Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure Development for the Western Consortium of Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico

合作研究：爱达荷州、内华达州和新墨西哥州西部联盟的网络基础设施开发

• 批准号: 0919514
• 负责人: Lucas Sheneman
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Cyberinfrastructure; Development; Western

EPS-0919123: Nevada System of Higher Education, Gayle L. Dana, Linked to EPS-0918635 (University of New Mexico) and EPS-0919514 (University of Idaho)Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure Development for the Western Consortium of Idaho, Nevada, and New MexicoIdaho, Nevada, and New Mexico have NSF EPSCoR Track-1 Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) awards that share a common theme of global challenge. Collectively, the project teams are studying climate change and its effects on water resources, ecosystems, and the environment. Subsequently, the three states formed a consortium to pursue cyberinfrastructure (CI) improvements that would leverage their resources so that the cumulative impact of NSF RII investments in the three states could exceed the sum of the parts. The impetus for this Track-2 award was the recognition of the complexity and scale of the scientific challenge and subsequent ramifications for science, education, and economic development.The NV-ID-NM consortium proposed three high priority objectives: 1) to increase connectivity and bandwidth; 2) to enhance data and model interoperability; and 3) to utilize CI to integrate research with education.Intellectual MeritClimate change impacts are especially pronounced in the Western United States due to the tight coupling between climate and regional hydrology, and the associated ramifications for the water supply, disturbance regimes (e.g., fire, drought), regional economy, and the quality of life. The proposed CI developments will enable researchers to more effectively share standardized and interoperable data and models, and to more easily develop regionally coupled atmosphere-land surface-hydrology-socioeconomic models. Consortium institutions and states will be linked to more than 200 other Internet2 universities, government research laboratories, companies, and other research facilities throughout the world to facilitate data-intensive research, collaboration, distributed experiments, grid-based data analysis, experimentation using high performance networking, and social networking. In addition, the proposed investments aim to support effective participation in national and international virtual organizations focused on global climate change, such as the National Ecological Observatory Network, and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.Broader ImpactsThe proposed CI investments in the consortium seek to achieve broad impact and add value by leveraging existing resources and infrastructure within the institutions, jurisdictions, and regions. The institutions that will benefit from the proposed increased connectivity include rural institutions and those serving Hispanic and Native American students and faculty members. Open access to the data and models developed within the consortium will be made available through the data archive, and the model interoperability framework will ensure that scientific products can be broadly disseminated and readily used by scientists, engineers, and students throughout the world. The project also seeks to make usable high-quality environmental data, information, and models available for STEM education and outreach. The consortium?s education programs are designed to have far-reaching impact by: (1) developing new CI skills and climate modeling expertise for graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty; (2) integrating cyberlearning and climate change science into middle and high school science education, especially targeting rural schools and schools that reach Hispanic and Native American students; and (3) developing an Industry CI Days Program that promotes CI awareness in business and industry.The consortium is committed to improving access to cyberinfrastructure for minority populations and geographically disadvantaged populations, and to increasing diversity in the future workforce of the partnering states.

EPS-0919123：内华达州高等教育系统，盖勒L。达纳，链接到EPS-0918635（新墨西哥州大学）和EPS-0919514（爱达荷大学）合作研究：网络基础设施发展的西部联盟爱达荷州，内华达州和新墨西哥州爱达荷州，内华达州和新墨西哥州有NSF EPSCoR轨道1研究基础设施改进（RII）奖，共享一个共同的主题的全球挑战。项目小组共同研究气候变化及其对水资源、生态系统和环境的影响。随后，这三个州组成了一个联盟，以追求网络基础设施（CI）的改进，这将利用他们的资源，使NSF RII投资在三个州的累积影响超过各部分的总和。这个第二轨道奖的动力是对科学挑战的复杂性和规模以及对科学、教育和经济发展的后续影响的认可。NV-ID-NM联盟提出了三个高优先级目标：1）增加连通性和带宽; 2）增强数据和模型互操作性; 3）增强数据和模型的可操作性; 4）增强数据和模型的可操作性。3）利用CI将研究与教育结合起来。知识价值由于气候与区域水文之间的紧密耦合，气候变化的影响在美国西部尤为明显，以及供水的相关分支，干扰状态（例如，火灾，干旱），区域经济和生活质量。拟议的CI发展将使研究人员能够更有效地共享标准化和可互操作的数据和模型，并更容易地开发区域耦合的大气-陆地表面-水文-社会经济模型。联盟机构和国家将与世界各地的200多所其他Internet 2大学、政府研究实验室、公司和其他研究机构建立联系，以促进数据密集型研究、协作、分布式实验、基于网格的数据分析、使用高性能网络的实验和社交网络。此外，拟议的投资旨在支持有效参与专注于全球气候变化的国家和国际虚拟组织，如国家生态观测站网络和促进水文科学大学联盟。司法管辖区和地区。将从拟议的增加连通性中受益的机构包括农村机构以及为西班牙裔和美洲土著学生和教职员工服务的机构。将通过数据档案库开放获取联合体内部开发的数据和模型，模型互操作性框架将确保科学产品能够广泛传播，并随时为全世界的科学家、工程师和学生所使用。该项目还寻求为STEM教育和推广提供可用的高质量环境数据、信息和模型。财团？的教育计划旨在通过以下方式产生深远的影响：（1）为研究生，博士后助理和教师开发新的CI技能和气候建模专业知识;（2）将网络学习和气候变化科学融入初中和高中科学教育，特别是针对农村学校和西班牙裔和美洲原住民学生的学校;以及（3）制定一个行业CI日计划，以提高商业和工业的CI意识。该联盟致力于改善少数民族和地理位置不利的人群对网络基础设施的访问，并增加合作国家未来劳动力的多样性。