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.

该项目通过帮助开发在国内和国际上开展和交流科学的新工具，通过建立技术和学术研究界在本地到全球范围内的合作，以及通过培训即将进入劳动力市场的尖端技术，生物研究及其与社会需求的接口，为国家利益服务。该项目将对斯坦福大学贾斯珀岭生物站（http://jrbp.stanford.edu/）进行基础设施改造的规划工作。该项目的愿景是通过将目前的维修站改造成一个设计和安装“弹出式现场站设施”的地方，从而增加贾斯珀岭生物野外站的研究能力，这些设施可以在偏远地区以低成本复制。这些临时设施将是环保的，使用重新利用的材料和当地材料，并在能源、水净化和废物处理方面自给自足。它们“开箱即用”的设计将适用于截然不同的地理和文化环境。其概念是提供各种各样的现场站，使其能够采用尖端和新兴技术，以便获取数据并将其发送到云端，以便与生活在世界两端的人们进行协作分析。科学依据是，发展这种网络能力是解决从地方到全球规模的研究问题的先决条件，这些问题不容易单独探索，需要使用基因组分析、劳动密集型相机捕获自动化、无人机、遥感和测绘以及协作分析等技术。在偏远地区的实地监测站使用这些新兴技术尤其困难，但必须这样做，以便有效地了解如何最好地适应日益增长的社会需要，同时仍然维持人们所依赖的基于生物的生命支持系统。该项目的重点是在从区域伙伴到发展中国家的广泛的生物实地站之间建立能力和共同研究议程。其目的不仅是提高在不同环境下实地研究站可行的科学水平，而且还为学生和其他参与者提供尖端能源系统、生物研究和协作方法方面的实践培训。科学家、技术顾问、学生、潜在资助者和其他利益相关者将被召集起来，规划弹出式设施和正在开发的协调研究。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，绘制物种如何利用景观以及如何最有效地管理它们。该计划将包括在斯坦福大学贾斯珀岭野外研究站举行为期三天的研讨会，以及将在一年内举行的一系列会议。结果将是在三年内在Jasper Ridge建立新的弹出式现场设施方法的原型所需的路线图，并在五年内在远程现场站点部署类似的能力。在这项工作中规划的环保、低成本的基础设施解决方案不仅适用于现场站，也适用于离网地区的各种利益相关者应用。发达国家和发展中国家的学生将有更多的培训机会，在与实地有关的环境中向不同的教员、企业家学习，并在科学和文化上相互学习，实地环境被认为是最有效和最有影响力的学习环境之一。