Yaxing Wei

Yaxing Wei

Lead Scientist, ORNL DAAC

Contact

weiy@ornl.gov | 865.241.3403

Bio

Yaxing Wei is the Lead Scientist for the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and a geoinformatics data scientist at the Remote Sensing and Environmental Informatics (RSEI) group in the Environmental Sciences Division. Since joining ORNL in 2008, Wei has been dedicated in data management, visualization, sharing, and analysis for a number of research projects, including the ORNL DAAC, the Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP), and the Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE). He created the Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT), a Web-based data infrastructure that standardizes a large collection of environmental sciences data archived at the ORNL DAAC and allows data users interactively visualize and download data in forms fitting their specific needs.

Wei’s research interests include leveraging cutting-edge geospatial information standards and technologies to increase the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Re-usability (F.A.I.R) of scientific data and enables researchers focus on science analysis instead of data preparation. He is also interested in developing data fusion and machine learning techniques to produce data products that support environmental, meteorological, and renewable energy researches and applications.

Wei is an IEEE Senior Member. He received the International Council for Science's World Data System (WDS) Data Stewardship Award in 2015. He is currently serving in the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Standards Office (ESO).

Projects

Selected Scientific Datasets

  • Zhou, Yu, C.A. Williams, T. Lauvaux, S. Feng, I.T. Baker, Y. Wei, A.S. Denning, K. Keller, and K.J. Davis. 2019. ACT-America: Gridded Ensembles of Surface Biogenic Carbon Fluxes, 2003-2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1675.
  • Huntzinger, D.N., C.R. Schwalm, Y. Wei, R.B. Cook, A.M. Michalak, K. Schaefer, A.R. Jacobson, et al., 2018. NACP MsTMIP: Global 0.5-degree Model Outputs in Standard Format, Version 1.0. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1225.
  • Thornton, P.E., M.M. Thornton, B.W. Mayer, Y. Wei, R. Devarakonda, R.S. Vose, and R.B. Cook. 2017. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1328.
  • Wei, Y., Shishi Liu, D.N. Huntzinger, A.M. Michalak, N. Viovy, W.M. Post, C.R. Schwalm, K. Schaefer, A.R. Jacobson, et al., 2014. NACP MsTMIP: Global and North American Driver Data for Multi-Model Intercomparison. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1220.

Selected Technical Reports and Whitepapers

  • NASA ESIDS Standards Office (ESO), Data Product Development Guide for Data Producers, Version 1.0, July 9, 2020. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/14909/ESDS-RFC-041.pdf. 
  • NASA ESDS Citizen Science Data Working Group White Paper, Version 1.0. 24 April 2020. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/14273/CSDWG-White-Paper.pdf. 
  • Robert R. Downs, H. K. Ramapriyan, and Yaxing Wei. 2019. ESDS-RFC-039: Reuse Readiness Assessment of Data Quality Software Products.
  • Yaxing Wei, H. K. Ramapriyan, Robert R. Downs, Chung-Lin Shie, Zhong Liu, David Moroni, Ted Habermann, Siri Jodha Khalsa, and Byron Peters. 2019. ESDS-RFC-033: Comprehensive Data Quality Recommendations for Data Producers and Distributors.
  • Zhong Liu, H. K. Ramapriyan, Yaxing Wei, Chung-lin Shie, David Moroni, Robert Downs, Ted Habermann, Donna Scott, George Huffman, and Deborah Smith. 2019. ESDS-RFC-034: High-Priority Data Quality Recommendations for Data Producers and Distributors.
  • H. K. Ramapriyan, Donna Scott, Ed Armstrong, Charlene DiMiceli, Robert Downs, Carolyn Gacke, Scott Gluck, George Huffman, Zhong Liu, David Moroni, Chung-lin Shie, Deborah Smith, and Yaxing Wei. ESDS-RFC-032: Data Quality Working Group Recommendations for the Data Management Plan Template for Data Producers.
  • H. K. Ramapriyan, Donna Scott, Ed Armstrong, Charlene DiMiceli, Robert Downs, Carolyn Gacke, Scott Gluck, George Huffman, Zhong Liu, David Moroni, Chung-lin Shie, and Yaxing Wei. ESDS-RFC-031: Data Management Plan Template for DAACs. 
  • Víctor Cuevas-Vicenttín, Bertram Ludäscher, Paolo Missier, Khalid Belhajjame, Fernando Chirigati, Yaxing Wei, et al., 2016. ProvONE: A PROV Extension Data Model for Scientific Workflow Provenance. https://purl.dataone.org/provone-v1-dev.

Selected Publications

  • Christopher R. Schwalm, Deborah N. Huntinzger, Anna M. Michalak, Kevin Schaefer, Joshua B. Fisher, Yuanyuan Fang, and Yaxing Wei, 2020. Modeling suggests fossil fuel emissions have been driving increased land carbon uptake since the turn of the 20th Century. Sci Rep 10, 9059.
  • Wood-Charlson, E.M., et al., including Wei, Y., 2020. The National Microbiome Data Collaborative: enabling microbiome science. Nat Rev Microbiol 18, 313–314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-020-0377-0.
  • D.N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, C. Schwalm, J.B. Fisher, D. Hayes, E. Stofferahn, J. Carey, A.M. Michalak, Y. Wei, et al., 2020. Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 15, Number 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6784.
  • Yue He et al., including Yaxing Wei. 2019. Global vegetation biomass production efficiency constrained by models and observations. Global Change Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14816. 
  • Yongwen Liu et al., including Yaxing Wei. 2019. Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization. Nature Geoscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0436-1.
  • Hannah R. Kolus et al., including Yaxing Wei. 2019. Land carbon models underestimate the severity and duration of drought’s impact on plant productivity. Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 2758 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39373-1.
  • Cook, R.B., Wei, Y., Hook, L.A., Vannan S.K.S., McNelis J.J. (2018) Preserve: Protecting Data for Long-Term Use. In: Recknagel F., Michener W. (eds) Ecological Informatics. Online ISBN: 978-3-319-59928-1. Springer, Cham. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59928-1_6.
  • Yoichi P Shiga, Anna M Michalak, Yuanyuan Fang, Kevin Schaefer, Arlyn E Andrews, Deborah H Huntzinger, Christopher R Schwalm, Kirk Thoning, and Yaxing Wei, 2018. Forests dominate the interannual variability of the North American carbon sink. Environmental Research Letters. 13. 10.1088/1748-9326/aad505.
  • Schwalm, C., W. Anderegg, A. Michalak, J. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J. Shaw, A. Wolf, D. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R.B. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain, and H. Tian. 2017. Global patterns of drought recovery. Nature. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/nature23021.
  • Wei, Yaxing; Wei, Zhaoying (Angie); and SanthanaVannan, Suresh (2017) "Facilitate Visualization and Distribution of NASA's Environmental Science Data through Open Standards and Open Source Software for Geospatial," Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings: Vol. 17 , Article 8. DOI: 10.7275/R5Q23XDF.
  • Ranjeet Devarakonda, Yaxing Wei, and Michele Thornton. 2016. Accessing and distributing large volumes of NetCDF data. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). Doi: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7841077.
  • Víctor Cuevas-Vicenttín, Bertram Ludäscher, Paolo Missier, Khalid Belhajjame, Fernando Chirigati, Yaxing Wei, et al., 2016. ProvONE: A PROV Extension Data Model for Scientific Workflow Provenance. https://purl.dataone.org/provone-v1-dev.
  • Robert B. Cook, Suresh K.S. Vannan, Benjamin F. McMurry, Daine M. Wright, Y. Wei, Alison G. Boyer, J.H. Kidder, Implementation of data citations and persistent identifiers at the ORNL DAAC, Ecological Informatics, Volume 33, May 2016, Pages 10-16, ISSN 1574-9541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.03.003.
  • A. Dasgupta, J. Poco, Y. Wei, R. Cook, E. Bertini and C. T. Silva, 2015. Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate Model Comparison, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 996-1014, Sept. 1 2015. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2413774.
  • S. Kang, D. Wang, J.A. Nichols, J. Schuchart, K.L. Kline, Y. Wei, D.M. Ricciuto, S.D. Wullschleger, W.M. Post, R.C. Izaurralde, Development of mpi_EPIC model for global agroecosystem modeling, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 111, February 2015, Pages 48-54, ISSN 0168-1699, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2014.12.004.
  • Timothy McPhillips, Tianhong Song, Tyler Kolisnik, Steve Aulenbach, Khalid Belhajjame, Kyle Bocinsky, Yang Cao, Fernando Chirigati, Saumen Dey, Juliana Freire, Deborah Huntzinger, Christopher Jones, David Koop, Paolo Missier, Mark Schildhauer, Christopher Schwalm, Yaxing Wei, James Cheney, Mark Bieda, Bertram Ludaescher. YesWorkflow: A User-Oriented, Language-Independent Tool for Recovering Workflow Information from Scripts. Software Engineering. arXiv:1502.02403.
  • Shih-Chieh Kao, Michael J. Sale, Moetasim Ashfaq, Rocio Uria Martinez, Dale P. Kaiser, Yaxing Wei, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Projecting changes in annual hydropower generation using regional runoff data: An assessment of the United States federal hydropower plants, Energy, Volume 80, 1 February 2015, Pages 239-250, ISSN 0360-5442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.11.066.
  • Poco, J.; Dasgupta, A.; Yaxing Wei; Hargrove, W.; Schwalm, C.R.; Huntzinger, D.N.; Cook, R.; Bertini, E.; Silva, C.T., "Visual Reconciliation of Alternative Similarity Spaces in Climate Modeling," in Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.20, no.12, pp.1923-1932, Dec. 31 2014. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346755
  • Poco, J., Dasgupta, A., Wei, Y., Hargrove, W., Schwalm, C., Cook, R., Bertini, E. and Silva, C. (2014), SimilarityExplorer: A Visual Inter‐Comparison Tool for Multifaceted Climate Data. Computer Graphics Forum, 33: 341-350. doi:10.1111/cgf.12390.
  • Víctor Cuevas-Vicenttín, Parisa Kianmajd, Bertram Ludäscher, Paolo Missier, Fernando Chirigati, Yaxing Wei, David Koop, Saumen Dey, Provenance Storage, Querying, and Visualization in PBase, Revised Selected Papers of the 5th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop on Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes, June 09-13, 2014, Cologne, Germany. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16462-5_24.
  • Y. Wei, S. Liu, D.N. Huntzinger, A.M. Michalak, N. Viovy, W.M. Post, C. Schwalm, K. Schaefer, A.R. Jacobson, C. Lu, H. Tian, D.M. Ricciuto, R.B. Cook, J. Mao, and X. Shi. 2013. The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project: Part 2 - Environmental Driver Data. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 6, 5375-5422, doi:10.5194/gmdd-6-5375-2013, 2013.
  • D.N. Huntzinger, C. Schwalm, A.M. Michalak, K. Schaefer, A.W. King, Y. Wei, A.R. Jacobson, S. Liu, R.B. Cook, W.M. Post, et al., 2013. The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project–Part 1: Overview and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 6, 3977-4008, 2013. doi: 10.5194/gmdd-6-3977-2013.
  • S. Liu, Y. Wei, W.M. Post, R.B. Cook, K. Schaefer, and M.M. Thornton. 2013. The Unified North American Soil Map and Its Implication on the Soil Organic Carbon Stock in North America. Biogeosciences, 10 (5), 2915-2930, 2013. doi: 10.5194/bg-10-2915-2013.
  • P. Yue, L. Di, Y. Wei, and W. Han. 2013. Intelligent Services for Discovery of Complex Geospatial Features from Remote Sensing Imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 83, 151-164, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.02.015.
  • S. Kang, S.S. Nair, K.L. Kline, J.A. Nichols, D. Wang, W.M. Post, C.C. Brandt, S.D. Wullschleger, N. Singh, and Y. Wei. 2013. Global Simulation of Bioenergy Crop Productivity: Analytical Framework and Case Study for Switchgrass. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 2013. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12047.
  • E. Santos, J. Poco, Y. Wei, S. Liu, B. Cook, D.N. Williams, and C. Silva. 2013. UV-CDAT: Analyzing Climate Datasets from a User's Perspective. Computing in Science & Engineering. 15 (1), 94-103, 2013. doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.15.
  • Y. Wei, S.K. Santhana-Vannan, and R.B. Cook. 2009. Discover, Visualize, and Deliver Geospatial Data through OGC Standards-based WebGIS System, 2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Aug. 12-14, 2009, Fairfax, VA. Pages: 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293520.
  • Y. Wei, P. Yue, U. Dadi, M. Min, C. Hu, and L. Di. 2006. Effective Acquisition of Geospatial Data Products in a Collaborative Grid Environment. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC2006), Sep. 18-22, 2006, Chicago, IL. Pages 455-462, doi: 10.1109/SCC.2006.46.
  • Y. Wei, L. Di, B. Zhao, G. Liao, A. Chen, Y. Bai, and Y. Liu. 2005. The Design and Implementation of a Grid-enabled Catalogue Service. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2005, Jul. 25-29, 2005, Seoul, Korea. Pages: 4224-4227, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525850.
  • Y. Wei, L. Di, G. Liao, B. Zhao, A. Chen, and Y. Bai. 2009. Sharing of Distributed Geospatial Data through Grid Technology. In Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics (Hassan A. Karimi eds.), IGI Global, 2009, pp. 222-228. doi: 10.4018/978-1-59140-995-3.ch028.

Awards

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory Significant Event Awards (SEA) for Significant Contributions to “Global Patterns of Drought Recovery” published on Nature, 2017.
  • 2015 World Data System (WDS) Data Stewardship Award

Professional Service

  • Chair, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Information Quality Cluster (IQC), 2020 - present
  • Chair, NASA Earth Science Data System Working Groups (ESDSWG) Data Quality Working Group, 2017-2019

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