Permafrost Open Data System (PODS)

永久冻土开放数据系统（PODS）

• 批准号: 572203-2022
• 负责人: Quinton, WilliamL
• 金额: $ 16.61万
• 依托单位: Wilfrid Laurier University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754903
• 关键词: Permafrost; Open; Data; System; PODS

The discontinuous permafrost region of Canada's Northwest Territories (NWT) is one of the most rapidly warming on Earth. Unprecedented rates of permafrost thaw are transforming land covers, changing the flow, storage and quality of water, and raising serious new concerns about the future availability and quality of northern water resources. Decision makers urgently require science-based predictive tools and user-driven mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond effectively. However, despite the large number of new research and monitoring initiatives aimed at understanding the driving processes, rates, patterns, feedbacks and impacts of widespread permafrost thaw, coordination among such initiatives is remarkably absent, and as a result there is little or no standardisation of how data are collected, quality controlled, stored and accessed, and a large proportion of these data is therefore unavailable to the larger community or unusable owing to the dearth of metadata or other inconsistencies. As a result, management and policy decisions continue to be informed by sparse, ad hoc, inconsistent datasets. In direct response we propose the "Permafrost Open Data System (PODS)". PODS will produce an integrated, flexible system to maximise the quality, quantity, availability and utility of permafrost-relevant data. Specifically, PODS will engage a broad network of data producers and users to co-develop standardised data templates and formats, and tools to query, visualise, analyse and share critical, readily-usable datasets. This will fill a persistent gap in northern-based science/technical capacity that prevents our project partners in the Government of the Northwest Territories and in local and regional Indigenous governments from meeting their goals in the generation and stewardship of critical data, and in its efficient mobilisation to where it is critically needed. Addressing this gap through northern-based science/technical leadership and sustained community engagement will directly support decision-making, prudent investment, adaptive risk management, and will help to build a community of northern-based science leaders.

加拿大西北地区(NWT)不连续的永久冻土区是地球上变暖最快的地区之一。史无前例的冻土融化速度正在改变土地覆盖，改变水的流动、储存和质量，并引发对北方水资源未来可获得性和质量的严重新担忧。决策者迫切需要以科学为基础的预测工具和用户驱动的缓解和适应战略，以有效应对。然而，尽管有大量新的研究和监测举措旨在了解大范围冻土融化的驱动过程、速度、模式、反馈和影响，但这些举措之间明显缺乏协调，因此，关于如何收集、质量控制、存储和获取数据，很少或根本没有标准化，因此，由于缺乏元数据或其他不一致之处，这些数据中的很大一部分无法为广大社区所用或无法使用。因此，管理和政策决策继续由稀疏、临时、不一致的数据集提供信息。作为直接回应，我们提出了“永久冻土开放数据系统(PODS)”。吊舱将产生一个综合的、灵活的系统，以最大限度地提高与永久冻土相关的数据的质量、数量、可用性和效用。具体地说，吊舱将吸引广泛的数据生产者和用户网络，共同开发标准化的数据模板和格式，以及查询、可视化、分析和共享关键的、易于使用的数据集的工具。这将填补北方科学/技术能力的长期缺口，使我们在西北领土政府以及地方和区域土著政府的项目合作伙伴无法实现他们在关键数据的生成和管理以及将其有效调动到迫切需要的地方方面的目标。通过北方的科学/技术领导和社区的持续参与来解决这一差距，将直接支持决策、审慎投资和适应性风险管理，并将有助于建立北方的科学领袖社区。