Collaborative Research: CUAHSI/CLEANER Project for Demonstration and Development of a Test-bed Digital Observatory for the Susquehanna River Basin and Chesapeake Bay

合作研究：CUAHSI/CLEANER 项目，用于示范和开发萨斯奎哈纳河流域和切萨皮克湾试验台数字观测站

• 批准号: 0609741
• 负责人: Patrick Reed
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0609741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CUAHSI; CLEANER; Project

Collaborative Proposal: CUAHSI/CLEANER Demonstration and Development of a Test-bedDigital Observatory for the Susquehanna River Basin and Chesapeake BayIntroduction: The proposed project will demonstrate the applicability and utility of a EnvironmentalDigital Observatory (EDO) design whose components are currently being developed by the HydrologicInformation System (HIS) group of CUAHSI for use by both the CLEANER and CUAHSI communities.While the 4 components of the EDO system have been identified (Environmental Digital Library (EDL),Environmental Observations Database (EOD), Digital Environment-Shed (DES), Environmental AnalysisSystem (EAS)), only some of the components are currently in a state to be deployed in a beta-testingmode, most notably the EDL and to some extent the DES. Because of the complexity of the systemcomponents it is impossible to produce a roll-out product that would meet all the expectations from thestart. Hence, it is crucial that these components are put to a test in a test-bed environment to investigatehow the components behave, what pieces are missing, what additional developments need to be carriedout, and most importantly whether they are effective for the purpose they were designed. Because of theenvisioned scope in funding and time as well as the availability and current state of the developments, thisproject will focus on the first of the components (the EDL), which constitutes the base layer upon whichall of the other components rest.Objectives: The objectives are to: (1) test and demonstrate the usefulness of a EDL for inclusion in theEDO as applied to nutrient fluxes in both the Susquehanna River Basin (SRB) and Chesapeake Bay (CB)for which a data gap analysis will be performed (2) demonstrate the feasibility of using existing CIcomponents (EDO from CUAHSI and CyberCollaboratory from CLEANER) to meet a merged andoverlapping science agenda as demonstrated on the SRB/CB test-bed, and (3) further develop and extendexisting components as well as provide feedback on the design and functionality of CI components to thetechnology partners at SDSC and NCSA.Methodology: To accomplish these objectives an instance of the EDL will be installed at DrexelUniversity. Together with the project partners representing an upstream Hydrologic Observatory regionand a downstream Environmental Observatory region, we will identify and collect as many nutrient dataas is possible and currently available for these regions for inclusion in the EDL. While the population ofthe EDL in the first step will require substantial effort to further develop current CI components(appropriate metadata tags and tools for creating instantiations) we will conduct a data gap analysis in theupstream region for missing or insufficient data. The gap analysis will be carried out using a statisticalmodeling tool (SPARROW), which will yield predictions that can be compared to existing data sets. Thequality or match of these comparisons will be an indicator for the overall quality of the data sets as far astheir temporal and spatial coverage is concerned. This is an important step towards an improvedknowledge on the fluxes, stores, and pathways of water as well as nutrients within the SRB and thereceiving waters of the CB.Intellectual merit: This project would be the first effort to investigate how hydrologists andenvironmental engineers can make use of the suite of technical support applications currently underdevelopment. This is a crucial step in further developing CI for the environmental and hydrologycommunities by providing feedback in a beta-testing mode. In addition, the use of the CyberCollaboratoryprototype will allow the project team to test a collaboratory system while executing a research project aswell as generate valuable information on how well the system can be used for the purpose of supportingobservatory science and design. Both systems are IT cornerstones for a shared CI between and CUAHSIand CLEANER and as such must be evaluated before being released to the communities.Broader impacts: Besides the impact this project will have on the CI development for hydrologic andenvironmental engineering communities in identifying future research needs, it will also address theeducational sector. One of the major goals of both communities is to bring water related data and toolsinto the class room as well to i) better train the future workforce on issues related to water, and ii) toexpose them to aspects of information technology that could place future professionals at the interface ofwater and IT, an educational goal that has been identified by the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel onCyberinfrastructure as being one of the most pressing educational needs of the future.

合作建议：为萨斯奎哈纳河流域和切萨皮克湾示范和开发一个试验台数字观测站。介绍：拟议的项目将展示环境数字观测站（EDO）设计的适用性和实用性，其组件目前正在由CUAHSI的水文信息系统（HIS）小组开发，供CLEANER和CUAHSI社区使用。在江户的4组件系统已确定(环境数字图书馆(EDL)、环境观测数据库(爆炸品处理),数字Environment-Shed (DES),环境AnalysisSystem (EAS)),目前只有一些组件是在部署beta-testingmode,尤其是反伊斯兰教英国防御联盟和某种程度上的复杂性的DES。因为systemcomponents是不可能产生一个转出的产品将满足所有的预期市盈率。因此，在测试平台环境中对这些组件进行测试是至关重要的，以调查组件的行为方式，缺少哪些部分，需要执行哪些额外的开发，以及最重要的是它们是否对设计的目的有效。由于预期的资金和时间范围，以及开发的可用性和当前状态，该项目将侧重于第一个组件（EDL），它构成了其他组件所依赖的基础层。目标：目标是：(1)测试并证明EDL在将进行数据差距分析的萨斯奎哈纳河流域（SRB）和切萨皮克湾（CB）的营养通量中纳入EDO的实用性；(2)证明使用现有的eco组件（来自CUAHSI的EDO和来自CLEANER的网络协作实验室）来满足SRB/CB试验台所展示的合并和重叠的科学议程的可行性；(3)进一步开发和扩展现有组件，并向SDSC和NCSA的技术合作伙伴提供CI组件的设计和功能反馈。方法：为了实现这些目标，将在德雷塞尔大学安装一个EDL实例。我们将与代表上游水文观测站区域和下游环境观测站区域的项目合作伙伴一起，确定并收集尽可能多的目前可用于这些区域的营养数据，以便纳入EDL。虽然第一步的EDL人口将需要大量的努力来进一步开发当前的CI组件（用于创建实例的适当元数据标签和工具），但我们将在上游区域进行数据缺口分析，以查找丢失或不足的数据。差距分析将使用统计建模工具（SPARROW）进行，该工具将产生可与现有数据集进行比较的预测。这些比较的质量或匹配将是数据集的整体质量的指标，就其时间和空间覆盖范围而言。这是朝着增进对SRB内的水和营养物的通量、储存和途径以及CB的接收水的认识迈出的重要一步。知识价值：该项目将首次致力于研究水文学家和环境工程师如何利用目前正在开发的技术支持应用程序套件。通过在beta测试模式中提供反馈，这是进一步为环境和水文社区开发CI的关键一步。此外，使用CyberCollaboratoryprototype将允许项目团队在执行研究项目时测试合作系统，并生成有关系统如何用于支持天文台科学和设计的有价值的信息。这两个系统都是CUAHSIand CLEANER之间共享CI的IT基石，因此在向社区发布之前必须对其进行评估。更广泛的影响：除了该项目将对水文和环境工程社区的CI发展产生影响，以确定未来的研究需求，它还将解决教育部门的问题。这两个社区的主要目标之一是将水相关数据和toolsinto教室和我)更好的训练未来的劳动力与水相关的问题,和2)toexpose可能使未来的信息技术专业人员,界面漂亮,它的教育目标,确定了NSF蓝丝带顾问团onCyberinfrastructure作为最紧迫的未来的教育需求。