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NCSA helps reveal Great Lakes data
The Great Lakes Monitoring project—including contributions from NCSA—helps scientists and the public keep an eye on the Great Lakes' 94,000 square miles of water by aggregating and visualizing data, helping to answer fundamental questions about the lakes' health.
Release date: 2013-02-08
NCSA joins in planning for Water Science Software Institute
Release date: 2012-09-19
Deep and wide
An Illinois team uses NCSA resources to help humans understand their environment.
Release date: 2012-08-28
George Mason climate researcher Stan prepares to use Blue Waters
Release date: 2012-07-16
Position papers sought for Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS
Release date: 2012-04-03
User reflections: Al Valocchi
Longtime NCSA partner Al Valocchi reflects back on 25 years of working with the center's resources.
Release date: 2012-01-10
The eye of the storm
What does a monster hurricane look like as it develops? NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) will show you.
Release date: 2011-09-09
'People's lives are affected'
The Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer will help researchers figure out ways to blunt climate change and develop local strategies for living with the changes that do occur.
Release date: 2011-04-28
Visualizations show Hurricane Katrina gaining power
Data-driven visualizations of 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina that were created by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA are currently being shown at dome festivals in the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Portugal.
Release date: 2011-03-23
Visualizations show Hurricane Katrina gaining power
Data-driven visualizations of 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina that were created by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA are currently being shown at dome festivals in the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Portugal.
Release date: 2011-03-23
The Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory
The National Science Foundation recently granted a multimillion dollar award to develop cyberinfrastructure for next-generation Geographic Information Systems. Shaowen Wang, of the University of Illinois' geography department and NCSA, leads the project.
Release date: 2011-02-01
NCSA's Shaowen Wang to lead $4.4 million GIS initiative
Release date: 2010-10-28
Quantum mechanics reveals new details of deep earth
Scientists use NCSA and other TeraGrid resources to reveal that the most common mineral on Earth is relatively uncommon deep within the planet.
Release date: 2010-09-17
A cooler path
The climate is changing. Global temperatures have been increasing for over 40 years, and the science indicates this is primarily due to human activities. The good news, according to climate model results using NCSA resources, is that this change can be slowed down before the impacts become too large.
Release date: 2010-05-04
NCSA helps create interactive tornado experience for Science Storms exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
Release date: 2010-04-19
When tornadoes attack
With Blue Waters, atmospheric scientists believe they'll be able to gain important insights into the formation of dangerous twisters, leading to earlier and more accurate warnings.
Release date: 2010-04-06
NCSA aids water-quality project
Release date: 2009-08-31
NCSA researcher wins National Science Foundation CAREER award
Release date: 2009-06-18
Big, small and everything in between: simulating our world using scientific computing
During a symposium at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Princeton seismologist Jeroen Tromp describes his team's efforts to simulate global seismic wave propagation, a frontier that can be explored only through large-scale computation. He will describe problems that the sustained petascale computing power of Blue Waters will help seismologists address.
Release date: 2009-03-31
Observing and understanding the Earth
Illinois researcher and NCSA fellow Praveen Kumar discusses the challenges of understanding the complex Earth system -- its weather, climate, oceans, atmosphere, water, land, natural resources, ecosystems, and natural and human-induced hazards -- and how he is collaborating with NCSA to develop tools to aid and enhance that critical understanding.
Release date: 2009-01-20
Shake, rattle, and roll
When an earthquake shook southern Illinois this spring, many Midwesterners were jolted out of bed in the middle of the night. Among them were the developers of MAEviz, a tool to model quake impacts on lives, health, infrastructure, and economies that is used to improve planning and guide disaster response.
Release date: 2008-10-07
WATERS Network releases strategy for national environmental observatory network
Release date: 2008-03-25
The Development of Point-to-Zone Pattern Learning (P2Z) for Groundwater Recharge
Illinois State Water Survey researcher Yu-Feng Lin describes the collaborative project he undertook with NCSA's Image Spatial Data Analysis Group as part of his recent faculty fellowship.
Release date: 2008-01-22
Getting down to details
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography develop fine-scale climate datasets using a novel numerical technique on TeraGrid systems at SDSC and NCSA.
Release date: 2007-10-30
Every breath we take
Researchers at the Illinois State Water Survey and the University of Illinois use NCSA's systems to simulate how U.S. air quality will be affected by global climate and emission changes.
Release date: 2007-08-24
Finding the source
Using real-world data, engineers improve their methods of pinpointing water contamination sources.
Release date: 2007-08-23
NCSA technology, resources enable automatic triggering of severe weather forecasts
NCSA has developed tools and is providing compute resources to enable atmospheric scientists to automatically produce high-resolution storm forecasts in response to actual severe weather watches. Hundreds of computer forecasts have been triggered over the past several months.
Release date: 2007-05-31
Oceanic forecasting
Release date: 2007-05-10
You don't understand the pressure
Geophysicists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington take a crack at the chemistry of minerals deep in the Earth's mantle.
Release date: 2007-03-06
Density currents
Mathematical modeling and large-scale simulations give engineers the means to study
density currents, the three-dimensional flows formed when a heavier fluid intrudes into a lighter environment.
Release date: 2006-12-06
LEAD weathers first big trial
A multi-disciplinary effort involving nine institutions -- including NCSA -- and more than 100 scientists, students, and technical staff, LEAD comprises a complex array of services, applications, interfaces, and local and remote computing, networking, and storage resources that can be used in a stand-alone fashion or linked together in workflows to study mesoscale weather (meteorological phenomena approximately 2-200 kilometers in horizontal extent, such as thunderstorms and squall lines).
Release date: 2006-11-09
Tectonic shifts
A new earthquake engineering cyberenvironment could change the way communities prepare for the worst -- and help translate science into practical results more quickly.
Release date: 2006-11-09
Addressing Complexity through Synergy
NCSA Chief Science Officer Bob Wilhelmson discusses the gains made possible be collaboration among scientists, application and algorithm researchers, software developers, service providers, educators, and students.
Release date: 2006-11-09
A fair shake for seismologists
Orchestrated runs on the TeraGrid reveal possible earthquake scenarios for Southern California and move seismology toward predictive science.
Release date: 2006-11-07
Water, water everywhere
Understanding and addressing the many issues connected to water is complex, but NCSA is developing a cyberenvironment to make tackling the problems easier for the nation's researchers.
Release date: 2006-10-26
Researchers earn patent for grain-tracking method
Two NCSA employees and a University of Illinois faculty member have received a patent for a process to track grain from the point of harvest until the last moment before use.
Release date: 2006-07-18
Taking the Earth's Temperature
University of Illinois atmospheric scientist Donald Wuebbles relies on NCSA resources and expertise as he looks at the health of our planet, from the spread of potential toxins to global climate shifts.
Release date: 2005-09-27
Good Prospects
Seismic modeling and reservoir simulations come to the TeraGrid, improving two workhorses of the oil industry.
Release date: 2005-03-22
Hunt for the Supertwister
A close collaboration between NCSA visualization experts and atmospheric researchers sheds new light on the formation of the most powerful, dangerous tornadoes.
Release date: 2004-11-08
Building Bridges
Now online, the NEESgrid brings together widespread earthquake engineering research sites—and two very different research communities.
Release date: 2004-10-05
Searching for a Pollution Solution
Coal-burning power plants spew toxic mercury into the atmosphere, but a researcher at the University of Arizona aims to better understand mercury reactions in order to develop effective emission controls.
Release date: 2004-07-13
Toil and Bubble
Hydrosystems research on NCSA's Titan cluster aids the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it chooses aeration systems for a pair of massive reservoirs.
Release date: 2004-03-09
West Coast Models
The Regional Oceanic Modeling System helps scientists study coastal systems in all their complexity.
Release date: 2003-03-25
Modeling Molecular Fate
SUNY scientists examine the chemical reactions that give rise to excessive atmospheric ozone.
Release date: 2002-07-16
Global Ozone Odyssey
Researchers look into the lives of molecules and the future of the Earth.
Release date: 2001-09-11
Taming LEO
Researchers at the City University of New York, Hunter College, improve the durability of spacecraft materials using Alliance resources.
Release date: 2000-12-12
Tempests in a Computational Teapot
Simulations of the wind's effect on the oceans allow researchers to better understand the secrets of the deep—from the smallest planktons to the largest storms.
Release date: 2000-05-23
Ecological Modeling for the Masses
Scientists are modeling many aspects of complex natural ecosystems simultaneously, from a single tree to the chemistry of the soil it is growing in. The Spatial Modeling Environment eliminates much of the complicated programming once required to create these virtual landscapes.
Release date: 1999-10-19
Stormy Weather
Severe storms often batter one neighborhood and leave an adjacent one unscathed. Will new forecasting models predict which neighborhoods these storms will strike?
Release date: 1999-03-09
The Ups and Downdrafts of Simulating Tornadoes
On a chilly February day in San Francisco, Robert Wilhelmson was feeling the warm glow of success. A postdoctoral research associate from his storm research group, Bruce Lee, was showing the latest storm animation to a crowd of more than 200 experts on severe storms at the 1996 biennial severe storms conference.
Release date: 1997-04-04
