High Speed Network Connectivity for the American Museum of Natural History

本提案旨在为先进的网络连接寻求资金，以促进以下方面的研究和教育：计算天体物理学-使用远程超级计算机进行大规模，超音速气体动力学和磁流体动力学的3D模拟，以研究恒星形成（由NSF职业奖，NASA和NSF奖资助）；观测天体物理学——对高运动恒星的调查——这将加快对数百万颗恒星的调查和编目，并根据约翰霍普金斯太空望远镜科学研究所（由美国国家科学基金会和美国国家航空航天局资助）的tb级数据，回答有关白矮星性质的一些基本问题；数字图书馆项目——向整个科学界共享博物馆数据（3200万件标本和文物）；形态计量学的高分辨率虚拟标本——通过高速网络传播非常大的3D标本对象数据集，以提供虚拟对象数据库（由美国国家科学基金会资助）；生物多样性中心——包括座头鲸研究在内的各种项目，在世界范围内进行的遥感研究，包括越南、马达加斯加、巴哈马（由美国国家科学基金会、美国国家航空航天局资助，私人）；地质学-改进AMNH的微型探测器的远程操作，来自哥伦比亚大学的Lamont Doherty地球天文台（由NSF资助）跨部门实验室-通过远程操作望远镜和显微镜进行远程协作工作；海登天文馆——开发新的数字穹顶展示，包括图像采集、用于可视化渲染的远程超级计算、开发中的远程协作。

This proposal seeks funding for an advanced network connection in order to facilitate research and education in the following ways:Computational Astrophysics-Use of remote supercomputer for large-scale, 3D simulations of supersonic gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics to study star formation (funded by NSF Career Award, NASA and NSF Awards);Observational Astrophysics-Survey for High Proper-Motion Stars-This will speed up the investigation and cataloging of millions of stars and answer some fundamental questions about the nature of white dwarf stars based on terrabytes of data at the Johns Hopkins' Space Telescope Science Institute (funded by NSF, NASA);Digital Library Project-Sharing of Museum Data (32 million specimens and cultural artifacts) to the scientific community at large;Comparative Genomics/Evolutionary Biology-Multiple projects (funded by NSF, NASA)High resolution Virtual Specimens for Morphometrics-Dissemination of very large 3D specimen object datasets over high speed networks to provide a database of virtual objects (funded by NSF) ;Center for Biodiversity-Various Projects including humpback whale research, remote sensing research taking place worldwide, including Vietnam, Madagascar, Bahamas (funded by NSF, NASA, Private) ;Geology-Improve the remote operation of a microprobe, housed at AMNH, from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University (funded by NSF)Interdepartmental Labs-Remote collaborative work via remote operation of telescopes and microscopes;Hayden Planetarium-Development of new Digital Dome shows which involves the acquisition of images, remote supercomputing for rendering of visualizations, remote collaboration in development.