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Peter Fox

Interests: eScience

Peter Fox is a Tetherless World Constellation Chair and Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he was Chief Computational Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fox has a B.Sc. (hons) and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (including physics and computer science) from Monash Univsersity. His research covers the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics, ocean and environmental informatics, computational and computer science, distributed semantic data frameworks, digital humanities and exploratory large-scale visualization. The results are applied to large-scale distributed scientific repositories addressing the full life-cycle of data and information within specific science and engineering disciplines as well as among disciplines. Fox is chair of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Union Commission on Data and Information and past chair of the AGU Special Focus Group on Earth and Space Science Informatics, is an associate editor for the Earth Science Informatics journal, is a member of the editorial board for Computers in Geosciences. Fox serves on the International Council for Science's Strategic Coordinating Committee for Information and Data. Fox was awarded the 2012 Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the Earth Science Information community, and will receive the 2012 European Geosciences Union Ian McHarg Medal for significant contributions to Earth and Space Science Informatics.

Publications:
Fox, P., Enloe, D., and Hendler, J. 2011. Evolving a Rapid Prototyping Environment for Visually and Analytically Exploring Large-Scale Linked Open Data. In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011 (October 23-24 2011, Rhode Island Convention Center).
Fox, P. 2011. The rise of informatics as a research domain.
Fox, P. and Hendler, J. 2011. Changing the Equation on Scientific Data Visualization. Science Magazine, pp. 705-708.
Zednik, S., Fox, P., and McGuinness, D.L. 2010. System Transparency, or How I Learned to Worry about Meaning and Love Provenance!. In Proceedings of 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (June 15-16 2010, ), pp. 165-173.
Benedict, J., McGuinness, D.L., and Fox, P. 2010. A Reusable Semantic Virtual Observatory Platform. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2008 (December 15-19 2008, San Francisco, CA).
West, P., Michaelis, J., Fox, P., Zednik, S., and McGuinness, D.L. 2010. Presenting Provenance Based on User Roles: Experiences with a Solar Physics Data Ingest System. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2010 (December 13-17 2010, San Francisco, CA).
Rozell, E., Maffei, A., Beaulieu, S., and Fox, P. 2010. A Framework for Integrating Oceanographic Data Repositories. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2010 (December 13-17 2010, San Francisco, CA).
Zednik, S., Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Pinheiro da Silva, P., and Chang, C. 2009. Semantic Provenance for Science Data Products - Application to Image Data Processing. In Proceedings of First International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (October 25 2009).
Fox, P. and Hendler, J. 2009. Semantic eScience: Encoding Meaning in Next-Generation Digitally Enhanced Science. , pp. 147-152.
Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J., and Middleton, D. 2009. Ontology-supported Scientific Data Frameworks: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory Experience. Computers & Geosciences, pp. 724-738.
Garcia, J., Fox, P., West, P., and Zednik, S. 2009. Developing service-oriented applications in a grid environment - Experiences using the OPeNDAP back-end-server. Earth Science Informatics, pp. 133-139.
West, P., Rozell, E., Zednik, S., Fox, P., and McGuinness, D.L. 2009. Semantically Enabled Temporal Reasoning in a Virtual Observatory. In Proceedings of OWLED 2009 (October 23-24 2009, ).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Pinheiro da Silva, P., Zednik, S., Rio, N., Ding, L., West, P., and Chang, C. 2008. Annotating and embedding provenance in science data repositories to enable next generation science applications. In Proceedings of AGU Fall Meeting 2008 (December 15-19 2008, San Francisco, CA).
Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Garcia, J., Zednik, S., and Ding, L. 2008. Semantic Provenance for Image Data Processing. In Proceedings of Geoinformatics 2008 (June 11-13 2008).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Sinha, A., Raskin, R., Rezgui, A., and West, P. 2008. Semantic Data Integration and Registration: Application to Heterogeneous Atmosphere and Volcanic Data Sources. In Proceedings of Poster and Demo Track of the ISWC 2009 (October 27 2009).
Fox, P. and McGuinness, D.L. 2008. Knowledge Provenance for Virtual Observatories. In Proceedings of Tetherless World Constellation Grand Opening (June 11 2008).
Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., and Pinheiro da Silva, P. 2008. Knowledge Provenance in Virtual Observatories: Application to Image Data Pipelines. In Proceedings of Poster and Demo Track of the ISWC 2009 (October 27 2009).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J., and Middleton, D. 2007. A Deployed Semantically-Enabled Interdisciplinary Virtual Observatory. In Proceedings of Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2007 (July 22-26 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia).
Fox, P., Cinquini, L., McGuinness, D.L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J., and Zednik, S. 2007. Semantic Web Services for Interdisciplinary Scientific Data Query and Retrieval. In Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Semantic e-Science 2007 of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2007 (July 23 2007July 23 2007, Vancouver, Canada).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J., and Middleton, D. 2007. The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research. In Proceedings of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference 2007 (July 22 2007-July 26 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Benedict, J., and Garcia, J. 2007. Current and future uses of OWL for Earth and Space science data frameworks: successes and limitations. In Proceedings of OWLED 2007 (June 6-7 2007).
Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Raskin, R., and Sinha, K. 2007. A volcano erupts: semantically mediated integration of heterogeneous volcanic and atmospheric data. In Proceedings of First Workshop on CyberInfrastructure: Information Management in eScience (November 9 2007).
Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Middleton, D., Cinquini, L., Darnell, J., Garcia, J., West, P., Benedict, J., and Solomon, S. 2006. Semantically-Enabled Large-Scale Science Data Repositories. In Proceedings of ISWC 2006 (November 5-9 2006, Athens, GA, US).
McGuinness, D.L., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., Darnell, J., West, P., Benedict, J., Garcia, J., and Middleton, D. 2006. Ontology-Enabled Virtual Observatories: Semantic Integration in Practice. In Proceedings of ISWC 2006 (November 5-9 2006, Athens, GA, US).

Presentations:
Fox, P. (December 9, 2011). Information Model Driven Semantic Framework Architecture and Design for Distributed Data Repositories. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
West, P., Fox, P., Gallagher, J., Potter, N., Halloway, D., & Zednik, S. (December 8, 2011). OPeNDAP Hyrax: An extensible data access framework within the Earth System Grid Federation. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Wang, H., Rozell, E., West, P., Zednik, S., & Fox, P. (December 7, 2011). Semantic Representation of Temporal Metadata in a Virtual Observatory. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Maffei, A., Rozell, E., West, P., Zednik, S., & Fox, P. (December 7, 2011). Open Standards and Technologies in the S2S Framework. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Fox, P., & Maffei, A. (December 7, 2011). Facilitating Next Generation Science Collaboration: Respecting and Mediating Vocabularies with Semantics in Ecosystems Assessments.. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Zednik, S., Leptoukh, G., Fox, P., Lynnes, C., West, P., & Ahmad, S. (December 6, 2011). A Semantic Representation of Product Quality and Evidence for Satellite Data. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Fox, P. (December 5, 2011). National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2011
Fox, P. (November 9, 2011). The Changing Face of Visualisation in a World of Data Intensive Science. In: eResearch Australasia 2011
Fox, P., Graves, A., Enloe, D., & Hendler, J. (October 23, 2011). Field: Evolving a Rapid Prototyping Environment for Visually and Analy:cally Exploring Large-­‐Scale Linked Open Data. In: IEEE Workshop on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization 2011
Fox, P. (September 28, 2011). Semantic Data Frameworks Come of Age. In: Astroinformatics 2011
Fox, P. (September 26, 2011). Informatics takes on data and information quality, uncertainty and bias (in atmospheric science). In: Astroinformatics 2011
Fox, P. (September 4, 2011). Strategic coordination of ICSU data activities. In: 1st ICSU World Data System Conference - Global Data for Global Science
Fox, P. (August 2, 2011). The rise of informatics as a research domain. In: WIRADA Science Symposium 2011
Fox, P. (May 23, 2011). The rise of socio-technical systems and new social media in university education.
Zednik, S., Leptoukh, G., Fox, P., Lynnes, C., & Pan, J. (April 8, 2011). Experiences Developing a User-centric Presentation of Provenance for a Web-based Science Data Analysis Tool. In: EGU General Assembly 2011
Rozell, E., Fox, P., Maffei, A., & Zednik, S. (April 6, 2011). A Framework for Earth Science Search Interface Development. In:
West, P., Michaelis, J., Fox, P., Zednik, S., & McGuinness, D. (December 17, 2010). Presenting Provenance Based on User Roles: Experiences with a Solar Physics Data Ingest System. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
Fox, P. (December 16, 2010). Semantic rules and inference make a comeback, watch out query!. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
Michaelis, J., Zednik, S., West, P., Fox, P., & McGuinness, D. (December 16, 2010). Extending eScience Provenance with User-Submitted Semantic Annotations, Abstract IN43C-08. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
West, P., Michaelis, J., Fox, P., Zednik, S., & McGuinness, D. (December 15, 2010). Presenting Provenance Based on User Roles: Experiences with a Solar Physics Data Ingest System. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
Fox, P. (December 13, 2010). Realities in Science Data and Information - Let's go for translucency. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
Zednik, S., Lynnes, C., Fox, P., Leptoukh, G., & Pan, J. (December 13, 2010). A Semantic Provenance-aware Expert Advisory System in a Web-based Science Data Analysis Tool. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2010
Fox, P., & McGuinness, D. (December 18, 2009). The Semantic e-Science Framework. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2009
Fox, P. (July 15, 2009). Photo of Peter Fox, ESIP, summer 2009.
McGuinness, D., Fox, P., Pinheiro da Silva, P., Zednik, S., Rio, N., Ding, L., West, P., & Chang, C. (December 15, 2008). Annotating and embedding provenance in science data repositories to enable next generation science applications. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2008
Zednik, S., Garcia, J., Fox, P., & West, P. (December 15, 2008). The OPeNDAP and Remote NetCDF Invocation (RNI) middleware platform for Scientific Data Fusion. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2008
Fox, P., McGuinness, D., Garcia, J., Zednik, S., & Ding, L. (June 11, 2008). Semantic Provenance for Image Data Processing. In: Geoinformatics 2008
Zednik, S., Garcia, J., Fox, P., & West, P. (December 10, 2007). The Remote NetCDF Invocation (RNI) middleware platform. Making Scientific Datasets Available for Ubiquitous Computing. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2007

Projects

HAO-CI Project LogoHAO-CI
 Description: Working to develop a semantically enabled cyber infrastructure for the varying science projects within the High Altitude Observatory of the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research.
Concepts: Data Science, eScience
NEONNeon Educational System for Data Access and Analysis (NESDAA)
 Principal Investigator: Dennis Ward
Sponsor: National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc.
Description: To enable advanced undergraduate students and facilitator to have access to learning materials and associated artefacts like data, code, workflows [e.g. Taverna], scientific literature, and more.
Concepts: eScience
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