EAGER: Research and Education Networking in the Pacific Islands and Beyond: Exploring and Developing Approaches

研究和教育（R&amp；E）网络是研究和教育网络基础设施的基本要素。这一探索性项目将吸引太平洋R&amp；E社区、科学家、服务提供商和其他利益相关者为太平洋岛屿的R&amp；E网络开发概念和方法。在以太平洋为重点的同时，这项工作将研究O3b （www.o3bnetworks.com）卫星网络，该网络将广泛适用于其他地区的研发网络，特别是非洲和拉丁美洲的地点，以及世界各地的船舶研究。中间报告将侧重于地点和技术，并足以支持侧重于连接特定地点的具体行动。将作为最后报告编制一份更复杂的太平洋研发和电子联网路线图，这将需要更大程度的社会化。该项目将首次对太平洋地区研发与电子联网的挑战和机遇进行系统研究。然而，这个项目更大的智力价值将在于推动地球、大气和环境科学中一些最引人注目的研究活动。这些工作包括：在莫雷尔岛的阿甘站的珊瑚礁LTER和CREON项目工作；在巴尔米拉环礁开展生物多样性和生态学、陆海界面、海洋生物学、气候变化和生物地球化学结构等方面的工作；支持位于加拉帕戈斯群岛的查尔斯·达尔文研究站的30个活跃的国家科学基金会项目；以及非洲阵列在非洲南部的地球物理观测站网络。将R&amp；E网络作为吸引太平洋岛民参与STEM领域的关键工具，将产生更广泛的影响。计划中的网络将支持协作教育、研究和培训，帮助社区规划适合文化的道路，通往环境和经济可持续的未来，将现代科学技术与自己的文化、价值观、目标、挑战和机遇联系起来。

Research and Education (R&E) Networks are a foundational element of cyberinfrastructure for research and education. This exploratory project will engage the Pacific R&E community, scientists, service providers and other stakeholders to develop concepts and approaches for R&E networking in the Pacific Islands. While focusing on the Pacific, this work will study the O3b (www.o3bnetworks.com) satellite network, which will have broad applicability for R&E networking in other regions, particularly addressing locations in Africa and Latin America, as well as for ship-based research around the world. An intermediate report will focus on locations and technologies and be sufficient to support specific actions focused on connecting specific locations. A more complex roadmap for R&E Networking in the Pacific, which will require greater socialization, will be produced as a final report. This project will provide the first systemic study of the challenges and opportunities of R&E networking in the Pacific region. However, the greater intellectual merit of this project will lie in the advancement of some of the most compelling research activities in earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences. These include: work at the Coral Reef LTER and CREON programs at the Gump Station on Moorea; work on biodiversity and ecology, the terrestrial/marine Interface, and marine biology, climate change, and biogeochemical structure at Palmyra Atoll; support for 30 active NSF programs at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Archipelago; and AfricaArray's network of geophysical observatories across southern Africa. Broader impacts will result from the introduction of R&E networking as a key tool to engage Pacific Islanders, who are highly under-represented in STEM fields The networks being planned will support collaborative education, research and training that will help communities chart culturally appropriate paths to an environmentally and economically sustainable future that bridges modern science and technology with their own cultures, values, goals, challenges and opportunities.