Collaborative Research: A Climate Station Network for the UC Natural Reserve System

合作研究：加州大学自然保护区系统气候站网络

• 批准号: 0936032
• 负责人: Eileen Lacey
• 金额: $ 30.03万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 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=0936032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Climate; Station; Network

The University of California - Berkeley and the University of Nevada Desert Research Institute are awarded grants to install a network of monitoring stations across the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS). This collaboration joins two centers of disciplinary expertise to complement and extend their respective missions. The NRS sites have a long history of observations and research on the dynamics of ecological function and structure. The UC NRS contribution to this monitoring effort is to act as long term hosts of the measurement sites, assist in site identification and deployment, and oversee continued operation of the sites. The NOAA Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC) at Desert Research Institute has extensive experience with climate observations, and with supplying data to users in forms they need and prefer. The contribution of the Desert Research Institute / Western Regional Climate Center (DRI/WRCC) is to identify specific locations, prepare and install the sensing platforms, set up communications, and provide for data ingestion, archival, dissemination, and display.Climate is a significant and pervasive influence on biota, and it is not possible to understand observed ecosystem behavior without accounting for the varying role of environmental drivers. The combination of a) high quality environmental data and b) information on the trends in abundance of plants and animals at sites across a geographic range of California, and for long periods of time at each site, can transform our understanding of the interaction between the physical environment and individual species and ecological communities as they evolve in time. Much stronger inferences can be made about relations between variations in climate and distribution of animals and plants if both observations are made simultaneously and in close proximity. Uniformity in observational practices and equipment across the climate observing network will transform the ability of a larger group of researchers to link their ecological observations to the shared climate data and explore entirely new scales of ecology-climate interactions at within-reserve and between-reserve spatial and temporal scales.

加州大学伯克利分校和内华达州大学沙漠研究所获得赠款，在整个加州大学自然保护区系统（NRS）安装监测站网络。这种合作将两个学科专业中心结合起来，以补充和扩展各自的使命。国家遥感站在观测和研究生态功能和结构动态方面有着悠久的历史。UC NRS对此监测工作的贡献是充当测量站点的长期主机，协助站点识别和部署，并监督站点的持续运行。沙漠研究所的NOAA西部区域气候中心（WRCC）在气候观测方面拥有丰富的经验，并以用户需要和喜欢的形式向他们提供数据。沙漠研究所/西部区域气候中心（DRI/WRCC）的贡献是确定具体的位置，准备和安装传感平台，建立通信，并提供数据摄取，存档，传播和显示。气候对生物区系有着重要而普遍的影响，如果不考虑环境驱动因素的不同作用，就不可能理解观测到的生态系统行为。结合a）高质量的环境数据和B）在加州的地理范围内的网站，并在每个网站的长时间内，丰富的植物和动物的趋势的信息，可以改变我们的理解之间的相互作用的物理环境和个别物种和生态群落，因为它们随着时间的推移演变。如果两种观测同时进行，而且距离很近，那么关于气候变化与动植物分布之间的关系，就可以作出强得多的推论。整个气候观测网络的观测做法和设备的统一将改变更多研究人员的能力，使他们能够将生态观测与共享的气候数据联系起来，并在保护区内和保护区之间的空间和时间尺度上探索全新的生态-气候相互作用。