dr.ing. S. Girgin MSc (Serkan)

EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility

ESA's EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility aims to develop a cloud-based Innovation Lab to support 30 joint African-European research projects in food security and water scarcity, as well as to set up EO Africa Space Academy and Digital Space Campus for knowledge development activities. I coordinate the Research Calls of the Facility, and contribute to the setup and operation of the EO Africa Innovation Lab.

Next Generation Research Data Repositories: Bringing Computation to Data for Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualisation

This project funded by SURF aims to bring computation capabilities to research data repositories in order to bring archived research data to "life" by making them directly explorable without download. I lead the project and design the system.

GEOnnect

Connecting eScience Center RSEs and ITC researchers for better environment and sustainability-related research software uptake and development

This project funded by the Netherlands eScience Centre aims to organize a workshop series on environment and sustainability-related eScience Center research software for the researchers of the Faculty ITC to enable better uptake of research software. Besides enabling the growth of the user communities by involving highly skilled researchers, the events will also support better collaboration between the institutions. I'm the Principal Investigator of the project.

GEO Citizen Science and Pre-University: building a bridge between school education and digital technology for geo citizen science

This project aims to find out how pre-university students and teachers can be supported to use a modern digital geoscience toolbox for Citizen Science projects. In cooperation with UT Pre‑U, a feasibility study will be performed to identify how the platform and available tools can be used for CS activities, including blitz campaigns. Potential use cases and expected impacts will be documented. Finally, a roadmap for developing well-written training material for the target audience will be prepared in consultation with teachers. I'm the Principal Investigator of the project.

IDEAMAPS Network

The IDEAMAPS Network aims to develop and maintain an Integrated DEprived Area MAPping System that leverages the strengths of our current silo-ed approaches to "slum" area mapping.

Mapping phenoregions over Europe and the contiguous United States using AWS

This project aims to develop a proof of concept of the Clustering Geo-data Cubes (CDC) package in AWS to apply advanced clustering workflow to large collection of high spatial and temporal resolution geospatial data. In particular, the use of AWS technologies (e.g., EMR, Kubernetes, ParallelCluster, etc.) to efficiently scale up the computing will be investigated. I contribute in workflow development and testing.

EcoExtreML

Accelerating Process Understanding for Ecosystem Functioning under Extreme Climates with Physics-Aware Machine Learning

EcoExtreML couples the vegetation photosynthesis model (SCOPE) with the soil moisture model (STEMMUS, considering dynamic root growth), synergized with Earth-Observation data, to understand how the water-carbon dynamics of an ecosystem vary with environmental and climate stress. I support the development of containerized workflows that will enable distributed data analysis and modeling at global scale.