Extending the Montana Northern Tier Network to Strategic Partners

将蒙大拿州北部网络扩展到战略合作伙伴

• 批准号: 1006932
• 负责人: Gwen Jacobs
• 金额: $ 117.65万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 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: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1006932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Extending; Montana; Northern; Tier; Network

Proposal Number: EPS -1006932Proposal Title: Extending the Montana Northern Tier Network to Strategic PartnersInstitution: University of MontanaThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).The Northern Tier Networking Consortium (NTNC) was formed in 2003 to extend and expand broadband and high-performance optical networks, connecting the Northern Tier to the National Research and Education Network (NREN). The goal of this Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project is to extend the reach and capability of the Montana University System's (MUS) newly activated owned-fiber network, the Montana Northern Tier Network (MT-NTN). Three new connection points will be built to facilitate local site connections to computational and data storage facilities in the State of Montana Miles City Data Center (MCDC), located in Miles City, Montana; and to use new and existing connection sites to create and support site connections for Montana State University-Billings (MSUB), Salish Kootenai College (SKC, a Tribal College), Miles City Community College (MCCC) and Dawson Community College (DCC). Intellectual Merit This extension of the MT-NTN will allow students and faculty at MSUB, SKC, MCCC, and DCC to engage in expanded undergraduate research programs through enhanced collaboration with other colleges and universities in the system. The project will also provide access for researchers in Montana to an enterprise level data storage and computational facility. Access to this facility will provide back-up, storage and disaster recovery capabilities for vast amounts of research data through a secure, high bandwidth, high capacity network. The two core research focus areas are: environmental and ecosystem science, and health and biomedical sciences. Improved connectivity would enhance the collection and streaming of data from environmental sensors to local data aggregation points and would enable real-time observation of ecosystem changes on a national network scale. The extension of the network into rural and underserved areas would support research and understanding of the health conditions that affect Montana's rural, indigenous, and lower socioeconomic populations. The investigators and other researchers would collaborate with colleagues participating in the Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM), a rural health network consisting of five independently owned and operated hospitals and two federal funded Community Health Centers. This collaboration is valuable as the distances in the state are very large, presenting an additional difficulty for such time-sensitive collaboration.Broader ImpactsThe project leverages ongoing diversity activities funded through current Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) at Montana State University (MSU) and The University of Montana (UM). This project will increase opportunities for collaboration in research and education activities by providing on-line access to all participating institutions. Workforce development activities will be augmented in order to advance and retain Native American students from the Tribal Colleges in the STEM disciplines throughout their undergraduate and graduate careers. A research experience for undergraduates program that includes the 2-year and Tribal Colleges will be developed. Students at DCC and MCC would have the opportunity to collaborate directly with faculty and students at UM and MSU. Faculty at these institutions would have increased access to new graduate-level courses within the framework of MSU's National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN). The new courses, covering energy, ecology, and related topics, will become part of a permanent catalog of course offerings and establish a model for EPSCoR to nationally reach teachers of science with timely and accurate science content.

提案编号：EPS-1006932提案标题：将蒙大拿州北层网络扩展到战略合作伙伴机构：蒙大拿州大学该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公共法律111-5)资助。北层网络联盟(NTNC)成立于2003年，旨在延伸和扩展宽带和高性能光纤网络，将北层网络连接到国家研究和教育网络(NREN)。这一研究基础设施改善校际和校内网络连接项目的目标是扩展蒙大拿大学系统(MUS)新激活的自有光纤网络-蒙大拿北方层网络(MT-NTN)的覆盖范围和能力。将建立三个新的连接点，以促进与位于蒙大拿州迈尔斯市的蒙大拿州迈尔斯城数据中心(MCDC)的本地站点连接；并利用新的和现有的连接点为蒙大拿州州立大学--比林斯(MSUB)、萨利什·库特奈学院(SKC，一所部落学院)、迈尔斯城市社区学院(MCCC)和道森社区学院(DCC)--创建和支持站点连接。智力价值MT-NTN的这一扩展将允许MSUB、SKC、MCCC和DCC的学生和教职员工通过加强与系统中其他学院和大学的合作，参与扩大的本科生研究项目。该项目还将为蒙大拿州的研究人员提供访问企业级数据存储和计算设施的机会。对这一设施的访问将通过一个安全、高带宽、高容量的网络为大量研究数据提供备份、存储和灾难恢复能力。两个核心研究重点领域是：环境和生态系统科学，以及健康和生物医学科学。改善连通性将加强从环境传感器到当地数据聚集点的数据收集和流动，并将能够在国家网络范围内实时观察生态系统的变化。将该网络扩展到农村和服务不足的地区将有助于研究和了解影响蒙大拿州农村、土著和较低社会经济人口的健康状况。调查人员和其他研究人员将与参与蒙大拿州卫生信息交换(HIEM)的同事合作，HIEM是一个农村卫生网络，由五家独立拥有和运营的医院和两个联邦资助的社区卫生中心组成。这种合作很有价值，因为该州距离很远，这给这种时间敏感的合作带来了额外的困难。广泛影响该项目利用通过当前实验计划资助的正在进行的多样性活动，以刺激蒙大拿州立大学(MSU)和蒙大拿大学(UM)的竞争性研究(EPSCoR)。该项目将通过向所有参与机构提供在线访问，增加研究和教育活动中的合作机会。将加强劳动力发展活动，以促进和留住部落学院的美洲原住民学生在整个本科和研究生生涯中攻读STEM学科。将为本科生提供包括两年制和部落学院在内的研究经验。DCC和MCC的学生将有机会直接与密歇根大学和密歇根大学的教职员工和学生合作。这些机构的教职员工将在密歇根州立大学国家教师增强网络(NTEN)的框架内增加获得新的研究生水平课程的机会。这些涵盖能源、生态和相关主题的新课程将成为永久课程目录的一部分，并为EPSCoR建立一个模式，让全国的科学教师能够及时和准确地了解科学内容。