FSML: Minding the Gap - Improving Year-Round Data Collection to Support Continued and Expanded Biological Research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica

FSML：弥补差距 - 改进全年数据收集，以支持南极洲麦克默多干谷的持续和扩大的生物研究

• 批准号: 2114156
• 负责人: Peter Doran
• 金额: $ 27.29万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Minding; Gap; Improving; Year

The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) supports field research (i.e., sampling, experimental studies, and networks of long-term monitoring stations) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) with five summer-only camps located throughout Taylor Valley. The Climate and Stream Monitoring Networks were started more than 30 years ago to support individual science projects. In 1993, the McMurdo Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) project was established and, with direct support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), took over maintenance and upkeep of these pre-existing monitoring networks. Today, much of the technology that underpins this infrastructure, especially the dataloggers that make up the backbone of these sensor networks, is outdated. Moreover, the MDVs are inaccessible by researchers outside of the austral summer (and also sometimes as a result of unforeseen complications like Covid-19), necessitating improvements in remote acquisition infrastructure to overcome the gap in onsite presence. A recent decadal strategic vision for NSF-supported research in Antarctica called for more automated field measurements. New, robust chemical and biological sensors have been developed to support expanded biological research in this harsh environment – technology that would enable researchers working in the MDVs to better constrain the carbon cycle as well as metabolism (gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration) in streams, moats (edges of the permanently ice-covered lakes that melt out each summer), and lakes. The project will enhance fundamental biological research by: 1) upgrading data acquisition infrastructure, 2) adding new sensor instrumentation, and 3) improving remote data acquisition year-round, thereby building capacity to enhance biological monitoring and discovery in the MDVsThe project will expand data acquisition infrastructure (dataloggers, telemetry) to overcome the gap in onsite presence in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) of east Antarctica. This aim also directly responds to the recent decadal strategic vision for NSF research in Antarctica, which recommends pursuit of opportunities for better coordinating and strategically augmenting existing terrestrial observation networks. New robust chemical/biological sensors are now able to support expanded biological research in this harsh environment, enabling better constraint of the carbon cycle and metabolism in streams, moats (edges of our permanently ice-covered lakes that melt out each summer), and lakes. Consequently, they will enhance fundamental biological research by upgrading data acquisition infrastructure, adding new sensor instrumentation, and improving remote data acquisition year-round, thereby building capacity to enhance biological monitoring and discovery in the MDVs. The proposed infrastructure will provide biologically-relevant data from this difficult to reach area, to be used by others in research proposals and papers, conducting primary research, and/or data synthesis efforts. High-frequency data will be streamed in near real-time, and immediately visible to the public via interactive web-based data visualization dashboards. All data will be freely available via the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) Repository as well as Antarctic specific data repositories (USAP Data Center, Antarctic Master Directory). Short educational virtual field trip outreach videos associated with each of the four monitoring networks will be produced and made publicly available through the OBFS Virtual Field project, the MCM LTER website, and project-specific social media accounts (e.g., YouTube). Outreach videos, along with real-time dashboards of biological, climatological, and hydrological data from the MDVs, will also be shown on wall-mounted high-definition screens (enabled by this project) in McMurdo Station and elsewhere. An REU student and a number of graduate students will be mentored and trained over the course of this project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国南极计划（USAP）支持McMurdo Dry Valleys（MDVS）（MDVS）的现场研究（即，采样，实验研究和长期监测站的网络），其中有五个夏季的营地，位于泰勒山谷。气候和流监测网络始于30多年前，以支持各个科学项目。 1993年，McMurdo长期生态研究（MCM LTER）项目成立了，并在国家科学基金会（NSF）的直接支持下接管了这些先前存在的监测网络的维护和维护。如今，基础构造的许多技术，尤其是构成这些传感器网络骨干的数据构造，已经过时了。此外，在澳大利亚夏季以外的研究人员无法访问MDV（有时由于Covid-19等不可预见的并发症），远程采集基础设施的必要改善以克服现场存在的差距。 NSF支持的南极研究的近期十年战略愿景要求进行更多的自动化现场测量。已经开发出了新的，健壮的化学和生物传感器，以支持这种危害环境中扩展的生物学研究 - 技术将使在MDV中工作的研究人员能够更好地限制碳循环以及在溪流中的代谢（总生产力和生态系统呼吸），Moats（每年夏天融化了冰山）和Lake serake and Lakes and lakes and lakes and copters（该项目将通过：1）升级数据采集基础架构，2）添加新的传感器仪器，以及3）改善全年远程数据获取的能力，从而增强MDVS中的生物监测和发现的能力，该项目将扩大数据获取基础架构（telemeterte temertery temertery the temerter the temerter），南极洲东部的山谷（MDV）。该目标还直接响应了南极NSF研究的最近十年战略愿景，该愿景建议寻求更好的协调和战略性地增强现有陆地观察网络的机会。新的鲁棒化学/生物传感器现在能够在这种危害环境中支持扩展的生物学研究，从而更好地限制了溪流中的碳循环和新陈代谢，护城河（我们每年夏天融化的永久冰覆盖的湖泊的边缘）和湖泊。因此，它们将通过升级数据采集基础架构，添加新的传感器仪器并全年改善远程数据获取，从而增强MDV中生物监测和发现的能力，从而增强基本生物学研究。拟议的基础设施将提供与该难以到达领域的生物学相关数据，这些数据被其他人用于研究建议和论文，进行主要研究和/或数据综合工作。高频数据将接近实时流式传输，并通过基于交互式Web的数据可视化仪表板立即向公众看到。所有数据将通过环境数据计划（EDI）存储库以及南极数据存储库（USAP）数据中心，南极主目录免费提供。与四个监控网络中的每个网络相关的每个监视网络中的每个监测网络都将通过OBFS虚拟现场项目，MCM lter网站和特定于项目的社交媒体帐户（例如YouTube）生产并公开提供与四个监视网络相关的简短教育虚拟实地考察视频（YouTube）。外展视频以及来自MDVS的生物学，气候和水文数据的实时仪表板也将在McMurdo站和其他地方的壁挂式高清屏幕（该项目启用）上显示。在该项目的过程中，将考虑和培训REU的学生和许多研究生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。