VHub
The University at Buffalo, Michigan Technological University, and University of South Florida are pleased to announce the initiation of VHub, a new effort, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, to develop a virtual organization and community cyberinfrastructure for volcanology research and risk mitigation. The overarching goal of VHub is to provide a mechanism for globally collaborative research and development of computational models of volcanic processes and their integration with complex geospatial, observational, and experimental data. VHub will promote seamless accessibility of appropriate models and data to organizations around the world charged with assessing and reducing risk, reaching across resource levels and cultural boundaries.
VHub is an international effort and currently includes partners in Italy, United Kingdom, France, Spain, New Zealand, Japan, and Mexico. We hope to continue to add partners and welcome input about VHub we prepare for the project.
The official start date of the VHub project is 1 January 2010. Within 2-3 months of that date we will “stand up” the official VHub site. Until then, please refer to this web site for documentation and updates about the project.
For information, to provide input, or to discuss partnering with VHub, please contact Greg A. Valentine (gav4@buffalo.edu).