International Research and Education Planning Visit Cyberinfrastructure-Based Water Research - Toward the Next Generation of Environmental Observatories

拟议的规划访问将支持来自四所美国大学的七名研究人员和三名研究生，通过科学讨论、第一手演示和在代尔夫特(荷兰)的教科文组织水教育研究所和纽卡斯尔(联合王国)纽卡斯尔的泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔大学环境与可持续发展研究所的合作规划，让他们参与为期一周的互动。台湾国家高性能计算中心的科学家和工程师也将参加此次访问。访问的重点将是为分水岭规模的环境和水文观测站的科学和工程调查提供网络基础设施平台。规划访问的总体目标是评估这些领先的国际水文信息学项目在过去十年中取得的进展，然后通过合作利用它们的进展，推动美国中心网络基础设施教育和研究的新兴努力。规划访问活动将为外国和美国的研究人员(包括年轻科学家/工程师和未被充分代表的学生群体)提供富有成效的机会，分享他们的知识，确定需求，并为下一代环境观测站的发展制定未来方向。通过拟议的访问进行的科学和教育交流和规划将大大有助于美国(由研究财团CUAHSI和CLEAR牵头)加快实施基于网络基础设施的环境科学和工程研究。接触从事网络基础设施建设的领导小组的丰富经验将促进访问参与者的知识和专业知识，并将产生其研究领域的全球视角，以及通过国际合作提供专业成长和建立网络的机会。这次访问将有助于敲定一项长期的、多研究所合作，这是在应用于分水岭研究的网络基础设施方面的第一个跨大西洋合作努力。

0623873MusteThe proposed Planning Visit would support seven researchers and three graduate students from four U.S. universities, engaging them in a week-long interaction through scientific discussions, first-hand demonstrations, and collaborative planning at UNESCOs Institute of Water Education in Delft (The Netherlands) and University of Newcastle-upon-Tynes Institute for Research on Environment & Sustainability, Newcastle (United Kingdom). The visit will also be attended by scientists and engineers from the National Center for High-performance Computing in Taiwan. The focus of the Visit will be cyberinfrastructure platforms for science and engineering investigations in watershed-scale environmental and hydrological observatories. The overall goal of the proposed Planning Visit is to assess the progress made during the past decade by these leading international Hydroinformatics programs, and then to utilize, through collaboration, their progress as to advance the emerging efforts of cyberinfrastructure education and research at U.S. centers.The Planning Visit activities will provide productive opportunities for the foreign and U.S. researchers (including young scientists/engineers and under-represented student groups) to share their knowledge, identify the needs, and formulate the future directions for the development of the next generation of environmental observatories. The scientific and educational exchange and planning to be carried out through the proposed Visit will contribute substantially to U.S. efforts (led by the research consortia CUAHSI and CLEANER) to accelerate the implementation of the cyberinfrastructure-based research in environmental science and engineering. Exposure to the extensive experience of the leading groups conducting cyberinfrastructure will advance the visit participants knowledge and expertise, and will engender a global perspective of their area of study, as well as provide opportunities for professional growth and networking through international collaboration. The Visit will facilitate the finalization of a long-term, multi-institute collaboration, the first trans-Atlantic collaborative effort in cyberinfrastructure applied to watershed research.