BCC Building Cyberinfrastructure for Transdisciplinary Research and Visualization of the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic

为了了解大规模和长期的生态和社会变化，例如对持续气候变化的脆弱性和适应，需要获得多样化和跨学科的数据集，以了解这些复杂过程的环境和文化驱动因素。例如，对北极环境和社区的长期可持续性的研究需要收集数千平方英里、数百年来以及从气候学、考古学到民俗学等多个学科的数据。在大多数情况下，存在能够解决这些问题的数据集，但是在没有广泛规划的情况下，很难找到这些数据，使它们可互操作，并以新的和有意义的方式分析和可视化它们，从而限制了解决这些问题的能力。这种规模的数据集的复杂性对创建数据管理系统提出了独特的挑战，从而实现数据的互操作性和可访问性。投资于一个全面的数据管理系统，为整合自然科学、社会科学和人文科学的合作者和数据提供了机会，从而为快速社会和环境变化背景下的长期人类生态动力学提供了一个整体方法，并为扩大进行全球变化研究的能力和吸引其他用户（如公众、学生和土著居民）创造了数字工具。该项目将通过一系列规划研讨会巩固一个发展中的多学科社区，包括考古学家、气候科学家、人文主义者和当地社区，重点是发展网络基础设施，研究北大西洋的长期人类生态动力学，北大西洋是一个特别容易受到持续气候和环境变化影响的地区。该项目正在进行的活动将有利于可持续发展科学、考古学、当地和传统知识的整合、跨学科研究以及K-12、大学和研究生的教育。该项目的最终目标是改变数十年来由多个学科、跨越数十万平方英里收集的数据的可访问性和实用性。这些数据将广泛提供，并与北大西洋及其他地区的研究人员和其他用户共享。北大西洋这种以区域为重点的合作所吸取的经验教训，将通过提案中提到的已建立的研究网络，以及包括研究数据联盟和国家科学基金会北极-南极数据协调网络在内的数据管理网络，通过正在进行的报告和社会网络，广泛应用于世界其他区域。这些研究团队的网络提供了一个独特的机会，可以进行真正的变革，协作工作，将自然科学，社会科学，环境人文科学，当地和传统知识，创新数据管理，可视化和北部社区的直接参与联系起来，以解决北大西洋长期人类生态动力学的文化和环境驱动因素。

In order to understand large-scale and long-term ecological and social change, such as vulnerability and adaptation to ongoing climate change, access to diverse and interdisciplinary datasets is needed to understand both the environmental and cultural drivers of these complex processes. For example, research on the long-term sustainability of Arctic environments and communities requires compiling data from over thousands of square miles, hundreds of years, and multiple disciplines, from climatology to archaeology to folklore. In most cases, datasets exist to be able to address these questions, but it remains difficult to find these data, make them interoperable, and analyze and visualize them in new and meaningful ways without extensive planning, thus restricting the ability to address these questions. The complexity of datasets of this scale presents a unique challenge to create a data management system that results in the interoperability and accessibility of data. Investing in a comprehensive data management system provides the opportunity to integrate collaborators and data from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, thus providing the opportunity for a holistic approach to long-term human ecodynamics in the context of rapid social and environmental change and for the creation of digital tools for expanded capacity to do global change research and engage other users, such as the general public, students, and indigenous populations.This project will solidify a developing multidisciplinary community of archaeologists, climate scientists, humanists, and local communities through a series of planning workshops with a focus on the development of cyberinfrastructure to study the long-term human ecodynamics of North Atlantic, a region that is especially vulnerable to ongoing climate and environmental change. Ongoing activities of this project will benefit sustainability science, integration of archaeology, local and traditional knowledge, cross-disciplinary research, and the education of K-12, college, and graduate students. The ultimate goal of this project is to transform the accessibility and utility of data collected over multiple decades by multiple disciplines, and across hundreds of thousands of square miles. These data will be widely available and shared with researchers and other users both in the North Atlantic and beyond. The lessons learned in this regionally focused collaboration in the North Atlantic will be applied widely to other regions of the world through the established research networks named in the proposal, as well as data management networks, including the Research Data Alliance and the NSF Arctic-Antarctic Data Coordination Network, through ongoing reports and social networks. The networking of these the research team offers a unique opportunity to conduct genuinely transformative, collaborative work to connect natural science, social science, environmental humanities, local and traditional knowledge, innovative data management, visualization, and direct involvement of northern communities in order to address the cultural and environmental drivers of the long-term human ecodynamics of the North Atlantic.