CLEANER: Coalition for Creation of CLEANER Project Office

0533513 Minsker该合作协议设立了一个项目办公室，为这一环境观测站倡议进行规划和联合体开发。项目办公室活动的主要内容包括制定一项基于“重大挑战”问题的科学计划，这些问题具有令人信服的科学价值，满足国家的关键需求，只有通过以观测站为基础的联网基础设施才能推进。建立社区共识是项目办公室的第二项主要活动。这项活动包括四个部分：(1)确定并广泛动员工程科学研究和教育界参与建立共识的活动，包括制定科学计划，(2)将社会经济界纳入这些计划，(3)与促进水文科学大学联合会(CUAHSI)合作，组织一个社区联合体，领导该倡议的进一步发展，(4)与国家科学基金会合作，使其他相关政府机构和私营部门组织成为该倡议的积极合作伙伴。项目办公室将开发一个互动网站，向公众提供有关其活动的信息，并让公众向项目办公室提供投入。将制定传感器网络和网络基础设施计划，这些计划将构成整个系统的关键要素，作为分布式网络和相关设施综合概念设计的一部分。该设计还将说明拟议的基础设施将如何与其他相关的环境观测设施相协调。这一为期两年的计划过程的最后工作要素是制定初步计划计划，该计划计划包括组织和治理结构计划、运营计划以及已实施计划的系统级成本估算。

0533513 Minsker This cooperative agreement establishes a project office to conduct planning and consortium development for this environmental observatory initiative. Key elements of the project office activities include the development of a science plan based on "grand challenge" issues that have compelling scientific merit, address critical national needs, and can be advanced only through a networked observatory-based infrastructure. Community consensus building constitutes a second major activity for the project office. This activity includes four components: (1) identifying and broadly engaging the engineering-science research and education communities in consensus-building activities, including development of the science plan, (2) incorporating the socio-economic community in these plans, (3) collaborating with the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI) to organize a community consortium that will lead further development of the initiative, and (4) working with NSF to involve other relevant government agencies and private sector organizations as active partners in the initiative. The project office will develop an interactive Web site to provide information to the public about its activities and for the public to provide input to the project office. Plans for sensor networks and cyberinfrastructure that will form critical elements of the overall system will be developed as part of a comprehensive conceptual design for the distributed network and associated facilities. This design also will describe how the proposed infrastructure will be coordinated with other related environmental observatory facilities. The final work element in this two-year planning process is the development of a preliminary program plan that incorporates plans for the organization and governance structure, operating plans, and system-level cost estimates for the implemented program.