Collaborative Project: EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Developing a Community Vision of Cyberinfrastructure Needs for Coral Reef Systems Science

地球科学EarthCube项目认识到将网络基础设施活动与最终用户研究社区的需求相结合的重要性。为此，我们建议召集50-70名珊瑚礁界成员参加两个讲习班，一个在夏威夷大学（HIMB）举行，另一个在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校国家生态分析和综合中心（NCEAS）举行。讲习班的具体目标是：1。确定该领域当前和未来（5-15年）的科学挑战2。总结阻止这些挑战实现的数据和网络基础设施限制3。整理当前社区数据和建模资源及其位置4。珊瑚礁研究界是多学科的，珊瑚礁的数据多样而复杂，跨越了从基因到生态系统的生物尺度，从纳秒到千年的时间尺度，从纳米到公里的空间尺度。挑战在于整合这些数据源，以确定模式和关系，迅速提高我们对珊瑚礁系统的理解。迄今为止，由于缺乏实现这一目标的工具以及共享数据或协作的无效手段，这一努力一直受到阻碍。这个项目将支持车间进行珊瑚礁社区1)开发一个共同的愿景宏大的科学挑战的领域2)突出数据网络基础设施需求将如何把复杂的数据集和潜在的促进快速发展关键领域的珊瑚礁生态系统科学和3)强调协作和数据共享的价值作为第一步来改变和改善珊瑚礁科学家相互支持和推进。作为生态系统工程师，珊瑚每年为价值数十亿美元的生态系统提供营养、经济和结构基础。这个研讨会提案召集了珊瑚礁社区，并将讨论网络基础设施如何为珊瑚礁系统科学提供信息。后者将最终加速对珊瑚礁生态系统的理解，扩大可以提出的问题的范围，并建立预测这些与社会相关和脆弱的生态系统将如何面对气候变化和人类发展的挑战的能力。研讨会还将有至少4名博士后参加，这对这些人来说是一个重要的专业发展机会。研究结果将在“地球立方”网站、“国家海洋科学研究中心”网站和“人类健康研究中心”网站上公布，使科学界、教育界和公众都能广泛查阅。从提议的努力中产生的产品将是向NSF EarthCube提交的一份报告，总结了对这些目标的讨论，这些目标将用于定义和协调地球科学领域的需求，并帮助确定EarthCube活动的优先级。也有机会利用这些结果来编写一份手稿，阐明网络基础设施如何解决珊瑚礁社区面临的科学挑战，并促进系统级科学议程。这样的产品在科学资助和政策领域都有很高的价值。

The Geosciences EarthCube program recognizes the importance of aligning cyber-infrastructure activities with the needs of end user research communities. To that end we propose to convene 50-70 members of the coral reef community in two workshops, one held at the University of Hawaii (HIMB) and the other at the University of California Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). The specific objectives of the workshop are to: 1. Define current and future (5-15 years) scientific challenges in the field2. Summarize data and cyber-infrastructure constraints that prevent these challenges being realized3. Collate current community data and modeling resources and their locations4. Identify and recommend data infrastructure that could facilitate rapidly addressing the scientific challenges in the fieldThe coral reef research community is multidisciplinary and the data on reefs is diverse and complex, crossing biological scales from genes to ecosystems, temporal scales from nanoseconds to millennia, and spatial scales from nanometers to kilometers. The challenge is to integrate across these data sources to identify patterns and relationships that rapidly improve our understanding of coral reefs systems. This effort has been hindered to date by the lack of tools to accomplish this and ineffective means of sharing data or collaborating. This project will support workshops that engage the coral reef community to 1) develop a common vision of the grand science challenges in the field 2) highlight how data cyber-infrastructure needs will integrate the complex datasets and potentially facilitate rapid progress in key areas of coral reefs ecosystem science and 3) emphasize the value of collaboration and data sharing as a first step to changing and improving the way coral reef scientists support each other and advance the field.As ecosystem engineers, corals provide the nutritional, economic, and structural basis ofan ecosystem worth billions of dollars annually. This workshop proposal convenes the coral reef community and will address how cyber-infrastructure can inform coral reef systems science. The latter will ultimately accelerate understanding of reef ecosystems, broaden the scope of the questions that can be asked and build capacity to predict how these societally relevant and fragile ecosystems will face the challenges of climate change and human development. The workshops will also be attended by at least 4 postdocs and represents a significant professional development opportunity for these individuals. Results will be disseminated on the EarthCube website, the NCEAS website, and the HIMB website making them broadly accessible to the science, education and the public. The product from the proposed endeavor will be a report to NSF EarthCube summarizing the discussion for each of these objectives that will serve to define and align the needs across the Geosciences and help prioritize EarthCube activities. There is also an opportunity to use the results to develop a manuscript that articulates how cyber-infrastructure can address the science challenges facing the coral reef community and facilitate a systems level science agenda. Such a product could have high value in both the science funding and policy realm.