CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Advancing Cyberinfrastructure-based Science through Education, Training, and Mentoring of Science Communities

网络基础设施的进步取决于计算机科学和许多应用领域的劳动力发展。一个关键问题是需要有效的流程，通过这些流程，科学界可以学会将网络基础设施整合到他们的研究中。新墨西哥大学的这个项目将开发一个创新的过程，将一群分散的、跨学科的科学家动员到一个实践社区，从而能够有效地将网络基础设施增强方法嵌入到他们的工作中。该项目将有助于我们对跨学科、分布式协作的社会技术问题的理解，同时也在一个传统上没有在高端科学计算领域得到代表的社区中产生创新的研究方法。目标科学家致力于预测气候、人口和土地覆盖/土地利用变化对美国西南部植物分布的影响。与会的有四个研究小组，每个小组都从不同的角度研究这个问题。如果能够克服技术、学科和体制方面的障碍，它们可以共同制定综合各自长处的复杂办法。该方法将利用我们对计算机媒介分布式协作的最佳理解，并将科学家与技术和网络基础设施专家合作，以克服这些障碍。我们将结合社会科学和组织学习理论，将教育、培训和指导任务结合起来。该项目包括一个关于网络基础设施的研究生研讨会，该研讨会将由里约热内卢Grande Corridor高性能计算中心在AccessGrid上主持，并在六个机构同时授课，允许远程研究人员通过桌面电话会议参与。研讨会将向与会者展示一系列网络基础设施主题和参与和国家计算中心正在进行的网络基础设施项目。该项目将通过引入一个新的科学社区，以一种新的科学方式产生广泛的影响，该社区由从研究生到职业生涯晚期的专业人员的各个层次组成，并且由几乎平等的女性代表组成。它将在科学和技术学科之间形成新的伙伴关系。它将为科学家群体转向基于网络基础设施的方法提供一条创新的新途径，这种方法可以在任何科学团体中复制。这种复制对于回答21世纪科学中典型的复杂、大规模和综合性问题至关重要。

Progress in cyberinfrastructure depends on workforce development both within computer science and across many application domains. A key issue is the need for effective processes by which scientific communities can learn to integrate cyberinfrastructure into their research. This University of New Mexico project will develop an innovative process for mobilizing a group of distributed, interdisciplinary scientists into a community of practice that is able to effectively embed cyberinfrastructure-enhanced approaches into their work. The project will contribute to our understanding of sociotechnical issues of cross-disciplinary, distributed collaboration, while also generating innovative research approaches in a community that has not traditionally been represented in high-end scientific computing. The target scientists are engaged in forecasting the impact of climate, population, and land cover/land use change on plant distributions in the American Southwest. There are four research groups represented, each of which is approaching the problem from a different perspective. Collectively they could develop complex approaches that integrate the strengths of each, if the technical, disciplinary and institutional barriers could be overcome. The approach will make use of our best understanding of computer-mediated distributed collaboration and will partner the scientists with technology and cyberinfrastructure specialists to overcome these barriers. We will use a combination of education, training, and mentoring tasks informed by social science and organizational learning theory. The project includes a graduate seminar on cyberinfrastructure that will be hosted on the AccessGrid by the Rio Grande Corridor High Performance Computing Centers and taught simultaneously at six institutions, allowing for participation by remote researchers via desktop teleconferencing. The seminar will expose participants to a range of cyberinfrastructure topics and ongoing cyberinfrastructure projects at participating and national computing centers. This project will have broad impacts through introducing a new scientific community, composed of all levels from graduate students to late career professionals, and consisting of nearly equal-representation of women, to a new way of doing science. It will form new partnerships across scientific and technical disciplines. It will provide an innovative new pathway for moving groups of scientists to cyberinfrastructure-based approaches that can be replicated in any science community. Such replication is essential for answering the complex, broad-scale, and integrative questions that typify 21st century science.