Improved cyberinfrastructure to support data driven research in a model social-ecological system

电信革命正在使学术创新和发现成为可能，否则不可能：特别是，利用海底光纤电缆的高速数据网络现在甚至将远程研究站点与大陆（基于云的）资源连接起来。因此，现场科学家可以访问高性能计算系统，先进的仪器，数据存储系统，可视化环境和数据存储库。他们还可以保持与同事和学生在他们的家庭校园学术互动，提高生产力，并允许更多的时间在外地。该项目提供的改进的网络基础设施将帮助位于莫雷阿岛的加州大学Gump南太平洋研究站（http：moorea.berkeley.edu）支持向技术密集型、数据驱动型实地研究的过渡，并开发创新的网络学习计划。除其他好处外，它将通过支持NSF Moorea Coral Reef长期生态研究（LTER）网站等项目，帮助促进对珊瑚礁的科学了解。珊瑚礁是全球生物多样性的热点，具有社会意义和经济价值。然而，包括气候变化和海洋酸化在内的地方和全球进程日益威胁到这些特殊自然系统的持续健康。对珊瑚礁的种群动态、生态系统过程、生物多样性和复原力进行新的研究，对于成功管理、保护和恢复珊瑚礁至关重要。除了对研究的好处外，网络基础设施升级还将促进研究生和本科生阶段的实地科学高级培训，使来自加州、夏威夷和美国各地的大学和学院的学生受益。该项目位于法属波利尼西亚，将为美国科学家和学生提供国际和多元文化的经验。Gump Station有一个强大的外展计划，通过其合作伙伴当地社区组织：Association Te Pu Atitia。此次升级将加强科学研究和教育，使Gump Station和Te Pu Atitia能够将这些发现传达给夏威夷的Moorea社区，加州和其他地方--特别是K-12学校--与合作伙伴合作开发项目，帮助历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体（包括波利尼西亚人和其他太平洋岛民）2014年战略设施规划活动-2015年发现，目前在Gump Station的所有研究和教育项目都迫切需要改进网络基础设施，以支持他们日益增长的数据-密集的科学这次升级将改善整个网络基础设施，特别是因特网接入能力，发展一个为整个园区服务的综合网络。光纤电缆将安装到空间站的核心研究区及其教育公共外联设施（阿提提亚文化中心）。Gump Station将从多个住宅式ADSL连接过渡到单个互联网连接，这将提供更好的能力来支持使用互联网进行协作，并以真实的或接近真实的时间上传数据和视频。这些改进将遵循小型校园网络的典型设计，其中包括一个小型边界路由器，用于连接到本地互联网服务提供商和全球研究和教育网络，以及一个核心路由器，用于在各种网络和建筑物之间传输流量。新的网络将是一个传统的中心和辐条模型，使用光纤为每个核心研究和推广站点提供服务。此外，无线网络的改进将为整个空间站提供更好和更可靠的覆盖。

The telecommunications revolution is enabling scholarly innovation and discoveries not otherwise possible: in particular, high speed data networks utilizing submarine fiber-optic cables now link even remote research sites to mainland (cloud-based) resources. Field scientists can thus access high performance computing systems, advanced instruments, data storage systems, visualization environments, and data repositories. They can also maintain academic interactions with colleagues and students on their home campus, increasing productivity and allowing more time in the field. The improved cyberinfrastructure provided by this project will help the University of California's Gump South Pacific Research Station (http://moorea.berkeley.edu) on the island of Moorea to support a transition to technology intensive, data driven field research and to develop innovative cyber-learning programs. Among other benefits, it will help advance the scientific understanding of coral reefs by supporting programs such as the NSF Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site. Hotspots for global biological diversity, coral reefs are sources of societal significance and economic value. Local and global processes, including climate change and ocean acidification, however, increasingly threaten the continued health of these exceptional natural systems. New research on the population dynamics, ecosystem processes, biodiversity and resilience of coral reefs is critical to their successful management, conservation, and restoration. In addition to the benefits for research, the cyberinfrastructure upgrade will also promote advanced training in field science at the graduate and undergraduate level, benefiting students from universities and colleges from California, Hawaii and across the United States. Located in French Polynesia, the project will have the added benefit of providing international and multi-cultural experience for American scientists and students. The Gump Station has a strong outreach program through collaborations brokered by its partner local community organization: Association Te Pu Atitia. The upgrade will strengthen scientific research and education enabling the Gump Station and Te Pu Atitia to communicate these findings to communities in Moorea, Hawaii, California and elsewhere - particularly K-12 schools - working with partners to develop programs that reach out to historically underrepresented groups in science (including Polynesians and other Pacific Islanders).Strategic facilities planning activities in 2014-2015 found that all current research and educational programs at the Gump Station had an urgent need for improved cyberinfrastructure to support their increasingly data-intensive science. The upgrade will improve overall cyberinfrastructure and particularly Internet access capacity, developing a comprehensive network that serves the entire campus. Fiber optic cabling will be installed to the Station's core research areas and its educational public outreach facility (the Atitia Cultural Center). The Gump Station will transition from multiple residential-style ADSL connections to a single Internet connection that will provide much better capacity to support using the Internet for collaborations and to upload data and video in real or near real time. The improvements will follow a typical design for a small campus network with a small border router to connect to the local Internet Service Provider and global Research and Education Networks, and a core router to move traffic between the various VLANs and buildings. The new network will be a traditional hub and spoke model using fiber to serve each of the core research and outreach sites. In addition, improvements to the wireless network will provide better and more reliable coverage across the Station.