A Proposal for the Network Office of the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

关于美国长期生态研究网络网络办公室的提案

• 批准号: 0236154
• 负责人: Robert Waide
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Proposal; Network; Office; U.S.; Long

The LTER Network Office (NET) was transferred to the University of New Mexico in 1997. NET objectives have been to provide basic services to LTER, facilitate communication among LTER sites and between LTER and the broader environmental sciences community, promote new technologies, and provide leadership in data and information management. Since NET moved to Albuquerque, LTER has grown from 18 to 24 sites and the number of associated scientists has expanded from 894 to more than 1500. This proposal represents a request to renew the LTER Network Office for the next six years. Five essential NET Service functions that are central to the operation of LTER would be continued and enhanced to better meet community needs. Funding is also requested to expand four other focal areas that are key to broadening the impact of LTER on science and society.The five essential NET functions supported through this project include: (1) service to the LTER community (e.g., proposal preparation, accounting, meeting coordination); (2) computational and communication infrastructure (e.g., e-mail, database backups, web access); (3) information management and methods development (e.g., data and metadata standardization, curation and expansion of LTER Network databases); (4) network development, community outreach and training (e.g., coordination of the Partnership for Biodiversity Informatics, OBFS training and database development); and (5) publications and public outreach (e.g., newsletters, web site, synthesis volumes). Two expanded and related NET functions are essential to enabling LTER to reach new levels of understanding of long-term ecological patterns and processes: (6) Synthesis (e.g., integration and synthesis via working groups, creation of value-added databases) and (7) Information System Design and Development (e.g., distributed data networking, dataintegration tools). Funding is also requested to continue and broaden the impacts that LTER has on the international scientific community and environmental education in the United States via: (8) International LTER (e.g., coordination of ILTER meetings, ILTER publications, informatics training) and (9) Education (e.g., facilitation of site-based education programs, workshops). A tenth activity, the implementation of a 21 st Century Strategic Plan for the LTER Network, would be completed within the first two years of the NET renewal.During the next six years, the LTER Network office will continue to facilitate knowledge advances and understanding within ecology by (1) promoting LTER communication among sites and throughout the ecological sciences and (2) disseminating data, information, and knowledge via the web, synthesis and publications, training, and community and public outreach. New efforts and resources devoted to synthesis and information system development, international LTER, and education will significantly broaden the impact of LTER science by enabling us to better provide integrated and synthetic data and information to the broader scientific community, students, and policy-makers. In addition, we will greatly increase our efforts to expand LTER into a global scientific enterprise via ILTER and expand the reach of LTER education beyondthe schoolyard (i.e., from K-12 to policy-makers to the general public). We will further expand our efforts to reach underserved groups, incorporating an enhanced focus on Chicanos and Native Americans.The revised SOW comprises the ten following sections, arranged to reflect the organization of DEB-0236154. A revised budget and budget justification accompany this document. Strategic planning documents will be submitted separately. Each section of the SOW details activities which will and will not take place under the revised budget. The requested budget is tied to specific activities, which in turn are linked to the personnel time needed to complete the activity. The revised SOW specifically identifiesactivities that will benefit the LTER Network, the International LTER Network, the general scientific community, the education community, the University of New Mexico (UNM), or NSF.

LTER网络办公室（NET）于1997年转移到新墨西哥州大学。NET的目标是为LTER提供基本服务，促进LTER站点之间以及LTER与更广泛的环境科学界之间的通信，促进新技术，并在数据和信息管理方面发挥领导作用。自从NET搬到阿尔伯克基以来，LTER已经从18个站点增加到24个站点，相关科学家的数量从894个增加到1500多个。这项建议是要求将远程铁路网络办公室的任期延长六年。五项主要的英语教师服务功能，是长期铁路系统运作的核心，将会继续进行和加强，以更好地满足社会的需要。还要求提供资金，以扩大其他四个重点领域，这四个领域是扩大LTER对科学和社会影响的关键。提案准备、会计、会议协调）;（2）计算和通信基础设施（例如，电子邮件、数据库备份、网络访问）;（3）信息管理和方法开发（例如，数据和元数据标准化、管理和扩大远程教育和应急反应网络数据库）;（4）网络发展、社区外联和培训（例如，协调生物多样性信息学伙伴关系、OBFS培训和数据库开发）;以及（5）出版物和公众宣传（例如，通讯、网站、综合卷）。两个扩大的相关NET功能对于使LTER能够达到对长期生态模式和过程的新的理解水平至关重要：（6）综合（例如，通过工作组进行整合和综合，建立增值数据库）和（7）信息系统设计和开发（例如，分布式数据网络、数据集成工具）。还要求提供资金，通过以下方式继续和扩大LTER对国际科学界和美国环境教育的影响：协调因特网信息和远程教育研究所会议、因特网信息和远程教育研究所出版物、信息学培训）和（9）教育（例如，促进现场教育项目、研讨会）。第十项活动是实施远程环境与资源网络的21世纪战略计划，将在网络更新的头两年内完成。在今后六年内，远程环境与资源网络办公室将继续促进知识的进步和对生态学的理解，方法是（1）促进各地点之间和整个生态科学领域的远程环境与资源网络交流，（2）传播数据、信息，通过网络、综合报告和出版物、培训以及社区和公众宣传，传播知识。致力于综合和信息系统开发，国际LTER和教育的新努力和资源将大大扩大LTER科学的影响，使我们能够更好地为更广泛的科学界，学生和政策制定者提供综合和综合的数据和信息。此外，我们将大大加强努力，通过ILTER将LTER扩展为一个全球性的科学企业，并将LTER教育的范围扩大到校园之外（即，从K-12到政策制定者再到公众）。我们将进一步扩大我们的努力，以达到服务不足的群体，纳入对墨西哥裔和美洲原住民的加强关注。修订后的工作说明包括以下十个部分，安排反映DEB-0236154的组织。本文件附有订正预算和预算理由。战略规划文件将单独提交。工作说明书的每一节都详细说明了将在订正预算下开展和不开展的活动。所要求的预算与具体活动挂钩，而具体活动又与完成活动所需的人员时间挂钩。修订后的工作说明书具体确定了将使LTER网络、国际LTER网络、一般科学界、教育界、新墨西哥州大学（UNM）或NSF受益的活动。