MRI: Instrumentation for Enabling Data Analysis, Sharing, Storage, and Preservation

保留所收集的数据并与更广泛的研究界分享，对于更好地了解城市化对全球生态和环境的影响是必要的。将安装在纽约市立大学斯塔顿岛学院的数据密集型仪器将提供数据分析和数据资产管理功能，使研究人员能够共享，联合和保留数据，并将提供可重复性和可追溯性。研究人员将能够组织，分析，管理和注释元数据，搜索和共享他们的数据集。拟议的接口将使用基于开放标准框架的面向服务的体系结构，为管理数据和元数据提供一个核心服务库。它包括一个分层存储系统，至少有一个1.4 PB的磁盘群和至少一个1.2 PB的自动磁带系统。该仪器将使生物，生态，环境和经济学科的大量研究人员能够扩大计算的使用。在环境研究方面，它将促进建立一个“虚拟”城市-海洋-大气-陆地观测站，使正在研究城市化影响各个方面的四个重要研究中心现在能够保留和分享其数据。该工具将有助于加快所需的研究，以了解和预测特大城市和城市规划决策对地方和全球环境、生态和生态系统服务、能源系统和经济系统的影响。它将为其他学科的研究人员带来类似的好处。 各研究中心致力于利用该工具相互分享数据和研究成果，并与更广泛的研究界分享。 每个参与的研究中心都是多机构的。其中许多是由少数民族服务机构领导的，大多数包括少数民族服务机构。与NSF的政策和纽约市立大学的传统相一致，这些研究中心都有广泛的实习和培训计划，鼓励妇女和少数民族学生的参与。 2009年秋季，纽约市立大学23所院校的入学统计数据显示，在259.515名全日制学生中，53%是黑人或西班牙裔，60%是女性。2009年秋季的统计数据显示，27，962名学生就读于科学，技术，工程和数学学科，包括65名美洲印第安人/美洲原住民，6，195名亚洲/太平洋岛民，7，878名黑人，6，473名西班牙裔和7，351名白色学生; 34%的学生是女性。这些统计数据以及纽约市立大学的“现在就上大学”、“教师学院”和“发现研究所”外展计划证明了纽约市立大学致力于扩大参与和国家科学基金会的外展倡议。

Retaining collected data and sharing it with the broader research community is necessary for developing a better understanding of the impact of urbanization on the global ecology and environment. The data intensive instrument to be installed at CUNY College of Staten Island will provide data analysis and data asset management capabilities to allow researchers to share, federate, and retain data and will provide for reproducibility and traceability. Researchers will be able to organize, analyze, manage and annotate metadata, and search and share their data sets. The proposed interface will use a service-­oriented architecture based on an open standards framework to provide a library of core services for managing data and metadata. It includes a hierarchical storage system with at least a 1.4 petabyte disk farm and at least a 1.2 petabyte robotic tape system. The instrument will enable the expanded use of computations for a large number of researchers in the biological, ecological, environmental, and economic disciplines. In environmental studies, it will facilitate the creation of a "virtual" urban-oceanographic-atmospheric­-land observatory allowing four significant Research Centers that are studying various aspects of the effects of urbanization to now retain and share their data. The instrument will help to accelerate the research required to understand and forecast the impact of mega city and urban planning decisions on the local and global environment, on ecology and ecosystem services, on energy systems, and on economic systems. It will have similar benefits to researchers in other disciplines. The Research Centers are committed to use the instrument to share their data and the results of their research with each other and the broader research community. Each of the participating Research Centers is multi-­institutional. Many of them are led by, and most include, Minority Serving Institutions. Consistent with NSF policy and CUNY traditions, each of these Research Centers has extensive internship and training programs that encourage women and minority student participation. Fall 2009 enrollment statistics for the 23 institutions that comprise CUNY show that 53% of its 259.515 full-­time students were Black or Hispanic and 60% were female. Fall 2009 statistics showed 27,962 students enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines, including 65 American Indian/Native American, 6,195 Asian/Pacific Islander, 7,878 Black, 6,473 Hispanic, and 7,351 White students; 34% of the students were female. These statistics and CUNY's College Now, Teacher Academy, and Discovery Institute outreach programs attest to CUNY's commitment to broadening participation and to the outreach initiatives of the NSF.