Directions Magazine -- I-GUIDE — the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment — is confronting this critical vulnerability by creating a computing environment that supports scientific integration and discovery. Based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and led by Illinois CS affiliate faculty member Dr. Shaowen Wang, professor of geography and geographic information science, I-GUIDE is a collaboration between 11 institutions and multiple scientific and engineering disciplines.