Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: WaterHUB for Cyber Enabled Training, Education and Research in Water Resources

考虑到水资源问题在全球范围内日益重要，该项目旨在培训当前和未来几代教师、学生和公众使用网络基础设施（CI）来解决与水有关的问题。该项目的总体目标是开发一个原型CI，用于数据访问和共享、仿真建模和可视化，以解决与水相关的问题，然后表明该CI可以用作培训教育工作者、学生和公众的平台。具体而言，该提案：(i)开发WaterHUB（利用普渡大学HUBZero平台），包括用于访问、分析和可视化水资源地理空间和时间数据的原型工具；（ii）为教育工作者之间的合作开发一个原型框架，以开发、出版、审查和共享使用网络基础设施解决水问题的培训材料；（iii）通过在三所大学（普渡大学、亚利桑那州立大学、杰克逊州立大学）的应用，评估和评估拟议的网络基础设施和协作框架的有效性；（四）通过为教师、学生、决策者和一般公众举办讲习班和培训班来建立社区。这一示范项目将展示一种可扩展机制的概念证明，通过与美国三个地理和文化多样化的研究机构的教职员工和学生合作，将不同人口的需求纳入更广泛的社区，从而提高对水资源的认识。对这一示范项目所有方面的外部评价和评估，包括通过讲习班和培训班进行的社区投入，将为制定扩大项目规模的计划提供基础。该提案涉及三个地理和文化不同的机构（普渡大学、亚利桑那州立大学和杰克逊州立大学）的一组水文学家、计算机科学家、一名教育专家和一名环境研究员，共同开发一个数据访问、分析和可视化的CI，以研究水资源问题，包括教学和培训方面的合作。具体来说，该提案将使用一个经过验证的CI，最初是为纳米技术开发的（nanoHUB.org每年有超过10万用户），为水资源开发一个名为WaterHUB的定制网络环境。被称为HUBZero的核心纳米hub CI不足以处理水相关研究中典型的大型时空数据集，并且缺乏将这些数据与数据驱动的计算密集型水文模拟联系起来的能力。这项工作将为HUBzero增加急需的数据以及数据和高性能计算的耦合，以支持水资源研究。WaterHUB将是水资源界的首个此类平台，将为包括P-12在内的所有级别的研究和教育提供一个基于网络的协作平台。正在开发WaterHUB原型，通过使用公共领域数据和模拟模型来解决与水有关的问题，解决与水储存、人类影响和能量通量有关的三个基本问题。该项目还包括一个全面的评估和评估计划，将量化网络教学对学生学习的影响。这项评估对于评估现有和未来CI的属性以满足下一代网络学习者和研究人员的需求至关重要。拟议的WaterHUB提供了急需的网络环境，以培训和教育当前和下一代公民有关水的问题。这些活动将具体针对：(i)通过与普渡大学合作，P-12教师和学生？美国的INSPIRE研究所；（ii）三所研究型大学的本科生和研究生；（iii）印第安纳州的州和联邦决策者。通过与杰克逊州立大学和亚利桑那州立大学的合作，代表性不足的学生正在通过研讨会和暑期实习接受培训，使用最新的网络技术探索与水有关的问题。此外，讲习班聚会将用于制定扩大这一努力的战略，以包括更多的计算工具、国家和国际数据集和高质量的课程材料。WaterHUB吗?开发协作教材的网络环境将使资源不足的地方的教师和学生能够开发新的课程材料，以采用网络技术解决与水有关的问题。

Considering the growing importance of water resources issues around the globe, this project addresses the need to train the current and future generations of teachers, students and general public to use cyberinfrastructure (CI) to address water related issues. The overall goal of this project is to develop a prototype CI for data access and sharing, simulation modeling and visualization to address water related issues, and then show that this CI can be used as a platform to train educators, students and the general public. Specifically, this proposal: (i)bis developing WaterHUB (by utilizing Purdue HUBZero platform) to include prototype tools for accessing, analyzing and visualizing water resources geospatial and temporal data; (ii) is developing a prototype framework for collaboration among educators to develop, publish, review and share training material for using cyberinfrastructure to address water issues; (iii) is evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of the proposed cyberinfrastructure and the collaborative framework through application at three universities (Purdue, Arizona State U, Jackson State U); and (iv) is building community through workshops and training sessions for teachers, students, policy makers and the general public. This demonstration project will show proof-of-concept for a scalable mechanism to create water resources awareness among a much broader community by incorporating the needs of a diverse population through collaboration with faculty and students at three geographically and culturally diverse research institutions in the United States. External evaluation and assessment of all aspects of this demonstration project including community input through workshops and training sessions will provide the basis for developing a plan for scaling up the project. Intellectual Merit This proposal involves a group of hydrologists, computer scientists, an educational expert and an environmental researcher at three geographically and culturally different institutions (Purdue, Arizona State and Jackson State) to develop a CI for data access, analysis and visualization to study water resources issues including collaboration for teaching and training. Specifically, this proposal will use a proven CI, initially developed for nanotechnology (nanoHUB.org that has more than 100,000 users annually), to develop a customized cyber environment for water resources called WaterHUB. The core nanohub CI, known as HUBZero, is inadequate to handle large spatial and temporal datasets that are typical in water related studies, and lacks the capability to link such data with data driven, computationally intensive hydrologic simulations. This work will add the much needed data and coupling of data and high performance computing to HUBzero to support water resources studies. WaterHUB will be the first of its kind in the water resources community that will provide a collaborative web-based platform for research and education at all levels including P-12. The prototype WaterHUB is being developed to address three basic questions related to water storage, human impacts and energy fluxes by using public domain data and simulation models to address water related problems. This project also involves a comprehensive evaluation and assessment plan that will quantify the effect of cyber-enabled pedagogy on students learning. This assessment is critical in terms of evaluating the attributes of existing and future CI to meet the needs of next generation cyber learners and researchers. Broader Impacts The proposed WaterHUB is providing the much needed cyber environment to train and educate the current and next generation of citizens on water related issues. The activities will specifically target: (i) P-12 teachers and students through collaboration with Purdue?s INSPIRE institute; (ii) undergraduate and graduate students at three research universities; (iii) state and federal decision makers in the state of Indiana. Through collaboration with Jackson State and Arizona State universities, under-represented students are being trained through workshops and summer internships to use the latest cyber technology for exploring water related issues. In addition, workshop gatherings will be used to develop a strategy for up-scaling this effort to include more computational tools, national and international datasets and high quality curriculum material. WaterHUB?s cyber environment to develop collaborative teaching material will enable training of teachers and students at places that have inadequate resources to develop new curriculum material for adopting cyber technology to tackle water related issues.