Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: WaterHUB for Cyber Enabled Training, Education and Research in Water Resources

合作研究：CI-TEAM 示范项目：用于水资源网络培训、教育和研究的 WaterHUB

• 批准号: 1041379
• 负责人: Venkatesh Merwade
• 金额: $ 22.21万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 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 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; TEAM; Demonstration

Considering the growing importance of water resources issues around the globe, this project addresses the need to train the current and future generations of teachers, students and general public to use cyberinfrastructure (CI) to address water related issues. The overall goal of this project is to develop a prototype CI for data access and sharing, simulation modeling and visualization to address water related issues, and then show that this CI can be used as a platform to train educators, students and the general public. Specifically, this proposal: (i)bis developing WaterHUB (by utilizing Purdue HUBZero platform) to include prototype tools for accessing, analyzing and visualizing water resources geospatial and temporal data; (ii) is developing a prototype framework for collaboration among educators to develop, publish, review and share training material for using cyberinfrastructure to address water issues; (iii) is evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of the proposed cyberinfrastructure and the collaborative framework through application at three universities (Purdue, Arizona State U, Jackson State U); and (iv) is building community through workshops and training sessions for teachers, students, policy makers and the general public. This demonstration project will show proof-of-concept for a scalable mechanism to create water resources awareness among a much broader community by incorporating the needs of a diverse population through collaboration with faculty and students at three geographically and culturally diverse research institutions in the United States. External evaluation and assessment of all aspects of this demonstration project including community input through workshops and training sessions will provide the basis for developing a plan for scaling up the project. Intellectual Merit This proposal involves a group of hydrologists, computer scientists, an educational expert and an environmental researcher at three geographically and culturally different institutions (Purdue, Arizona State and Jackson State) to develop a CI for data access, analysis and visualization to study water resources issues including collaboration for teaching and training. Specifically, this proposal will use a proven CI, initially developed for nanotechnology (nanoHUB.org that has more than 100,000 users annually), to develop a customized cyber environment for water resources called WaterHUB. The core nanohub CI, known as HUBZero, is inadequate to handle large spatial and temporal datasets that are typical in water related studies, and lacks the capability to link such data with data driven, computationally intensive hydrologic simulations. This work will add the much needed data and coupling of data and high performance computing to HUBzero to support water resources studies. WaterHUB will be the first of its kind in the water resources community that will provide a collaborative web-based platform for research and education at all levels including P-12. The prototype WaterHUB is being developed to address three basic questions related to water storage, human impacts and energy fluxes by using public domain data and simulation models to address water related problems. This project also involves a comprehensive evaluation and assessment plan that will quantify the effect of cyber-enabled pedagogy on students learning. This assessment is critical in terms of evaluating the attributes of existing and future CI to meet the needs of next generation cyber learners and researchers. Broader Impacts The proposed WaterHUB is providing the much needed cyber environment to train and educate the current and next generation of citizens on water related issues. The activities will specifically target: (i) P-12 teachers and students through collaboration with Purdue?s INSPIRE institute; (ii) undergraduate and graduate students at three research universities; (iii) state and federal decision makers in the state of Indiana. Through collaboration with Jackson State and Arizona State universities, under-represented students are being trained through workshops and summer internships to use the latest cyber technology for exploring water related issues. In addition, workshop gatherings will be used to develop a strategy for up-scaling this effort to include more computational tools, national and international datasets and high quality curriculum material. WaterHUB?s cyber environment to develop collaborative teaching material will enable training of teachers and students at places that have inadequate resources to develop new curriculum material for adopting cyber technology to tackle water related issues.

考虑到水资源问题在地球仪上的重要性日益增加，该项目旨在满足培训当前和未来几代教师、学生和公众使用网络基础设施解决与水有关问题的需要。该项目的总体目标是开发一个用于数据访问和共享、模拟建模和可视化的CI原型，以解决与水有关的问题，然后表明该CI可以用作培训教育工作者、学生和公众的平台。具体而言，这一提议：（i）之二发展WaterHUB（通过利用Purdue HUBZero平台）纳入用于访问、分析和可视化水资源地理空间和时间数据的原型工具;（ii）正在开发一个原型框架，供教育工作者协作开发、出版、审查和分享使用网络基础设施解决水问题的培训材料;（iii）透过在三所大学的应用，评估拟议的数码基建设施和合作架构的成效（普渡大学、亚利桑那州立大学、杰克逊州立大学）;以及（iv）通过为教师、学生、决策者和公众举办讲习班和培训班，建设社区。该示范项目将展示一个可扩展机制的概念验证，通过与美国三个地理和文化多样性研究机构的教师和学生合作，纳入不同人群的需求，在更广泛的社区中建立水资源意识。对这一示范项目所有方面的外部评价和评估，包括通过讲习班和培训班提供的社区投入，将为制定扩大项目规模的计划奠定基础。这项建议涉及三个地理和文化不同的机构（普渡大学、亚利桑那州和杰克逊州）的一组水文学家、计算机科学家、一名教育专家和一名环境研究人员，以开发一个用于数据访问、分析和可视化的CI，研究水资源问题，包括教学和培训方面的合作。具体来说，该提案将使用一个经过验证的CI，最初是为纳米技术开发的（nanoHUB.org，每年有超过10万用户），为水资源开发一个定制的网络环境，称为WaterHUB。核心nanohub CI（称为HUBZero）不足以处理与水相关研究中典型的大型空间和时间数据集，并且缺乏将此类数据与数据驱动的计算密集型水文模拟相关联的能力。这项工作将为HUBzero添加急需的数据以及数据和高性能计算的耦合，以支持水资源研究。WaterHUB将是水资源界的第一个此类平台，它将为包括P-12在内的各级研究和教育提供一个基于网络的协作平台。正在开发原型WaterHUB，以利用公共领域数据和模拟模型解决与水有关的问题，从而解决与水储存、人类影响和能量通量有关的三个基本问题。该项目还涉及一项综合评价和评估计划，将量化网络辅助教学法对学生学习的影响。这种评估是至关重要的，在评估现有的和未来的CI的属性，以满足下一代网络学习者和研究人员的需求。更广泛的影响拟议的WaterHUB正在提供急需的网络环境，以就水相关问题对当前和下一代公民进行培训和教育。这些活动将具体针对：㈠通过与普渡大学合作，针对P-12教师和学生？的INSPIRE研究所;（ii）三所研究型大学的本科生和研究生;（iii）印第安纳州的州和联邦决策者。通过与杰克逊州立大学和亚利桑那州立大学的合作，代表性不足的学生正在通过讲习班和暑期实习接受培训，使用最新的网络技术来探索与水有关的问题。此外，还将利用讲习班会议制定一项战略，以扩大这一努力的规模，纳入更多的计算工具、国家和国际数据集以及高质量的课程材料。WaterHub？利用数码环境，发展合作教材，让资源不足的地方的教师和学生，可以接受培训，以发展新的课程教材，采用数码科技处理与水有关的问题。