Collaborative Research: PACMAN - Cyberinfrastructure for Discovering Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources across Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands

EPS-0919608，阿拉斯加大学，费尔班克斯校区，Virgil L。夏普顿，链接到EPS-0919607（夏威夷大学）合作研究：帕克曼？发现气候变化对阿拉斯加和夏威夷群岛水资源影响的网络基础设施该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助。该项目旨在开发和展示太平洋地区气候监测和分析网络（PACMAN）的能力。PACMAN预计将产生更可靠的了解气候变暖对阿拉斯加和夏威夷淡水资源和社区的影响。此外，PACMAN还将包括建模和规划活动，以促进对北太平洋地区近期和长期降水模式的了解。帕克曼？的能力将包括：（1）实时获取天气卫星数据和部署在整个阿拉斯加和夏威夷群岛的现场传感器系统;（2）将这些数据集与来自现有研究数据库的档案数据和从复杂的网络收集能力中提取的档案数据相结合;（3）所有数据和信息产品的冗余档案;（4）来自阿拉斯加和夏威夷超级计算中心的实时分布式模拟;（5）可视化和多维绘图的合作框架;（6）开发和依赖开放源码网络工具;（7）开发基于代理人的社会影响评估框架;（8）向阿拉斯加、夏威夷、知识产权的优点核心网络基础设施的发展将使研究重点放在衡量和理解宏观，以及影响淡水及其与阿拉斯加和夏威夷社区的社会、文化和环境福祉的关系的微观过程。研究人员试图了解从地方到全球尺度的综合气候-水-社会系统的动态，并将这种理解作为评估气候变化对水资源影响的基础。综合框架超越了基于学科的调查，将是根本的了解气候变异性和变化对生态系统的影响？功能和生物多样性。该项目采用了最先进的环境监测和信息管理系统作为核心平台，该系统是在之前的夏威夷EPSCoR RII奖中启动的。这一管理系统平台将在第二轨道项目中得到进一步开发，以便能够处理各种目标专题领域的不同研究团队的复杂数据处理、模拟、共享和集成需求。该项目将提高阿拉斯加和夏威夷社区理解、规划和应对气候变化的能力。它将为有效的政策提供信息，在多个控制尺度上建立淡水资源管理的复原力。该项目将建立在以前的阿拉斯加和夏威夷EPSCoR RII教育和公共宣传计划的成功，以及太平洋和阿拉斯加地区的综合科学和评估计划，通过国家海洋和大气管理局资助。真实世界该项目将研究最直接影响北太平洋人类-环境耦合系统的各种问题，并将提供适合并能够促进阿拉斯加和夏威夷各地的一系列文化、经济、教育和环境任务的数据和信息产品。这将通过两种方式实现：1）通过开发一个高度可访问的基于代理的模型，能够评估不同水文情景的后果，2）通过依赖外部咨询小组，该小组由来自潜在最终用户群体的成员组成，如土地所有者，阿拉斯加和夏威夷土著群体，非政府组织，K-12学校，和政府机构，以确保该财团有效地使阿拉斯加土著和夏威夷土著参与该项目。

EPS-0919608, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Campus, Virgil L. Sharpton, linked to EPS-0919607 (University of Hawaii)Collaborative Research: PACMAN ? Cyberinfrastructure for Discovering Climate Change Impacts in Water Resources Across Alaska and the Hawaiian IslandsThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project seeks to develop and demonstrate the capability of a Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network (PACMAN). PACMAN is expected to yield a more reliable understanding of the impacts of climate warming on fresh water resources and communities in Alaska and Hawaii. In addition, PACMAN will include modeling and planning activities that can advance the understanding of immediate and long-term precipitation patterns across the North Pacific. PACMAN?s capabilities will include: (1) real-time access to synoptic satellite data and in-situ sensor systems, deployed throughout Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands; (2) integration of these datasets with archival data from existing research databases and drawn from sophisticated web-harvesting capabilities; (3) redundant archival of all data and information products; (4) real-time distributed simulation from supercomputing centers in Alaska and Hawaii; (5) a collaborative framework for visualization and multi-dimensional mapping; (6) development of and reliance upon open-source web tools; (7) development of an agent-based framework for assessing societal impacts, and; (8) open distribution to researchers and policy makers in Alaska, Hawaii, and around the world through the Internet.Intellectual MeritThe core cyberinfrastructure to be developed will enable research focused on measuring and understanding the macro- and micro-scale processes that influence fresh water and its ties to the social, cultural, and environmental wellbeing of communities in Alaska and Hawaii. The researchers seek to understand the dynamics of the integrated climate-water-social system from the local to global scales, and use this understanding as a basis for evaluating the effects of climate change on water resources. The integration framework goes beyond discipline-based inquiry and will be fundamental to understanding the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems? functions and biodiversity. The project uses the state-of-the art environmental monitoring and information management system initiated in the prior Hawaii EPSCoR RII awards as the core platform. This management system platform will be further developed in the Track-2 project so that it can handle the complex data processing, simulation, sharing, and integration needs of diverse teams of researchers in various targeted thematic areas.Broader ImpactsThe PACMAN consortium?s projects will enhance the abilities of Alaskan and Hawaiian communities to understand, plan for, and respond to changing climate conditions. It will inform effective policies that build resilience in fresh water resource management at multiple scales of control. The project will build upon the successes of previous Alaska and Hawaii EPSCoR RII educational and public outreach plans, as well as the Pacific and Alaska Regional Integrated Science and Assessment programs funded through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.PACMAN will incorporate capabilities that are relevant to addressing other ?real-world? issues that most directly affect the coupled human-environment systems of the North Pacific, and will provide data and information products that are appropriate for, and capable of advancing a broad suite of cultural, economic, educational, and environmental missions across Alaska and Hawaii. This will be accomplished in two ways: 1) through the development of a highly accessible agent-based model capable of assessing the consequences of different hydrological scenarios, and 2) through the reliance of an External Advisory Group consisting of members drawn from potential end-user groups such as land holders, native Alaskan and Hawaiian groups, NGOs, K-12 schools, and government agencies to ensure that the consortium effectively engages Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians in the project.