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.

合作提案：CUAHSI/CLEANER演示和开发Susquehanna河流域和切萨皮克湾试验台数字观测台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，其组成部分目前正在由水文信息系统（HIS）开发一组CUAHSI供CLEANER和CUAHSI社区使用。虽然EDO系统的4个组成部分已经确定，（环境数字图书馆（EDL）、环境观测数据库（EOD）、数字环境棚（DES）、环境分析系统（EAS）），目前只有部分组件处于以Beta测试模式部署的状态，最值得注意的是EDL和某种程度上的DES。由于系统组件的复杂性，不可能生产出一个从一开始就满足所有期望的推出产品.因此，至关重要的是，这些组件在测试台环境中进行测试，以调查组件的行为方式，缺少哪些部分，需要进行哪些额外的开发，最重要的是，它们是否有效地实现了它们的设计目的。由于预期的资金和时间范围以及开发的可用性和现状，本项目将侧重于第一个组成部分（EDL），它构成了所有其他组成部分的基础。目标：目标是：（1）测试并证明EDO中包含的EDL在应用于萨斯奎汉纳河流域（SRB）和切萨皮克湾（CB），将对其进行数据差距分析（2）证明使用现有CI组件的可行性（来自CUAHSI的EDO和来自CLEANER的CyberCollaboratory）以满足SRB/CB测试平台上所展示的合并和重叠的科学议程，以及（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关于CI组件的设计和功能的反馈。为了实现这些目标，将在德雷克塞尔大学安装一个EDL实例。与代表上游水文观测区和下游环境观测区的项目合作伙伴一起，我们将识别和收集尽可能多的营养数据，并将这些区域目前可用的数据纳入EDL。虽然第一步中的EDL的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的元数据标签和工具），但我们将在上游区域进行数据差距分析，以查找缺失或不足的数据。差距分析将使用一个地理模型工具（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程度将是数据集的总体质量的一个指标，就其时空覆盖范围而言。这是一个重要的一步，以提高知识的通量，商店，水和营养物质的途径内的SRB和接收沃茨的CB.智力优点：该项目将是第一次努力调查如何水文学家和环保工程师可以利用目前正在开发的技术支持应用程序套件。这是通过以beta测试模式提供反馈，进一步为环境和水文社区发展CI的关键一步。此外，使用网络协作原型将使项目小组能够在执行研究项目的同时测试合作实验室系统，并生成关于如何将该系统用于支持观测站科学和设计的宝贵信息。这两个系统是CUAHSI和CLEANER之间共享CI的IT基石，因此必须在向社区发布之前进行评估。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。这两个社区的主要目标之一是将与水有关的数据和工具带入教室，以便i）更好地培训未来的劳动力，使他们了解与水有关的问题，ii）使他们接触信息技术的各个方面，这些方面可以将未来的专业人员置于水和IT的界面，这是一个教育目标，已被NSF蓝带咨询小组确定为未来最紧迫的教育需求之一。