Jeff de La Beaujardiere

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I have been Director of the NCAR/CISL Information Systems Division since August 2018. My focus is on the entire spectrum of geospatial data usability: ensuring that Earth observations and model outputs are open, discoverable, accessible, documented, interoperable, citable, curated for long-term preservation, and reusable not only by the original creator but by the broader scientific community, private industry, decision-makers, educators, students, and international collaborators. As data volumes have become enormous, it has become increasingly important that we leverage HPC and public Cloud to bring analysis and visualization capabilities to the data rather than merely offering download capability and subsetting services. Given the diversity of data types and the need for interdisciplinary work to address the complexity of our planet's changing physical, chemical, biological, and socio-economic conditions, it is critical that we find ways to treat geospatial information as a unified whole rather than as individual datasets each requiring customized effort to find, access, and use.

Prior to arriving at NCAR, I was the NOAA Data Management Architect, developing policies and technical recommendations for open and usable data. Previously I was Senior System Architect for NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System, and before that a software developer at NASA working on data visualization, interoperability, and web services. My PhD and post-doctoral work were in magnetohydrodynamics and solar observations.

I have led or served on numerous internal, interagency, and international committees, working groups, and consortia. In October 2018 I was named President Elect of the American Geophysical Union's Earth and Space Science Informatics Section.

Publications

==Magazine Article==

de La Beaujardière, J. (2019), Eos, vol.100, no.12, p.16: "A geodata fabric for the 21st century." https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO136386.

==Refereed Publications==

de La Beaujardière, J. (2016), Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 12, no. 1, p. 5: "NOAA Environmental Data Management." doi:10.1080/15420353.2015.1087446.
de La Beaujardière. et al. (2010), Marine Technical Society Journal 44, no. 6. p. 73: "Building the IOOS Data Management Subsystem." doi:10.4031/MTSJ.44.6.10.
de La Beaujardière, J.. et al. (1997), Journal of Science, Education and Technology, 6, no. 1, p. 15: "The GLOBE Visualization Project: Using WWW in the Classroom."

Mandrini et al. 1995, Astron. Astrophys., 303, 927: Constraints on flare models set by the active region magnetic topology: Magnetic topology of AR 6233.
de La B. et al. 1995, Astrophys. J., 440, 386: The 1991 October 24 Flare: A Challenge for Standard Models.
de La B. et al.1994, Solar Phys., 151, 389: Electron Precipitation and Mass Motion in the 1991 June 9 White-Light Flare.
Gopalswamy et al. 1994, Astrophys. J., 437, 522: Transient Microwave Brightenings in Solar Active Regions: Comparison between VLA and Yohkoh Observations.
de La B., Canfield, & Leka 1993, Astrophys. J., 411, 378: The Morphology of Flare Phenomena, Magnetic Fields, and Electric Currents in Active Regions. III. AR 6233 (1990 August).
Leka et al. 1993, Astrophys. J., 411, 370: The Morphology of Flare Phenomena, Magnetic Fields, and Electric Currents in Active Regions. II. AR 5747 (1989 October).
Canfield et al. 1993, Astrophys. J., 411, 362: The Morphology of Flare Phenomena, Magnetic Fields, and Electric Currents in Active Regions. I. Introduction and Methods.
de La B., Kiplinger, & Canfield 1992, Astrophys. J., 401, 761: Coordinated Spectral and Temporal H-alpha Obs. of a Solar Flare.
Canfield, de La B., & Leka 1991, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A, 336, 381: Flare Energy Release: Obsvl Consequences and Signatures.
Zweibel & de La B. 1990, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 2051-2054: Electron Acceleration by Magnetosonic Waves in Solar Flares.
de La B. & Zweibel 1989, Astrophys. J., 336, 1059: Magnetohydrodynamic Waves and Particle Acceleration in a Coronal Loop.

==NOAA Policy Documents==

(as EDMC Chair; group authorship)

NOAA Data Documentation Procedural Directive v.2 (2016)
NOAA Data Access Procedural Directive v.1 (2015)
NOAA Data Citation Procedural Directive v.1 (2015)
NOAA Data Management Planning Procedural Directive v.2 (2014)
NOAA Plan for Public Access to Research Results (2014)
NOAA Data Management Framework (2013)

==Interagency Documents==
(as USGEO DMWG Lead Co-Chair; group authorship)

USGEO Cloud Computing Recommendations (2018, awaiting public release)
USGEO Common Framework for Earth Observation Data (2016)

==IT Standards Documents==
(as Editor; group authorship)

Geographic Information - Web Map Server Interface (ISO 19128:2005)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service 1.3.0 (2005), 1.1.1 (2002), 1.1.0 (2001)

==Invited Reviews==

de La B., J 2016, Foreword for Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, eds. Vance et al., Elsevier Academic Press
de La B., J 2002, Revue internationale de Géomatique, 12, no. 1, 49: La cartographie par internet.

Curriculum Vitae

Director, NCAR/CISL Information Systems Division (8/2018 to present)
NOAA Data Management Architect (5/2011 to 7/2018)
Acting Director, NOAA Technology Planning & Integration for Observations (7/2014 to 5/2015)
IOOS Senior Systems Architect (1/2008 to 5/2011)
Computer Scientist, NASA GSFC (11/2000 to 12/2007)
Contractor, NASA GSFC (10/1994 to 11/2000)
Visiting Scientist, Observatoire de Paris (10/1993 to 9/1994)
Postdoctoral Fellow, U. of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (9/1990 to 9/1993)
Graduate Assistant, U. of Colorado, Dept. of Astrophysical, Planetary & Atmospheric Sciences (8/1985 to 8/1990)

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1001-9210

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdlb/

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