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

研究和教育（R E）网络是研究和教育网络基础设施的基本要素。这一探索性项目将使太平洋地区的RE界、科学家、服务提供者和其他利益攸关方参与制定太平洋岛屿R E联网的概念和方法。 这项工作的重点是太平洋，同时将研究O3 b（www.o3bnetworks.com）卫星网络，该网络将广泛适用于其他区域的研究与发射网络，特别是针对非洲和拉丁美洲的地点，以及世界各地的船舶研究。中期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。 将在最后报告中提出一份更复杂的太平洋区域研究和教育网络路线图，这将需要更大的社会化。 这一项目将首次系统地研究太平洋地区建立研究与教育网络的挑战和机遇。 然而，该项目更大的智力价值将在于推进地球、大气和环境科学中一些最引人注目的研究活动。 其中包括：在莫雷阿岛Gump站的珊瑚礁LTER和CREON计划中开展工作;在帕尔米拉环礁开展生物多样性和生态学、陆地/海洋界面、海洋生物学、气候变化和海洋地球化学结构方面的工作;支持加拉帕戈斯群岛查尔斯达尔文研究站的30个国家科学基金会现行计划;非洲阵列在南部非洲的地球物理观测站网络。 更广泛的影响将来自于引入R E网络，作为吸引在STEM领域代表性严重不足的太平洋岛民的关键工具。正在规划的网络将支持合作教育，研究和培训，帮助社区规划文化上适当的道路，以实现环境和经济上可持续的未来，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.