National LambdaRail Science Research Council
The purpose of the National LambdaRail (NLR) Science Research Council (NSRC) is to work with the NLR Board, the Chief Scientist and the NLR staff to ensure that the NLR resources, especially its nationwide network infrastructure, are available and responsive to the broad range of research and scientific researchers throughout the nation.
The NSRC, established by the NLR Board, advises and guides the NLR Board's commitment to science and research. The scope of its responsibilities include:
- Recommending a framework and set principles and policies for the use of the NLR Backbone for broad scientific research purposes;
- Promoting the extensive and active use of the NLR backbone and related resources by diverse groups within the scientific research community, ensuring that scientific research is fostered by the NLR on an on-going basis;
- Advising the Chief Scientist, the Chief Executive Officer and the Board on major NLR opportunities and strategies to ensure the NLR backbone and related resources remain responsive to the evolutionary nature of the science and research environment;
- Developing strategies that improve the interaction and integration of the activities of the scientific research community with those of the network research community; and,
- Advising the Engineering and Architecture Committee on major NLR infrastructure changes to ensure the NLR Backbone remains an up to date research tool offering the latest network technology advances to the research community and that it continues to operate as a fluid, evolutionary network research environment.
- Developing strategies that improve the interaction and integration of the activities of the network research community with those in other disciplines in the science community; and,
- Advising the NLR Board on future directions and goals that NLR, Inc. might pursue to assist in advancing research and science in the United States.
Members
- Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory
- James Cordes, Cornell University
- Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma
- Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego
- David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University
- Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
- Ed Seidel, Louisiana State University
- Larry Smarr, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)