Out Of The Box And Into The Cloud: Strategic Planning at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

开箱即用，进入云端：贾斯珀岭生物保护区的战略规划

• 批准号: 1722564
• 负责人: Elizabeth Hadly
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1722564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Out; Box; Into; Cloud; Strategic

This project serves the national interest by helping to develop new tools for conducting and communicating science both nationally and internationally, by building collaborations between the technology and the academic research communities at local through global scales, and by training students about to enter the workforce in cutting-edge technology, biological research, and their interfaces with societal needs. The project is to conduct a planning effort for emplacing infrastructural improvements to Jasper Ridge Biological Station at Stanford University (http://jrbp.stanford.edu/). The vision is to add to Jasper Ridge Biological Field Station's research capabilities by repurposing the current maintenance yard into a place to design and install "pop-up field-station facilities" that can be feasibly replicated at low cost in remote locations. The pop-up facilities will be environmentally friendly, making use of re-purposed and local materials, and self-sufficient for energy, water purification, and waste treatment. Their "out-of-the-box" design will be adaptable for use in strikingly different geographic and cultural settings. The concept is to provide a diverse variety of field stations with the capacity to employ cutting-edge and emerging technology in order to acquire and send data to the cloud for collaborative analyses with those who may live on opposite sides of the world. The scientific rationale is that developing such networking capacity is a prerequisite to attacking local-to-global scale research questions that are not easily explored in isolation, using techniques such as genomic analyses, automation of labor-intensive camera-trapping, drones, remote sensing and mapping, and collaborative analyses. It has been particularly difficult to employ these emerging technologies in field stations that are in remote locations, but it is necessary to do so in order to effectively understand how best to accommodate growing societal needs while still maintaining the biologically-based life-support systems upon which people depend. The project focuses on building capacity and common research agendas among a broad spectrum of biological field stations, from regional partners to those in developing countries. The intent is to not only enhance the science that can feasibly be performed at field stations in diverse settings, but also to provide hands-on training in cutting-edge energy systems, biological research, and collaborative approaches for students and other participants. Scientists, technology advisors, students, potential funders, and other stakeholders will be convened to plan the pop-up facilities and the coordinated research for which they are being developed. Important applications range from tracking biodiversity, to understanding the distribution and function of microbiota, to mapping how species use the landscape and how to most effectively manage them. The planning will include a three-day workshop at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge field station, as well as a series of meetings that will transpire through a year. The outcome will be the roadmap needed to prototype the new pop-up field-facility approach at Jasper Ridge within three years, and emplace similar capacity in remote field stations within five years. The environmentally-friendly, low-cost infrastructure solutions that will be planned in this effort will be of use not only to field stations, but to a variety of stakeholder applications in off-grid locations. Training opportunities will be enhanced for students from both developed and developing countries to learn from diverse faculty, entrepreneurs, and from each other - both scientifically and culturally - in field-related settings, recognized to be one of the most effective and influential learning environments.

该项目服务于国家利益，帮助开发新的工具，在国内和国际上开展和传播科学，通过建立技术和学术研究社区之间的合作，在当地通过全球范围内，并通过培训学生即将进入劳动力在尖端技术，生物研究，以及他们与社会需求的接口。该项目旨在为斯坦福大学的碧玉岭生物站（http：//jrbp.stanford.edu/）的基础设施改进进行规划。我们的愿景是增加碧玉岭生物野外站的研究能力，重新利用目前的维修场到一个地方，设计和安装“弹出式野外站设施”，可以在偏远地区以低成本可行地复制。弹出式设施将是环保的，利用重新利用和当地材料，并自给自足的能源，水净化和废物处理。他们的“开箱即用”设计将适用于截然不同的地理和文化环境。其概念是为各种各样的现场站提供采用尖端和新兴技术的能力，以获取数据并将其发送到云端，以便与可能生活在世界两端的人进行协作分析。科学原理是，发展这种网络能力是解决地方到全球规模研究问题的先决条件，这些问题不容易孤立地探索，使用基因组分析，劳动密集型相机捕获自动化，无人机，遥感和测绘以及合作分析等技术。在偏远地区的野外台站采用这些新兴技术特别困难，但为了有效地了解如何最好地满足日益增长的社会需求，同时仍然维持人们所依赖的生物生命支持系统，这样做是必要的。该项目的重点是在从区域伙伴到发展中国家伙伴的各种生物实地站之间进行能力建设和共同研究议程。其目的不仅是为了提高科学，可以可行地在外地站在不同的设置，但也提供了实践培训，在尖端的能源系统，生物研究，并为学生和其他参与者的合作方法。科学家，技术顾问，学生，潜在的资助者和其他利益相关者将被召集起来，计划弹出式设施和协调的研究，他们正在开发。重要的应用范围包括跟踪生物多样性，了解微生物群的分布和功能，绘制物种如何使用景观以及如何最有效地管理它们。计划将包括在斯坦福大学的碧玉岭野外站举行为期三天的研讨会，以及一系列将持续一年的会议。其结果将是三年内在碧玉岭建立新的弹出式现场设施方法原型所需的路线图，并在五年内在偏远的现场站建立类似的能力。在这项工作中计划的环保、低成本基础设施解决方案不仅适用于现场站，而且适用于离网地点的各种利益相关者应用。将为发达国家和发展中国家的学生提供更多的培训机会，使他们能够在被公认为最有效和最有影响力的学习环境之一的与实地有关的环境中向不同的教员、企业家学习，并相互学习-包括科学和文化方面的知识。