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This workshop brought together researchers working on different aspects of eScience GRID environments from the USA together with those involved in UK and EU GRID projects to share knowledge, discuss the major challenges in these areas and formulate the best way forward. Researchers from NSF finded SEEK project (Scientific Environment for Ecological Knowledge), shred expertise with researchers from the UK and EU. The areas core to SEEK which have considerable overlap with UK/EU projects and were investigated during the workshop were GRID/OGSA-DAI; Semantic mediation, Scientific Workflows and Taxonomic Concept Standards.

SEEK is a five-year project funded by the NSF as a large ITR project in 2002. SEEK spans multiple universities and organizations including the University of New Mexico, the University of Kansas, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS at UC Santa Barbara) and the San Diego Super Computer Center (SDSC), University of North Carolina, University of Vermont, Napier University, Edinburgh. The aim of the project is to develop a cyber-infrastructure for ecologists to share data and modeling capabilities and as such data integration is one of the fundamental research issues of the project. More information can be found at http://seek.ecoinformatics.org.