SURA

The Southeastern Universities Research Association

The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is a consortium of over sixty universities across the US. SURA jointly operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on behalf of the US Department of Energy through Jefferson Science Associates, LLC - and runs the SURA Residence Facility. SURA also promotes initiatives in nuclear physics, information technologies, coastal research and technology commercialization. http://www.sura.org

SCOOP

The SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program

The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) has been advancing the vision of a Distributed Coastal Laboratory through an program called SCOOP -- the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction program. The SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) program is an initiative of the SURA Coastal Research Committee strives to integrate diverse efforts and to empower a virtual community of scientists with the tools, resources, and ideas that lead to scientific discovery. The purpose is to promote the effective and rapid fusion of observed oceanographic data with numerical models and to facilitate the rapid dissemination of information to operational, scientific, and public or private users. http://scoop.sura.org/

OOSTethys and the Oceans IE are SURA/SCOOP initiatives, and represent the SURA/SCOOP contribution to the NSF-funded MMI. The goal is to create a collection of open-source software tools and guidance documents (reference implementations & cookbooks) that makes it easy for anyone to serve their data OGC-compliant web services. The present implementation complies with standards underlying the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative.