Background

Benno Blumenthal received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1987.  Arriving at Columbia University soon after, he was a Senior Staff Associate at LDEO when he became the IRI Data Library Manager in 1997.

Detailed curriculum vita

Research Interests

Blumenthal's background is in simplified climate models and climate model predictability,  and methods of data/model analysis. His present interest is in distributing Earth science data for public use, and the use of semantic technologies to improve that process.  He is the author and maintainer of the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library, which makes climate data highly accessible over the World Wide Web (WWW).

Recent Presentations:

IRI Climate Data Library at DMAC Transport and Access Expert Team Meeting 24-25 Apr 2006

Transport and Access of Data, Metadata, and Semantics using RDF at DMAC Transport and Access Expert Team Meeting 24-25 Apr 2006

Using RDF/OWL Technologies for both Discovery and Use Metadata at GO-ESSP Meeting Livermore CA 19-21 June 2006

Using RDF/OWL Technologies for Discovery and Use Metadata at ESIP Meeting LDEO 18 July 2006

Data Standards at the IRI Data Library at SPG committee at ESIP Meeting LDEO 20 July 2006

Using Resource Description Framework (RDF) to carry metadata for datasets at OpenDAP technical workshop 21-23 Feb 2007

Using Resource Description Framework (RDF) to carry metadata for climate datasets at University of Maryland Baltimore Campus 27 Apr 2007

Using Multiple Metadata Standards to Describe Climate Datasets in a Semantic Framework at American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #IN53B-1203.

IRI Data Library Dataset Function Ontology and Multiple Metadata Framework at Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation Winter Meeting, 9-10 Jan 2008.

Connecting netcdf/CF to a semantic framework at 7th GO-ESSP (Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal) 17-19 Sep 2008.

Semantic Technologies and Application to Climate Data at Climate Discovery Workshop 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2011.

Recent Publications:

Holloway,D, M B Blumenthal, H Liu, and N Potter (2010), Using Semantic Web Technologies with OPeNDAP, Abstract IN41C-1369 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec, 2010.

John del Corral, M. Benno Blumenthal, "A Bi-directional Semantic Framework for Bibliographic Metadata," icsc, pp.525-529, 2010 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2010

Cornillon, P., J. Adams, M.B. Blumenthal, E. Chassignet, E. Davis, S. Hankin, J. Kinter, R. Mendelssohn, J.T. Potemra, A. Srinivasan, and J. Sirott (2009) NVODS and the development of OPeNDAP, Oceanography, 22(2), 116-127 (2009)

Holloway, D, M. Blumenthal, N. Potter, and P. West (2008) Using Semantic Web Technologies to Streamline the Implementation of the OGC Web Service Interface Specifications for Coverage and Feature Data Within OPeNDAP, Eos Trans. AGU, 89 (53) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN23B-1082.

del Corral, J, M.B. Blumenthal, M. Bell, 'A GIS Enabled Data Library', Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-04384, 2008, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-04384, EGU General Assembly 2008

Blumenthal, M.B., J. del Corral, M. Bell, and E. Grover-Kopec 2006. An Ontological Approach to Geoscience Dataset Cataloging, In Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition: Papers from the 2006 Fall Symposium, ed. Vasant Honavar and Tim Finin. Technical Report FS-05-06. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California.

Web-based climate information resources for malaria control in Africa Emily K Grover-Kopec, M Benno Blumenthal, Pietro N Ceccato, Tufa Dinku, Judy Omumbo and Stephen J Connor Malaria Journal 2006, 5:38 (11 May 2006)

Grover-Kopec, E. K., M. Kawano, R. W. Klaver, M. B. Blumenthal, P. Ceccato, and S. J. Connor, 2005: An online operational rainfall-monitoring resource for epidemic malaria early warning systems in Africa. Malaria Journal, 4:6.

Hays, J.D., S. Pfirman, M.B. Blumenthal, K. Kastens, and W. Menke, 2000: "Earth Science Instruction with Digital Data", Computers and the Geosciences, v.26, p.657, 2000

Ropelewski, C.F., N. Graham, A. Moura, Y. Tourre, S. Zebiak, B. Blumenthal, K. Broad, L. Goddard and S. Mason: "The Great 1997/98 Warm Episode: Lessons Learned." Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, p 8, 1999.