United States Geological Survey Supplemental Funding for the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE)

美国地质调查局为促进地球科学进步的大地测量设施 (GAGE) 提供补充资金

• 批准号: 2148792
• 负责人: Rebecca Bendick
• 金额: $ 74.76万
• 依托单位: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148792&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: United; States; Geological; Survey; Supplemental

UNAVCO will develop, operate, and maintain a distributed, multi-user Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of GEoscience (GAGE). Geodesy characterizes the Earth's time varying shape, orientation in space, mass distribution, and gravity field. It has revolutionized the geosciences, by measuring Earth changes with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. The GAGE facility employs expert professional staff, with guidance provided by the scientific community, to manage and operate a set of foundational geodetic capabilities that are essential for current research support, as well as frontier geodetic activities that will enable future research. The facility will promote advances in our understanding of continental deformation; tectonic plate boundary processes; the processes that drive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslide hazards; continental water storage, atmospheric, ice sheet and glacier dynamics; and interactions among these components of the Earth system. The geodetic capabilities provided through the GAGE facility contribute to issues of national/global strategic importance, including geohazard assessment and disaster resilience; environmental management and economic development; and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and workforce development. Data products from GAGE will be used by federal agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for missions including spacecraft positioning, satellite orbit, and timing corrections; earthquake, tsunami, and volcano early warning; weather forecasting; water resources; and environmental management. State departments of transportation will use GAGE data to help support traffic monitoring and control and increasingly GAGE data will support commercial sector positioning needs including for agriculture, construction and surveying, transportation (including air, rail, and maritime), mining and resource exploration, and fleet vehicle tracking.The GAGE facility will manage and operate: 1) global and regional continuously operating Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS) and complementary geodetic technology networks; 2) portable geophysical instrumentation for use in principal investigator driven and community experiments; 3) geodetic instrumentation testing and support service; 3) data management systems for the collection, quality assurance, curation, management, and distribution of open access data and data products; and 4) education, workforce development, and public outreach programs that foster the development of the next generation geosciences workforce, are designed to be inclusive and enhance participation of traditionally underrepresented groups in the geosciences, and engage the public by highlighting advances in geophysical sciences and their societal relevance. Innovative and transformative research that will benefit from GAGE examines both the dynamics of individual processes and the nonlinear interactions within and among larger Earth systems. The study of active processes from geocenter motion to the studies of the lithosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere requires understanding of the coupling and feedbacks across a range of length and time scales, and between the solid Earth and its fluid envelopes, in both physical and biological environments. Under NSF, and NASA partner agency support for GAGE, UNAVCO will integrate and federate a set of currently operated but at present independently managed GNSS stations to form the Network of the Americas (NOTA). UNAVCO will modernize NOTA stations with state-of-the-art, multi-sensor, multi-GNSS, receivers with real-time streaming data and analysis. These enhancements will enable higher precision positioning than currently possible and new application of GNSS data that can be used for geohazards warning systems, study of ocean and atmosphere dynamical behavior, and observation of key environmental parameters such as water storage, soil moisture, and sea and lake-level changes.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.

联阿援助团将开发、运营和维护一个分布式、多用户的地球科学促进大地测量设施(GAGE)。大地测量学描述了地球随时间变化的形状、空间方位、质量分布和重力场。它以前所未有的空间和时间分辨率测量地球变化，彻底改变了地球科学。Gage设施雇用专家专业人员，由科学界提供指导，以管理和运行一套对当前研究支助至关重要的基本大地测量能力，以及将使未来研究成为可能的前沿大地测量活动。该设施将促进我们在以下方面的了解：大陆变形；构造板块边界过程；驱动地震、火山喷发和滑坡灾害的过程；大陆水储存、大气、冰盖和冰川动力学；以及地球系统这些组成部分之间的相互作用。通过Gage设施提供的大地测量能力有助于解决具有国家/全球战略意义的问题，包括地质灾害评估和抗灾能力；环境管理和经济发展；以及STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)教育和劳动力发展。Gage的数据产品将被包括国家航空航天局、美国地质调查局和国家海洋和大气管理局在内的联邦机构用于包括航天器定位、卫星轨道和时间校正、地震、海啸和火山预警、天气预报、水资源和环境管理在内的任务。国家交通部将使用Gage数据帮助支持交通监测和控制，Gage数据将越来越多地支持商业部门的定位需求，包括农业、建筑和测量、运输(包括航空、铁路和海洋)、采矿和资源勘探以及车队车辆跟踪。Gage设施将管理和运行：1)全球和区域持续运行的全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)和补充大地测量技术网络；2)用于主要调查者驱动和社区实验的便携式地球物理仪器；3)大地测量仪器测试和支持服务；3)用于收集、质量保证、管理和分发开放访问数据和数据产品的数据管理系统；以及4)促进下一代地球科学劳动力发展的教育、劳动力发展和公共推广计划，旨在包容和加强传统上代表性不足的群体对地球科学的参与，并通过突出地球物理科学的进步及其社会相关性来吸引公众。将受益于GAGE的创新和变革性研究既考察了单个过程的动态，也研究了较大地球系统内部和之间的非线性相互作用。要研究从地心运动到岩石圈、冰冻圈、水圈和大气层的活动过程，需要了解各种长度和时间尺度上的耦合和反馈，以及固体地球与其流体包层之间在物理和生物环境中的耦合和反馈。在国家科学基金会和美国国家航空航天局伙伴机构对Gage的支持下，联阿安全部队将整合和联合一组目前运营但目前独立管理的全球导航卫星系统站，以形成美洲网络(NOTA)。联阿援助团将对NOTA站进行现代化改造，配备最先进的多传感器、多GNSS接收器，并提供实时流数据和分析。这些改进将使GNSS数据能够实现比目前可能的更高精度的定位和新的应用，可用于地质灾害预警系统、研究海洋和大气动态行为以及观测关键环境参数，如水储存、土壤湿度以及海平面和湖面变化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。