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

该项目通过以下方式服务于国家利益：帮助开发国内和国际开展和交流科学的新工具；在全球范围内建立技术与地方学术研究界之间的合作；以及培训即将进入劳动大军的学生掌握尖端技术、生物研究及其与社会需求的联系。该项目将为斯坦福大学(http://jrbp.stanford.edu/).)贾斯珀里奇生物站进行基础设施改进的规划工作我们的愿景是通过将目前的维护场重新用于设计和安装可以在偏远地区以低成本可行地复制的“弹出式野外站设施”，来增加Jasper Ridge生物野外站的研究能力。弹出式设施将是环保的，使用重新用途和当地材料，并在能源、水净化和废物处理方面自给自足。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。这一构想是为各种不同类型的外勤站提供能力，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，以便与可能生活在世界两端的人进行协作分析。其科学基础是，发展这种网络能力是利用基因组分析、自动化劳动密集型相机捕捉、无人机、遥感和测绘以及协作分析等技术，解决从局部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。在偏远地区的外勤站使用这些新兴技术尤其困难，但有必要这样做，以便有效地了解如何最好地适应日益增长的社会需求，同时仍然维持人们赖以生存的生物生命维持系统。该项目的重点是在从区域伙伴到发展中国家的各种生物实地站之间建设能力和共同研究议程。其目的不仅是加强可以在不同环境下在实地站可行地进行的科学研究，而且还为学生和其他参与者提供关于尖端能源系统、生物研究和协作方法的实践培训。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，规划弹出窗口设施以及为其开发的协调研究。重要的应用范围从跟踪生物多样性，到了解微生物区系的分布和功能，到绘制物种如何利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贾斯珀里奇野战站举行的为期三天的研讨会，以及一系列为期一年的会议。其结果将是在三年内在贾斯珀山脊建立新的弹出式外地设施方法原型所需的路线图，并在五年内在偏远的外地站建立类似的能力。将在这项工作中规划的环境友好、低成本基础设施解决方案将不仅对外勤站有用，而且对离网地点的各种利益攸关方应用程序也有用处。将为来自发达国家和发展中国家的学生提供更多的培训机会，让他们在被公认为最有效和最有影响力的学习环境之一的实地环境中，从不同的教师、企业家和相互学习--无论是科学上还是文化上--学习。

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.