Support of UNAVCO Community and Facility Activities

支持 UNAVCO 社区和设施活动

• 批准号: 0321760
• 负责人: Charles Meertens
• 金额: $ 1656.48万
• 依托单位: UNAVCO, Inc.
• 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: 2003-07-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321760&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; UNAVCO; Community; Facility; Activities

0321760PrescottDense GPS observations in space and time are resulting in fundamental new discoveries in the earth sciences, discoveries that have an enormous impact on our understanding of global and regional plate tectonic interactions and have implications for mitigating earthquake and volcanic hazards in densely populated regions of the world. Support through this cooperative agreement will provide for the management and operation of the UNAVCO national Global Positioning System (GPS) support facility over a period of four years. The UNAVCO facility has historically provided centralized support to assist the geosciences community with the acquisition, archival, distribution, and application of high-precision GPS data to study solid-Earth processes and hazards through NSF and NASA support. Management responsibility for facility operations will be under UNAVCO, Inc., a recently incorporated (April 2001) and independent 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization.The UNAVCO, Inc. managed facility will provide assistance to researchers in all phases of GPS-facilitated geosciences research including: planning; equipment selection and equipment loans and/or procurement and budgeting assistance for necessary equipment; logistics and field engineering support for the monumentation and commissioning of GPS receivers in either permanent, continuously operated networks (CGPS) or discrete campaign-style occupations of GPS benchmarks; technology development activities; and data security, quality control, retrieval, archiving and analysis. The facility will also support NASA/Solid Earth and Natural Hazards (SENH) program activities and plays a crucial role in monitoring and maintaining a subset of NASA's GPS Global Network (GGN). In the latter, the UNAVCO facility will provide maintenance and security for the continuous operation of a large number of stations within the International GPS Service (IGS) network. The IGS network provides fiducial stations, orbits, and clock estimates for GPS users worldwide. Facility leadership serves as an advocate and technology advisor for high precision GPS research in the earth sciences. The facility will support community involvement in the governance and operation of the facility through providing support for interactions including: an annual community meeting; meetings of the steering committees and support of focused scientific workshops. Educational and outreach (E&O) activities will include the addition of a full time E&O Coordinator and the development of a student intern program. The UNAVCO, Inc. facility and management structure provide NSF and NASA with a single point of contact that allows for effective and accountable management of facility resources. NASA support of this facility will occur via annual interagency transfers through NSF. ***

0321760 PrescottGPS在空间和时间上的密集观测正在导致地球科学中的基本新发现，这些发现对我们理解全球和区域板块构造相互作用产生了巨大影响，并对减轻世界人口稠密地区的地震和火山灾害产生了影响。通过这一合作协定提供的支助将在四年期间内管理和运作联合国难民事务高级专员办事处的国家全球定位系统支助设施。 在美国国家科学基金会和美国航天局的支持下，联合国志愿人员组织设施历来提供集中支助，协助地球科学界获取、存档、分发和应用高精度全球定位系统数据，研究固体地球过程和危害。 设施业务的管理责任将由联合国难民事务高级专员办事处有限公司承担，最近（2001年4月）成立的一个独立的501（c）（3）非营利研究组织。受管理的设施将在全球定位系统促进的地球科学研究的所有阶段向研究人员提供援助，包括：规划;设备选择和设备贷款和/或采购和必要设备的预算援助;后勤和现场工程支持，用于永久性连续运行网络（CGPS）或离散的全球定位系统基准点中的全球定位系统接收器的安装和调试;技术开发活动;以及数据安全、质量控制、检索、存档和分析。 该设施还将支持NASA/固体地球和自然灾害（SENH）计划活动，并在监测和维护NASA全球定位系统网络（GGN）的一个子集方面发挥关键作用。 在后一个系统中，联合国志愿人员组织的设施将为国际全球定位系统服务网内大量台站的持续运作提供维修和安全保障。 IGS网络为全球GPS用户提供基准站、轨道和时钟估计。 设施领导作为倡导者和技术顾问，在地球科学的高精度GPS研究。 该设施将通过支持互动，支持社区参与该设施的治理和运营，包括：年度社区会议;指导委员会会议和支持重点科学研讨会。 教育和推广（E O）活动将包括增加一个全职的E O协调员和学生实习计划的发展。 联合国志愿人员组织设施和管理结构为NSF和NASA提供了一个单一的联系点，允许对设施资源进行有效和负责的管理。 NASA对该设施的支持将通过NSF的年度机构间转移进行。 ***