CI-TEAM Impl: Dynamic Interdisciplinary Research Environment to Engage and Develop a Cyber-Ready Workforce in the Geosciences, Social Sciences, and Computer Sciences

这一传播与信息团队实施项目正在开发一个跨学科的研究环境，以培养一支在地球科学、计算机科学、科学和技术研究、人类学和物理学领域使用网络的劳动力队伍。该项目让学生加入跨学科团队，共同开发、使用和传播使用虚拟现实(VR)和科学可视化的网络基础设施(CI)工具和技术，用于三个跨学科主题的研究和教育。该项目建立在团队在凯克地球科学主动可视化中心(KeckCAVES)六年多的跨学科合作基础上获得的知识和经验。KeckCAVES既为跨学科研究提供了肥沃的环境，也为用户提供了独特的交互式、身临其境的虚拟现实环境，使用户能够可视化和分析大型和复杂的数据集。智力价值：拟议的项目使学生和更高级的研究人员能够通过使用VR为地球科学、计算机科学、人类学、人文和物理科学的知识前沿做出贡献。它向三个新的、创新的、但交叉的方向扩展了技术和科学前沿：-通过远程沉浸进行远程协作：各团队正在开发远程沉浸技术的创新方法，以实现不同地点的团队与数据集的远程交互，以促进研究和教学合作。在这一发展过程中，学生们正在获得关于VR和沉浸式可视化行为的知识和洞察力。-对自然灾害的快速科学反应(RSR)：团队正在开发快速收集、可视化和解释重大地质事件后收集的数据的CI能力。这一能力将有助于我们了解导致地震、火山、山体滑坡和其他灾难性事件的地质过程。-3D比较：团队正在开发使用交互式CI方法操纵和量化比较数字表示的对象的能力，用于各种应用，包括对建筑物、文化遗产地以及考古、地质和古生物样本进行3D数字扫描。更广泛的影响：这个传播与信息团队项目通过让本科生和研究生参与使用基于虚拟现实的技术进行基于发现的科学研究，为发展一支多样化的、支持网络的劳动力队伍做出了贡献。该团队正在动员跨学科的学生和博士后，为他们自己的研究和同行的研究共同开发CI工具，并培养一批拥有跨学科团队工作经验的网络科学家和软件开发人员。该项目的参与者将有机会参与与美国和国际伙伴机构的合作。他们正在开发学生和博士后、创新的、高质量的学习技术和教学材料，这些技术和教材可被多个学科和机构广泛采用。它们将通过以下方式传播这些技术和方法：根据GNU通用公共许可证提供软件；传播软件工具和文件；出版教育模块、文件以及研究和教育成果，以促进工具的使用。他们将为已建立的、有效的STEM推广计划提供可视化体验，这些计划有效地针对K-12学生。在该计划中开发的传播与信息工具将促进三个关键领域的研究和教学进展：虚拟物体研究、不同团体和机构之间的远程合作以及对自然灾害的快速科学反应。这些技术的发展对于协助多国机构根据复杂的数据作出正确的决定可能变得至关重要。

This CI-TEAM Implementation Project is developing an interdisciplinary research environment for preparing a cyber-enabled workforce in the geosciences, computer science, science and technology studies, anthropology, and physics. The project engages students in interdisciplinary teams to jointly develop, use, and disseminate cyber-infrastructure (CI) tools and techniques using virtual reality (VR) and scientific visualization for research and education across three interdisciplinary themes. The project builds on knowledge and experience that the team has gained over six years of interdisciplinary collaboration at the Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES). KeckCAVES provides both a fertile environment for interdisciplinary research and uniquely interactive, immersive virtual reality environments that allow users to visualize and analyze large and complex datasets. Intellectual Merit: The proposed project enables both students and more advanced researchers to contribute to the frontiers of knowledge in geosciences, computer science, anthropology, humanities, and physical sciences through the use of VR. It extends the technological and scientific frontiers in three new, innovative, yet intersecting directions: - Remote collaboration via tele-immersion: Teams are developing innovative methods of tele-immersion technology to enable remote interaction between teams of people at different locations with datasets, to facilitate research and teaching collaboration. In the process of this development, students are gaining knowledge and insight into the behavior of VR and immersive visualization. - Rapid Scientific Response (RSR) to natural disasters: Teams are developing CI capacity for rapidly collecting, visualizing, and interpreting data collected after major geologic events. This capacity will contribute to our knowledge of the geologic processes driving earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and other catastrophic events. - 3d Compare: Teams are developing the capacity to manipulate and quantitatively compare digitally represented objects using interactive CI methods for use in diverse applications including 3D digital scans of buildings, cultural heritage sites, and archeological, geological, and paleontological samples. Broader Impacts: This CI-TEAM project contributes to the development of a diverse, cyber-enabled workforce by engaging undergraduates and graduate students in the use of virtual-reality-based technology for discovery-based scientific research. The team is engaging students and postdocs across disciplines to co-develop CI tools for their own research and that of their peers, and to develop a cohort of cyber-enabled scientists and software developers with experience working on interdisciplinary teams. Participants in this project will have the opportunity to participate in collaborations with US and international partner institutions. They are developing with students and postdocs, innovative, high-quality learning technologies and instructional materials that are broadly adoptable by multiple disciplines and institutions. They will disseminate these technologies and methods by providing software under the GNU General Public License; disseminating software tools and documentation, and publishing educational modules, documentation, and research and educational outcomes to facilitate the use of the tools. They will provide visualization experiences to established, effective STEM outreach programs that effectively target K-12 students. The CI tools developed in this program will enable research and teaching advances in three critical areas: study of virtual objects, remote collaboration between various groups and agencies, and rapid scientific response to natural disasters. The development of these technologies could become vitally important in assisting multinational agencies to make sound decisions based on complex data.