FSML: Improving Information Technology to Facilitate Research at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology

FSML：改进信息技术以促进 Pymatuning 生态实验室的研究

• 批准号: 1624228
• 负责人: Corinne Richards-Zawacki
• 金额: $ 7.12万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624228&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Improving; Information; Technology; Facilitate

The Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology (PLE; http://www.biology.pitt.edu/facilities/pymatuning), located on Pymatuning Lake in northwest Pennsylvania, is the University of Pittsburgh's field station. PLE has been a site of research and education in biology for 85 years. This project will improve internet access at the station's two main sites, Sanctuary Lake and Housing, by replacing the current DSL service with optical fiber-based Dedicated Internet Access (DIA). Consistent with its aim of providing a research infrastructure on par with a Research-1 facility, this improvement will allow PLE for the first time to provide its research users with fast, reliable, and consistent access to the internet. These improvements will open up new opportunities for PLE's education and outreach missions as well. The fiber-optic DIA will be much better positioned to keep pace with the needs of PLE's undergraduate and graduate students and will facilitate training in data-intensive areas of biology, such as remote sensing, global information systems (GIS), and bioinformatics. PLE's outreach mission offers a number of inquiry-based learning opportunities for middle and high school students that take the form of off-site student-designed experiments. Having a reliable virtual connection to such students will allow for videoconferencing, which will facilitate the growth of this type of outreach at PLE.This project aims to run optical fiber to PLE's two most heavily used sites, with the goal of providing up to 20MB (upload and download) Dedicated Internet Access bandwidth to PLE users. This represents a substantial increase in the bandwidths PLE currently provides and will greatly reduce the potential for bottlenecks during periods of high use, as occurs during the spring and summer months. With these improvements, primary investigators (PIs) and their research teams will be able to reliably access bandwidth-intensive applications, such as downloading GIS, weather station, or metagenomics data from publicly available datasets, moving Powerpoint or other large media files to and from cloud storage, or uploading newly-collected datasets to data repositories. With increased bandwidth PLE researchers will also be able to more effectively manage other responsibilities while in residence at PLE, such as editing journals, submitting manuscripts and grant proposals, and having virtual meetings with students and colleagues.

皮马图宁生态实验室（PLE; http://www.biology.pitt.edu/facilities/pymatuning）位于宾夕法尼亚州西北部的皮马图宁湖上，是匹兹堡大学的野外研究站。85年来，PLE一直是生物学研究和教育的场所。该项目将通过用基于光纤的专用互联网接入（DIA）取代目前的DSL服务，改善该站两个主要站点（Sanctuary Lake和Housing）的互联网接入。与提供与research -1设施相当的研究基础设施的目标一致，这一改进将使PLE首次为其研究用户提供快速、可靠和一致的互联网接入。这些改进也将为PLE的教育和外展使命开辟新的机会。光纤DIA将更好地满足PLE本科生和研究生的需求，并将促进数据密集型生物学领域的培训，如遥感、全球信息系统（GIS）和生物信息学。PLE的拓展任务为中学生和高中生提供了一些基于探究的学习机会，这些机会采用学生设计的非现场实验的形式。与这些学生建立可靠的虚拟连接将允许进行视频会议，这将促进PLE这类外展活动的发展。该项目旨在为PLE的两个最频繁使用的站点运行光纤，目标是为PLE用户提供高达20MB（上传和下载）的专用互联网接入带宽。这意味着PLE目前提供的带宽将大幅增加，并将大大减少在高使用期间（如春季和夏季）出现瓶颈的可能性。有了这些改进，初级研究人员（pi）和他们的研究团队将能够可靠地访问带宽密集型应用程序，例如从公开可用的数据集中下载GIS、气象站或宏基因组学数据，将Powerpoint或其他大型媒体文件从云存储中移动，或将新收集的数据集上传到数据存储库。随着带宽的增加，PLE的研究人员也将能够在PLE居住期间更有效地管理其他职责，例如编辑期刊、提交手稿和拨款提案，以及与学生和同事进行虚拟会议。