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Managing large-scale workflow execution from resource provisioning to provenance tracking: The CyberShake example Managing large-scale workflow execution from resource provisioning to provenance tracking: The CyberShake example

This paper discusses the process of building an environment where large-scale, complex, scientific analysis can be scheduled onto a heterogeneous collection of computational and storage resources. The example application is the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) CyberShake project, an analysis designed to compute probabilistic seismic hazard curves for sites in the Los Angeles...
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E. Deelman, S. Callaghan, E. Field, H. Francoeur, R. Graves, N. Gupta, V. Gupta, T.H. Jordan, C. Kesselman, P. Maechling, J. Mehringer, G. Mehta, D. Okaya, K. Vahi, L. Zhao

Mapping South San Francisco Bay's seabed diversity for use in wetland restoration planning Mapping South San Francisco Bay's seabed diversity for use in wetland restoration planning

In an effort to understand the role of sediment of South San Francisco Bay (South Bay) salt ponds, an acoustic seabed classification was performed with the condition of over two hundred sediment samples. The success of the large-scale tidal wetland restoration of up to 15,000 acres of South Bay partly depends on the ability of the converted ponds to acquire and retain enough sediment to...
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Theresa A. Fregoso, B. Jaffe, G. Rathwell, W. Collins, K. Rhynas, V. Tomlin, S. Sullivan
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Measurements of the diurnal cycle of temperature, humidity, wind, and carbon dioxide in a subalpine forest during the carbon in the mountains experiment (CME04) Measurements of the diurnal cycle of temperature, humidity, wind, and carbon dioxide in a subalpine forest during the carbon in the mountains experiment (CME04)

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Sean P. Burns, Jielun Sun, S.P. Oncley, A.C. Delany, B.B. Stephens, D.E. Anderson, D. S. Schimel, D.H. Lenschow, Russell K. Monson

Measuring groundwater-surface water interaction and its effect on wetland stream benthic productivity, Trout Lake watershed, northern Wisconsin, USA Measuring groundwater-surface water interaction and its effect on wetland stream benthic productivity, Trout Lake watershed, northern Wisconsin, USA

Measurements of groundwater-surface water exchange at three wetland stream sites were related to patterns in benthic productivity as part of the US Geological Survey's Northern Temperate Lakes-Water, Energy and Biogeochemical Budgets (NTL-WEBB) project. The three sites included one high groundwater discharge (HGD) site, one weak groundwater discharge (WGD) site, and one groundwater...
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R. J. Hunt, M. Strand, J.F. Walker

Methods for pore water extraction from unsaturated zone tuff, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Methods for pore water extraction from unsaturated zone tuff, Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Assessing the performance of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, requires an understanding of the chemistry of the water that moves through the host rock. The uniaxial compression method used to extract pore water from samples of tuffaceous borehole core was successful only for nonwelded tuff. An ultracentrifugation method was adopted to...
Authors
K.M. Scofield

Methods in polarized light microscopy: An overview and historical perspective Methods in polarized light microscopy: An overview and historical perspective

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Authors
D. E. Kile
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