10-15-2009

Dr. Sepideh Yalda, earth sciences, has been appointed as the interim director of the Center for Disaster Research and Education (CDRE) and coordinator of the master's of science in emergency management (MSEM) for the 2009-2010 academic year. Yalda joined the faculty in 1997 and is currently professor of meteorology. (October 2009)

Dr. Richard Clark, earth sciences, cohosted a workshop on "Cloud Computing and Collaborative Technologies in the Geosciences" at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, Ind., on September 17-18. About 100 computer scientists and geoscientists from across the U.S. came to share information and their perspectives on the coordination of activities and future of cloud computing. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. (October 2009)