CDI-Type II Proposal: VHub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption and Hazards Modeling and Simulation

纽约州立大学布法罗分校将与南佛罗里达大学和密歇根理工大学合作，开发VHub：合作研究：火山喷发和危害建模与模拟的网络基础设施，这是一个虚拟组织，将使多学科计算思维融入火山学研究和应用。VHub网络基础设施将为火山过程计算模型的全球合作研究和开发提供一种机制，并将其与复杂的地理空间、观测和实验数据相结合。VHub将为世界各地负责评估和降低风险、跨越资源水平和文化界限的组织促进适当模型和数据的无缝访问。在这项工作中，网络基础设施的挑战来自于解决涉及多尺度物理和复杂数据集的困难研究问题，以及开发确保民防工作者在现实世界决策时可访问性所需的结构。Vhub将通过加速火山学计算的广泛适应，推动我们的建模能力向更少的简化方向发展，并实现与其他专注于类似流动现象的学科的重要合作，从而促进对火山过程的理解。VHub将为开发复杂模型的基准测试、模型比较和多模型分析提供场所。VHub的结构将促进将尖端科学与全球减灾相结合，包括在风险大但经济和/或文化障碍使组织无法利用尖端能力的发展中国家。通过VHub设计和实施的教育材料将有助于招收新的学生进入地球科学和计算科学领域，他们将学习在将基础研究和社会应用作为一个整体的框架内进行定量火山学研究。

SUNY at Buffalo, in collaboration with the University of South Florida and Michigan Technological University, will develop VHub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption and Hazards Modeling and Simulation, a virtual organization that will enable the integration of multidisciplinary computational thinking into volcanology research and applications. The VHub cyberinfrastructure will provide a mechanism for globally collaborative research and development of computational models of volcanic processes and their integration with complex geospatial, observational, and experimental data. VHub will promote seamless accessibility of appropriate models and data to organizations around the world charged with assessing and reducing risk, reaching across resource levels and cultural boundaries. The cyberinfrastructure challenges in this effort arise from solving difficult research problems involving multi-scale physics and complex datasets, and developing the structures needed to ensure accessibility to civil protection workers for real-world decision making. Vhub will enable the advancement of understanding of volcanic processes by accelerating the broad adaptation of computation within volcanology and driving our modeling capabilities toward fewer simplifications, and enabling important collaborations with other disciplines that focus on similar flow phenomena. VHub will provide a venue for developing benchmarking of complex models, and for model comparison and multi-model analysis. VHub will be structured to promote the integration of cutting-edge science with global hazard mitigation, including in developing countries where risk is large but economic and/or cultural barriers have prevented organizations from using cutting-edge capabilities. Educational materials designed and implemented through VHub will serve to recruit new students into the geosciences and computational sciences who will learn to conduct quantitative volcanological research within a framework that views fundamental research and societal applications as an integrated whole.