@Misc{Hoffman_SMC13_20130905, author = {Forrest M. Hoffman}, title = {Big Data in the Geosciences: Data Mining Methods for Characterizing Ecoregions, Designing Sampling Networks, Detecting Forest Threats, and Understanding Climate Change Predictions}, howpublished = {Presented at the 2013 Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference (September 3--5, 2013), Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA}, day = 5, month = sep, year = 2013 }