"... an online venue designed to engage the science and engineering research community in the news, ideas, and information surrounding the emergence of cyberinfrastructure as the essential foundation for advanced scientific inquiry."

Brady, S.R., Sinha, A.K., and Gundersen, L.C., editors, 2007, Geoinformatics 2007-Data to Knowledge, Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5199, 104 p.

"An earth science program to explore the structure and evolution of the North American Continent and understand processes controlling earthquakes and volcanoes. EarthScope provides freely accessible data and data products from thousands of geophysical in

"CTWatch Quarterly is an online journal that focuses on cyberinfrastructure related research critical to collaboration and information dissemination within the science community as a whole. Each issue of CTWatch centers on a topic with currency and import

SciTechNet(sm) is devoted to describing and documenting online social networking services in the Sciences and Technology.

ERCIM aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from twenty European countries are members of ERCIM.

Science education-oriented multimedia pubcasting, postercasting, and videocasting service.

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Geoinformatics 2006-Workshop Abstracts Edited by Shailaja R. Brady, A. Krishna Sinha, and Linda C. Gundersen May 10-12, 2006, Reston, Virginia

"The Earth System Grid (ESG) integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and analysis servers located at numerous national labs and research centers to create a powerful environment for next generation climate research. This portal is the primary poin

Embeddable (e.g., into iGoogle) widgets to access a variety of scientific and technical data and reference resources. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI).

A specialized science-oriented community on the Facebook and LinkedIn models. SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.

"The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the 'Grid,' which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools ..."

"The Kepler project's overall goal is to produce an open-source scientific workflow system that allows scientists to design scientific workflows and execute them efficiently using emerging Grid-based approaches to distributed computation."

"A national, distributed computing grid for data-intensive research."

"Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that complet

"On Jan. 6, 2009, in Arlington, Virginia, the National Science Foundation, The Ballston Science and Technology Alliance, and BioInformatics, LLC, hosted a Cafe Scientifique on Science and Social Media. In part 1 of this 4 part video, Dr. Tamara Zemlo from