EPA's Center of Ex
Environmental Com

Using today's emerging IT solutions to collaboratively transform tomorrow's
environmental decision making

Contacts: Terry Grady, (grady.terry@epa.gov), ORD/NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC
Dr. Lynne Petterson, (petterson.iynne@epa.gov), ORD/NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC

toals 			

Through the Environmental Science Portal, the Center for Advanced Computational Models and Tools, and the
Network of Environmental Applications, the Center of Excellence will:

¦	Strengthen environmental decision making

¦	Support collaboration and information sharing

¦	Provide access to high-end computing and storage resources, expertise, and improved access to environmental
data and applications

Environmental Science Portal

~	Science on demand

~	Customized content

~	Secure single-point access to resources

~	Integrates environmental science and
delivers robust tools to decision makers

Accomplishments —

~	Framework selected

~	Requirements analysis done

~	Advisory group formed

~	Prototype designed and
operational

Center for Advanced Computational
Models and Tools

~	Addresses complex environmental problems
with high-end computational models

~	Engages top-scientists

~	Forms bridge between cutting edge IT and
high-end applications to achieve advanced
science solutions

Accomplishments

Delivered optimized
Community Multiscale Air
Quality (CMAQ) to Western
Regional Air Partnership
(WRAP), NY, NC

Storage of CMAQ results using
data grid services

Access to expertise and
consulting

Network of Environmental Applications

~	Gives States, Tribes and local communities
reasonably priced access to compute and
storage resources

~	Offers suite of expertise that can be tapped by
States, Tribes, local communities, academia,
and others requiring environmental models
and tools

~	Leverages private industry in managing the
efficient use of IT resources

Accomplishments ¦

~	Tested data grid services by
exchanging data with WRAP

~	Demonstrated ability to transfer
and archive large data sets

(16 GB/day)

~	Tested compute grid services
for executing CMAQ remotely

Delivering Science-Based Information to Decision Makers

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