Community Workshop: COCONet - Results, Sustainability, and Capacity Building

1634055 mattioli2016年5月将举办一个科学研讨会。美国国家科学基金会地球科学部以前支持了COCONet（连续运行加勒比海GPS观测网）的设计、建设和初始运行，以促进泛加勒比地区构造和天气灾害研究的进展（EAR-1042906）。椰子网的发展代表了与环加勒比地区28个主权国家和41个不同行政实体的伙伴关系。一个由80多个持续运行的全球定位系统和气象观测站（GPS/Met）组成的网络，在椰子网建设奖的支持下采购和部署或翻新，现在已接近完成。此外，管理机构联阿援助团还能够与加勒比伙伴谈判，以获取另外62个GPS数据流，使加勒比国家区域数据中心参与这一进程。所有数据均可通过联安援助团数据档案公开查阅。最近，超过80%的椰子网站点正在向联阿援助团档案提供数据，其中45个站点以接近实时和高速率（1赫兹）提供数据。椰子网数据支持：1)整个加勒比地区的构造约束；2)加强可用于测试和扩展气候模式的大气观测；3)通过提供参考站综合主干，改进局部大地测量分析；4)提高了预测对该地区构成如此重大威胁的自然灾害的可能性。讲习班介绍和讨论的重点将是科学成果、现状和业务需求、确定未来维持业务的可能途径，以及COCONet GPS/Met网络提供的国际能力建设机会。拟议的讲习班将汇集科学家、政府机构和应急管理官员，讨论迄今为止椰子网的科学成就和业务成功，与会者将包括来自若干加勒比区域国家的科学家和学生，包括目前负责已建立的区域椰子网数据中心的代表。讲习班将讨论硬件和软件标准化等问题，并将举行重点会谈，突出区域伙伴在其国家的网络状况方面的经验，以及他们如何计划维护和操作椰子网系统。来自哥伦比亚、尼加拉瓜和巴巴多斯的区域数据中心（RDC）主管将介绍他们国家数据中心的现状，以及如何长期维护这些区域中心的想法。讲习班将吸引来自加勒比和美国学术机构的学生参加。这项拨款得到了地球科学理事会和国际科学与工程办公室多个项目的支持。这种支持与美国国家科学基金促进科学进步和促进国家健康、繁荣和福利的使命是一致的，因为提高对地质灾害的理解是至关重要的，地质灾害经常影响美国的利益，并且在地球科学研究和研究方法方面培训学生，为地球科学、气象、工程和应急管理部门提供潜在的下游劳动力。

1634055MattioliThis grant supports a scientific workshop to be held in May 2016. NSF Geosciences previously supported the design, construction and initial operations of COCONet (Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Observational Network) to promote advances in in tectonic and weather hazards research in the pan-Caribbean region (EAR-1042906). COCOnet development represents a partnership with 28 sovereign nation and 41 distinct administrative entities in the circum-Caribbean region. A network of over 80 continuously operating Global Positioning System and meteorological observation stations (GPS/Met) that were procured and deployed or refurbished with support from the COCONet construction awards is now nearly complete. In addition, the managing institution, UNAVCO, was able to negotiate with Caribbean partners for the ingestion of an additional 62 GPS data streams engaging Caribbean country regional data centers in the process. All data are publically accessible via the UNAVCO Data archive. Most recently over 80% of all COCONet sites were delivering data to the UNAVCO archive and 45 of those stations deliver in near real time and at high rate (1 Hz). The COCONet data support: 1) constraints on the tectonics of the entire Caribbean region; 2) the enhancement of atmospheric observations that can be used to test and extend climate models; 3) improvement of the analysis of local geodetic measurements by providing access to an integrated backbone of reference stations; and 4) improved likelihood of forecasting natural hazards that pose such a significant threat to the region.The focus of the workshop presentations and discussions will be on the scientific results, current status and operational requirements, identification of possible pathways to sustain operations into the future, and international capacity building opportunities afforded by the COCONet GPS/Met network. The proposed workshop will bring together scientists, government agency and emergency management officials to discuss the scientific achievements and operational success of COCONet to date, this will include scientists and students from several Caribbean region countries including representatives that are now in charge of established regional COCONet data centers. The workshop will address issues such as hardware and software standardization and will have focused talks highlighting regional partner experiences on the status of the network in their country and how they are planning to maintain and operate COCONet systems. Regional Data Center (RDC) directors from Colombia, Nicaragua, and Barbados will present the status of the data centers in their country and ideas about how to maintain these regional centers for the long-term. The workshop will engage student participation from Caribbean and U.S. academic institutions. This grant is made with support from multiple Programs in the Geosciences Directorate and the Office of International Science and Engineering. This support is congruent with NSFs mission of promoting the progress of science and advancing the national health, prosperity and welfare given the importance of advancing understanding of geohazards that routinely impact the interests of the U.S. as well the training of students in geoscience research and research methods with potential downstream workforce benefits to earth science, meteorology, engineering and emergency management sectors.