Upgrade of Computing Equipment in the Digital Mapping Laboratory, Idaho State University

该合同将为爱达荷州立大学数字测绘实验室升级数字测绘设备提供资金。该基金支持的工作站、服务器和相关的千兆网络连接提供了现代化的工作站，将更好地服务于ISU现有和未来的研究项目。该项目支持的数字测绘设施为四个跨学科的近地表研究主题做出了贡献：对当代和古代气候或构造变化的景观响应的野外表征和建模；通过高光谱和光探测与测距（LiDAR）技术记录的短期景观、土壤和植被变化；基于地理空间分布、基于gis的山地环境流域水文水质模拟，以及基于层间火山和沉积沉积物统计分析和三维建模的地下水流动模拟。这些研究小组中的每一个都将创新的数据集和技术与应用和理论问题相结合，这些问题促进了我们对水资源、气候变化和遥感能力的理解。计算机设备的升级支持了爱达荷州立大学几位早期职业研究人员的研究工作，同时也促进了地球科学系研究生和本科生研究助理核心小组的教学和培训。增加对遥感和地理信息系统数据和应用的访问，补充了学生指导的水文学、构造地质学、地层学、地貌学和岩石学研究项目。这些项目的成果正在纳入本科和研究生课程。在这些计算机的使用寿命期间，预计约有375名地球科学专业的学生和研究生将从这些设施中受益。由于将使用该实验室的学生中约有40%来自代表性不足的群体，因此该奖项有助于扩大地球科学的参与范围。该奖项支持的研究项目预计将对爱达荷州的土地利用、水资源、城市扩张和经济发展等方面的决策产生社会影响。

This award is providing funds to upgrade digital mapping facilities for the Idaho State University Digital Mapping Laboratory. The workstations, servers, and associated gigabit network connections supported by this grant are providing modern work stations that will better service existing and future research projects at ISU. The digital mapping facilities supported by the project are contributing to four interdisciplinary near-surface research themes: field characterization and modeling of landscape response to contemporary and ancient changes in climate or tectonics; short-term landscape, soil, and vegetation change as documented by hyperspectral and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) techniques; geospatially distributed, GIS-based hydrologic and water quality modeling at the watershed scale in mountain environments, and simulation of ground-water flow based on statistical analysis and 3-D modeling of inter-bedded volcanic and sedimentary deposits. Each of these research groups pair innovative datasets and techniques against applied and theoretical questions that advance our understanding of water resources, climate change and remote sensing capabilities. The computer facility upgrade is supporting the research efforts of several early career researchers at Idaho State University, as well as promoting teaching and training of a core group of graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the Department of Geosciences. Increased access to remote sensing and GIS data and applications complements the student-directed research projects in hydrology, structural geology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and petrology. Results of these projects are being incorporated into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Over the lifespan of these computers, about 375 geoscience majors and graduate students are expected to benefit from these facilities. Because approximately 40% of the students who will use the laboratory are members of an underrepresented group, the award is helping to broaden participation in the geosciences. The research projects supported by this award are expected to have a societal impact specifically on decisions regarding Idaho's land use, water resources, and urban expansion and economic development.