NSF Convergence Accelerator Track E: Backyard Buoys: Equipping Underserved Communities with Ocean Intelligence Platforms

NSF 融合加速器轨道 E：后院浮标：为服务欠缺的社区配备海洋情报平台

• 批准号: 2230479
• 负责人: Jan Newton
• 金额: $ 498.18万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2230479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Track; Backyard

This project, titled Backyard Buoys, empowers Indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. Innovations for this project include a sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and a web-based application that renders data easy to understand and bridges to Indigenous knowledge. An additional benefit of getting wave buoys in the water at diverse and under-measured sites is the generation of data from highly-localized coastal areas available for large scale scientific research to improve climatology and predictions, especially important in light of climate change.Backyard Buoys empowers Indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. We bring together regional ocean observing networks of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), underserved Indigenous communities, and a sensor company to work collectively to democratize local wave measurements and provide a solution to the existing hurdle of observing technologies that are too expensive to purchase and to sustain. Through co-design of an implementation and stewardship plan, as well as low-fidelity data servicing apps formulated in Phase I of the NSF Convergence Accelerator, this project seeks to to revolutionize status quo by using lower-cost tools and deepening the human and data connections that collectively will allow for an effective system that has a focus on the hyper-local scale – sorely lacking in the design of existing ocean observing systems – while assuring it is within a globally-connected network. This is critical for effective advanced planning to ensure a safe blue economy for the communities.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.

该项目名为后院浮标，使土著和其他沿海社区能够收集和使用海洋数据，以支持其蓝色经济：海洋活动、粮食安全和沿海灾害保护。该项目的创新包括一个由社区牵头管理负担得起的海洋浮标的可持续进程，以及一个使数据易于理解并连接土著知识的网络应用程序。在不同和测量不足的地点在水中安装波浪浮标的另一个好处是从高度局部化的沿海地区产生数据，可用于大规模科学研究，以改善气候学和预测，鉴于气候变化尤其重要。后院浮标使土著和其他沿海社区能够收集和使用海洋数据来支持他们的蓝色经济：海洋活动、粮食安全和海岸灾害保护。我们将由美国综合海洋观测系统(IOOS)、服务不足的土著社区和一家传感器公司组成的区域海洋观测网络聚集在一起，共同努力实现本地海浪测量的民主化，并为购买和维护过于昂贵的观测技术提供现有障碍的解决方案。通过共同设计实施和管理计划，以及在NSF融合加速器第一阶段制定的低保真数据服务应用程序，该项目寻求通过使用低成本工具和深化人员和数据连接来彻底改变现状，共同允许一个有效的系统专注于超局部规模-现有海洋观测系统的设计严重缺乏-同时确保它处于一个全球连接的网络中。这对于有效的高级规划以确保社区安全的蓝色经济至关重要。这一奖项反映了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。