Advanced End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure Installation, Validation, and Optimization for the Barrow Global Climate Change Research Facility

鉴于需要了解全球气候变化及其对北极日常生活的可能影响，以及需要更多和更好的全球模型数据，国会资助建设了巴罗全球气候变化研究机构(BGCCRF)，以取代老化的海军北极研究实验室(NARL)。NSF承认信息技术(IT)在地球系统科学中的关键作用，支持BGCCRF运营商巴罗北极科学联盟(BASC)设计和安装该设施的信息架构的建议。该项目提供现代IT基础设施和一种基于新的BGCCRF的仪器方法，BGCCRF周围的无线半径约为10英里。这个无线RADIUS专注于支持巴罗环境观测站(BEO)、沿海海冰和近海考察船的工作。BASC正在利用辛辛那提大学(UC)的教员和阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学(UAF)的IT专业人员来满足这些需求。这里的IT工作将支持大约30-40个正在进行的NSF研究项目以及巴罗地区的其他机构项目。该提案包括UC和UAF在基础设施和仪器计划上的联合工作，UC专注于在BGCCRF周围开发约10英里的无线半径。这项提议涵盖了新的科学支持设施的无线RADIUS和坚实的网络基础设施。为了制定在这里实施的计划，BASC召开了三次关于IT规划的全国科学界会议。两个重点是用户需求评估。第一次于2003年在威廉斯堡举行，确定了资助机构(NOAA、NSF、NASA、美国能源部等)。科学家的需求。由加州大学教职员工召集，20多名网络工程师、联邦机构代表和学术IT专家参加了会议，目标是联邦机构带宽、可接受的使用政策和IT安全要求。第二次会议(博尔德，2004年)评估了终端用户(科学家)的需求。数十名现有的和潜在的巴罗研究人员参加了会议。从这些会议中制定了稻草人信息架构，然后在2006年1月在巴罗举行的第三次会议上进行了审查、改进和审查，其中考虑到了最近和明确的建设和预算限制。该项目略微修改了这些建议，以使整个项目费用保持合理，同时满足巴罗地区研究界的基本需要。巴罗地区改进的IT能力将更好地实现仪器的无线连接和数据回流到研究人员的家庭机构，并提高本地网络的稳定性和与互联网的连接。

Given the need to understand global climate change and its likely effects upon daily life in the Arctic and the need for more and better data for global models, Congress has funded construction of a Barrow Global Climate Change Research Facility (BGCCRF) to replace the aging Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL). NSF, acknowledging the key role of information technology (IT) in Earth System Science, is supporting this proposal by the BGCCRF operator, the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), to design and install the facility's information architecture. This project delivers modern IT infrastructure and an approach to instrumentation that is based around the new BGCCRF with a wireless radius of about 10 miles around the BGCCRF. This wireless radius focuses on supporting work in the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO), on coastal sea-ice, and research vessels offshore. BASC is drawing on faculty at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and IT professionals at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to meet these needs. The IT effort here will support the approximately 30-40 active NSF research projects as well as other agency projects in the Barrow area. The proposal includes UC and UAF working jointly on the infrastructure and instrumentation plan, with UC focusing on developing a wireless radius of about 10 miles around the BGCCRF. This proposal covers the wireless radius and the solid cyberinfrastructure of the new science support facility. To develop the plan implemented here, BASC convened three national science community meetings on IT planning. Two focused on user needs assessment. The 1st, in Williamsburg in 2003, identified funding agencies' (NOAA, NSF, NASA, DOE, etc.) scientists' needs. Convened by UC faculty, two dozen network engineers, federal agency representatives and academic IT experts attended, targeting federal agency bandwidth, acceptable use policy and IT security requirements. The 2nd meeting (Boulder 2004) assessed end-user (scientist) needs. Several dozen current and potential Barrow researchers attended. A straw person information architecture was developed from these meetings, then reviewed, refined and vetted at a 3rd meeting held in Barrow in January 2006, that took into account more recent and definite construction and budget constraints. This project slightly modifies those recommendations to keep the overall project costs reasonable while meeting the essential needs of the research community in the Barrow area. The improved IT capability in the Barrow area will better enable wireless connectivity to instrumentation and data flow back to researchers' home institutions as well as improve local network stability and connectivity to the internet.