search committee for Director of Office of Information Technology
• 1999-2006: member, Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunications Policy Committee, Academic Senate
• 1999-2002: member, Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Group on Industry/University Collaborations, Office of Research
• 1997-2000: member, CalREN-2 Implementation Group, Campus Network Committee

Bren School committee chairs

• 2011-2013: chair, Faculty Executive Committee
• 2009-2011: chair, MESM Committee
• 2008-2009: chair, Recruiting, Admissions, and Support Committee
• 2004-2005, 2013-current: chair, Group Projects Selection Committee
• 1997-2000, 2011-current: chair, Computing Committee

Non-Governmental Organizations

• 2013-current: member, Geodetic Data Services Advisory Committee, UNAVCO, Inc.
• 2012-current: member, OPeNDAP-Unidata Linked Servers (OPULS) Advisory Committee, OPeNDAP, Inc.
  
• 2002-2003, 2011-current: president, Foundation for Earth Science
• 2008-current: member, Science Advisory Board, SciDB.org
• 2006-current: founding member, LightBlueLine collective
• 2002-current: vice-chair, board of directors, The New Media Studio
• 2001: member, board of directors, Peabody Charter School Foundation

Consulting

Manuscript Reviews

Program Committees

• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010: 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011: 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
• ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012: 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
• DCC 2006: 2nd International Digital Curation Conference
• ICDE 2006: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (demos)
• IPAW'06: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop
• IPAW 2012: 4th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (co-chair)
• IPAW 2014: 5th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop
  
• JCDL 2001: 1st ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
• SciFlow 2006: IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications
• SSDBM 2002: 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• SSDBM 2005: 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (chair)
• SSDBM 2006: 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• SSDBM 2008: 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• SSDBM 2011: 23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• SSDBM 2013: 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• SSDBM 2014: 26th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
• TaPP 2009: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance
• TEAA 2005: Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture Workshop
• TEAA 2006: Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture Workshop

Proposal Reviews

• Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
• NASA
• NSF
• University of Nevada

Membership in Professional Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Federation of Earth Science Information Partners

Research Grants and Contracts

as Principal Investigator

• 2013-2016: "Citing Structured and Evolving Data", NSF (in process), $250,364
  
• 2012-2014: "Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data - ISTC-BD", University Industry Research Corporation #SB130034, $248,000
• 2004-2007: "Integrating Digital Libraries and Earth Science Data Systems", NSF #IIS-0431166, $672,651
• 2004-2008: "Creating, Updating, and Distributing Merged Ocean Color Products", NASA #NNG04GE66G, $1,350,000
• 2001-2004: "Textual-Geospatial Integration Services for NSDL", NSF #DUE-0121578, $449,265
• 1998-2003: "The Earth System Science Workbench", NASA #NCC5-302, $3,586,952
• 1999-2001: "Satellite Climatology", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory #6494539, $55,346
• 1996-1998: "Digital Libraries as ECS Value-Added Providers", Hughes Information Technology Corp. #300379, $99,195

as Co-Investigator

• 2011-2015: "Error Analysis of MODIS Fractional Snow-Covered Area and Snow Albedo in Mountain Regions", NASA #NNX11AK35A, $1,425,210 (PI: J. Dozier)
• 2008-2014: "Beyond Chlorophyll: Implementation and Distribution of Innovative Ocean Color Earth Science Data Records", NASA #NNX08AP36A, $2,836,882 (PI: S. Maritorena)
• 2004-2012: "Multi-Resolution Snow Products for the Hydrologic Sciences", NASA #NNG04GC52A, $2,945,182 (PI: J. Dozier)
• 2002-2006: "Core Integration - Leading NSDL Toward Long-Term Success", NSF, $1,481,064 (PI: T. Smith)
• 2001-2003: "Core Integration of the National SMETE Digital Library", University Corp. for Atmospheric Research #S02-36644, $489,972 (PI: T. Smith)
• 2001-2002: "Inquiry in the On-Line Context: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future", UCSB Research Across Disciplines Initiative, $10,000 (P.I.: J. Green)
• 2000-2006: "Land/Ocean Interactions and the Dynamics of Kelp Forest Communities", NSF, $4,200,000 (PI: D. Reed)
• 1999-2004: "The Alexandria Digital Earth Modeling System", NSF #IIS98-17432, $5,400,000 (PI: T. Smith)
• 1997-1999: "Infrastructure for Training and Partnerships - California Water and Coastal Ocean Resources", NASA #NAG5-6478, $395,480 (PI: D. Siegel)
• 1994-1998: "The Alexandria Project", NSF #IRI94-11330, $4,800,000 (PI: T. Smith)
• 1994-1997: "End-to-End Problems in EOSDIS", UC Berkeley #08950762, $275,000 (PI: J. Dozier)

Ph.D. Students

Current

• chair
• • Niklas Griessbaum
    
• committee
  • Will Burke
    
  • Chris Heckman
  • Andrew Loerch (Geography)
    

Former

• chair
  • Rajendra Bose, 2004
  • Darren Hardy, 2011
• committee
  • Ron Dolin (Computer Science), 1998
  • Eric Fournier, 2015
  • Elizabeth Garcia (Geography), 2014
  • Patrick Jantz , 2012
  • Michael Jennings, 2003
  • Jason Kreitler, 2011
  • Ian McCullough, 2017
  • Matthew Myers, 2017
  • Shawn Newsam (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 2003
  • Brad Newton, 2004
  • Trevor O'Grady, 2013
    
  • Karl Rittger, 2012
  • Michael Singer, 2003
  • Mel Willis, 2003

MESM Group Projects

• 1998-1999: The Effectiveness of ISO 14001 in the U.S.
• 1999-2000: Evaluation of Setback Levees on the Sacramento River
• 1999-2000: Environmental Decision Making in Goleta Old Town Brownfields
• 2000-2001: A Public-Access GIS-Based Model of Potential Species Habitat Distribution for the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
• 2001-2002: Analysis of Alternative Watershed Management Strategies Addressing Aquatic Toxicity: A case study of Organophosphate Pesticide Loading in Newport Bay, CA
• 2002-2003: The Role of ISO 14001 in Environmental Management at U.S. Manufacturing Facilities
• 2003-2004: Evaluation of Liquefied Natural Gas Receiving Terminals for Southern California
• 2004-2005: Collaborative Monitoring of the Spiny Lobster in the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas
• 2006-2007: Prototyping a Campus Sustainability Management System
• 2007-2008: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Tourists and Coastal Users in Morro Bay: How Environmental Quality Affects Recreational Behavior
• 2008-2009: Impacts of Rising Sea Level on Coastal Communities: A Santa Barbara Case Study
• 2009-2010: Zero Waste Strategies and Innovations for Sustainability
• 2009-2010: Eco-Entrepreneurship: Energy Rubix: Streamlining Residential Energy Efficiency
• 2010-2011: Sustainability and Tracking Strategies for Gills Onions Farming Operations
• 2011-2012: The Impacts of Climate Change on the Critical Inputs of the Dairy Industry
• 2012-2013: Analyzing the Suitability of the San Francisco-Pacifica Exclusion Area for Incorporation into the National Marine Sanctuary System
• 2013-2014: Offshore wind energy in the context of multiple ocean uses on the Bermuda Platform
• 2014-2015: City of Santa Barbara Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment
  

M.S. Students

Former

• committee
  • Dominic Metzger (Computer Science), 2006
  • Gary Planthaber (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT), 2012
  • Håvar Valeur (Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology), 2005

Courses Taught

Lower Division

Upper Division

Graduate

Invited Lectures and Seminars

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