Sierra Nevada Research Institute Informatics and Data Visualization Center in Yosemite National Park

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。该项目将对位于约塞米蒂国家公园的加州大学默塞德分校（UC Merced）内华达山脉研究所（SNRI） Wawona野外研究站的旧建筑进行改造，该建筑目前用于环境研究。改造的结果将是一个跨学科的、节能的、网络化的计算建模、生态信息学和数据可视化中心。该中心将在科学和自然资源管理的界面上支持各种正在进行和未来的计算密集型研究。网络基础设施升级将包括与加州大学默塞德分校校园的高速互联网连接，用于远程数据存储和处理。基础设施的改善将包括：防风雨、屋顶修复、升级电力系统以及加热和冷却升级。瓦沃纳野外站（WFS）支持内华达山脉研究所（SNRI）的研究，并促进学术研究、科学教育、自然资源管理和艺术之间的协同联系。世界气象论坛为科学、资源管理和科学传播等领域的研究提供了独特的机会。WFS是一个基础广泛的野外台站，支持涉及传统野外台站活动的研究项目，以及最近使用嵌入式传感器网络进行空间和时间密集测量的项目。然而，WFS提供的功能比传统的野外站更多。在WFS从事野外活动的研究人员还对遥感数据、空间明确的野外数据、时间丰富的传感器网络数据以及来自其他远程数据库（例如基因组序列数据）的数据进行计算密集型的合成、分析和可视化。在景观尺度上解决跨学科环境问题需要现场数据与数据合成和可视化实时紧密耦合，以帮助改进和确定后续现场采样的目标。翻新后的结构将促进跨学科的跨规模研究，并加强内华达山脉研究所？美国目前的活动包括水文和生态系统的变化检测。翻新后的设施还将为加州大学系统中最多样化的学生团体之一的成员提供研究经验，从而增加传统上代表性不足的学生群体对科学的兴趣。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will renovate an old, uninsulated building that is currently used for environmental research at the University of California Merced (UC Merced) Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) Wawona Field Station in Yosemite National Park. The result of the renovation will be an interdisciplinary, energy-efficient, networked center for computational modeling, eco-informatics, and data visualization. The center will support a variety of ongoing and future, computationally intensive research at the interface of science and natural resource management. Cyberinfrastructure upgrades will include high speed internet connections to the UC Merced campus for remote data storage and processing. Infrastructure improvements will include: weather proofing, roof repair, an upgraded electrical system, and heating and cooling upgrades. The Wawona Field Station (WFS) supports Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) research and facilitates synergistic links among academic research, science education, natural resource management, and the arts. The WFS provides unique opportunities for research at the interface of science, resource management, and scientific communication. The WFS is a broad-based field station that supports research projects involving traditional field station activities and, more recently, the use of embedded sensor networks for spatially and temporally intensive measurements. However, WFS serves more functions than a traditional field station. Researchers who engage in field activities at WFS also do computationally intense synthesis, analysis, and visualization of remote sensing data, spatially explicit field data, temporally rich sensor network data, and data from other remote data libraries (e.g., genome sequence data). Addressing interdisciplinary environmental questions at landscape scales requires that field data be tightly coupled in real time with data synthesis and visualization to help refine and target subsequent field sampling. The renovated structure will facilitate interdisciplinary cross-scale research and enhance the Sierra Nevada Research Institute?s current activities including change detection in hydrological and ecological systems. The renovated facility will also provide research experiences to members of one of the most diverse student bodies in the University of California system, thus increasing interest in science among traditionally underrepresented student populations.