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 Propoposal标题：将蒙大拿州北部等级网络延长到战略合作社：蒙塔纳斯大学奖：根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》的资助（公共法111-5）（公共法111-5）（北部层网络（Norter Levernity）在2003年的北部网络（NTNC）扩展了宽广的范围，并扩展了宽广的范围。国家研究与教育网络（NREN）。这项研究基础设施改善校园间和校内网络连通性项目的目标是扩展蒙大拿大学系统（MUS）新激活的拥有的纤维网络蒙大拿州北部北部层网（MT-NTN）的覆盖范围和能力。将建立三个新的连接点，以促进位于蒙大拿州迈尔斯市的蒙大拿州迈尔斯城市数据中心（MCDC）的本地站点连接；并使用新的和现有的连接站点来为蒙大拿州立大学利基林斯（MSUB），萨利什·科特奈学院（SKC，一个部落学院），迈尔斯城市社区学院（MCCC）和道森社区学院（DCC）创建和支持网站连接。知识分子值得MT-NTN的扩展，将允许MSUB，SKC，MCCC和DCC的学生和教职员工通过与系统中其他学院和大学的合作进行增强的合作，从而从事扩展的本科研究计划。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访问。访问此设施将通过安全，高带宽，高容量网络为大量研究数据提供备份，存储和灾难恢复功能。两个核心研究重点领域是：环境和生态系统科学以及健康与生物医学科学。改善的连接性将增强从环境传感器到本地数据聚合点的数据收集和流，并可以实时观察国家网络量表的生态系统变化。将网络扩展到农村和服务不足的地区将支持对影响蒙大拿州农村，土著和较低社会经济人口的健康状况的研究和理解。调查人员和其他研究人员将与参加蒙大拿州健康信息交流（HIEM）的同事合作，蒙大拿州（HIEM）是一个由五家独立拥有和经营的医院和两个联邦资助的社区卫生中心组成的农村健康网络。由于该州的距离非常大，因此这项合作非常有价值，这在这种时间敏感的协作中带来了一个额外的困难。BRODER会影响项目利用通过当前的实验计划刺激竞争性研究（EPSCOR）的持续多样性活动（MSU）（MSU）和蒙大拿州大学（UM）（UM）（UM）。该项目将通过向所有参与机构提供在线访问来增加研究和教育活动的合作机会。将增加劳动力发展活动，以便在整个本科生和研究生职业中晋升和留住来自STEM学科的部落学院的美国原住民学生。将开发包括2年和部落学院在内的本科生计划的研究经验。 DCC和MCC的学生将有机会直接与UM和MSU的教师和学生合作。这些机构的教师将在MSU的国家教师增强网络（NTEN）的框架内增加获得新的研究生级课程的机会。涵盖能源，生态和相关主题的新课程将成为当然可以使用的永久目录的一部分，并建立EPSCOR的模型，以及时，准确的科学内容吸引全国科学教师。