Paul Edwards
Location: (Ann Arbor, MI)
Personal Research Web Page: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu
Keywords: climate science, cyberinfrastructure, e-science, distance collaboration, governance, metadata, data sharing, qualitative methods, HCI/CSCW
Posted on: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Broad Research Area: HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Other, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Technology Policy
Research Interests:
My research concerns the development of information infrastructures, especially in climate science and other Earth system sciences. I lead the Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory Project, a 3-year comparative, qualitative study of several scientific cyberinfrastructure projects. We use ethnographic and interview techniques to explore work practices, software development, and issues involving data sharing and metadata. I’m also co-PI on a new project, “Scaling Up: Introducing Commodity Governance into Community Earth Science Models.” Our goal is to understand and promote well-functioning sociotechnical infrastructure for governance of community Earth system models (climate models). The project team includes a mix of social scientists, software developers, and Earth system scientists from the University of Michigan, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton), and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. My most recent book is A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).
Contact Information:
Email me at pne@umich.edu.
