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新的工具来开发新的工具，以通过全球范围在本地范围内建立技术和学术研究社区之间的合作，并培训即将在尖端技术，生物学研究中及其与社会需求的界面进行培训的学生，从而在国内和国际上进行科学。该项目是为了将基础设施改进的基础设施改进与斯坦福大学（http://jrbp.stanford.edu/）的贾斯珀岭生物站进行了计划。愿景是通过将当前的维护场重新利用为设计和安装“弹出现场站设施”的地方，从而增加Jasper Ridge Biological Field Station的研究功能，这些维护场可以在偏远地区以低成本的价格进行可行的复制。弹出式设施将对环境友好，利用重新使用和当地材料，并自给自足，以进行能量，净水和废物处理。他们的“开箱即用”设计将适应于极大的不同地理和文化环境。这个概念是提供各种各样的野外站，以采用尖端和新兴技术的能力，以获取并将数据发送到云中，以与可能生活在世界对立的人进行协作分析。科学的理由是，使用基因组分析，劳动密集型相机捕获，无人机，遥感和映射以及协作分析等技术，开发这种网络能力是攻击局部到全球量表的研究问题的先决条件。在偏远地区的现场站中使用这些新兴技术是特别困难的，但是必须这样做，以便有效地了解如何最好地满足不断增长的社会需求，同时仍保持基于生物学的基于生物学的生活支持系统。该项目着重于从区域伙伴到发展中国家的各种生物野外站点之间的建筑能力和共同的研究议程。目的不仅是要增强可以在不同环境中在野外站点进行的科学，而且还要为学生和其他参与者提供尖端能源系统，生物学研究和协作方法的动手培训。将召集科学家，技术顾问，学生，潜在的资助者和其他利益相关者，以计划弹出式设施和正在开发的协调研究。重要的应用程序从跟踪生物多样性到了解微生物群的分布和功能，再到绘制物种如何使用景观以及如何最有效地管理它们。该计划将包括斯坦福大学Jasper Ridge Field Station的为期三天的研讨会，以及一系列会议，这些会议将在一年中散发。结果将是在三年内在贾斯珀·岭（Jasper Ridge）制作新的弹出现场实地方法所需的路线图，并且在五年内将遥控站的容量相似。在这项工作中计划的环境友好，低成本的基础架构解决方案不仅可以用于现场站，而且还可以用于离网站的各种利益相关者应用程序。在与野外相关的环境中，从科学和文化上互相学习，从发达国家和发展中国家的学生都可以增强培训机会，以向不同的教职员工学习，并在科学和文化上彼此学习，这是最有效，最有影响力的学习环境之一。