Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #230.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.578
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The growth of data volumes in science is reaching epidemic proportions. Consequently, the status of data-driven science is becoming comparable to that of theory and experimentation. Many scientific disciplines are developing formal subdisciplines that are information-rich and data-based, to such an extent that these are now stand-alone research and academic programs that are recognized on their own merits. These disciplines include bioinformatics and geoinformatics, and will soon include astroinformatics. Informatics is the discipline of organizing, describing, accessing, integrating, mining, classifying, and analyzing diverse data resources for scientific discovery. We will describe Astroinformatics, the new paradigm for astronomy research and education. Petascale sky surveys will soon challenge our traditional research approaches and how we train the next-generation of astronomers. We will describe astroinformatics as a rigorous approach to these challenges. We will also describe initiatives for both graduate and undergraduate astronomy education in which students are trained to access large distributed data repositories, to conduct meaningful scientific inquiries into the data, to mine and analyze the data, and to make data-driven scientific discoveries. These skills are necessary skills as major sky surveys have become a core research tool for a significant fraction of astronomical researchers. We call attention to our two position papers submitted to the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey Committee on the State of the Profession: (1) "Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy"; and (2) "The Revolution in Astronomy Education: Data Science for the Masses".
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