University of California Natural Reserve System - Cyberinfrastructure Renovation

加州大学自然保护区系统 - 网络基础设施改造

• 批准号: 0962916
• 负责人: Peggy Fiedler
• 金额: $ 71.01万
• 依托单位: University of California, Office of the President, Oakland
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0962916&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; California; Natural; Reserve; System

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project involves the renovation of cyberinfrastructure at 17 of the 36 sites in the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS). The renovation will update the telecommunications infrastructure at these sites, enabling the deployment of networks of sensors and instrumentation by researchers and transforming the flow of data to researchers.The NRS is a network of 36 reserves that encompass more than 135,000 acres across twelve ecological regions in California. The 17 reserves in the proposed project have older cyberinfrastructure in need of renovation and/or are heavily used by a wide variety of researchers. 13 of the 17 reserves to be renovated are "full facility" reserves, possessing the facilities, equipment, and professional staff necessary to support long-term research projects and multi-week field courses remote from campus services. Several of the NRS reserves are testbeds for researchers developing novel ecological sensors and observing systems, including a range of new instruments and networked systems developed by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The James Reserve is the site for the National Ecological Observatory Network's first Fundamental Instrument Unit prototype. The scope of research that will benefit from the renovation is broad. The evolution of sensing technology is a driver for the need for reliable, low-cost broadband Internet access to the reserves and the instruments within them. Research to be pursued includes how climate change will affect California's plant and animal species and the ecosystems that provide essential services such as fresh water. Examples of projects that will make use of the renovated communications infrastructure include: an investigation of the ecological links between rivers and upland areas; a study of how water moves through the landscape and into deeper, rocky geology; the development of a Stream Experimental and Observational Network; and the development of the Very Large Ecological Array, a new class of environmental sensor network intended to observe micro-environmental conditions above and below ground and plant phenology at multiple scales.In addition to providing infrastructure for research, the University of California Natural Reserves are used by educational institutions within California, including those in the K-12 system and the state higher education system. The reserves serve as training centers for students and teachers. Data from the reserves is available to students online, including climate data, hydrological data, ecological data, and webcam imagery.The work proposed includes the upgrading of communications infrastructure at the following 17 reserves: the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center, Chickering American River Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, Elliott Chaparral Reserve, Hastings Reserve, James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Motte Rimrock Reserve, Sagehen Creek Field Station, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, and Valentine Camp.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目涉及改造加州大学自然保护区系统36个地点中的17个地点的网络基础设施。 改造将更新这些地点的电信基础设施，使研究人员能够部署传感器和仪器网络，并将数据流转换为研究人员。NRS是一个由36个保护区组成的网络，涵盖加州12个生态区的135，000多英亩。 拟议项目中的17个保护区拥有较旧的网络基础设施，需要翻新和/或被各种研究人员大量使用。 在17个待翻修的保留地中，有13个是“设施齐全”的保留地，拥有支持长期研究项目和远离校园服务的为期数周的实地课程所需的设施、设备和专业人员。 NRS的几个保护区是研究人员开发新型生态传感器和观测系统的试验台，包括嵌入式网络传感中心开发的一系列新仪器和网络系统。詹姆斯保护区是国家生态观测网络的第一个基本仪器单元原型的所在地。 将从翻新中受益的研究范围很广。 传感技术的发展是一个驱动力，需要可靠的，低成本的宽带互联网接入保护区和其中的仪器。 将进行的研究包括气候变化将如何影响加州的植物和动物物种以及提供淡水等基本服务的生态系统。 将利用翻修后的通信基础设施的项目包括：调查河流与高地地区之间的生态联系;研究水如何流经地貌并进入更深的岩石地质;建立溪流实验和观测网络;以及超大型生态阵列的发展，一种新型的环境传感器网络，旨在观察地面和地下的微环境条件以及多尺度的植物物候。除了为研究提供基础设施外，加州大学自然保护区供加州内的教育机构使用，包括K-12系统和州高等教育系统中的教育机构。 保护区是学生和教师的培训中心。学生可以在线获取保护区的数据，包括气候数据、水文数据、生态数据和网络摄像头图像。拟议的工作包括升级以下17个保护区的通信基础设施：安杰洛海岸山脉保护区、蓝橡树牧场保护区、博伊德深峡谷沙漠研究中心、奇克林美国河流保护区、煤油点自然保护区、道森洛斯莫诺斯峡谷保护区、埃利奥特查帕拉尔保护区、黑斯廷斯保护区、詹姆斯圣哈辛托山脉保护区、兰德尔斯山大溪保护区、莫特林洛克保护区、萨格亨溪野外考察站、圣克鲁斯岛保护区、塞奇威克保护区、斯威尼花岗岩山脉沙漠研究中心、塞拉内华达州水生生物研究实验室和瓦伦丁营地。