Collaborative Research in Geoinformatics: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for the Critical Zone Exploration Network

地理信息学合作研究：构建关键区域探索网络的网络基础设施

• 批准号: 0533644
• 负责人: Douglas Miller
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-15 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Geoinformatics; Building; Cyberinfrastructure

Doug MillerEAR-0533644This award will initiate a cyberinfrastructure to promote interdisciplinary research investigating the zone defined by the outer limits of vegetation and the lower boundary of ground water, identified by the National Research Council as the Critical Zone. A complex interplay of physical, chemical, and biological reactions controls processes within this Critical Zone and has become the focus of research among a community of scientists derived from ecology, soil science, biology, geochemistry, hydrology, and geomorphology. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from these disciplines created the Weathering System Science Consortium (WSSC) in 2003 specifically to advance study of the Critical Zone. In an NSF-sponsored meeting in 2005, this consortium proposed a program the Critical Zone Exploration Network (CZEN) to study four broad research questions targeting the Critical Zone. CZEN is envisioned as a network of sites, people, tools, and ideas, which will investigate the response of the Critical Zone to global change, will promote systematic data and sample collection, will provide databases and sample storage facilities, and will train the next generation of Critical Zone scientists. The CZEN cyberinfrastructure must meet the needs of scientists from an array of disciplines and institutions. Many of these disciplines have their own conceptualizations, nomenclature, and methodologies for weathering processes. This research project will develop an integrative language (an ontology) for Critical Zone Science that will serve to bridge discipline boundaries. Building this ontology through a community-based effort will not only produce a focused, highly integrative communication standard for advancing the science of the Critical Zone, it will foster new collaboration and partnerships among groups that have not traditionally interacted. The development of this cyberinfrastructure will centralize Critical Zone data and metadata and increase usefulness of Critical Zone studies. A web-based knowledge-management environment to facilitate collaboration and sharing of data collected world-wide will be created to meet these goals. This project will contribute directly to the developing CZEN initiative by fostering interaction among the wide range of scientists and scientific disciplines that study the earths Critical Zone.

Doug Millerear-0533644奖将启动网络基础设施，以促进跨学科研究调查由国家研究委员会确定为关键区域的植被外边界和地下水的下边界所定义的区域。物理，化学和生物学反应的复杂相互作用控制着这个关键区域内的过程，并已成为源自生态学，土壤科学，生物学，地球化学，水文学和地貌学的科学家社区的研究重点。来自这些学科的科学家的跨学科团队在2003年创建了风化系统科学联盟（WSSC），专门推进对关键区域的研究。 在2005年的NSF赞助会议上，该财团提出了一个计划“关键区域勘探网络（CZEN）”，以研究针对关键区域的四个广泛的研究问题。 Czen被设想为一个网站，人员，工具和想法网络，将研究关键区域对全球变化的响应，将促进系统数据和样本收集，将提供数据库和样本存储设施，并将培训下一代关键区域科学家。 Czen网络基础设施必须满足来自一系列学科和机构的科学家的需求。这些学科中的许多都有自己的概念，命名法和风化过程的方法论。该研究项目将开发一种关键区科学的综合语言（一种本体论），该语言将有助于弥合纪律界限。通过基于社区的努力建立本本体，不仅会产生一个集中的，高度综合的沟通标准，用于推进关键区域的科学，还将促进不传统上交互的群体之间的新合作和伙伴关系。这种网络基础设施的发展将集中关键区域数据和元数据，并增加关键区研究的实用性。将创建一个基于网络的知识管理环境来促进与全球收集的数据共享的合作和共享，以实现这些目标。 该项目将通过促进研究地球关键区域的广泛科学家和科学学科之间的相互作用来直接为发展的Czen倡议做出贡献。