Sierra Nevada Research Institute Informatics and Data Visualization Center in Yosemite National Park

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将翻新一个旧的，未隔热的建筑，目前用于环境研究的加州默塞德大学（UC默塞德）塞拉利昂内华达州研究所（SNRI）瓦沃纳野外站在约塞米蒂国家公园。 改造的结果将是一个跨学科的，节能的，网络化的计算建模，生态信息学和数据可视化中心。该中心将支持各种正在进行的和未来的，在科学和自然资源管理的接口计算密集型研究。网络基础设施升级将包括与加州大学默塞德校区的高速互联网连接，以进行远程数据存储和处理。 基础设施的改善将包括：防风雨、屋顶维修、升级电力系统以及供暖和制冷升级。 Wawona Field Station（WFS）支持Sierra内华达州研究所（SNRI）的研究，并促进学术研究，科学教育，自然资源管理和艺术之间的协同联系。WFS为科学，资源管理和科学传播的接口提供了独特的研究机会。WFS是一个基础广泛的现场站，支持涉及传统现场站活动的研究项目，最近，使用嵌入式传感器网络进行空间和时间密集型测量。然而，WFS比传统的现场站提供更多的功能。在WFS从事实地活动的研究人员还对遥感数据、空间上明确的实地数据、时间上丰富的传感器网络数据以及来自其他远程数据库的数据（例如，基因组序列数据）。在景观尺度上解决跨学科的环境问题，需要现场数据紧密耦合在真实的时间与数据合成和可视化，以帮助完善和目标随后的现场采样。翻新后的结构将促进跨学科的跨规模的研究，并加强塞拉利昂内华达州研究所？目前的活动包括水文和生态系统的变化检测。翻新后的设施还将为加州大学系统中最多样化的学生团体之一的成员提供研究经验，从而提高传统上代表性不足的学生群体对科学的兴趣。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will renovate an old, uninsulated building that is currently used for environmental research at the University of California Merced (UC Merced) Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) Wawona Field Station in Yosemite National Park. The result of the renovation will be an interdisciplinary, energy-efficient, networked center for computational modeling, eco-informatics, and data visualization. The center will support a variety of ongoing and future, computationally intensive research at the interface of science and natural resource management. Cyberinfrastructure upgrades will include high speed internet connections to the UC Merced campus for remote data storage and processing. Infrastructure improvements will include: weather proofing, roof repair, an upgraded electrical system, and heating and cooling upgrades. The Wawona Field Station (WFS) supports Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) research and facilitates synergistic links among academic research, science education, natural resource management, and the arts. The WFS provides unique opportunities for research at the interface of science, resource management, and scientific communication. The WFS is a broad-based field station that supports research projects involving traditional field station activities and, more recently, the use of embedded sensor networks for spatially and temporally intensive measurements. However, WFS serves more functions than a traditional field station. Researchers who engage in field activities at WFS also do computationally intense synthesis, analysis, and visualization of remote sensing data, spatially explicit field data, temporally rich sensor network data, and data from other remote data libraries (e.g., genome sequence data). Addressing interdisciplinary environmental questions at landscape scales requires that field data be tightly coupled in real time with data synthesis and visualization to help refine and target subsequent field sampling. The renovated structure will facilitate interdisciplinary cross-scale research and enhance the Sierra Nevada Research Institute?s current activities including change detection in hydrological and ecological systems. The renovated facility will also provide research experiences to members of one of the most diverse student bodies in the University of California system, thus increasing interest in science among traditionally underrepresented student populations.