Acquisition of Networked Computers for the Integrated Spatial Dynamics Laboratory

这项国家科学基金会重大研究仪器奖使雪城大学能够为其新的综合空间动力学（ISD）实验室购买30台专业的网络计算机和相关的外围设备。主实验室将设有26个工作站，供研究生和本科生进行地理信息科学（GISci）和遥感方面的高级研究培训，并为教师和社区成员提供短期课程。ISD实验室将向锡拉丘兹大学和纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院的学生和教师开放跨学科地理空间研究。四个工作站将安置在一个密集的研究室内，并将支持高度专业化的一次性高分辨率遥感许可证；这些计算机将与ISD主实验室的计算机联网。用这笔赠款购买的计算机将支持推动重大景观和社区变化的空间动态分析的高级研究和培训，以及两者之间的相互作用。ISD实验室及其设施将允许在社会和环境的关系方面开展研究，并审查社区动态，因为它们与环境动态相交。实验室计划的研究和培训包括（但不限于）分析环境和生态转变，以及从巴西亚马逊到北极的人类与环境的相互作用；纽约州北部、加利福尼亚州和玻利维亚的水资源和气候变化动态；北美地貌动力学；密西西比三角洲的环境变化和种族动态；以及锡拉丘兹、纽约中部和其他地区的城市变化、社会正义和公共卫生。在ISD实验室的计算机上进行的以研究为基础的培训将包括地理信息技术的基本和先进技术及其在一系列学科（地理、公共行政、社会学、生物学、环境工程等）中的应用；基于gis的环境、土地利用和生态建模；以及基于gis的社会、经济和文化动态分析。重要的是，ISD实验室旨在促进公众参与GISci的研究和培训，包括对社区成员，特别是来自代表性不足群体的社区成员进行地理信息技术和协作空间分析方面的培训。先进的培训和公众参与部分将使学生和社区成员为加入《自然》杂志所说的不断扩大的“全球地理空间[劳动力]市场”做好准备，并在一系列环境中开展先进的、基于社区的研究。通过该奖项购买的仪器将使雪城大学成为环境动力学研究和研究培训的领导者，并成为社区地理发展领域的先驱。

This National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award enables Syracuse University to acquire thirty specialized, networked computers and associated peripherals for its new Integrated Spatial Dynamics (ISD) Laboratory. Twenty-six workstations will be housed in the main lab and will be available for advanced research training in Geographic Information Science (GISci) and Remote Sensing for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for short courses for faculty and community members. The ISD lab will be open for interdisciplinary geospatial research by students and faculty from across Syracuse University and the State University of New York's college of Environmental Science and Forestry. Four workstations will be housed in an intensive research room and will support highly specialized one-off licenses for high resolution remote sensing; these computers will be networked to those in the main ISD lab.The computers purchased with this grant will support advanced research and training in the analysis of the spatial dynamics driving significant landscape and community change - and the interaction between the two. The ISD Laboratory and its facilities will allow for the development of research at the nexus of society and environment and for the examination of community dynamics as they intersect with environmental dynamics. Research and training planned for the laboratory includes (but is not limited to) analyses of environmental and ecological transformations, and human-environment interactions from the Brazilian Amazon to the Arctic; water resource and climate change dynamics in Upstate New York, California, and Bolivia; geomorphological dynamics in North America; environmental change and racial dynamics in the Mississippi Delta; and urban change, social justice, and public health in Syracuse, Central New York, and beyond.Research-based training conducted on the computers in the ISD Laboratory will include basic and advanced techniques in geographic information technologies and their applications in a range of disciplines (geography, public administration, sociology, biology, environmental engineering, etc.); GISci-based environmental, land-use, and ecological modeling; and GISci-based analyses of social, economic, and cultural dynamics. Importantly, the ISD Lab is designed to foster research with and training in public participation GISci, including training of community members, particularly from underrepresented groups, in geographical information techniques and collaborative spatial analysis. Together, the advanced training and public participation components will prepare students and community members to join what Nature calls an expanding "worldwide geospatial [labor] market" and to conduct advanced, community-rooted research in a range of settings. The instrumentation purchased through this award will allow Syracuse University to become a leader in research and research training on environmental dynamics and a pioneer in the developing area of community geography.